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Just reading a yankee car book and one of there contributors was bemoaning the loss of Pontiac and how unique the muscle car is to America.He also states that"our mates in Australia had some high-performance action in their Holdens and Falcons, but it wasn,t the same." Notice high-performance not muscle action. I would like to see a 69 Chevelle SS396 L89 take a lap around Bathurst.
My question is why didn,t Holden and Ford offer big block options back in the day. They took styling ques from Detroit so why not engines.
How did touring cars get into favour rather than drag racing.There was always illegal street racing and hot rod clubs had drag strips in the 1950,s Why do "Our mates in Australia" prefer to this day a car that is a touring car rather than a drag racer(I am talking about when cars are new) even the imports start out as touring cars.
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I think because we started too late, and ran into both the Aussie supercar hysteria and US ULP/emissions in about 1972. Holden certainly looked to have something big planned with the HQ if you go by the big block Muncie and TH400, and Bill Bourke had the |
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Some of it depends on one's defination of "muscle car" To me an American muscle car is based on what used to be called an intermedate
body eg Chevelle Malibu/Pontiac GTO, Olds Cutlass, etc, with a big
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I reckon an L88 or ZL-1 Camaro would have trounced the lot in 1969 and 1970.
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Or a '69 Camaro Z-28. With a REAL 302, (not the boat anchor blue
variety), and optional 4 wheel discs.
Lets go crazy and get the dual 4 bbl option- dealer installed from
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The HK would have been designed in 65-66 for release in 68.Is that a fair timeline.65-66 was a prime time for engine development in the states. Was the HR engine bay large enough to accept v8s.
Didn,t Bob Jane have 2 ZL-1s one for touring and an auto fo
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Well Ford did produce one Big Block and that was Bill Bourke's 428 Cobra Jet powered XW.  "We are but a grain of sand on the beach of life" |
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i would take one of those XW's any day of the week
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This is a topic I am uniquely qualified to comment on. Even in the 60's and 70's gas cost more down there than here, we had price regulated gas in till the Carter administration in 76. So basically Ford and GM didn't think bigblocks would sell well down t |
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