nice to read this Starise.
Personally was more into the 70's beat up simple 4 doors sedans lke a 72 Dodge Polara.
Those huge V8's just sound so awesome just idling alone !
My car for the last 7 years (1996 Cherokee) isn't very good on gas either but I don't drive a lot.
I can only drive it because there is a specialist garage here with 'normal' bills and parts are cheap. 70's FOREVER !!
watched the Dukes as a teenager, we had quite some US series and movies here.
my favorites were Hill Street Blues, any road/truck or Clint Eastwood movie, Fall Guy