First off, theres no such thing as a foreign muscle car. dont even mention those two together lol. They have no CLUE as to what makes a muscle car a muscle car.
its funny.. i just went thru this in my life too.. DO NOT DO IT! First off, foreign cars are a PAIN to maintain. Not only are they really different, their parts are hard to find, and overly expensive. now times that by 2 for a foreign 'muscle' car...
Ive always been into fixing and racing cars as a hobby, but, for some reason, i bought a foreign car ive always fancied a bmw 3 series. while theyre well thought out, and kinda novel, thats about all they are. NO foreign car is BETTER per se than an american version. Theyre just different thats all. Heres a quick example of what youre goin to go thru. wanted to do a tune up on my bmw. spark plugs wires. standard issue oem style. 160 bucks. for FOUR of them... performance MSD spark plug wires for my 87 buick grand national? 70 bucks.. Ok im lost. I get EMI reducing, thicker diameter performance wires for a grand national, for 70 bucks.. and i get SIX OF THEM.. but i only get FOUR standard issue oem wires for my bmw for A HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS??? No thank you. ill just roll mine till they die. head gasket develops a little leak. i dont want to mess with it, as i was the assistant manager of a small auto maintenance facility, and we didnt do major work like that. my brothers a master mechanic 2 miles down the street at his facility. i take it to vince (my bro) and tell em to change out the head gasket. took him 4 days, ( of work, not overall time) to do the repari itself. then he had to order more gaskets, that werent in the gasket kit i gave him, about 2 weeks for them to come in, and for him to figure out how to do this crap. 1200 dollars later, were all done.. all cuz the repair was non typical, and it was the first one they did... theyre not worth it dude. so their steering wheels heat.. so freakin what. screw them cars man, theyre nothing but a pain in the A$$ Im telling you. Take it from a person, that works on cars quite a bit, and has had both plain old daily drivers, bmw's, and muslcecars..
what you get in return, for the inconvenience of owning, is a poor investment. sure, they 'go out' less frequently than american cars, but im tellin ya man, when they do go out, you better have a decent amount of money saved up man... Let just the spark plug example show you, what type of territory youre about to go trekkin into... And just for a kicker, I only paid ten five for this, and it would whoop the SHIT outta any little foreign job you care to bring out of the garage. And its nicer too. Stay american man. If you dont, youll regret it in the long run i bet your life on it...
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its funny.. i just went thru this in my life too.. DO NOT DO IT! First off, foreign cars are a PAIN to maintain. Not only are they really different, their parts are hard to find, and overly expensive. now times that by 2 for a foreign 'muscle' car...
Ive always been into fixing and racing cars as a hobby, but, for some reason, i bought a foreign car ive always fancied a bmw 3 series. while theyre well thought out, and kinda novel, thats about all they are. NO foreign car is BETTER per se than an american version. Theyre just different thats all. Heres a quick example of what youre goin to go thru. wanted to do a tune up on my bmw. spark plugs wires. standard issue oem style. 160 bucks. for FOUR of them... performance MSD spark plug wires for my 87 buick grand national? 70 bucks.. Ok im lost. I get EMI reducing, thicker diameter performance wires for a grand national, for 70 bucks.. and i get SIX OF THEM.. but i only get FOUR standard issue oem wires for my bmw for A HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS??? No thank you. ill just roll mine till they die. head gasket develops a little leak. i dont want to mess with it, as i was the assistant manager of a small auto maintenance facility, and we didnt do major work like that. my brothers a master mechanic 2 miles down the street at his facility. i take it to vince (my bro) and tell em to change out the head gasket. took him 4 days, ( of work, not overall time) to do the repari itself. then he had to order more gaskets, that werent in the gasket kit i gave him, about 2 weeks for them to come in, and for him to figure out how to do this crap. 1200 dollars later, were all done.. all cuz the repair was non typical, and it was the first one they did... theyre not worth it dude. so their steering wheels heat.. so freakin what. screw them cars man, theyre nothing but a pain in the A$$ Im telling you. Take it from a person, that works on cars quite a bit, and has had both plain old daily drivers, bmw's, and muslcecars..
what you get in return, for the inconvenience of owning, is a poor investment. sure, they 'go out' less frequently than american cars, but im tellin ya man, when they do go out, you better have a decent amount of money saved up man... Let just the spark plug example show you, what type of territory youre about to go trekkin into... And just for a kicker, I only paid ten five for this, and it would whoop the SHIT outta any little foreign job you care to bring out of the garage. And its nicer too. Stay american man. If you dont, youll regret it in the long run i bet your life on it...
Think maintenance, insurance, winter driving, seating capacity, and overall coolness. This pretty much rules out foreign cars lol. Ya wanna cheap car that is practical, easy to fix, and can still move out? mustang. any year actually. Ya want a car thats REAL easy to fix, ALWAYS looks cool, and looks like a mans car? Drive an american muscle car. If i were you, id just go ahead and throw some tight leafs in there, tubular aluminum control arms all the way around, or whatever you need to do, to stiffen er up, rebuild your engine, get a good cooling system, recover the interior and go. Novas are sweet already. by the time you spend 35 grand on some cheesy import, i could have built your nova, into the coolest street car that youve ever seen in your life..... Straight up man. for 10 grand, your nova would be TITS. 
