Black Bart, sorry, but you're comparing apples and oranges. I've been a car collector since the early 1950's when I restored a 1918 Maxwell Touring Car and have owned over 150 collector cars - at one time 17 Packards and 2 Pierce Arrows, all at the same time. My wife and I just finished selling the last of our collection of 31 Mopars and 6 Oldsmobiles this year.

I've also owned about 45 new cars and about 15 hot-rods or resto-mods. All of this to say that I'm familiar with cars of many eras.

I've owned more "Hemi's" than most people have ever seen - in Chargers or any other make/body style you can think of; at one time I had a "matched set" '70 Hemi-Cuda and '70 440 6Pak Challenger - same exterior and interior colors. Some pre-1974 Chargers could easily break 145 MPH - and, fully loaded from the factory with the most HP and custom brakes and suspension, they drove off the showroom floor at around $6,300.

My 2005 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 listed at (if I recall correctly) $1.3 million. Without following the "procedure" to go to top level performance, it wouldn't pass about 150 MPH - and it got cleaned up at a drag strip once by a factory-stock Hemi Charger.

Also, the top end of the Veyron is only possible with very special fuel that lasts only about 10 minutes or so - fuel runs out before you can burn off the tires - which would be at about 20 minutes. I never drove mine over 220 MPH and I sold it at auction in 2010.

Unless you own General Electric, I'd recommend that you can enjoy driving 145 - 150 MPH in a "fully restored" and up-graded 1970 Hemi Charger for 10% or less than the cost of the Veyron.

If you can afford the Veyron, now, I can't; unable to do much and on a fixed income, especially after over $1.4 million in family medical expenses in the last decade. "Brother, can you spare a dime?"

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marcomarks, you and I must be doing something wrong on UHH. I've had a couple of people in the last couple of months call me a 'liberal' on here and I'm fifth-generation Republican and considered so 'radically right' by my state Republican Party that I can't address the state Republican 'convention' any more after serving the party, raising untold $$$ for candidates and even being a Republican Party candidate for statewide office in 1980.

I'm beginning to think that nobody on here knows the true definition of 'conservative' or 'liberal.' There are a bunch of people on Hog though that are nice - both conservatives and liberals and we've had some good chats. Good luck to you. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

My thanks to you for looking. :thumbup:

You're probably right - it was just a passing thought. :thumbup: :thumbup:

So, in your view, anybody that received any deferment was a 'draft dodger?' Great! I did, because I was married and had a baby in 1953 and thus, I 'avoided" (or 'dodged') service in Korea. I expect that fact condemns me, a 100% disabled vet outta 'Nam...

If you start wiping out all of the people that got deferments in WWII, Korea, 'Nam and since, that should keep you and your kind busy for the rest of your lives and reduce the population of the USA by a few million. :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

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If you post your mailing address, I'll bet a lot of us would be willing to send you a fish. Of course, no guarantee on "condition upon arrival." :lol: :lol: :lol: :thumbup:

Jackinthebox, I'm outta here - and, I suspect that you are delierately "jerking our chains." :shock: :roll: :thumbup:

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Bangee5, yer just a kid! :lol: :lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Thank you for your service. Welcome home, brother. :thumbup: :thumbup:

In my day, "RA" meant Regular Army and was a volunteer, "AF" was USAF and "MC" was pretty much self-explanatory. One of the senior 'ex' or 'rtd' Navy people will have to help with the rest. Oh, and Guardsmen, too.