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Lately I have discovered an interest in muscle cars. In particular "The Judge" 1969 Pontiac GTO. Today I can buy one anywhere from $20,000 to $230,000. Anyone else like muscle cars.

http://next2.web-cars.com/gto_nu_images/69_pontiac_gto_a.jpg

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

one day ...

http://www.1motormart.com/gallery/77dat01.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I am a fan of the old-school Ford Mustang:
http://mazz.nu/bilder_reportage/mustang/pic/17.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

im also partial to "Melba Toast"
http://www.fast-autos.net/chevrolet/chevelle.jpg

my dads first car:
http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/000678-200506-000017_3big.jpg

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

nick, a friend of mine used to own a 69 mustang covertible cherry red. He let me take it to providence one day and on the way home the engine blew up on me.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

An acquaintance of mine is selling a 66 Mustang in excellent condition, in the UK, and I am SO tempted. Any British people have the fainest idea how much it'd cost to insure?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

sadly no, but i'm sure you could get a good deal if you go with a specialist/classic insurer. (someone once recommended one to me with a name a bit like "firepole" ... it wasn't that, but good luck.)

how much is he/she selling it for? you have to buy it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

mark, how much is he asking for it? im curious to see the price. the fact that you could buy these cars for $3000 back in 69 amazes me. and now you can get $200,000 for one in pristine condition. yesterday i was browsing for the 1970 Judge GTO and came across one for $230,000. I almost shit. here's one for $75000

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

If you want a "muscle car", really you have to go for the ultimate - a Plymouth roadrunner superbird.

I like slightly earlier american classics, personally - the Studebaker Golden Hawk and Avanti and the Chevrolet Corvair specifically.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

i love the 280z principally because it's so incongruous. i mean, think 1970s japanese cars and you think of the sunny, the cherry, the civic, the corolla ... and then this fucking glorious and totally unexpected beast heaves into view. it's just so out-there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

My god Pashmina the superbird, is one of the ugliest things i've ever seen.

http://www.vaiden.net/1970_plymouth_superbird_roadrunner.jpg

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

yes but fully tuned it will do 200 mph. It also has drum brakes iirc. The very definition of a "musclecar" - card sprung, ludicrously overpowered, and w/inadequate brakes. The superbird is that taken to its highest degree!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

CART-sprung, argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

nate p to thread!

can we get some barracuda love here?

http://www.mopars.com/images/cars/barra30101.jpg

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

this '65 coronet is pretty dreamy too:

http://www.mopars.com/images/cars/65coronet1.jpg

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dreams-cars.net/images/Pubs/Dodge/Pub_Dodge_Charger_1969.jpg

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Chris V, I take it your ILE email address works? Check yr email if so, and holla back.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I love this supercharged Thunderbird at the Petersen Auto Museum

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/blogpicts/petersen-tbird.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

This '66 Coronet Hemi at the Leno collection is pretty cool also.

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/blogpicts/hemidodge.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

And of course a Dodge Challenger

http://www.moparts.org/moparts/picture/oldweb/3one/vp1.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

best vanity plate ever.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dreams-cars.net/images/Pubs/Dodge/Pub_Dodge_Challenger_1971.jpg

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I'll also drop anything for a 1965 Buick Riviera GS

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclecars/buick-riviera/images/buick-riviera-1965a.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.1inamillioncars.com/87grandnational.GIF
the last of the type?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.automobile-riekmann.com/verkauf/amc_javelin_amx_l.jpg

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

omg this thread makes my heart all a-flutter. The cars I like are generally just antique, not classic. I used to drive a 1949 plymouth special deluxe and I loved it like family. Can't find a good picture of one now on Google--I'll have to scan one of my own later.

I have also always had a weakness for these:
http://www.bilsport.ch/tuning/Oldies/images/P1800.jpg

(whether hatchback or coupe versions. It's not in the league of the muscle cars I know, and I don't mean to sully the thread, but still, it's cool and odd even though it's a Volvo. Z-cars and e-types also appeal to me for their similar shape.)

The Mustang that Mark mentioned above is totally drool-worthy. For one thing, it's GOLD. As far as American cars I tend to gravitate towards Pontiacs.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

like the pontiac catalina
http://www.pontiacserver.com/64catalina/lf.jpg

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Until a little over a year ago, this was my car:

http://www.mustangdreams.com/66va.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Class:
http://www.users.fast.net/~blazer/my69gp1.jpg

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I have a '66 Barracuda rusting away in my garage. One of these days...

