Last of the true American musclecar?

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Slashfan
Next year is 650HP and 600ft-lb torque.

Um, how about these:
1967 Ford Shelby GT500

1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429

1978 Ford Mustang Cobra II

1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302

1965 Ford Mustang GT Fastback

1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1

If those don't screem muscle car to you than I don't know what will.

And then there is the pony car Mustang, which got up and went and started at $1,000. My granny had one similar to this.

1965 Ford Mustang Coupe
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All but that mustang II. I never liked them. You know what they all had I common? Pushrods. Sorry but the 4.6 5.4 and new 5.0 are all not muscle car engines at all. I can't respect an overhead cam engines that ford has because there not traditional and nothin beats American pushrod v8's. Ever. And before anyone mentions the 427 "cammer" I know I'll give it a pass because it was a very limited special. But it did plant the ohc idea in ford peoples heads.:p
 
savage388
So the ls6 1970 chevelle wasn't enough beast??? The reason there were muscle cars is because of all the factory hot rods.
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Yea that was 1970 when automakers were purposely making large engine vehicles like the Mach 1 and the 454 Chevelle. Before then the Chevelle had small block engines and inline 6s. Same with the Chevy Nova, early models were fitted with inline 4 and 6 engines. There were some that did have V8s but they we're the higher end SS models.
 
xNEVER-ONEx
I can see nostalgia is hard at work in this thread.
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Because there's nothing I like more than something that isn't as good as it should be.
 
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AudiPro
Yea that was 1970 when automakers were purposely making large engine vehicles like the Mach 1 and the 454 Chevelle. Before then the Chevelle had small block engines and inline 6s. Same with the Chevy Nova, early models were fitted with inline 4 and 6 engines. There were some that did have V8s but they we're the higher end SS models.
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You said Muscle cars were made when the owner swapped in a new engine. That's not true. You made it sound like big block Chevelles, GTOs, Chargers etc weren't muscle cars.
 
God I loved when small block engines sounded like this (made impressive power too). Sound 10 times better than supercars.:


This is in a truck but engine itself was put in hundreds of different cars.




@ Savage, I only liked certain Mustang II era cars. I'm very picky. The one I posted is one of the few that made that piece of garbage look good.
 
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