Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!davew From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Muscle_car != Sport_car Message-ID: <792@shark.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 12:24:25 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.792 Posted: Mon Jun 4 12:24:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:49:41 EDT References: <468@hou2h.UUCP> <899@eosp1.UUCP> <1972@rlgvax.UUCP>, <1550@uw-june> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 32 It seems we are getting mired down in definitions. Generally speaking, a muscle car was an intermediate sized Detroit produced car with an engine out of a full sized or high performance car from the same company. Some samples of these cars were: o Pontiac GTO = Le Mans with 389 or 421 CID engine o Olds 442 = Starfire with Old's 98 engine o Chevelle SS = Malibu with 454 CID engine Ford and Chrysler had similar packages. Some of these cars could be had with handling packages. The larger, heavier engines did not help the handling characteristics of these cars. The Mustang and Camaro were never called sport cars, but sporty cars. With the handling pakages, both these cars were pretty good handling machines. With the large engine options these were also muscle cars. My Webster's New World Dictionary defines sport car as: a low, small automobile, typically an open car with a high-compression engine and seats for two. The Corvette has always fit that definition. It seems some peoples definition of sport car includes limits as to the cars displacement, number of cylinders and country of manufacture. Dave Williams Tektronix, Inc. ECS