For absolute performance, today's generation of cars has the rest covered with room to spare.
But as far as the rawness of the hotrodding experience goes, you have to go back at least as far as the early 1960's. No later than the early to mid 1970's, and only then if your automotive interests included making your cars go around corners better than the other guy's cars.
I'm getting to be an OG, so I see most of todays technology stuff and electronic "assistances" as things that dilute the experience of what a performance car used to be all about. Regardless of their value, they provide a sensation of making today's cars just a little too squeaky-clean and sterile.
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Originally Posted by eymang
If you could take a late 60s Camaro body and bolt it on a gen5 frame that would be the best of both.
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you'd be looking at the serious-performance side of "Pro Touring". Eventually, somebody will find a way to drop 1st gen sheetmetal over a 5th gen platform . . . something similar has already been done with early Mustang sheetmetal over an SN95 chassis, so it's only a matter of time.
Norm