The MuscleCar Place Blog

I usually have to be motivated to find the time to write my articles for TheMuscleCarPlace.com. I have been absent for a few months because honestly I just haven't felt all that motivated. But I'm back with a subject that has always been lurking in the back of my mind and I have a particular motivation that's moving me to action.

In the early seventies, shortages at the gas pump, high insurance costs, and the EPA came down hard on the muscle car era. As fast as the cars would go, that's how fast the muscle car era ended. Arguably, by 1973 the muscle cars were now mostly stripe packages and a faint whisper of what had been roaring out of Detroit during the sixties and early seventies. A new breed of cars showed up in showrooms at the local dealerships, but unfortunately were cars we probably would prefer to forget (think Chevy Vega, Ford Pinto, and the AMC Gremlin)...