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Charger seconded. Although even one in bad condition costs a fortune here, so the Australian variant: (which is closer in build to a Plymouth Roadrunner)

ihttp://www.chrysler.gil.com.au/vh_rthog.jpg

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 30 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Sunbeam Tiger: the perfect combo of british roadster style and american V8 muscle

http://members.aol.com/cobmeister/BMCSN_pict0.jpeg

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Monaro represent!

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax/Nightrider/MonaroBrakes.jpg

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

always hated the Mopar musclecars. They're either too boxy or too fugly (Roadrunner) for me.

someday I'd like to own a '66 Chevelle
http://www.chevelles.com/feature/september99.jpg

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

also have a soft spot for '67-72 Chevy C10 pickups (though not this ugly one here)

http://www.bobbittville.com/ChevyPU-1971C1JeffDrennan.jpg

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

Until a little over a year ago, this was my car:[mustang]

Somehow, or rather pretty obviously, this reminds me of home (California)...

This is my dad's first car and he still owns and drives it.

http://www.ratdat.com/mycars/mycars/owl966h.jpg

For some reason this...

http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B29111.jpg

Really floats my boat...

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

i'll always want a 69-72 barracuda...

say, did anybody play that post-apoc car wars driving game from about 10 years ago? Highway 76 or something?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

my guy had one of these, in sky blue, until the floorboards rusted out or something. It was always in bad shape but you couldn't miss it. Just thinking about it makes its odd smell come back to me.

http://www.musclecars-and-classics.com/images/77_Firebird_1.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, me to thread, motherfuckers.

Personally playing Forza Motorsport has soured me slightly on muscle cars (try wrangling a Challenger around the corkscrew in Laguna Seca -- ho-lee shit), but I still like me some of those weird exotic/muscle hybrids, usually Italian/Euro cars with American engines. Like the Pantera (most famous for being SHOT BY ELVIS):

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~motorcar/DE_TOMASO/pantera-GTS1.jpg

(one reasons cars sux nowadays = names not emblazoned in HUGE ALL-CAPS along the side skirts)

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

you fool, you're not supposed to take a turn in these cars!!!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmmmmm
http://www.eyeson.org/images/evn/veh/winner1999/T263.jpg
(haven't seen this color before)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 30 June 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Hot shit, that's the first 300SL I've seen that ain't silver or black.

Looking back up at that Pantera pic I keep imagining some sort of $100,000 cocaine deal happening just out of frame.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scottysclassiccars.com/cars/1950%20Studebaker/Studebaker.jpg

fuck yeah

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

For when I wanna pimp.

http://www.americandreamcars.com/1974eldoradocnvt102402.jpg

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

gimme

http://hvtm.totalcar.hu/car/m/mazda/766062.jpg

RX9

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Do y'all think the people who bought mustangs last year are feeling pretty left out right now?

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Why?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.automobilemetro.com/2004/ford-mustang.jpg

I like your chrysler, ladies.

VS.

http://drewster.hertzlers.com/images/2005%20mustang.jpg

Oh baby, drive me faster in your MUSTANG

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Ah! Yes, but they probably got them for like 11K.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Well you can get a better looking car than that for 11K... or at least a car that doesn't look like it's trying to be a 25K car...

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

i have a crush on this svelte little miata convertible:

http://www.jsonline.com/wheels/peak/autoshow2001/mazdamiatabig.jpg

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

http://static.worldnow.com/nctd/images/cars/miata_p.jpg

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

The new "Miata" is supposed to be GREAT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

The new Miata ad campaign is trying to de-gayify it with (I expect) weak results. American bros still can't get a handle on the two-seat roadster thing unless it's a Boxster or Z.

I liked the Miata my ex had, but I also spent many nights scared shitless in it on the highway. 18-wheelers are somewhat more impressive when you're on a roller skate.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

American bros still can't get a handle on the two-seat roadster thing

i'm all for it. best excuse ever not to give your loser friends "a ride."

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I'll admit that it's still too "chick" for me.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

How the fuck did this thread go from muscle cars to Miatas?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I blame JBR. Chicks. *shakes head*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

it's a conspiracy to make you all GAY

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

How can I possibly be gay when my car looks like THIS?

http://www.vaiden.net/1970_plymouth_superbird_roadrunner.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Your car has somehow taken the sunshine out of the sky!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

American bros still can't get a handle on the two-seat roadster thing unless it's a Boxster or Z.

