The 1960's encompassed many trends and significant events within the American auto
industry, yet one factor came to dominate the decade--a facination with power and
speed
The youth orientad market demanded high-preformance machines that could run
quarter miles in under 15 seconds on the street...or at the local drag strip. Speed and
styling soon became over riding design concerns of Detroit manufacturers.
In the 1960's speed sold cars as Americas major car manufactures came up with
innovative designs to capture the preformance market. Engineers had developed what
came to be known as the "Muscle Car", built like tanks with monster big-block
engines. Ford began with the 406, Chevey had its 409 (Giddyup 409 . . .), Pontiac developed the Super Duty, and Chrysler created the Max Wedge and followed it with the lengendary Hemi 426 (Too good to be legal). Designers modified chassis and used innovative materials such as aluminum, Fiberglas and Plexiglas to make the cars
lighter off the line. The unique engineering and design created a phenomenon
unmatched in the world auto history.
But the life of the muscle car was short lived. When the oil embargo of the 70's hit, gas prices skyrocketed. People could no longer afford to be driveing cars that got nine
miles to the gallon. Most of these huge pieces of art were put in peoples backyard to
rust.
This site is dedicated to all the gearheads who have kept the muscle car alive. The
cars are representitives of an age gone by---an age of fast cars, free spirit and fun.
To those of you useing Macintoshs, first of all, you have my pity (I use a real computer, not a Mac). Heehee. Second, this site was biult useing a HTML editor called Pagebiulder. It isn't very compatible with Macs. Therefore, it may not display properly with Mac browsers. Sorry.