Posted on 08/03/2014 8:08:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
My current car is a 2013 Audi S6 with the V8 Twin Turbo and AWD. Car & Driver ran 0-60 in 3.7 seconds in their test.
Why not the Diesel?
I would go for a 67 “E” Type Jag. It drives well and performs well.
Corvette was never a muscle car.
The muscle car began as a run of the mill sedan or coupe offered with a fire breathing engine to go fast in a straight line, while doing nothing to help it handle better or stop quicker.
The first muscle car was the 1964 Pontiac GTO. So the muscle car didn’t exist before then, despite how many 50’s Cadillacs could go very fast in a straight line on the highways of Nevada.
Corvette was always a sport car, sometimes faster, sometimes slower. Never a muscle car.
The pony cars came to overlap with muscle cars with entries like the Ford Mustang Boss 429 and the Chevy Camaro SS 396, and rat motored 454.
Easy way to tell. Muscle cars have a big block.
I had two friends in high school that had Shelby Mustangs. They were fun cars. Right now I am looking at Nissan GTR’s.
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73 Red Plymouth Space Duster in my garage.
340 in shed waiting for $.
I agree. The article is blurring the distinction between pony cars & muscle-cars. As much as I appreciate the early Mustangs they really don’t belong in the same class with contemporary Chevelles (for instance). Apples & Oranges.
I love cars ;’)
I’m brand agnostic and have owned both foreign and domestic. I don’t currently own anything considered a “muscle car” although I am building a blown ‘37 Chev pickup.
When I was a teen and getting my first taste of carz I had a neighbor in his late twenties who was heavily into carz, trucks, motorcycles, and drag boats. His prize possession was a 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 sporting a dual-quad 427 engine very similar to the one in this u-toob video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdv99nLDtaE
This became my standard for muscle cars. Not (necessarily) bright paint jobs or fake hood scoops but an average mid-sized “sleeper” automobile with a big-assed motor.
I had a school chum whose uncle took a Rambler Ambassador and stuffed a Hemi 440 into it. Bone-stock on the outside it was a Mustang and Camaro killer on the street.
........ Speaking of which, you’ll need a good shop to cure that vague Murican steering.
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Fresh suspension bushings and steering components throughout go a long way towards curing the steering ... for GM power steering (recirculating ball) the fix is to replace all the ball bearings in the box with fresh ones that aren’t worn and fill the power steering system with Ford “type F” or generic “type A” ATF (far less squish and give than Dex ATF).. It also helps A LOT to get the car to a shop that does a lot of alignments for SCCA types ,, get plenty of positive castor and negative camber in there.
Forgot the most important thing ,, on the GM units the ball cage slack adjuster is that large (15/16th’s ??) nut with the threaded shaft sticking out the top ,, keep it snug ,, I always used an electric version of a 1/2” impact wrench on it’s “low torque” setting to make them “just right”.
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It was so awesome. I wish I still had that car. It wasn't very ideal for a 17 year old girl though. It was always breaking down. But when it was running, it was cool as hell.
What a great place to be! I visited the HARRAH Auto Museum last year. Can you take some pictures and make a thread?
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