Top 10 Undeservedly Forgotten American Muscle Cars From The ‘60s

[Music] we all know the story is started in 1964 with a Ford Mustang no wait I mean the Plymouth Barracuda or the Pontiac GTO or was it earlier with the Pontiac Catalina FD v is dodge d500 meeting debating the origin of the muscle car is like debating over the first rock and roll record everyone you talked to has a different opinion and no one is exactly wrong let's just say that by the early sixties a generation coming of age fell in love with high performance suicide cars coming out of Detroit and for a few brief year's performance rule today here are top 10 60s and muscle cars that deserve to reenter the conversation 1964 Sita Baker Avanti ice tree Giovanni isn't generally counted among muscle car but then Judah Baker was never exactly considered a performance powerhouse to begin with but the fiberglass Avanti had a long turd shortly Adele in 389 cubic inch v8 before a few years before the Ford Mustang did in 1954 after production officially ended through the vapor 4.9 v8 to 304 cubic inches plus a Paxton supercharger on them and drop them into remaining Aventis the result was a 171 mile per hour rocket which the company claimed made it the fastest production car in America this r3 was sold by auction to America in 2010 for ninety six thousand two hundred fifty dollars with the cholesterin like yet being what it is today good luck finding one this Jeep ever again [Music] 19:55 farming app two plus two as far as classic muscle cars go the 65 67 GTO is remembered to be about as big as they came but with the success of the GTO Pontiac wanted to take a secure fast formula to an even bigger car which became the 55 60 70 plus 2 based on the full-size katarina to adore the 2+2 edisonian use 338 horsepower 421 to the t-38 and then high output guys power jumps to 376 ponies which when tuned right could rocket from 0 to 60 in the mind-bending 3.9 seconds bigger pleasure and often faster than its smaller stablemate the 2+2 to here of the lot more laws from c3 you 1964 Mercury kama cyclone 460 Ford products the mercury comment was about as basic as they came closely based on the Ford Falcon the 64 65 comments could be live on death wish board famous 289 cubic inch v8 but for those who wanted more from their mercury 4 built 50 comment cyclones for the dragstrip complete with fiberglass hood fenders doors and front bumper plexiglass windows and the same 425 horsepower 427 v8 sound in the Shelby Cobra in 66 mercury introduced the production Comus GT with a 390 v8 and guava capable compact muscle car they couldn't hope to match the insanity of their big-block predecessor [Music] [Music] 1968 Ford Ranchero 500 it's been long overshadowed by Chevy's iconic El Camino but the Ford Ranchero was America's first car base you and while Chevy was offering the 396 v8 in its muscle truck or about Sandy and 68 in military style Don Jarrow available with a 335 horsepower Cobra Jet 428 v8 unfortunately a lack of weight over the rear wheels made the hot rancheros a handful to drive so very few adult with Ford's biggest murder while it seems like every surviving El Camino happens to be an SS model we can't remember the last time we've seen with Cobra Jet Ranchero come to think of it we can't remember the last time we've seen in Banjara 1969 Chevy Kingswood 427 that's in this work piece you could order virtually any option you wanted on a car and companies would actually build it for you so imagine you've got a growing family and your Corvette just can't handle them what to do by a Chevy Kingswood station wagon with rally wheel hideaway headlights season four seven and the same 390 horsepower v8 found in your vette only 546 buyers opted for the big v8 and 69 that a number of 427 Kingswood spent the next decade making them lost on the drag strip [Music] me [Music] 1969 Oldsmobile Valley 350 when deer heads think about rageous muscle cars from 1969 the Pontiac GTO Judge usually sits at the top of the list but while the judge has gone on to become a legend Oldsmobiles analog the rally 350 is all but forgotten like the judge at least at first it was offered in one an outrageous color Hebrew yellow had color matched wheels and bumpers a spoiler and a fiberglass hood and compared to olds as top dog 442 the cars 310 horsepower 350 cubic-inch v8 made a significantly lighter allowing it to scramble from 0 to 60 in 7 seconds and run the quarter-mile in a respectable 15.2 7 seconds at 97 miles per hour just 3500 rally 350 s were built making it one of the more obscure muscle cars to ever come from 1969 420 in Talladega half a century on does lineThe roadrunner Superbird and Dodge Daytona get all in love when it comes to mess car homologation specials but in 1969 Ford tried its hand at aerodynamics - and built the tuning of Talladega starting with a Torino sports roof Ford worked with a Holman Lilly race shop to design a sleeker longer front clip and rear fasciae for the car the Talladega was tuned in the wind tunnel a relative novelty for the era and powered by the 429 cubic inch v8 found in the boss Mustang production was over by March Ford only build 750 four of them and they were barely advertised but the slippery cars dominated during the 69 season winning 29 races in 1970 however the 200 mile-per-hour Superbird world mascot and the Talladega does time in the spotlight was over today the Talladega and new identical mercury cyclone spoiler to our bargains on the collector market [Music] 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ the second generation Grand Prix is largely remembered for its role in popularizing the personal luxury coupe a segment but in its early days it was one of the hottest cars on the street with a long hood the longest code of any production car in 69 in fact and short deck the Grand Prix was available with Pontiacs 390 horsepower 428 cubic inch v8 allowing it to scramble from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds and run the quarter mile in 15 seconds at 97 miles per hour it's combination of luxury and power made it the Grand Prix massive hit for Bombay act within a few years [Music] 1975 over 300 as early as 1970 Chrysler died heights were feeling nostalgic for the 300 letter series which ended in 1965 the 300 series carried on but performance had taken a backseat of mid-sized muscle cars had picked up to go fast mendel Chrysler tried to recapture the magic 470 by outfitting a 300 campaign with the interior for an imperial a fiberglass hood and decorate a 375 horsepower 440 cubic-inch v8 and the TorqueFlite automatic to handle all that power at eighteen point five feet long and 4,400 pounds the big Chrysler could still make 0 to 60 and 7.20 seconds and run the quarter-mile in fifteen point three seconds with just 500 built the Hurst 300 400 1971 am CFC 360 Hornets in the 16a and the--the red white and blue rebel machine and sdram where my focus failed to move the cells needle for America's last independent automaker but they sure caused the scene wherever they win for 1970 the company had introduced the compact harness and gremlin to replace Solyndra and within came the SC 360 harness within available 285 horsepower 360 cubic inch v8 under the hood the small Hornet could hit 60 from a standstill in 6.7 seconds and run the quarter mile in fourteen point nine seconds at 97 miles per hour but in 1970 displacement still ruled the day and despite being cheaper than a Flemish Duster 340 AMC found just 784 buyers for its smallest muscle car we think is saved remarkably well mr. 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Published: Sun Apr 02 2017