I'll take a little bit of a cylinder topped with a little bit of oil and some cranberries... thank you :D

@Jeffery Topped with a Holley 850 and a side of headers?

I've always been friends with car guys, but if it doesn't have a keyboard and mouse, I don't work on it myself.

I've posted this here before: a clip from the classic movie "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) about an early 20th century automobile maker and inventor getting ridiculed by automobile-opposers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA1fVHBWuBU

The story of the original novel and the film is about an old-fashioned aristocratic family unable to adjust to, and suffer existential downfall due to, the technological revolution brought about by inventions such as automobiles.  The arrogant young man in the clip who says, "Automobiles are a useless nuisance!" eventually and ironically is injured in a car accident at the end of the story.

Believe it or not, $900 would get you this used car in 1973 with a 396 big block Chevy engine.
Another $1,000 and it would smoke the tires down to nothing in a minute, and with the right tires that could hang on, pull a wheelie.