theothermanoverthere
Kit Tainess
I can understand giving up the Challenger for the 'Cuda. It's my understanding that the Challenger was more of an overpowered passenger car whereas the 'Cuda was actually a sports car.
All muscles cars were over powered two door famly cars. All so don't call them sports cars there not really not, in fact in the 60s they almost killed the sports car indersty but then the gas s**t happend and well the muscle car had to go.
Aw Christ, now this guy's gonna start with me? First of all, learn to spell before you even try to contradict me. Second of all,
sports car is defined as a two door car built for speed and handling. The American obsession with drag racing in the sixties thanks to the hot rod culture made the standard of 'handling' in America a car's ability to track a straight line. Hmm, let's see, tracks a perfectly straight line, does a 13.3 quarter mile with a damned automatic transmission straight out of the factory, only has two doors; yep, that sounds like a muscle car, oh wait, it also sounds like a SPORTS CAR.
Furthermore, Detroit didn't just up and stop cranking out cars when gas went up. It's not like they looked outside, saw gas was over $0.50/gal, and turned off all the main breakers for the muscle regions of their plants. Some purists of muscle car culture claim that the muscle car 'died' in 1974 when gas went up and new emissions laws were passed, but the fact of the matter is that a 1975 Cobra or Charger would still dust a typical consumer car like the Pinto or Pacer without hitting top gear.