Muscle car stamps from the USPS

[Richard Cranium]

2 of the 5 are Mopars. Not bad!

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130107/CARNEWS01/130109900

 

[Bruzilla]

Yeah, but two of them aren't even muscle cars!

 

[Budnicks]

the Daytona & the Cuda' are cool, I actually like all of them, even the "pony cars"...LOL...

 

[twinscrew698]

Yeah, but two of them aren't even muscle cars!

How do you figure?I see all of them considered Muscle Cars!

 

[jaakhus]

I might have to quit paying bills online just so I can use these.

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Really cool!

 

[MikeyT]

Those are very cool, but is it me, or are mosat pictures of Cuda's almost exclusively two colors, lime green or plumcrazy?

Mike

 

[Meep-Meep]

There is hope for the postal service!!

 

[satman72]

Sweet! I'll have to figure out some way to get my hands on a few sets.

 

[Ron 73]

"There is hope for the postal service!!"

X 2 Pretty sweet..

 

[Bruzilla]

How do you figure?I see all of them considered Muscle Cars!

Sure you see them all considered as muscle cars now, but that's only because the sports and pony car crowds glommed onto the title once their titles became uncool.

Read the words of Jack Smith, founder of the Road Runner, "Muscle cars came out of the youthful exuberance that followed World War II. Many people who came back from military assignments had a lot of experience in motor pools. They were accustomed to working on vehicles and doing things to improve them. It was from this experience that street rods were born and a culture of performance was built up.

"This culture was recognized by a guy named Jim Wangers, the account executive for the advertising agency that handled Pontiac's LeMans. He foresaw the possible success of a muscle car, a performance car in the mid-sized category, and prevailed upon a sufficient number of people at Pontiac to give it a shot, and the GTO was born in 1964. It immediately conquered the street and became the performance image icon Pontiac needed. The GTO was copied by just about everybody. Within General Motors, the Chevy SS 396 and the Oldsmobile 442 shortly came into existence.

"Chrysler eventually copied them, but before they could do so, Chrysler had to create a plan aimed specifically at the mid-sized market. At the time, the Plymouth product planning group was split into two sub-groups. One group did the Furys together with the mid-sized cars, with the latter a sort of second thought. The other group did the compact and the pony cars. The mid-sized cars just didn't have a home. That was corrected in 1965 when Plymouth created an office for mid-sized car planning. At the same time the company set up a similar office over in the Dodge camp."

Back when they were new, the Camaros, Firebirds, later Barracudas/Cudas, and Challengers were all classified as "Pony" cars because they were all compact cars that were clones of the long front deck/short rear deck Mustang design. That's why Chrysler had them grouped that way. If you go back in automotive history, you find that the Pony car crowd wanted absolutely nothing to do with Muscle cars. The Pony car crowd worked very hard to affiliate themselves with the Sports car market, which is why you never saw Mustangs, Camaros, 'Cudas, or Challengers in NASCAR but they were doing their best to get worked into every sports car racing series. Telling a Cuda or Challenger owner they had a Muscle car back in the 1970s was an insult.

But now the term "Muscle" is cool, and the terms "Pony" and "Sports" are lame, so there's been this determined effort to change the true identities of these cars. But to those of us who were around in the 60's and 70's, or know our automotive history, we know what these cars really are... and they ain't Muscle cars.

 

[Dennis H]

God Bless John Herlitz, father of both the 70 'Cuda and the 71 Runner. May he rest in peace and know that his Vision will live on forever in the hearts of Mopar Muscle fans. Wangers sold them, Herlitz designed them. And, brought them to market. Think about it when at work trying to get around the Politics to get something done.

 

[Bruzilla]

I sent a link to Jack Smith's speech to all my managers. I'm still awaiting feedback. It'll be interesting to see who can associate themselves with what he went through with the road runner and what we're having to deal with.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Now I'm confused!

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

I wonder If I use the superbird stamp if my mail will get there faster? hmmm

 

[Northwest]

I wonder If I use the superbird stamp if my mail will get there faster? hmmm

HA - Thats funny stuff bigman!^^^

HOw about this:

Superbird Stamp = Use for AirMail Delivery


Cuda Stamp = Never have insufficient postage - Postage value: $50-60,000


Chevelle Stamp = Use on packages containing hazardous materials - alcohol, firearms, dope and switchblades inside.


Mustang Stamp = Use without address information. Everyone has one of these....


GTO = Use when slower, sluggish and underpowered delivery desired.

 

[jessipup]

Bigman your mail probably wont get there faster But if it's got a Hemi I'll bet they will wnat to charge you 100 times what it's worth.

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

bigman your mail probably wont get there faster but if it's got a hemi i'll bet they will wnat to charge you 100 times what it's worth.

dooh!

 

[tallhair]

Sure you see them all considered as muscle cars now, but that's only because the sports and pony car crowds glommed onto the title once their titles became uncool.

elitest bastages glommarizing their cars with whatever is exclusive and cool til the end

 

[Richard Cranium]

I wonder If I use the superbird stamp if my mail will get there faster? hmmm

No, but it costs more.


(BTW, it's a Daytona)