Some of us were playing with big boy toys while you were still pulling your pud over in the corner.
In 2001 I was terrorizing the streets of my home town in a 72 Camaro built road race style with 613hp to the rear wheels. It was brought to track days at Lime Rock Park in CT frequently and ran consistent 10.90's at the dragstrip.
Back then it was considered a rocket ship. Everything except the motor was built in my parents 1 car garage by me. The engine was built at my girlfriends fathers machine shop by me as well.