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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2011, 10:21:36 AM »
Quote from: thelamefalsehood on November 19, 2011, 10:09:35 AM
I know this isnt a musclecar by your standards G-lean, but its a bad ass car anyway.
I was gonna include the Viper with the Corvette-Viper modern day equivalent to the Shelby Cobra/Shelby Daytona...a world beater...Enzo Ferrari tried to get the Daytonas banned from racing as they were beating his 250 GTOs.
Vipers were/are Corvette's main competition, as dumbass Ford didn't bring the T-bird back to what it originally was---a corvette fighter (in 1957, it was beating the Vettes in races), so Ford came out with the Ford GT...
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2011, 10:44:10 AM »
Quote from: GangstaLean on November 19, 2011, 10:21:36 AM
I was gonna include the Viper with the Corvette-Viper modern day equivalent to the Shelby Cobra/Shelby Daytona...a world beater...Enzo Ferrari tried to get the Daytonas banned from racing as they were beating his 250 GTOs.
Vipers were/are Corvette's main competition, as dumbass Ford didn't bring the T-bird back to what it originally was---a corvette fighter (in 1957, it was beating the Vettes in races), so Ford came out with the Ford GT...

Didn't Ford already kill the GT40 program? I've seen 2 up close and they are one of the lowest stock build cars Ive ever seen. If Viper doesn't step up to the plate against the Vette ZR1, they will be left in the dust,  no pun intended. Viper tries to keep things as traditional as possible when it comes to there builds. Meaning big engine, fat tires, big torque and a gas pedal. Dodge R&D needs to invest more into the traction issues the Viper has. What's the use of high HP when you can't really use it. At least from a standstill and not a race starting at 60-80 mph roll.
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #27 on: November 19, 2011, 11:12:00 AM »
Quote from: GangstaLean on November 19, 2011, 10:01:40 AM
Corvettes are sports cars, after GIs came back from WWII they wanted the cars that they saw in England---Austin Healeys, etc. Small, light, two door, two passenger minimalist cars...great handling, etc.
GM came up with the Vette, Ford came up with the Thunderbird...
By 1958, Ford abandoned the the 2 seater model, for 4 seats, Corvette soldiered on, handling and performance were the "sportscar's" forte.

Musclecars had big engines in relatively lighter (but gradually bigger) bodies---straight line perfornance was above all the King.
Engine tech was far ahead of tire and suspension tech. Styling was flamboyant, color represented that with Nicknames (Grabber, Plum), trim levels (Road Runner, Boss, etc).

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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #29 on: November 19, 2011, 12:21:04 PM »
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« Reply #30 on: November 19, 2011, 12:52:04 PM »
I always liked the Hemi Darts, not very pretty but definitely fast in a straight line.

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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #33 on: November 19, 2011, 12:59:32 PM »
This must be 'modern day muscle car'... One of my favorites also. Pontiac GTO. Almost bought one few years back but it was sold before I could make my mind  :'(
Not maybe the prettiest for all but quite raw for a car of 21st century :

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« Reply #36 on: November 19, 2011, 01:13:49 PM »
2013 GT 500: 650 HP / 600 TQ / 200 MPH



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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #40 on: November 19, 2011, 01:52:21 PM »
Quote from: Mr.1derful on November 19, 2011, 01:37:14 PM


do you remember the origional Marauder.  my dad had one when i was growing up.when he first got it he went to pass someone and almost rear ended them. crazy power. when i was 14 i was thinking it would be mine in a couple of years; but he sold it to a kid in my school for $250 :'(

now they are very rare. i saw one advertised for 20k+
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #41 on: November 19, 2011, 01:59:58 PM »
Quote from: thelamefalsehood on November 19, 2011, 10:44:10 AM
Didn't Ford already kill the GT40 program? I've seen 2 up close and they are one of the lowest stock build cars Ive ever seen. If Viper doesn't step up to the plate against the Vette ZR1, they will be left in the dust,  no pun intended. Viper tries to keep things as traditional as possible when it comes to there builds. Meaning big engine, fat tires, big torque and a gas pedal. Dodge R&D needs to invest more into the traction issues the Viper has. What's the use of high HP when you can't really use it. At least from a standstill and not a race starting at 60-80 mph roll.
Ford is bringing it back...the 2005 Ford GT, Ford was developing a V10 at the same time, that V10 can be found in the Shelby GR-1 concept car...upwards of 600 hp...that engine should have been put in the Ford GT.
Ford had did something sneaky with the original GT, they had a show car and then said it was going to be released in 2005, they did this so that they could have the funds to produce the car.
And they set the target of the Ferrari F430---saying that the Ford could beat a Ferrari for less---albeit the
cheapest Ferrari. Ford again effs up, they had apparently either sold the name "GT40", or never really used it, because it was a nickname for the original 60s car, it was being used by another company, and that company said it was going to be XX million dollars to use the name.

The real diff between the Ford GT and the Vette ZR1 and the Viper, aside from the midengine of the Ford, is the Ford's interior was bespoked compared to the Viper or ZR1/ Z06. Viper looked like a kit car inside, Vette let's you down inside...Ford GT---it looked like a 100+k car inside...been inside one, love the switches, nice feel and weight to them.
The C7 Vette will correct that, and so will the next Viper, which will have help from Ferrari, but will keep the. V10.
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #43 on: November 19, 2011, 03:08:57 PM »
Quote from: GangstaLean on November 19, 2011, 01:59:58 PM
Ford is bringing it back...the 2005 Ford GT, Ford was developing a V10 at the same time, that V10 can be found in the Shelby GR-1 concept car...upwards of 600 hp...that engine should have been put in the Ford GT.
Ford had did something sneaky with the original GT, they had a show car and then said it was going to be released in 2005, they did this so that they could have the funds to produce the car.
And they set the target of the Ferrari F430---saying that the Ford could beat a Ferrari for less---albeit the
cheapest Ferrari. Ford again effs up, they had apparently either sold the name "GT40", or never really used it, because it was a nickname for the original 60s car, it was being used by another company, and that company said it was going to be XX million dollars to use the name.

The real diff between the Ford GT and the Vette ZR1 and the Viper, aside from the midengine of the Ford, is the Ford's interior was bespoked compared to the Viper or ZR1/ Z06. Viper looked like a kit car inside, Vette let's you down inside...Ford GT---it looked like a 100+k car inside...been inside one, love the switches, nice feel and weight to them.
The C7 Vette will correct that, and so will the next Viper, which will have help from Ferrari, but will keep the. V10.
V10s just don't sound as good as a V8. Too many cylinders firing. And V12s have an exotic sound no doubt but to me the best sounding ones are V8s. The big blocks are mean as hell!
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Re: Muscle Cars Thread
« Reply #44 on: November 19, 2011, 04:41:59 PM »
Nothin' like the badass chop of a huge ass loping cam.  Turbos and Twin-Screw chargers sound sexy as hell too.  Pick your poison  :-*



Badass Turbos here goin' at it.  Sounds absolutely stupid



Nasty Crown Vic with a 5.4 Lightning Swap

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