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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Muscle_car != Sport_car
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 18:18:42 EDT
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> 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