Cobras and the occasional Thunderbird notwithstanding

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

The Miata is like America-via-Japan's answer to the oldskool Lotus Elan and if motherfuckers hate on it then bollox to 'em. There were some dudes doing autocross in the parking lot across the street from my apt. bldg and half of 'em were driving Miatas! (There was also some guy in a rattly-sounding Lotus Europa and a stinky Porsche 914 and some cat in a Mustang who kept knocking over the cones.)

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

The new Miata looks like it's trying to be the Honda S2000's l'il brother, which ain't a bad stylistic decision.

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

The new Z4 coupe is pretty hot. I like the rear-end treatment, though the front's still pretty fugly.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

http://twoday.net/static/iaablog/images/bmw%20z4%20coupe%20zwei.jpg

http://twoday.net/static/iaablog/images/bmw%20z4%20coupe%20eins.jpg

http://www.autoweek.nl/images/480/9822422.jpg

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, it's the resurrected Aston-Martin DB4 GT Zagato!

http://www.classicdriver.fr/upload/images/cweek/week_37_00/car_pop02.jpg

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

I like the 70's Rivieras with the glass 'cuda-style fastback.

― steve ketchup, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

I like the 70's Rivieras with the glass 'cuda-style fastback.

I used to own a 1972 Riviera. It was in bad shape and would have cost more to restore than it would have just buying a restored one.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

I want to get a black '72 Riviera with red velvet interior and red-line tires. Damn you Hot Wheels for warping my childhood expectations of what a practical car should be.

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.buickstreet.com/images/pauls71rivierarear3quarter.jpg

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

My heart aches for a '70 Skylark.
http://www.n3mra.com/70skylark06.jpg

― willpie (willpie), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

i can't even fathom how my mom used to drive me around in this (she's had a litte 82 honda accord ever since)
1974 Mercury Cougar
http://www.rankmyride.com/data/9/2/3446/.large/painted_cougar_006.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

i know that 'cudas, 'stangs, GTOs, chargers et al get all the love, but i've got a soft spot in my heart for cougars. check out the '67-'69s:
http://www.1motormart.com/gallery/68merc01.jpg
http://www.musclecarnationals.com/gallery/cougar/69cougar0803.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

and i simply cannot believe that no-one has shouted-out a 70s-era corvette!
http://www.ggsmu.com/Club%20Cars/LT1.jpg
i remember this vividly as a car for real assholes (see: firebirds and camaros), but oh boy would i LOVE to have one...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.saab99.de/99_ems.jpg
Dad used to have one of these... bad ass as a little car can be.
http://www.dukeries-motorclub.co.uk/gallery/northhumberside02/car111sc.jpg
One of these would be really cool, too... too bad I live in the US.

― Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

blue Buick Riviera "Boattail" wins.

― Will (will), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

This was my college car, 66 Chevy II..just sold it this year *sniff*

http://www.daytona-mag.com/contents/catalog_zeppan/img/66nova-main.jpg

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I love the Datsun 510's -- not a muscle car, but the first real sleeper car

My first car was going to be a '68 Cougar XR-7 in original condition, but the day before i got enough money, the guy sold it. God those things are awesome.

Someone donated an immaculate '64 lincoln contenental to my high school's auto shop class. The teacher let me drive it as long as i got gas in it. 430ci v8, auto 3 speed, suicide doors, looked and handled like a boat. We put 6 people in it, took it to a frontage road and brought it up to 110, slowed down for railroad tracks, and lost all four hubcaps bouncing over the tracks. Good Times.

― gockpunch, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

I was lucky enough to own 2 Fiat 124 Spiders. Lucky for the mechanics, that is. I had a 76 in teal and a 78 in black. They were good cars when they ran right and decent enough babe magnets.
http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/my-oda/ABARTH/124_vol.jpg

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

do any of these cars run on LPG or even HYDROGEN

omg ntk plz rpy thx svm

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

http://members.optushome.com.au/iroc-z/oz/l34_01.jpg

TORANA When you're hot, you're hot!

Esteban, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to convert most of these to straight LPG/dual fuel, especially given the relatively large boot space on many of them.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

What it's like to drive a tastefully modded 1960 GTO Judge

http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/11/IMG_1923-700x381.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 02:10 (eleven years ago)

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