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Buick "Darth Vader" "Bad to the Bone"

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  The Grand National had humble roots beginning in auto-racing. In 1978, because the energy extremity demanded additional svelte platforms, the elephantine 17-and-a-half-foot-long Buick imperial lost a bottom of length and a brace of cylinders. With this everyday base erected on the G- body platform associate degreed an mechanics plan in 1981, the Buick came a significant contestant in NASCAR , with Richard Petty winning the first race of the season — the‘81 Daytona five hundred — in his imperial. The imperial steamrolled the competition. 1981 - 1982 saw Darrell Waltrip skilled worker a imperial to win the Winston Cup steeplechase Championship succeeding.However, the machine swept  the manufacturer’s crown, with a imperial within the winner’s circle in a very gorgeous forty seven out of sixty two races, If that was n’t enough. In 1982, Buick moved  to subsidize on this success and introduced the steeplechase , named for the Winston Cup Championship it had simply won. the first Buick

1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 427 Convertible

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The Chevrolet warship (C2) (C2 for Second Generation), additionally referred to as the warship Sting Ray, may be a sports automotive that was made by Chevrolet for the 1963 to 1967 model years. 1967 The 1967 warship Sting Ray was the last warship of the second generation, and 5 years of refinements created it the most effective of the road. though it absolutely was meant to be a design year, its meant successor the C3 was found to own some undesirable mechanics traits. Duntov demanded longer within the construction to plot fixes before it went into production. Changes were once more modest: 5 smaller front fender vents replaced the 3 larger ones, and flat-finish rockers sans ribbing bestowed a lower, less chunky look. New was one backup light-weight, mounted on top of the registration number plate. The previous models' wheel covers gave thanks to slotted six-inch Rally wheels with chrome beauty rings and lug loony hid behind chrome caps. Interior alterations were mo

Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

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  Firebird Trans Am The Trans Am was a specialty package for the Firebird, usually upgrading handling , suspension , and power unit , further as minor look modifications like exclusive hoods , spoilers , fog lights and wheels. In victimization the name Trans Am, a registered trademark, metric weight unit in agreement to pay $5 per automobile sold-out to the SCCA . Four distinct generations were made between 1969 and 2002. These cars were designed on the F-body platform , that was additionally shared by the Chevrolet Camaro . Despite its name, the Trans Am wasn't at the start utilized in the Trans Am Series, as its smallest engine exceeded the SCCA's 5 cubic decimetre displacement limit. The second generation was offered from 1970 to 1981 and was featured within the 1977 flick Smokey and therefore the brigand , the 1978 flick Hooper , the 1979 flick Rocky II , and therefore the 1980 flick Smokey and therefore the brigand II . The third generation, offered from 19

1965–72 Shelby Mustang

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  1965–1966 G.T.350 The 1965–1966 cars were the tiniest and lightest of the GT 350 models. These cars ar typically known as "Cobras", that was the Ford-powered AC-based two-seat sports automotive additionally made by Shelby yank throughout an equivalent amount. each models use the elapid emblem, similar paint theme, and also the facultative "Cobra" valve covers on several GT350s that were a part of a selling fixing by Shelby, further in concert of his picture symbols. All 1965–66 cars featured the K-Code 271 HP (202 kW; 275 PS) 289 capacity unit (4.7 L), changed to supply 306 HP (228 kW; 310 PS). selling literature mentioned this engine because the "Cobra hi-riser" as a result of its high-riser manifold . starting as a stock pony with a 4-speed manual and 9" live rear shaft, the cars were shipped to Shelby yank, wherever they received the high-riser manifolds, Tri-Y headers, and got larger Ford Galaxie rear drum brakes with metallic-

1965-70 Dodge Coronet

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  1965–67 The Coronet reappeared for the 1965 model year because the intermediate sized B-body employing a 117-inch distance. For 1965, Dodge sold-out slightly over 209,000 units, creating the Coronet the foremost widespread model sold-out by Dodge that year. Trim levels ab initio were base Coronet together with a Deluxe version, Coronet 440 and Coronet five hundred. The base Coronet and Deluxe were obtainable as two-door sedans, four-door sedans and station wagons. For 1965 solely, Dodge conjointly sold-out solely one hundred and one units of a changed distance version of the bottom Coronet two-door sedan and 440 motorcar used for NHRA drag sport. The model called A990 came with a sport version of the 426 Hemi engine. The automotive A990 was stripped of all options and enclosed base bucket seats from Dodge's truck-van line of vehicles. The altered distance eventually became usually called Funny Cars as a result of their stretched front clips. Front seat belts and

1963 Studebaker Avanti

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The Studebaker Avanti was a private luxury machine designed by the Studebaker Corporation between June 1962 and Gregorian calendar month 1963. Studebaker itself spoken the Avanti as "America's solely four rider superior Personal Car!" in its sales literature. The Avanti was developed at the direction of the automaker's president, Sherwood king . Design "The car's style theme is that the results of sketches Sherwood king "doodled" on a jet-plane flight west from Chicago thirty seven days when changing into president of Studebaker in February 1961." Designed by Raymond Loewy 's team of Tom food manufacturer, Bob Andrews and John Ebstein on a 40-day program, the Avanti featured a radical covering material body style mounted on a changed Studebaker Lark Daytona 109-inch convertible chassis with a changed 289 Hawk engine. it had been one amongst the primary Bottom breather styles wherever rather than a traditional grille, air for

1969 Ford Torino Talladega

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  The Ford metropolis Talladega could be a muscle automotive that was created by Ford solely throughout the primary few weeks of 1969.   Ford's Talladega was named when the Talladega Superspeedway raceway in Alabama , that additionally created its debut in 1969 . The Ford Talladega was a special, a lot of mechanics version of the Ford metropolis / Fairlane elapid. it absolutely was created specifically to form Ford even a lot of competitive in NASCAR stock auto racing, and it absolutely was oversubscribed to the general public solely as a result of homologation rules needed a definite minimum variety of cars (500 in 1969) be created and created on the market available to the general public. it's believed that a complete of 754 Talladegas could are designed, though the Talladega/Spoiler written record will solely account for a most of 750. This variety includes all prototypes, pilot cars, and production cars designed, and a special post-production automotive t

1970-74 Dodge Challenger

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  The contestant was delineated  in an exceedingly book concerning Sixties yank cars as Dodge's "answer to the pony and Camaro."   Introduced in fall 1969 for the 1970 model year, it had been one in every of 2 Chrysler E-body cars, the opposite being the marginally smaller town acanthopterygian . "Both the contestant and acanthopterygian were accessible in an exceedingly staggering variety of trim and choice levels" and were meant "to vie against cars just like the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford pony, and to try and do it whereas giving nearly each engine in Chrysler's inventory." but, the 1970 contestant was "a rather late response to the ponycar wave the Ford pony had started" with its introduction in Apr 1964. In his book Hemi Muscle Cars, Henry Martyn Robert Genat wrote that the contestant was formed within the late Sixties as Dodge's equivalent of the town acanthopterygian, which the acanthopterygian was designed to v
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