I owned a 67 Plymouth Satellite convertible (383/4 bbl) in the early
1990s. At the time, I was living in San Francisco and I could watch the
gas gauge drop while orbiting for a big enough parking spot. Still,
when cruising through North Beach or Chinatown, I was thankful I had
what I thought was a mid-size model, and not one of the full-size MOPARS
of the era - Plymouth Fury, Dodge Polara, or Chrysler Newport.
As an aside, the Road Queen was totaled at 3:00 am one morning while
parked on the street. The accident woke me up and I thought, "Some poor
bastard's gonna be taking the bus tomorrow." No one was hurt. However,
the drunk was uninsured and the bus ride was long.
- Graham Harlowe
B382001466
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From: owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-tigers@Autox.Team.Net]
On Behalf Of Tom Witt
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:51 PM
To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: The First "Formula" Muscle Car
It seems that the greater difficulty in finding a definition (car
wise)
for the term "Muscle Car" is that it did not come into use until the
1960's.
However, retrospectively when one looks at "like" configurations from
previous times there are cars that would fit the criteria.
I'm not sure that "mid-sized" would be a completely defining term
for a
Muscle Car. For instance, Chargers, Road Runners etc. certainly aren't
"mid-sized" Darts and Valiants. Yet, you are more likely to find the
larger
Mopars to be called Muscle Cars than their mid-sized siblings. Since the
Muscle Car term spawned out of the GM line up where you did have the
LeMans/Tempest and Chevelle being smaller than the Bonneville and Impala
it
could be said that this is the origin of that definition, but as time
when
on the term seems to have larger application.
Since 1950's performance cars have come up I would like to throw the
1957
Rambler Rebel out there. As I understand only 1,500 were made. The AMC
327
pushed this car to about a 7 second 0-60 mph which made this mid sized
"granny" like ride very "stealth" (for the time). Likely it was the
"Scrambler" of it's day.
Tom
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