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Muscle Cars Essay, Research Paper

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American Muscle Cars, the very words speak of automotive power. They

represent Americas height of power during the 60.s; throughout there aggressive body

styling, technical advances, and there massive engines. Even though they were burdened

and doomed to die by high insurance premiums and overshadowing government

regulations. Muscle Cars were by far the most impressive and greatest vehicles Detroit has

ever produced. .Insurance surcharges, emission controls, safety concerns and gasoline up

to 38 cents a gallon: for the second time in its life, the Hemi was dead(Leffingwell 180)..

Not just the Hemi was dead but the whole Muscle Car Era.

Before Muscle Cars

Or as you might want to say, before Christ. This is the point in where peoples

minds were concerned with foreign policies. The Iron Curtain had been drawn, JFK was

assassinated, people were being drafted for Vietnam. The whole nation was on a power

surge; and was Detroit. Muscle Cars represented the way the nation thought and the way

they went about there daily life. The 60.s was a exciting era, cars from the 60.s are

exciting and nothing will or has ever been produced to replicate the popularity of Muscle

Cars.

The Magnificent Era

.Putting the pedal to the floor produces modern performance art; the engine

explodes, its sound bores into the ears. The tortured suspensions swings and reacts

(Leffingwell 20)..

One of the most important factors that drew out the Muscle Car Era was

advertisement. .They weren.t used to seeing big, glossy full-page ads from the auto

manufactures (Stathan 46).. This is what contributed to the boom of Muscle Cars, the

availability of advertisement as well as the everyone.s daringness to drive a car of

complete power. Cars were advertised by Drag Racing, Car and Driver magazines, and

TV. People were lured into buying cars like a kids are drawn into a candy shop. The only

question was, what did they use to lure people into buying the cars. They used flamboyant

pictures and exciting terms like: Super Sport, Rally Sport, GT, GTS, and HURST. Many

of these cars just had exciting names that drew people to them: Firebird, Dart DEMON,

Superbird, and even Stingray. .By specifying what you wanted from an extensive list of

options, you built a car to suit your own needs and personality (Leffingwell 52)..

Although some of the cars were produced by impressive names like: Shelby, DeLorean,

Hurst, and Yenko. These cars were built for only one purpose, that was to go from point

A to B in the fastest possible time and people did just that.

Drag Racing, NHRA and other car sports became extremely popular in the 60.s

and even helped brought upon the car war. Companies like Ford, Pontiac, Dodge and

Chevy battled over the battle fields of Pomona Beach, Salt Flats, and the most popular on

the roadways. .Goes to show that nothing shrinks time and distance like cubic inches and

a good induction system (Mveller 81).. Most of these .Boulevard Bruisers. or drag strip

specials you could only get from the dealer through a long list of options and waiting for

your car to show up could take weeks. The wait was long worth the wait, you would have

the fastest car in your county and most of the time if your paid enough you could even go

and compete and actually win in most Stock Car Competitions. Alot of people got

recognized like this, and eventually got sponsored into driving strip downed and acid

dipped drag cars. People like Sox and Martin, Bill .Grumpy. Jenkins, and Bruce Kimmen

paved the .road. or even the drag strip for everybody.

.You know John, it would take us about a half-hour to stick a 389 in this thing

(Stathan 28).. Working on the cars also gives people a hobby, the hobby can get out of

hand, modifying your own car. .They were great at the track, but not so great for driving

to work and back (GTOStathan 10).. Some people get to the point where they start

stripping out all their interior and yanking out all the luxury items like power steering,

power brakes, disk brakes and the passenger seat to save on weight and parasitic drag. As

fun as it is to drive some of these cars they can drive you crazy, gear drive constantly

whining just bores into your head like some kind of cruel punishment. The feeling you get

when everybody stares or when u blast through a parking garage and set off all the car

alarms makes all of your troubles worth it.

.Playing good-natured cat and mouse games with the law, vanquishing lesser foes

in late-night street races, and causing envy levels to rise at the local drive-in (Stathan 12)..

That is what sticks out the most in my mind of the whole Muscle Car idea. Cruising

around and having good natured fun. Although it has been stricken down like a bad child,

by those who don.t understand that car

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