When the words "muscle car" come to mind, one usually thinks of powerful V8 powered rear-wheel drive cars. In most cases this assumption would be correct. However when the plug got pulled on high-performance muscle car engines in the form of government emission regulations and skyrocketing fuel prices in the 1970s - performance was severely hampered. By the mid 1970s the last remaining muscle cars, were shadows of former selves.  Many still paraded around in the livery (decals, stripes, and spoilers) that their predecessors had, but they were nothing more than paper tigers.

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Once upon a time the dinosaurs roamed the earth exclusively, so too at one time the big V8 powered full-size cars roamed the United States in the same fashion. Small cars were rare and for the eccentric, small sports cars were the chariots of the hip crowd with money, and pickups were what country dwellers drove. If you wanted to fit in during this time then a big American car was the only ticket. Even performance cars and muscle cars were big solid cars during this time period. The big quintessential American car with almost as much steel as a skyscraper could be found in just about every d