well, .. maybe not really. "Slow" is cool for the very first generations of automobiles, the curved-dash Oldsmobiles, the Ford Model A (not the 1929 cars, but the single-cylinder 1902 Model Model A), the Brass-nosed Model T's & etc. After the 1920s, when lots of paved roads were installed around the US, FAST was the criterion for Cool .. and that's never gone away. [And I changed out dozens of exhaust manifolds off 6 cyl Mustangs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge; heavy rains are a fact of life down here, and wives and daughters who drove briskly thru substantial puddles got cold water flung up on that long, hot cast-iron part and broke it in smaller pieces.] If a 6-cyl, four-lug axle Mustang was numbers-matching (w/the original motor), I can value that. If the motor has been replaced (and >60% probably have been), then I'd pop a 289 or 302 into it in a jiffy never looking back.
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