10 Greatest Muscle Cars

[rayrey10]

#2 is my favorite!

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=1182735&icid=autos_0689&GT1=22017#1

[Lionheart]

GTO by Pontiac! DeLorean! Rest in peace John.

[Naismith]

Not all muscle cars are American.
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[wombat666]

Overlooked: the Ford Falcon GT/HO Phase III, the Holden A9X Torana, the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX and the Subaru Impreza WRX!!!!
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[crashaz]

Muscle cars... not rice rockets. :icon_lol:

[kilo delta]

Shelby Cobra would be #1 for me :)


Pity they're all only quick in a straight line though! :P

[SpitXIV]

Here's mine

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rollyrocker.com/Images/plymouthsuperbird.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rollyrocker.com/roadrunn

[fsafranek]

1970 Dodge Challenger

Had one in slime green with a black vinyl top. Not an RT but had the RT gauge/interior package. Center console with slap stick. Some kind of California Special package from a big dealorship in LA. 340 engine with a single Holly 4bbl. Six pack carbs would have been cooler. Sold it to buy a more respectable businessman's car. The mistakes we make. :kilroy:
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[Lionheart]

I would like to add the Dodge Daytona Shelby addition with full ground effects and turbo. Though it was a 4 cylinder, that thing could go!

May they rest in peace.. never see them anymore.

[Tom Clayton]

I used to have a '79 Trans Am with the WS6 Performance Package. It included beefier sway bars, tighter steering ratio, 15x8" rims, and four-wheel disc brakes. It also had the Olds 403 instead of the Pontiac 400, and the factory installed slap-stick shifter. It had a cruise control, but it didn't work too well below 80 MPH! :kilroy:

[mgchrist5]

GTO by Pontiac! DeLorean! Rest in peace John.

And might I add 'rest in peace Pontiac', too! Another great nameplate gone forever...

Give me a tuxedo black '67 GTO hardtop with Ram Air and a dual-gate, and I'd be in heaven. Redline tires, too please!

[mgchrist5]

Overlooked: the Ford Falcon GT/HO Phase III, the Holden A9X Torana

Yes, you Aussies definitely had (and still have) some very potent offerings! They're a bit of an enigma here in the States and are about as rare as hen's teeth (with the exception of the Monaros, aka last GTOs)...but are hot cars nonetheless, and very unique.

[andersel]

#6 and #10 are bouncing back and forth on my list. LA

[Willy]

'67 Pontiac GTO with the Ram Air 400. Fire engine red, black interior and 4 speed manual. Darn wonder I didn't kill my young self in that one.

[SpitXIV]

Has anyone here watched the Barrett car Auctions?

[David_L6]

Shelby Cobra would be #1 for me :)




I would have thought the Shelby Cobra would be #1 on every muscle car list.

[Moparmike]

What? No GNX? 0-60mph in 4.7sec in granny's grocery getter isn't fast enough? :kilroy:
At least the sharpest looking GM A-body to roll out of Flint made the list though...GSX.


I agree with Naismith though. Not all musclecars are American...although the US makers did define the breed.
I like Wombat's mention of the A9X-option Torana. Think of a Vega with a small-block under the hood....Hoo-Bah!

[ThinkingManNeil]

I always liked the Chevelle SS, Olds 442, and '69 Dodge Super Bee (knew of a guy who had one who tromped on the gas and snapped the engine mounts from the torque), but my favourite was always the Pontiac GTO Judge in that bright reddish orange it featured. Soon as I first saw that as a kid inside an issue of one of my dad's Popular Mechanics mags I back in 1969 was lost.

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[Moses03]

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!) ;)

[Willy]

Speaking of luxury muscle, another 1968 Buick Riviera GS would be on my short list. Specially tuned 430 engine with massive aluminum brake drums and 8 lug wheels.

Had one at one time, but couldn't get a clear title on it so I pulled the engine and scrapped the rest of the car. I tried everything I could think of to get a title on it, but it was just not to be.

[SpitXIV]

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%20skylark&hl=en&cp=4&gs_id=t&xhr=t&q=1967+buic

[magoo]

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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[Moparmike]

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 (http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS438US438&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Buick+Skylark#pq=buick%20skylark&hl=en&cp=4&gs_id=t&xhr=t&q=1967+buic)

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.

[GT182]

Bill and Willy.... Pontiac may be gone but it sure isn't forgotten. Especially not by me and a bunch of others out there. ;)

[ThinkingManNeil]

Pontiac may be gone but it sure isn't forgotten. Especially not by me and a bunch of others out there. ;)

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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[SpitXIV]

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. ;)

[Odie]

1966 Chevy SS396.....

[lefty]

Probably the nearest we ever got here was this beauty - 0-60 in 5.2, 377bhp, twin-turbo...

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The wondrous Lotus Carlton.

[kilo delta]

Probably the nearest we ever got here was this beauty - 0-60 in 5.2, 377bhp, twin-turbo...

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The wondrous Lotus Carlton.

Wonderful car,but pretty rare to find in good condition these days. The BMW E60 M5 is a worthy modern day successor.

[wombat666]

Probably the nearest we ever got here was this beauty - 0-60 in 5.2, 377bhp, twin-turbo...

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The wondrous Lotus Carlton.

And under the skin it's a GM Australia Commodore HSV ..........:ernae:

[SpitXIV]

Here's another one: 1967 Dodge Charger any color. :medals:

[Odie]

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!) ;)

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]

My muscle car is a 2003 Mercury Marauder. Very comfortable for a 6'-4" guy....:icon_lol:

[Willy]

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.

[Odie]

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:

[Moses03]

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!

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!

[SpitXIV]

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.

Love the sound of the Rocket 455. The Wildcat was a wicked looking car. Buick needs to bring back
those models.