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10 Greatest Muscle Cars

My younger brother ran a '71 Trans Am 455HO for a year back in the eighties. If anybody remembers those first ones, absolutely evil cars in their day. I think it was the fuel consumption prompted him to sell it. Very fast car, must recieve a respectable mention in this thread.

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SpitXIV said:
Not really a muscle car, but still has nice lines.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS438US438&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Buick+Skylark#pq=buick skylark&hl=en&cp=4&gs_id=t&xhr=t&q=1967+buic
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A friend of mine in high school had a '67 Wildcat 2dr hardtop. BIG boat but that 430 had more'n enough snort to make it haul butt when you tromped on it.
I still like the lines of the Skylarks (GS, & GSX were Skylarks too...they had all the luxury goodies to go with the horsepower just like Moses' favorite, the Hurst Cutlass).

I've got way too many Mopar favorites to even think about listing them...I'd still be here tomorrow morning typing up the list. Tops would have to be the early "letter-series" 300s though. They were the original Mopar musclecars. Lots of Daytona flyin mile records set with em.
 
Bill and Willy.... Pontiac may be gone but it sure isn't forgotten. Especially not by me and a bunch of others out there. ;)
 
GT182 said:
Pontiac may be gone but it sure isn't forgotten. Especially not by me and a bunch of others out there. ;)
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I wish Pontiac had stuck around. I know it was no muscle car, but I was quite taken by the look and design of the Solstice roadster and I'd like to think if it and Pontiac were still around they'd've been able to work its teething problems (like that abysmal gas tank/trunk design). Oh well.

Farewell, Solstice; we hardly knew ye...

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My wife had a Plymouth Grand Fury that used to eat motor mounts too, until her brother put steel ones on, then that fixed the problem. she had an earlier model that
when I went to add brake fluid had A stout chain holding the engine in, I'm guessing
these cars had a taste for motormounts. Insert evil laugh here. ;)
 
Moses03 said:
No 1969 Hurst Olds on the list? Pfftt! :p:

455 cubic inches of Oldsmobile goodness purring under the hood. Came standard with air conditioning. A luxury muscle car. (One needs to stay cool when leaving the other cars in the dust!) ;)
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Moses, don't know if you remember it, but there was a HURST S/C Rambler model, too. We had one running around our small town that was quite a little roadster!
 
Kofschip, there's a black one of those running around the area here. I see every few weeks. Nice looking car.

Speaking of Ramblers, I had a Javelin AMX with a 401 and 4 speed for while.
 
For the "Muscle-heads" here, if you have DirectTV HD, every weekend they run the Mecum MuscleCar auctions on channel 281. It's an interesting view, as they do go into a lot of history and you get to see some finely restored cars from the 30s to present. Also surprising are the final prices they go for as well. It's an HD-only channel so you'll have to have the HD package to get it.

The HD makes it worse as the cars look all that more beautiful! If I ever went to one of these auctions, I know I'd hurt myself...only to get hurt again by my better-half!:icon_lol:
 
Odie said:
Moses, don't know if you remember it, but there was a HURST S/C Rambler model, too. We had one running around our small town that was quite a little roadster!
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I do remember those Odie. They were so rare I never saw one in person though. (Still haven't). Cool that you had one in your area!
 
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Moparmike said:
A friend of mine in high school had a '67 Wildcat 2dr hardtop. BIG boat but that 430 had more'n enough snort to make it haul butt when you tromped on it.
I still like the lines of the Skylarks (GS, & GSX were Skylarks too...they had all the luxury goodies to go with the horsepower just like Moses' favorite, the Hurst Cutlass).

I've got way too many Mopar favorites to even think about listing them...I'd still be here tomorrow morning typing up the list. Tops would have to be the early "letter-series" 300s though. They were the original Mopar musclecars. Lots of Daytona flyin mile records set with em.
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Love the sound of the Rocket 455. The Wildcat was a wicked looking car. Buick needs to bring back
those models.
 
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