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Originally Posted by Hunid Racks
If any other "oldtimer" cares to chime in.....
If memory serves me right, Mustang, Camaro, Challenger....... they really weren't sold as muscle cars at the start. They were sold as "personal cars". Or "personal coupes". It was after they aged and got cheap that a lot of them came back with all sorts of engines stuffed in them.
I drove by a Chrysler store today. There were at least six Challengers out front. I wonder if Chrysler has made too much effort selling the Challenger as the rip roaring muscle car. If GM is going to sell enough Camaros they may already know that it has to be sold as a somewhat responsible "personal" car.
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Well, I'm old as dirt and you're right. Mustang, Camaro, and the like were origninally intended and sold as inexpensive, expressive, sporty cars. The "muscle" thing came later. These cars were part of a movement in the 60's to what was called at the time, "personal cars". The number of people delaying marriage or children was increasing and they liked a smaller, more individual look in a sea of Galaxies, Furys and Impalas. For older folk, what we call "empty nesters" now, there were the luxury-personal cars. The enlarged Thunderbird, Riviera, and later Toronado, Eldorado, the Lincoln MARK series, etc.