Muscle car

[cvramsfan]

How many of you guys like the retro style muscle cars we see today, Camaro, Challenger, Charger etc. I love seeing how they borrowed from the classic 60's designs with the modern look. I wish they would have brought back some of the colors though. Like GM's light metallic poweder blue and Ford's school bus yellow.

Those were car colors!!!

I have a 06 SRT8 Charger, really love the car and it hauls ass too. But by far the Challenger is the best. Hellcat do you need to say anymore. We have 69 Camaro that someday will be back on the road as a big block SS clone. Have a 72 FJ40 that I just love that will be taken off the road in about 5 years and have a frame off restro just in time for me to retire and then be my daily driver.

My 1st car was a 70 Plymouth Satellite that looked very close to this

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Wish I had that back. Loved the 68 to 70 Chargers.

 

[-X-]

68 Camaro SS for me.

 

[CGI_Ram]

68 Camaro SS for me.

That's a beautiful car!

 

[drasconis]

I like the comebacks they are making, sure.

Is automobile design a dying art? I am sure we'll look back years from now at today's cars with some admiration, but will it be the same?

Not to hijack the thread entirely, but are there any 1990's cars that inspire like those classics?

only one that comes to mind is the Viper (started in 91 I believe)....

 

[RAMSinLA]

View: https://youtu.be/t6eTkTqnW1w

 

[drasconis]

My choice would be a 1969 Corvette L88...I will never afford one unfortunately.

I don't love it because it is expensive, I love because of why it was made and how they hid it...

If you are not familiar with its' story look it up

 

[-X-]

That's a beautiful car!

Yeah it is. And when tuned right, it sounds pissed off.
Cars nowadays just sound mildly annoyed when you hammer them.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Yeah it is. And when tuned right, it sounds pissed off.
Cars nowadays just sound mildly annoyed when you hammer them.

:rolllaugh:

 

[IowaRam]

 

[IowaRam]

 

[CGI_Ram]

I love those! Wow! That's a trip back in time.

 

[IowaRam]

 

[CGI_Ram]

I watched this tonight. Good view.

 

[fancents86]

Saw one of these in real life and fell in love

Can't beat a challenger

Not a muscle car but I love the fieros. Was my first car and I still have it!

Of course the classic Eleanor

New tran am concept which makes me feel some type of way

 

[DR RAM]

This one is easy. 1969 Boss 429 Mustang. I would put that bitch in a well air conditioned and vented garage and let her run an hour a week. Keeping all parts properly lubed and then in today's time, I sell it for a couple hundred thousand and pay off my home and buy my a new 6.7 Powerstroke (Good Thread)


View: http://youtu.be/l3ZqFi5P6Co

I had a 69 Mustang. Only car, that I deeply regret selling. I rebuilt the 302 engine, added all the upgraded parts, did all the chrome...worked in a custom shop at the time, and the interior was pristine.

The shop that I worked in, did all the Chip Foose cars in Overhaulen.

 

[DR RAM]

My very first car was a 1972 Torino. It has a 351 Cleveland motor. It was a year before the Starsky and Hutch model. Very, rear end light. The car did burn-outs like no other. Mine was brown. I loved the show's red, with white stripes. Damn, I loved the show! I jacked mine up with Crager wheels.

The muscle car died, shortly after....

 

[IowaRam]

Saw one of these in real life and fell in love
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Can't beat a challenger
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Not a muscle car but I love the fieros. Was my first car and I still have it!
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Of course the classic Eleanor
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New tran am concept which makes me feel some type of way
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I've always had a thing for Fiero's as well , bought my first one in the late 80's , got married , sold it , then about 10 years ago I bought my second one , a 86 GT , and have had it ever since , only has about 35,000 miles on it

Then

Now

 

[IowaRam]

My very first car was a 1972 Torino. It has a 351 Cleveland motor. It was a year before the Starsky and Hutch model. Very, rear end light. The car did burn-outs like no other. Mine was brown. I loved the show's red, with white stripes. Damn, I loved the show! I jacked mine up with Crager wheels.

The muscle car died, shortly after....

Still my favorite Cop show , I have the entire series on DVD

When I was a little kid , there was actually a lady here in town who owed a replica Starsky and Hutch car

There is a interview on the DVD's with Paul Michael Glaser and he talks about how much he hated that car , that it barely had enough power to get up a hill.................lol

This isn't that same interview , but it's close

 

[DR RAM]

Still my favorite Cop show , I have the entire series on DVD

When I was a little kid , there was actually a lady here in town who owed a replica Starsky and Hutch car

There is a interview on the DVD's with Paul Michael Glaser and he talks about how much he hated that car , that it barely had enough power to get up a hill.................lol

This isn't that same interview , but it's close

 

[DR RAM]

As a 16 year old kid...that car had plenty o'power.

As a Hollywood superstar, at the time, meh, probably not so much, but going up a hill??? Come on...I used to do 360's without trying. 1974 is when America started doing radical changes to cars, because of fuel costs.

That show...my favorite, at the time, and underrated.