This message board should have been renamed the Midlife Crisis Message Board about 15 years ago, so no worries there Funk. Just don't make a new thread every time you get a girl to sleep with you like JLory used to (until he ran over his own dog).
As for the car - my older brother had a '69 SS when I was too young to drive...I thought I'd get the car one day, but it only had a 10-bolt rear end, which was way too weak for the torque from the 396 big block they were putting in SS's. So, if your actually looking at muscle cars, be sure to check the rear end components to see that you have the heavy duty stuff in back to match the power from the front. My brother's car used to eat universal joints at an alarming rate, and never when it was convenient to replace them.