'06 Charger....Job One, 4/04/05.
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From: The Golden State
Originally posted by USHotRod
As sweet as it is getting a new muscle car era ushered in, we have to look at one of the major things that killed the first one...a friggin gas crisis!!! I fear that that gas prices may kill these brutes before they get a chance to hit the streets.
As sweet as it is getting a new muscle car era ushered in, we have to look at one of the major things that killed the first one...a friggin gas crisis!!! I fear that that gas prices may kill these brutes before they get a chance to hit the streets.
If any single item can be pinned for the demise of the old muscle car era, it's insurence!! That killed sales alone (some of the most fuel hungry vehicles ever made showed up between the muscle car era & fuel economy mandates). To a lesser extent, you can also include the runaway list prices of muscle cars.
That hit was followed up by the banning of lead in gasoline. That killed high compression engines.
By the time the energy crisis hit in '73-'74, every traditional muscle car was dead already save the Trans Am, the Z28, the GTO & the Plymouth Roadrunner.
Z28 and GTO died in 1975, & Roadrunner finally died in 1982.
Beep Beep.
Last edited by guionM; Jun 2, 2004 at 02:04 PM.
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From: Anchorage, AK
Originally posted by guionM
Wrongo!
If any single item can be pinned for the demise of the old muscle car era, it's insurence!! That killed sales alone (some of the most fuel hungry vehicles ever made showed up between the muscle car era & fuel economy mandates). To a lesser extent, you can also include the runaway list prices of muscle cars.
That hit was followed up by the banning of lead in gasoline. That killed high compression engines.
By the time the energy crisis hit in '73-'74, every traditional muscle car was dead already save the Trans Am, the Z28, the GTO & the Plymouth Roadrunner.
Z28 and GTO died in 1975, & Roadrunner finally died in 1982.
Beep Beep.
Wrongo!
If any single item can be pinned for the demise of the old muscle car era, it's insurence!! That killed sales alone (some of the most fuel hungry vehicles ever made showed up between the muscle car era & fuel economy mandates). To a lesser extent, you can also include the runaway list prices of muscle cars.
That hit was followed up by the banning of lead in gasoline. That killed high compression engines.
By the time the energy crisis hit in '73-'74, every traditional muscle car was dead already save the Trans Am, the Z28, the GTO & the Plymouth Roadrunner.
Z28 and GTO died in 1975, & Roadrunner finally died in 1982.
Beep Beep.
Last edited by USHotRod; Jun 2, 2004 at 05:29 PM.