Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Muscle_car != Sport_car Message-ID: <1989@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 18:18:42 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1989 Posted: Mon Jun 4 18:18:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:45:29 EDT References: <468@hou2h.UUCP> <899@eosp1.UUCP> <1972@rlgvax.UUCP>, <1550@uw-june> <476@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 26 > Loosely speaking, muscle cars are anything that will light up the > tires in all four gears! (Muscle car with 5 speeds? Blasphemy!) (-: > Handling and muscle are not mutually exclusive. A Porsche 930 is a > muscle car. Herb Adams Camaros are muscle cars. Doesn't matter if > it comes from the heartland or the fazerland! The original posting that started this off said: > I am getting tired of people proclaiming Detroit muscle cars to be > great sport cars. Those cars are good at one thing and one thing > only: going fast in a straight line. so I guess the distinction is between a "muscle car" - which can handle well - and a "Detroit muscle car", which can't. The 930, obviously, isn't a Detroit muscle car (it's a Zuffenhausen muscle car :-)), and one could argue that a Herb Adams Camaro isn't one, either, if its handling qualities are due to Herb Adams' tweaking and not the Detroit design. I presume that "Detroit muscle car" referred to a car from the heydays of the muscle car; I can't speak for their dynamic qualities one way or the other. Maybe someone experienced with those cars in their "stock" form can speak to this question? Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy