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Døber
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Porsche 959 - 444 HP - 1986-89
Which are your faves and why? Dat ass
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DOCO
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Location: Keswick Ontario Canada
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my friend in bellville ontario!!dont see many of these mavricks anymore..now thats some pure detroit muscle!!!
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Doco "where am i going and why am i in this handbasket"author unknown
79 924 N/A "Webster"
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tlake
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Location: WA
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| bnoon wrote: | | tlake wrote: | Pontiac Grand Prix with NASCAR nosecone. Apparently very few made, and Pontiac paid people to drive around in the few that were to convince NASCAR enough had been made for homologation purposes. Oh look, there's another one going by, that must be popular! 
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Eh, was that an export model or something? Because here in the states, that's a Chevy Laguna (based on the Malibu). It shares the same intermediate chassis, but the body panels are quite different for the GP compared to what you've shown a picture of. I've never seen a GP with Laguna style nose on it to even compare it to, but search Chevy Laguna and tons of pics pop up are are exactly what you show there. I know, I've had two. |
True, brain fade on my part, now I know what it's like to be a Prius.
AMC Pacer X V8, although I believe the X package was discontinued at the end of 1977, and this is a 1978 (the first year a V8 was available). Anyway, it looks special. 
You would need to replace the 5 liter V8 with the 6.6 liter unit (401ci) to make it a real muscle car though.  |
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Grenadiers
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Location: Nelson, WI & Prescott, AZ
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tlake
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The 1974 GTO wasn't a bad car. Although Ventura / Nova based its 350 V8 put out a Corvette threatening 200 hp net, which was good for the time and you could still team it with a manual gearbox (3 speed).
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tlake
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Location: WA
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Rotaries let one guzzle gas in style. With tightening CAFE they might not be seen again, sadly. 
Classic Rotary
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Khal
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Location: Sunny and lovely interior BC, Canada
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From Oz, just 'cause...
The original Monaro ('6;
The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III;
And the Aussie (Chrysler Valiant) Charger;
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jim kleyh
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Location: pine falls, manitoba, canada
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My list goes from the original muscle to the tamer versions: 61 pontiac 421/4sp kicked all asses in 61/2/3/4, 2nd is: 61chev 409/4sp somtimes kicked pontiac's, 65 corvair 180hp turbo, 66 stang 289/270hp, 57 chev 2dr 454 auto, 55 pontiac safari 316cu, 55 safari 394 olds, I don't have em all but do have most in various stages and my long term project the 58 mercedes 190sl. You'd think after collecting parts for 25 years I'd get off my ass and finish it cuz in 6 days 65th birthday comes a knockin' and I don't know how long I'll live the way I've abused my body.
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tlake
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NSU Ro80, for those that dared to dream. Then the factory started making 924s, lol.
NSU Ro80
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Ponz
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Stock 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk stock with a Packard engine 352 cu. in.
One of the best looking cars at the time. Mine was white and metallic green.
Look them up.
vince
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tlake
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nickthompson
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| God that car is ugly. |
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tlake
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| nickthompson wrote: | | God that car is ugly. |
Car customizing in the '70s got that way. The more vile looking, the better, or so people thought at the time.
AMG's Red Pig was actually a 6.8 liter machine that came 2nd in the 1971 SPA 24 Hours, and went through a lot of gas in the process.
Mercedes AMG |
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Ron B
Joined: 19 May 2014
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:00 am Post subject: Re: Muscle beach :) |
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| tlake wrote: | | To combat the depression of the latest Toyota Prius being launched, it might be helpful to look back at great muscle cars. Which are your faves and why? |
Muscle cars are far from dead, in fact have evolved to new heights.
My new Shaker has 485hp 480fptq, runs a 12 second 1/4 mile, has a top speed of 180mph, AND gets me 24.9 mpg at 74mph on the highway, 
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tlake
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Muscle beach :) |
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| Ron B wrote: | | tlake wrote: | | To combat the depression of the latest Toyota Prius being launched, it might be helpful to look back at great muscle cars. Which are your faves and why? |
Muscle cars are far from dead, in fact have evolved to new heights.
My new Shaker has 485hp 480fptq, runs a 12 second 1/4 mile, has a top speed of 180mph, AND gets me 24.9 mpg at 74mph on the highway,
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Looks very cool and love that color! I was reading a review in EVO magazine about the new Coyote engined Stang. They said it's limited to 155 mph, but the front end lifted off da deck at 135 mph!! Needs a btr front spoiler (downforce) IMO. I think the Germans still have it right when it comes to achieving a safe top speed.
For his 60th birthday Ferry was given a 914/8, that's what I call a nice surprise, lol.
Porsche, there's no substitute |
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