Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc
All those cars became known as muscle cars once the big blocks were in them but when they first started out they were just mid-sized sedans mostly.
|
Yes, it was the big blocks that made them legends. The muscle car era wasn't 1961-1966 ... it was 1967-1971. Big on engines, big on styling. And of course all the big name muscle cars started out as basic mid-sized sedans.Thats part of what makes them muscle cars. The rest is affordability, great straight line performance, and poor handling (as I like to say, they handled well enough to turn around and make another pass at the drag strip).
Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc
That whole scene changed very rapidly in just a few years once basically the Mustang and then the Camaro started selling like hotcakes.
|
Something to consider: did the scene change because of the Camaro and Mustang's success, or was their success a result of the change?
