<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/074ef1d9-b117-43bc-a4d3-f5b600af95f0/F38B7809-B735-4FBD-AC4D-E3F1D5DACD06/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/musclecars/index.htm" href="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/musclecars/index.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hubcapcafe.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/musclecars/index.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="215" valign="top" top=""> <A href="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/"><IMG height="53" border="0" align="bottom" width="181" alt="HubcapCafe.com: Classic Car Resources" src="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/musclecars/../i2/h_logo1.gif" /></A> <H1><FONT size="+2">American Muscle Cars </FONT></H1> <P>The muscle cars of the 60s and 70s made high powered cars affordable for the driver who wanted a little excitement on the drive to work and on those short little cruises down the 1/4 mile at the local dragstrip. </p> <H2 align="left"><FONT size="4">What is a Muscle Car?</FONT></H2> <P align="left">Taking the motor from a big car and stuffing it into a smaller car wasn't a new idea when the folks at Pontiac did it in 1964, but it's hard to imagine doing it at a better time.</p> <P align="left">The result was the Pontiac GTO, a Tempest with a Bonneville engine that went on to be commonly refered to as the first "Muscle Car" by a whole lot of people.</p> <P align="left">Whoever was "first", the race was on. AMC, Buick, Dodge, Ford, Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac and Oldsmobile all had their versions.</p> <P align="left">But the muscle car era was short lived. By the late 60s environmental concerns began overriding automotive dreams and by 1973 the muscle car was mostly history.</p> <HR align="left" /> <DIV align="left"><B>~ Find</B> <A href="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/resources/dealers.htm">Muscle Car Dealers</A><B> ~ Find</B> <A href="http://www.hubcapcafe.com/resources/insurance.htm">Muscle Car Insurance</A> </DIV> <HR align="left" /> <P> </p> <P>  </p> <P>  </p> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F38B7809-B735-4FBD-AC4D-E3F1D5DACD06/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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