Muscle Cars 1960-1970s

Classic muscle cars are pretty unique pieces of machinery. One that has been restored and is in cherry condition can produce a large profit return on investment. As time goes on there becomes fewer and fewer muscle cars available, since muscle cars were produced for a limited number of years, making the prices even more competitive to classic car collectors and muscle car enthusiasts. They are valuable items for collectors and still highly desirable to those who enjoy racing or desire a quick, powerful performance street car.

Since the decline in production of muscle cars a few auto makers have attempted to bring the legendary muscle car era back to life by producing vehicles resembling the street performance muscle cars. Three major traits of a muscle car were power, speed and performance. In my opinion, they were pretty amazing because of the combined efficiency of a lightweight, mid-sized body with the performance of a high powered V8 and special design features that greatly increased the cars acceleration capabilities.

Muscle cars were produced from the 60s into the early 70s. The production of such cars fell drastically due to the controversy whether it was responsible to make such powerful vehicles available to the general public. They felt the muscle cars were used irresponsibly. Insurance companies began to increase rates for insuring muscle cars primarily due to the increase in road racing related incidents. Emission control requirements also made it near impossible for automakers to produce muscle cars that met the standards the put into regulation.

It will be interesting to see; will present day automakers renew production of true muscle cars that are fast and powerful as the muscle cars produced in the 60s and 70s.