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To: NFHale

Yep. The only colors you could get was yellow or orange....two colors I detest in cars : )
They all had a Hurst shift. Some called them a Hurst GTO, or a Hurst Olds (442)
By 1972, the muscle cars were gone. Watered down to nothingness. The insurance companies were the direct cause of this.


135 posted on 06/15/2016 8:08:10 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Actually, it was federally mandated emission controls that did in muscle cars.


136 posted on 06/15/2016 8:16:00 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

RE Yellow/Orange:
Ha!! I had that “mustard yellow” base on my Chevelle SS, with the black rally stripes. Without the stripes, it would have looked like crap... WITH the stripes, and the black drop-top, Holy cow, it was sweet.

It was beat-up... but it was MINE... my first bought-with-my-own-money car. 350 bucks from a fly-by-night corner lot car dealer.

Another really nice beast from that time frame was the ‘71 Buick GS-455. Absolute monster...


144 posted on 06/15/2016 2:54:41 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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