Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Opinions On Muscle Autos

By Dawn Enstruthe

There are many types of hobbies for individuals to get into. Antiques are the most popular collective items, because they all bear a part of history and express a simple life. The best hobby is the collection, restoration and showing of American muscle cars.

These cars were built in the time era when the baby boomers of WWII, were teenagers and young adults. There were a lot of people that spent a lot of time doing a lot of things in and around these muscle cars. These muscle cars are a symbol that went along with what was happening in the world. Typically, a fast life getting faster everyday, with lots of style and a great amount of competitiveness, everyone thriving to be the best at everything.

A perfect case in point of how allowing the entire world cultures into American sports, is the Toyota being involved in NASCAR. NASCAR was founded on the idea of stock car racing. Although, at first NASCAR was dirt tracks, versus paved tracks presently. The original NASCAR existed because of the tremendous amount of competitive American muscle cars. There were no Toyotas, in the 60's and 70's when American muscles cars were the strongest automobiles on the planet.

The American muscle cars were a symbol of the competitive and ability to win, American pride. A number of religions believe pride is wicked. Although, pride has quite a few interpretations. When American muscle cars were built based on the blue collar American worker, and the product bearing the sticker stating made in the U. S. A., any person would take pride in the completed product.

The paints which were used originally were unique. The colors of reds, greens, blues, were very explicit and can be very hard to find. Candy apple red is one of the most expensive paints available for restoration of muscle cars, but when the color is applied to a muscle car such as the vintage sixties mustang, coordinated with the wide racing stripes the color is well worth the money.

The finished product when restoring any muscle car, is worth the time, money, and preparation. The finished product symbolizes a persons determination to live like everyone lived in the original era which produced the American muscle cars. The feeling that comes from operating one's choice of muscle cars, is in deed the only true feeling of being free from everyday stresses.

The muscle cars still in existence are still able to give modern day vehicles a run for their money in a simple quarter mile, but the sound is the ticket. There is no sound like the exhaust of a mustang, these muscle cars have been in existence for well over thirty years, and V-8 mustangs still have the same sound that turns the head of any motor head in any area, no matter of the age of the person listening.

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