Olds 442 and AMC AMX.
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I have a 67 Camaro convertible I’m working on, drove for 25 years but now doing a restore.
But my daily driver is my 1957 Bel Air.
poooor me, all I have is old cars with more than 250,000 miles on them :(
Guess I need a new Tesla with about a three year projected lifespan. Course, I can get parts easily and cheap for the old cars, but electricity for a $123k Tesla is free!
Hmmm. Not sure about the list. All great cars but when I think muscle car it’s more the then mid sized cars from the Big Three all with engines over...well over... 350 cu in.
Pony cars eventually get into the muscle car genre but to me they aren’t classic muscle cars.
It had every model of the Corvette, and how many were produced each year.
I worked at a local drag strip in the early 1970s and the fastest production vehicle I ever saw was the 1970 SS 454 Chevelle. With an automatic transmission a fully stock SS 454 would consistently run the quarter mile in 13 seconds. A fully stock 4 speed version SS 454 was capable of elapsed times in the mid 12 seconds.
I’m gonna be nitpicky here and say that the Mustang, Camaro and Firebird are pony cars, not muscle cars. And where are the Ford Cobra, Plymouth Roadrunner, and Chevy Impala SS?
Also, why did the Grand National only get an honorable mention?
I am getting tired of these “TEN MOST” articles on the internets.
Evidently the most clickable articles on the ‘net are “top to” or “10 ways” or “10 most...” Lists. They are always lame-ass regurgitations with open-source photos, designed to get clicks.
Whatever.
Plus, Drive a BMW M5 once and you will never again feel as if anything else has real power or performs correctly.
What a joke... How many guys do I know that spend tens (or in one case over $100,000) of thousands purchasing and maintaining these POS UAW pieces of junk, trying to get the body panels to fit for goodness’ sakes!
Rebuilding carbs! My brother went on and on yesterday about his tweaked-out ‘60s Malibu... Had to spend a few days in the shop again... The thing can barely climb a hill and is easily outperformed by a VW Bug.
Go spend $100K on a GTO. Have fun in the shop. My old ‘83 Jaguar for goodness’ sakes was more reliable than ANYTHING Detroit made from 1960 to 1990.
Why glorify these turds?
In the background is my beloved 98 Durango, aka Canyonero. 
Stupid Stupid Stupid. The SS 396 is not in the list and neither is the Corvette. Send that know nothing dingbat back to grad school.
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When it comes to body style and performance this is the top of the list.
.....1969 R/T ;
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.
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.
