Many people point to the 1964 Pontiac GTO as the first muscle car. That’s understandable enough, given how impactful the Muscle Car Wars were back in the heady days of the early 60s. That was a golden era when all the big U.S. automakers were duking it out to make the biggest, stockiest (one might say) engines packing the most potent ponies that could fit under a hood. Then, the OPEC Oil Crisis reared its global head in 1973 and slammed the brakes
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