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A Muscle Car Dream: What Made Them Famous<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

We have all heard of the horsepower wars; they are still going today, even though gas prices in the 1970s tried to kill the muscle cars. People loved them; they loved how they looked and how they sounded, but mostly how they performed. The people who bought them drove them hard and had fun driving them.\n\n\n

Born 1955 Died 1976 (Not True)<\/h2>\n\n\nThe car magazine issue you’re thinking of is a symbolic 1970s cover (likely from Car Craft, Hot Rod, or Car and Driver around 1975\u20131976) featuring a headstone or tombstone graphic.\n\n\nIt mourned the \u201cdeath\u201d of the classic muscle car era, with the inscription something like \u201cBorn 1955 \u2013 Died 1976\u201d (or a similar variation marking the end of the golden age of high-performance American V8s).\n\n\nAs you can see, they didn\u2019t succeed in destroying the American muscle car. The 1969 Dodge Charger. Everybody has seen the 1969 Charger; the movie The Fast And The Furious featured Dom Toretto driving a supercharged 1970 Dodge Charger.\n\n

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doesn\u2019t make the Hemi Charger any less of a muscle car.\n\n\n

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torque and sheer tire-melting power; most of the cars were stacked up or raced<\/p>\n

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1970 GSX Stage 2 An Undercover Big Boy Killer<\/h2>\n

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It\u2019s hard for me to rank the Chevelle higher than the Buick GSX when the GSX held<\/p>\n

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the record for the hugest torque American Muscle Car from 1970 to 1992 when Dodge<\/p>\n

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introduced the Viper. It was loaded with V10 power; that\u2019s right, it took Dodge adding<\/p>\n

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Two more cylinders to beat the GSX.<\/p>\n

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The Buick GSX was no slouch; this car could shred tires with the best of them. It is truly the<\/p>\n

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