While muscle cars should always retain that great muscle car sound, today's owners are looking for something more and demand not only great sound from their custom modifications, but the performance to back up what that great sound implies. Flowmaster's new American Thunder Header-back True-dual system for 1968-1972 GM A-body Chevelle, Cutlass, GTO and Skylark is the perfect way to achieve enhanced power and torque with a direct fit component.
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Published on 08-11-2010 10:16 AM
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In the summer issue of Hagerty’s magazine, we listed the “10 Cars to Buy Now”: our picks for the next cars to take off in the market. Now we're narrowing our scope a little; here are our top 5 picks of muscle cars we expect to do well in the coming years.
This is admittedly an eclectic list of muscle cars; it could easily have included 15 – or 50 – cars, so we’ll rely on you to weigh in with your own choices in the comments. Our picks fall into two categories: Sleepers that haven’t quite caught on despite plenty of horsepower and good looks; and a couple of blue chippers that have taken it on the chin recently in values. We think they’ll be among the first to come back when the economy rights itself.
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One of the most successful car launches in automotive history was the entry of the DeSoto in 1929. The vehicles were built until 1961. Produced by Chrysler as a mid-priced vehicle it entered the market at a highly competitive time and helped lay claim to an empire. GM had the slogan a “car for every purse and purpose”. The Chevrolet to Cadillac philosophy helped establish GM as the world’s largest and most successful auto company. So Walter P. Chrysler, head of Chrysler, conceived the DeSoto to add to its nameplate “ladder”. It is possible the creation of this vehicle also propelled the Dodge Brothers and their bankers to sell the Dodge Company to Chrysler. After the introduction of the DeSoto the Chrysler/ Dodge sale took place giving the newly formed company two mid-priced vehicles. Thus, with the stroke of a pen Walter P. Chrysler purchased Dodge Brothers and created a sibling rival for the Desoto.
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At car cruises and shows across the state this summer, you can bet there is plenty of talk about not only how a car handles but how it looks. But, it’s also a good bet that the name Harley Earl won’t be mentioned during these conversations. Which is unfortunate because, with the possible exception of Henry Ford, no other person has single-handedly contributed more to the evolution of the modern automobile industry.
Earl’s accomplishments during his 30 years at GM included introducing the “concept car,” crash safety testing and the use of clay models in the design of the automobile. But his most important and enduring contribution was to convince the brass at GM that a car’s appearance is just as important to the auto-buying public as the way it performs.
IN THE EARLY 1950s, Southern California MG owner Charlie Weber wanted his car to stay clean while parked. His wife thought up a fitted cover that she had sewn by a local tent maker. That first cover spawned the MG Mitten Company and a line of covers. By 1966, MG Mitten offered fitted covers for 30 cars, thanks to fledgling cover manufacturer Covercraft. Today, Covercraft offers fitted covers in more than 55,000 different patterns.
CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,
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