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Best Looking Muscle Car?
Topic Started: Jan 26 2011, 06:10 PM (494 Views)
Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
I was looking through yesterday's Car Of The Day thread ('68 Charger) and was absolutely taken aback with how beautiful the real car is, especially from the rear.

So I got to thinking, what is the most aesthetically-pleasing vintage muscle car? We'll define the muscle car era (in this case) to 1964-1974, and we'll include pony cars too.

I'm really leaning towards the 1967-'68 Mustang fastback for my vote. From every angle it's just a beautiful car. Definitely have to give consideration to the first ('66-'67) and second ('68-'70) Dodge Chargers, and the 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator too.
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STUTZ
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What a HARD question to answer Swifty.

There are SO MANY AWESOME cars from that time.
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
That is a good point, but there has to be one that just has that combination of looks that stands out above the rest in your eyes. That's how I made my choice.
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I'd have to go with the 69 Mustang. The lines just scream muscle.

A guy down the street from me has a mint one for sale for 40k. It's red, and mint in all ways...but it's an automatic. So I disregarded buying it.
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There are so very many from that period of time...if any one of them were offered I couldn't turn any of them down. One that stands out to me though as unique would have to be the 67 Marlin. 65 and 66 aren't bad either.

The Studebaker Lark Daytona is a standout, and the AMC Rebel Machine is another.

And then there's always the winged warriors...the Daytona Charger and the Plymouth Superbird.

But there really are just so many excellent offerings by all of the makers, that really was a golden age in automotive history.
Edited by juantoo3, Jan 26 2011, 11:40 PM.
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Just about every 2 door car made in the year of 1969 is the answer your looking for......LOL
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I'll go with this:

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The lines are Ford Falcon, but I don't recognize the nose.
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Firehawk73
Jan 27 2011, 01:48 AM
Just about every 2 door car made in the year of 1969 is the answer your looking for......LOL
High on that list for me is the Firebird.
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It's an Australian Ford Falcon GTHO - with a 351 Cleveland 4V motor:
torque 380 lb·ft (520 N·m) at 3400 rpm
brake horsepower
XY GTHO Phase III 370 - 390 bhp (276 -291 kW) at 5400 rpm

It was a racing special - very expensive today.
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A 4 door racing special? Heh!

My buddy would have been pleased to hear that...he hot rodded his mom's old 4 door Falcon, looked a lot like this one when he was done. But I'm pretty sure he had no idea of what was going on at the time down under! He must've just tuned in to the psychic wave... :)

Eh, maybe not as close as I first thought...he did hop up the stock 302 with a good Holley double pumper, and it ran an automatic stock. He painted the whole thing in primer gray, and raised the rear with lift shackles. And he fitted a nice set of 50 series wide meats under the back on slotted mags. All on a budget of course...that was how we built hot rods in high school with pizza delivery budgets...

I will say his was quite unusual...I mean, who hot rods a 4 door, right? But then, he'd been light to light street racing his mom's 67 Galaxie wagon for a couple years already...hard to believe she didn't know, but he got away with it. The Falcon turned out to be a pretty ingenious use of what he had at hand...and it worked pretty good.
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The reason that they rodded the 4-door was that they didn't have a 2-door version locally.

And both Holden and Ford still build 4-door muscle cars today.
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See? I learned something new!
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