Muscle Car Information (Current listings of muscle cars for sale on eBay)
Did you Know? One car is sold on eBay motors every minute. More cars are sold on eBay before 9:00am than an
average dealership sells in a year. Find the specific muscle car you're looking for in our eBay listings.
To be accurate when speaking of muscle car information, it should be noted that other countries have produced
muscle cars.
However, broadly speaking the term 'muscle car' describes an American automobile with lots of power, modest weight, and
blazing acceleration.
America was producing fast, powerful cars before World War II. So had various European automakers. But most of these were
one-off expensive toys, purchased by the rich upper crust.
On the other hand, a muscle car was a mass-market wunderkind of 1960s America, when youth was king and Detroit ruled the
automotive world. Thus the term muscle car acquired a uniquely American flavor.
Other than Detroit, no one has produced an automobile that rivals the muscle cars of the 1960's and early 1970's. They were
big, powerful and rawboned. No one would call them sports car in the traditional sense.
They were not nimble and taking curves at speed was a fight. However, what they lacked in sophistication they made up for in
brute force.
In many ways the GTO's, Mustangs, Road Runners and their brethren represented the American character better than any vehicle past
or present.
Simplicity, dependability, strength and singularity of purpose were their calling cards. No one could confuse the purpose of
these beasts. It was plain for all to see, and it was straight-line performance for one quarter of a mile. Nothing else mattered.
More Muscle Car Information:
The classic era of muscle car performance arrived with the sixties. All of the auto makers had V-8s that were bulked up as if on
on steroids. So "big-blocks" were a must on and off the track.
Few cars have been better timed than the Pontiac GTO. Though not a brand-new idea, it tapped into the spirit of mid-'60s America
and would be the standard for every muscle car imitator that followed. From the begin, there was little doubt the GTO would be imitated.
Pontiac thought it might sell 5,000 the first year and ended up moving over 32,000. General Motors' "Wide-Track" division was
well known for performance, but it was clearly on to something new here. It's as if most every performance trend of the preceding 15 years had
been leading to this one car.
Keep current with listing changes with your RSS reader.
America was producing fast, powerful cars before World War II. So had various European automakers. But most of these were
one-off expensive toys, purchased by the rich upper crust.