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If you’re going to get that granular with definitions then technically the Cuda and Mustang don’t qualify as muscle cars either... they would be considered pony cars.

I know that vettes were marketed as “sports cars” but they have always been included as part of the American muscle car iconography.

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I know that Vettes were marketed as “sports cars” but they have always been included as part of the American muscle car iconography.

Agree. Can't think of them not being categorized as a muscle car, with a factory installed 327 or 427.

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4-speed, 427

[the OlLine Rebel]

No. They are in a different class. Corvettes existed before “muscle car” became a fad with the car companies which started with GTO Tempest.

Most of us AACA-type car nuts don’t consider it “muscle” in the collectible sense. It’s a race car more along the lines of Porsches and Ferraris, albeit “lower grade” perhaps.