Re: Perhaps a little off topic...

["Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Muscle car = a big, multi-carbed engine in a smaller, lighter car body? Sounds like a 1962 "B" body for sure. :) 

Some people vote for the Chrysler 300 letter cars of the 1950s as the first production muscle cars. It depends on what definition of "muscle car" you use. 

Gary H. 

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: JimJablonski  
>  
>  I stumbled across yet another web article that attemped to rank or list
>  60's muscle cars.  My observation and resulting reaction seems to always be
>  the same.  How cold any list not include one of the '62 - '64 max wedge
>  cars?  Worse, I consistently read that the 1964 Pontiac GTO was the car
>  that "started it all."
>  
>  
>  C'mon now!
>  
>  
>  I know it is near impossible to put personal bias, opinion, and emotion
>  aside, but how could a 389 with three two barrels "start" the muscle car
>  era when two years earlier you could buy a 426 max wedge in a lightweight B
>  body?
>  
>  
>  Rant aside, here is the latest list that riled me up...
 
>  http://www.bankrate.com/finance/auto/best-american-muscle-cars-of-all-time-1.aspx
>  
>   

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