American Muscle Car

Season 2

American Muscle Car is a weekly television show on Speed, produced by Restoration Productions LLC., about muscle cars. Each episode provides a timeline of each vehicle's history beginning with its first year of production to its most recent year of production. The show was initially designed to showcase traditional muscle cars such as the Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Mustang, and Dodge Charger. It eventually added other performance vehicles such as the Shelby Cobra and the Chevrolet Corvette, and even began to focus on specific eras such as the Corvette Stingray. It even created a special dedicated to the last 1967 Corvette Stingray produced.

In 2006 season, the show's focus was expanded to include designers and engineers of muscle car era.

In 2007 season, the show's focus was expanded to include vintage races, powertrain components.

12 Episodes

  • Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
    E1
    Pontiac Firebird Trans AmPontiac's pony car went racing in 1969, and lives on today as one of the America's favorite street muscle cars. The most famous of all Trans Ams was the one with the 455 Super Duty engine!
  • 1959-1963 Pontiac Super Duty
    E2
    1959-1963 Pontiac Super DutyIn the early sixties these two words meant the most powerful engines of any American car. This all-out assault on the speedways of America made Pontiac GM's "We build excitement" car company.
  • Blue Oval Thunder! - Ford Fairlane GT Talladegada
    E3
    Blue Oval Thunder! - Ford Fairlane GT TalladegadaFord's 427 Fairlanes and Torino Talladegas had one purpose - to sweep the Hemi Mopars off the high-banked NASCAR track. And they did, too!
  • The Snake! - 427 Cobra
    E4
    The Snake! - 427 CobraImagine a car that would do zero to one hundred miles per hour...and back to zero...in under ten seconds. The Cobras had it all - acceleration, braking, handling - and they look fantastic, too. Stand by for the ride of your life.
  • Sting Ray! - '63-'67 Corvette Sting Ray
    E5
    Sting Ray! - '63-'67 Corvette Sting RayCompletely restyled for 1963, Corvette launched into its greatest popularity. Get inside, fire it up, and discover the true heart-pounding excitement of America's one true sports car!
  • Z/28! - Camaro Z28
    E6
    Z/28! - Camaro Z28There's this road race, see, this SCCA Trans Am series? And the Camaro is perfect for it. All they needed was a 500-horsepower 302 cubic-inch engine!
  • Mopar's Winged Wonders - Dodge Daytona & Plymouth Superbird
    E7
    Mopar's Winged Wonders - Dodge Daytona & Plymouth SuperbirdBuilt for the superspeedways, but available at your local Mopar showroom, the 1969 and '70 Dodge Daytona and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird were the essence of what the Musclecar was (and is) all about.
  • Classic Muscle! - Mopar Super Stockers
    E8
    Classic Muscle! - Mopar Super StockersThe 426 Max Wedge and Hemi Plymouths and Dodges blew away everyone in the NHRA Super Stock classes, and gave Chrysler Corporation a head start over Ford and Chevy in the Musclecar wars.
  • AMX! - American Motors AMX
    E9
    AMX! - American Motors AMXOne of the greatest supercars ever built, for the street or the track, and the first two-seat sports car built since the Corvette and the early T-Bird. Close to ten thousand of these lightning-fast cars stuffed a lot of wisecracks about Ramblers being slow and boring!
  • Sporty Cars! - T/A Challenger - AAR 'Cuda
    E10
    Sporty Cars! - T/A Challenger - AAR 'CudaChrysler Corporation turned their 340 'Cudas and Challengers into world-class road racers, and musclecar fans line up at Chrysler's showrooms for a chance to take them to the streets!
  • Grand National! - Buick GNX
    E11
    Grand National! - Buick GNXBuick quietly re-entered the supercar wars in the late eighties with a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 engine in an all-black Regal. The car was so outrageously fast that it's now among the most collectible cars of all time.
  • Classic Muscle! - '55 - '57 Chevrolet Bel Air
    E12
    Classic Muscle! - '55 - '57 Chevrolet Bel AirMany people say this is where the musclecar era began. The '55 Chevy was Chevrolet's opening into the world of auto performance. These cars changed America's automotive landscape, and today they're still the most popular collector cars in the world.

 

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