What is the best American muscle car ever?
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What american muscle car best describes the need for speed and power? Make, model and year. Its an opinion, but my vote goes to the '69 Pontiac GTO.........THE JUDGE!
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What american muscle car best describes the need for speed and power? Make, model and year. Its an opinion, but my vote goes to the '69 Pontiac GTO.........THE JUDGE!
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Tags: American Car, Need For Speed, Pontiac Gto
Camaro Bob
Right car…wrong year. I get weak in the knees for the 67. That grill looks like its comin to eat your brain!!!!!!!!!!!!
FerrariFan
’69 Camero z28 with hidden head lights!!!
Buy Me
1969 Shelby Mustang GT500 (Eleanor in “Gone in 60 seconds”). O man does that get my blood pressure up just thinking about one. It was so sleek and powerful.
mustang fan
I agree with the Hawk. The Shelby rocks!
BMW X6 Pilot
im sorry, the best ever? the new 2009 corvette zr1…
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Not fair… there is the GTO but also the 68 camaro, the late 60′s model mustangs , the 55 or 57 chevy, the 63 split window vette, oh we cannot forget Carol Shelby’s first submition to this..what a behemoth of a muscle car, The grand nationals, viper , the latest vettes are pretty hot, My first car …75 T.A. courtesy of a 400 w dual holleys , Basically America has put out lots and lots of hot muscle.
BMW Fan
Well the goat was the longest living muscle car made. I think hey made the Pontiac’s with 455 ci engines up into the 1979 or 1980`s The Trans am being their last. But, your question leaves a lot of doors open You ask for the best EVER. Heck my friend that covers a lot of areas. The best as far as pure brut muscle was the 426 race version Hemi that came out back in the late 60`s. IMO The best appearing muscle car was the split window corvette I believe it was built about 1967. But, back in the 60`s there was a little known thing called a Rebel that was built by American motors. It came with a ford 390 ci engine and top loader 4 speed and blew the doors off a lot of the big threes muscle cars of the era. Man I lived through those years and every one thatbuiltt muscle cars had both good and bad years. EvenOldsmobilee jumped in with a decent looking 442 that run great. From 1961 through 19 71 it was tit for tat in the muscle car world. One mfg would do something and the others would up it in their next model year. IMO they were all the best ever cars as there will never be another time period for the Americanperformance carr market like we had back them.
Vehicle History
A muscle car, by the strictest definition, is an intermediate sized performance model, powered by a large V8 engine, at an affordable price. Most of these models were based on “regular” production vehicles. Cars like Shelby Mustangs, Yenko Camaros, Plymouth Superbirds and similar cars didn’t qualify as true muscle cars because they were simply too expensive. Affordable things like Chevy Novas, Impalas, Dodge Coronets, Ford Galaxies, and other mundane sedans and coupes with factory performance motors and suspensions were more in line with the muscle car definition. Lots of them looked relatively tame, but they could blow you away. I would say a late 1960s Nova with a factory 396 and no distinctive badges to give it away would be my pick. Good looking car, not too big, light weight, and enough under the hood to blow away unsuspecting challengers.
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Well if your going performance wise heres the results.
The fastest PRODUCTION muscle car was, a surprise to most of you Im sure:
1969 1/2 Plymouth Roadrunner 440 6+pack, 4 speed manual, 4.10gears, and ran 12.80 @ 112mph on stock glasswall tires from 69.
The fastest super muscle car aka Yenko/Hurst etc. Was probably another surprise for most of you:
1968 Plymouth Cuda SS/SA 426 Hemi 4 speed manual or 727torqueflight, 4.10 gears and ran 10.90 @ 126mph. Mopar had Hurst take this car and the Dodge Dart and had them modify these cars with fiber glass front fenders, plexyglass windows, and fiberglass ram air hoods. It was a drag car from the factory.
To me the most beautiful muscle car (not to be confused with a pony car which is a smaller version of the muscle car aka camaro/cuda/challenger/nova/mustang etc). Was the 1968-1970 Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi, 4speed manual. No other car looks like these and there performance was top notch and the Charger was the base line for the 1969 Dodge Daytona which was the first production car to hit 200mph.
Classic Car Guy
The 1969 Dodge Charger is without doubt the #1 All-Time Best American ‘Muscle’ Car ever built ! No other Motor Car will ever come anywhere near it for sheer GRUNT !
The Hybrid Truck Guy
with a question like this, you’ll get 500 different answers because one persons belief of what the best American muscle car was will always be different than the next persons.
here is what i believe it was:
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle; LS6 454/4spd.
btw, my first car i drove to high school was indeed a 1969 gto judge…bought it for $1,100 in 1977 and drove the wheels off of it.
cars value today someplace around $30,000.