If you could have any old American muscle car..., what would you pick? did your Parents have one? Options

[saleeka]

I've was flipping through Motor City Muscle earlier and I thought that this would be a cool question to ask all the car peeps here So what would you want if you could have any factory produced muscle car? Also, why did you make your decision, because there are quite a few interesting and equally outrageous cars that you could pick from

For me, I've always been an old mopar fan, particularily anything with the outrageous Hemi. I think Chrysler was really ahead of their time with the idea of designing an engine that would blow the doors off of anything else, and then worry about the car that it went into. I've never been a big fan of the 70 up E-bodies, but i've always admired the clean stying that the 68 and 69 B-bodies had... So my choice would be a 69 Roadrunner with that insane Hemi, in white with a black vynal (sp) roof, to be exact. The image the car exuded was still lighthearted even though the carw as an absolute beast, right down to the signature Beep Beep horn.

Also, this comes to mind as well, but did your parents have any crazy cool muscle cars when they were younger? I ask this because my mom's first car WAS a 69 Hemi Roadrunner, in Jamaica Blue (this would be around 75)... She said she got it because it looked nice and had an 8 track player in it (!). Said she had no idea what a hemi was when she bought it (to this day i don't think the significance of the fact that car was a hemi has set in with her). Got it from the husband of a teacher she had... she would always say how she would get pulled over ALL the time in it, and when the cops saw a pretty young girl driving it, they wouldent know what to say She drove it till she moved to AZ in the late 70's, and she then sold it for 500 bucks (!!!)... She heard from her brother that the guy who bought it blew the engine up in it practically right after her got it sad way to hear how a car like that came to an end, but I always though that it was an interesting story