1970 Muscle Cars

[YkcorCal]

1970 Muscle Cars

I owned a 1970 AMC Rebel "The Machine" Muscle Car. Engine output to 400 horses and purportedly dropped quarter mile times into the 12 second range. It had a hood mounted tach and a fully functional ram air intake. The Machine was only produced for a single year before the name, and the concept, were retired. After selling just over 2,600 units, The Machine would be retired. It was a great car and actually got good mileage on the open road (almost 18 miles per gallon) but sucked gas around town, lol. I loved the blacked out hood as I lived out in New Mexico at the time and it really cut down on the evening glair and made reading the hood mounted tach easy.

Mine looked like the gold one below but with a white vinyl top and a deep metal flake gold quite beautiful in the sunlight all leather black interior. Full instrument package and assume stereo system. As the saying goes it could pass anything on the road but a gas pump. LOL


What was your 1970 Muscle Car?

 

[Racer X]

'71 Buick GSX Stage 1 Still own it, undergoing restoration. Boosted the @425 horses to @525 Clydsdales. Hood tach, front and rear spoilers, Cortez Gold, with white vinyl top and pearl white interior. Neither were supposed to have been available, but their are verified exceptions.

Only 124 were made in '71, and only about 2 dozen to less than 30 are still known to exist. Of those, maybe 15 are the Stage 1 engine.

My buddy used to own the Reynold's Buick Stage 2 factory drag car. The white one. The other factory Stage 2 drag car was red.

don't know whos this is, so I don't know if it is a clone or real. Mine was built with a white top and interior.

1971 Buick GS 455 specs

 

[magmag]

70 Vette Conv. here, not a muscle car (350/300HP, auto), more of local high school prom queen parade car but it can do doughnuts tho ;-)

 

[wyo-man]

1969 Plymouth Roadrunner. Ordered to my specs from the factory.
383 cid, 335 hp, 4 speed Hurst on the floor. Bronze Fire Metallic with black stripes on the hood.
Had 6 miles when it came off the trailer.

wyo-man

 

[mmaher94087]

'70 AMC AMX. 390, Silver, Black Shadow Mask, black leather interior, 4-speed, Posi and a functional Ram Air hood. One of seven AMX's I owned.

 

[YkcorCal]

PICTURES PLEASE if you have them or likenesses from online.

 

[robvious]

does a 1972 DeTomaso Pantera count?
added image.. not my car but close

 

[Rustyt1953]

1970 Olds 442 (455 cid). I bought it after I returned from overseas. It could pass everything but a gas station. It fell prey to the oil crisis.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Our family had a semi-practical side Bonneville 428 4 brl. Station Wagons. You could haul 20 sheets of drywall or plywood at a time, and still do 90! (My 1973 Impala Wagon was a 350 2 Brl. and held 9 people but could never do over 87mph, I know that for a fact!)

Ivan

 

[jbtrucker]

No Muscle Car had a 74 Nova 350 2bbl it perked a little when I removed the smog pump . I also had dual Cherry Bomb exhaust welded in . Later had Hi Jacker shocks Centerline Rims 7x14 G60's rear and 14x6 front with E78's .

 

[llowry61]

Closest I ever got was a 68 Mercury Cougar with a 351 Windsor in it. I got it in 79 from the proverbial little old lady who just drove around town. I bought it for 350 and drove it for 2 years then sold it for the same money. Wish I had that car today - it was pretty quick.

 

[Jon651]

1968 el Camino. It's sitting in my backyard shop right now, ready to go!

 

[jeffsmith]

Again Not a "Muscle Car"
But it was in the last year or so when GM's Engines were different for each Division

My Very First car was a 73 Olds Omega Hatchback with the 350 Rocket V-8
It wasn't Lightning Fast but the Engine was Stout and I very rarely drove it slow

This isn't MY car but it's Almost Exactly like it. I think the Factory Color is the Best Ever

 

[dasnake]

Lemme see...

1964 falcon - 289 hipo
1965 plymouth savoy- 383
1966 plymouth satellite- 383
1969 plymouth roadrunner - 383
1969 firebird - 350
1969 Z28- 302
1972- house, kids, career, family life.
1991- Z28 hipo 350
1993 - foster families
2007- ram 3500 dooley jazzed 5.9, 48re, 4:10

Those were/are the fun stuff, the rest of the money went to bikes and booze.

And then these guys.

 

[STCM(SW)]

Back then I spent most of my money on woman, booze, fast cars...
The rest I wasted....

 

[bluetopper]

1970 Buick Riviera 455 engine, baby blue outside with a white vinyl top and white seats. Bought it off my uncle for $500 and sold it for $500. Man I wish I had it now.

 

[anoblefox]

Not really a muscle car but perhaps a predecessor, 1964 Comet CYCLONE, 1 of 7454 built. Have 7 vehicles, something has to go. Listed in Hemmings.

 

[Racer X]

does a 1972 DeTomaso Pantera count?

yes. A friend's kid has several.

 

[Racer X]

1970 Buick Riviera 455 engine, baby blue outside with a white vinyl top and white seats. Bought it off my uncle for $500 and sold it for $500. Man I wish I had it now.

My brother had a metallic root beer brown '72 boat tail Riv with the 455. It had a Stage 1 engine, which we found out after he sold it.

 

[S-W4EVER]

I got my DL in 1970. I was the gofer at the local Ford dealer and wanted a 1970 Ford Torino Cobra so bad I could taste it but it never happened. Never had any muscle car, although I did have a couple of fast patrol cars over the years. Oh, well...