Name: American Muscle Car
Uploaded: 2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Owning and restoring Detroit's finest muscle machines.

Owning and restoring Detroit's finest muscle machines.

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'64 Pontiac GTO

Pontiac's GTO is back in 1969 with outrageous paint and graphics, a popular catch phrase, and the 370-horse RAM Air IV engine. What a country!

Pontiac GTO Judge

The story of the birth of the Corvette from the introduction of the original 1953 roadster and the Route 66 days.

'53-'62 Chevrolet Corvette

In 1967, Chevrolet introduces the Camaro and it consistently remains one of its biggest sellers.

Chevrolet Camaro SS 396

Ford went drag racing in 1964 with their new Fairlane and their NASCAR 427 engine. Talk about a ringer! The result was the most mind-boggling car the NHRA stock classes had ever seen.

'64 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt

The Shelby Mustangs

Buick Gran Sport

4 barrel, 4 speed, dual exhaust. That spells 442, Oldsmobile's entry into the Horsepower wars. With this car, Olds turned the musclecar wars up several notches. Once again those Rocket Oldsmobiles were right in the thick of it!

Oldsmobile 442

Chevrolet's SS designation originally adorned the high-performance Impalas, but the most popular Super Sport was by far the Chevelle. All it took was the 396 "rat motor" to turn this little grocery-getter into a pavement-pounder!

Chevrolet Chevelle SS

The story of the legendary 409. When Chevy squeezed one horsepower per cubic inch out of this engine in 1962, it sent everyone in Detroit back into the engine lab, and practically everyone else in America to the Chevy dealer!

Chevrolet Impala 409

Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda & Dodge Hemi Challenger

Chevrolet Nova SS

Pontiac's pony car went racing in 1969, and lives on today as one of America's favorite street musclecars. The most famous of all Trans Ams was the one with the 455 Super Duty engine!

Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

Super Duty! In the early sixties these two words meant the most powerful engines of any American car. This all-out assault on the speedways of America made Pontiac GM's "WE BUILD EXCITEMENT" car company.

Pontiac Super Duty Cars

Ford's 427 Fairlanes and Torino Talladegas had one purpose - to sweep the Hemi Mopars off the high-banked NASCAR tracks. And they did, too!

Ford Fairlane GT & Talladega

Imagine a car that would do zero to one hundred miles per hour...and back to zero...in under ten seconds. The Cobras had it all - acceleration, braking, handling - and they look fantastic, too. Stand by for the ride of your life!

427 Cobra

There's this road race, see, this SCCA Trans Am series? And the Camaro is perfect for it. All they needed was a 500-horsepower 302 cubic-inch engine!

Camaro Z/28

Completely restyled for 1963, Corvette launched into its greatest popularity. Get inside, fire it up, and discover the true heart-pounding excitement of America's one true sports car!

'63-'67 Corvette Stingray

Built for the superspeedways, but available at your local Mopar showroom, the 1969 and '70 Dodge Daytona and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird were the essence of what the Musclecar was (and is) all about.

Dodge Daytona & Plymouth Superbird

The 426 Max Wedge and Hemi Plymouths and Dodges blew away everyone in the NHRA Super Stock classes, and gave Chrysler Corporation a head start over Ford and Chevy in the Musclecar wars.

The Mopar Super Stockers

Chrysler Corporation turned their 340 'Cudas and Challengers into world-class road racers, and musclecar fans lined up at Chrysler's showrooms for a chance to take them to the streets!

Plymouth AAR 'Cuda & Challenger T/A

American Motors AMX

Buick quietly re-entered the supercar wars in the late eighties with a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 engine in an all-black Regal. The car was so outrageously fast that it's now among the most collectible cars of all time.

Buick Regal GNX

Many people say this is where the musclecar era began. The '55 Chevy was Chevrolet's opening into the world of auto performance. These cars changed America's automotive landscape, and today they're still the most popular collector cars in the world.

'55-'57 Chevrolet Bel Air

When it was introduced in 1955, the Thunderbird took America by storm, and it even outsold the Corvette by a margin of 13 to 1!

Ford Thunderbird

Somewhere inside Ford and Chevy, someone thought a half-car/half-pickup truck was a good idea. As it turned out, it was a great idea, and with big-block engines, the El Camino and the Ranchero were memorable muscle machines.

Chevrolet El Camino & Ford Ranchero

These cars were called "COPOs," for Central Office Production Order. If you knew the right numbers, you could order a street-legal Chevrolet racecar direct from the factory!

The Copo Cars

47 years old and still going strong! America's first sportscar is still getting better, through five more generations, and a few "ultra" cars, like the C-5 and the Z/06 Corvette.

1968-2001 Corvette

Chrysler 300s were expensive and luxurious, but thanks to the Hemi engine and the big bad Max Wedge, they were the fastest things on the road and the early NASCAR tracks.

Chrysler 300

From within Chrysler Corporation's engineering department came a group of car crazies who just wanted to go drag racing. They built a racing team that is legendary today.

The Ramchargers

Instead of another "Pony Car," Dodge chose to make an upmarket full-size rocket called the Charger. Today, Chargers are some of the most beloved musclecars ever made.

Dodge Charger

Currently the cream of the crop of Detroit's supercars, the Dodge Viper has earned fame and respect as a world-class sports racing car.

Dodge Viper

The "ultimate" Mustangs - The Boss 302 was the class act in Trans Am racing, and the Boss 429 was simply the most overpowered Pony car Ford ever made... and that's saying something!

Boss 302 & 429 Mustangs

Saleen started in the eighties, road-racing 5-liter Mustangs. Saleen Mustangs are now the most feared road racers in endurance racing competition, and on the street.

The Saleen Mustangs

From wild, crowd-pleasing drag race exhibition cars, like the Hemi Under Glass, to the Hurst Olds Indy Pace Cars, every car produced by Hurst became an instant classic.

The Hurst Cars

Today's Super Sport Camaros and Firebird Firehawks built by SLP outperform the sixties musclecars in every way, from handling and comfort to safety and straight-line acceleration.

The SLP Cars

A car which succeeded wonderfully following the original musclecar concept - find the lightest body you can, put in the biggest engine you've got (even the Hemi!), and hang on!

Dodge Dart GTS

Chrysler Corporation finds a whole new image and a whole bunch of new consumers watching Saturday morning TV. The Roadrunner's owners just love the little horn - and the big engines!

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