Name your favorite off brand muscle car

[HT413]

I’ll throw a Boat tail into the mix. I stop at every one.

 

[BeeKool]

My personal favs.

Buick GS

Mercury Caliente

Or if we get unrealistic

A Buick GSX!

 

[Larrry B.]

Muscle car or not, I still like it. 1969 Skyline restomod.

 

[62MAX]

This !!

 

[biomedtechguy]

Easy. My wife's 1965 421 Tripower GTO

 

[PRND21]

I’d take a 68 Formula 400 Firebird. Rather have a 68 Dart, though.

 

[Lefty71]

Off brand.... 1972-75 Ford Fairmont Coupe - 302

That looks a lot like a '70 Torino or Montego to me, and I think those models were made at our local Ford plant (Lorain, the original Fairlane plant) which is now long gone.

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Chevy Vega, full cage, wheelie bars, parachute, 3 stages of nitrous, 8-71 blown stroker, tubbed.....fast as hell if you can keep it straight enough not to slap the wall.

For a more streetable car, I used to own a '68 Ford XL with a 390 in it (fancy Galaxy fastback basically & about 1500 built). I'd planned to put in a 428 until it got totaled. HUGE car, but reasonably fast & full of luxury stuff. I also owned a couple Special Edition Trans Ams that were pretty cool...in a white trash sort of way, but that's fine since I AM white trash.

 

[kiwigtx]

That looks a lot like a '70 Torino or Montego to me, and I think those models were made at our local Ford plant (Lorain, the original Fairlane plant) which is now long gone.

These ones were built in Australia for the southern hemisphere markets.

 

[Lefty71]

Chevy Vega, full cage, wheelie bars, parachute, 3 stages of nitrous, 8-71 blown stroker, tubbed.....fast as hell if you can keep it straight enough not to slap the wall

Remember when the next logical step at the drag strip from there was a Chevy Monza??? After all you could buy it with a small block in it from the factory, although it was a tiny cube version.

 

[Lefty71]

These ones were built in Australia for the southern hemisphere markets.

Agreed, but given the similarities and the fact that you are talking after the Torino/Montego went to a different/newer body style, the US tooling might have headed your way to start that production run??

 

[Photon440]

I'd love a 1970 Javelin. Although I can appreciate the AMX, to me the original Javelin is better proportioned.

 

[Lionized]

In no particular order:

 

[Sahara]

I gotta go AMC javelin, and especially the ‘70 Rebel The Machine. Rambler SCrambler, and V8 Hornet.
I had a warmed up 289 in a ‘69 mustang coupe. Loved it. Wish I still had it.

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Remember when the next logical step at the drag strip from there was a Chevy Monza??? After all you could buy it with a small block in it from the factory, although it was a tiny cube version.

Yeah...I forgot about those. My ex had one & got pretty pissed when I started giving her car the "nitrous eye". I think it was like a 305 or maybe smaller optional V8 (?) Didn't they have a Monza Spyder or something like that?

 

[flypaper]

I’d take a 68 Formula 400 Firebird. .

I had a yellow vert with a 4 speed white gut
one car I probably should of kept.

for me the top better go down, a 4 speed and it better not be a ford.
my dad had a red 69 GS 400 vert brand new
I will go with that

 

[DeltaV]

Never owned a Ford. No plans to own one, but I always liked this model.

 

[moparnutcase]

As a few others have mentioned....'70 AMC Rebel Machine in Lime Gold.

 

[idrivemopar]

Yeah...I forgot about those. My ex had one & got pretty pissed when I started giving her car the "nitrous eye". I think it was like a 305 or maybe smaller optional V8 (?) Didn't they have a Monza Spyder or something like that?
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Yep, buddy of mine had a Monza Spyder, and yes, it came with a 305, and that car was fast. Remember we drove that car about 45 miles in 18 minutes once, and raced a Camaro at 130mph on the freeway, it was insane.

 

[slimt]

Heres my off brand..