What's your favorite pre-Mustang American car? So only cars

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>>16357040
Why does the mustang matter?
300 for that first gen Hemi.

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1957 Pontiac StarChief

Grew up with one, it's such a gigantic and beautiful car

>>16357133
64 was when shit started to get normal I'd say

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Oldsmobile 88.

>>16357133
just because it's the dawn of muscle cars and I wanna see what people like from before they existed

>>16357831
Dawn of muscle cars was mid-fifties, Mustang was just the beginning of pony cars and the like.

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If I could have any American car, why not get the best American car?

>>16357133
The mustang was one of those colossal shifts where a consumer could buy a cheap car, that also had high style. Previously you had to sirens big money on a Cadillac or Lincoln, but the mustang showed America that performance, style and economy could all coexist in a vehicle that everyone wanted

>>16357682
this.
i need a rocket 88 in my life.

>>16357831
Muscle cars existed as soon as Oldsmobile released the Rocket V8 and put it in the small bodied cars. The 88 lays the groundwork for muscle cars. Interestingly what many consider the first rock and roll record is about the Rocket 88

>>16357893
>wikipedia.

>>16357926
>meme arrows

>>16357926
What about it? What he said is the truth. Olds took the new-for-1949 Rocket V8, stuck it in the midsize 88 instead of just the full-size 98, and made the first muscle car, specifically marketing it to the men home from war with the money to buy one and the know-how to trick it out. It helped that the Rocket was the first real modern V8- high compression, smaller displacement, pushrods with overhead valves instead of the flathead configuration that was common at the time.

>>16357926
He is absolutely right retard. Oldsmobile took the Rocket V8 and put it in the short wheelbase 70-series Olds body. They called it the 88. The Oldsmobile 88 vastly outsold the 6 cylinder 76 and they discontinued the 76. Cadillac supposedly got super buttmad about Oldsmobile putting their OHV V8 into the small bodied cars and tried to get GM to cancel the car.
Read this article if you want
>http://ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/oldsmobile-rocket-88/