born in 1959 I was a little too young to experience the hey day of muscle cars in the 60s and early seventies. I finally got my first hand me down car from the old man my senior year a 71 Fury3 with a 318 lol. but even in the late seventies, early eighties the hemi cars were skyrocketing in value. in 79 or 80 there was a pristine hemi cuda for sale at the firestone by my house, asking price was $25000 even back then.