Which Muscle/Pony Car Do You Want To See Revived?

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 12/08/2014 at 17:05 • Filed to: muscle cars

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Like the title says. I vote for the Firebird. Even if it would be based on the Camaro underneath and if it followed the letters "Chevrolet", it's infinitely cooler than the Camaro.

505Turbeaux > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:07

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I'll take an AMX. Chrysler, you listening? Hellcat all the things, even nameplates that dont exist anymore !

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:08

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I wouldnt mind another GSX

Steve in Manhattan > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:09

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Barracuda - put the Dodge name on it and make it smaller than the Challenger. And better looking.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:09

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The 'Cuda.

Blondude > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:09

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RazoE > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:09

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One word. Well, 3 numbers:

442. The end.

Bandit > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:11

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Duh. But modernized and not as tacky as the conversion kits people sell for new camaros.

KirkyV > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:11

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Okay, it's not really a muscle car, or a pony car, but the Capri!

T5Killer > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:11

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Galaxie 500. Full size family friendly muscle please.

carcrasher88 > Steve in Manhattan 12/08/2014 at 17:12

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That would be awesome.

Maybe with a turbocharged or supercharged 3.6 Pentastar and 5.7 HEMIs under the hood?

fhrblig > 505Turbeaux 12/08/2014 at 17:12

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THIS.

BrownMiataDieselWagon > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:15

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THE MACHINE

briannutter1 > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:16

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Sn210 > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:17

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Just borrow that sweet Caddy Turbo-6 and shoe horn it into the Regal

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:21

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AMC Gremlin 401-XR

Man I would love one of these!

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:23

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Hellcat Cuda

442

With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:25

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http://leonharddesign.wordpress.com/category/plymo…

Roadrunner!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 12/08/2014 at 17:26

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This is a post with merit. AMC as a freak-car brand within Chrysler might actually flourish. Don't dump the crazy projects on Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth (RIP) and Ram willy-nilly, keep them in a corral. The SRT-10 pickup? Imagine it as an AMC. The Prowler? Stupid, but should have been AMC. Crossfire? AMC. AMC everything - what are you going to do, develop a rep for silliness? Under the Levis Pacer and The Machine brand?

camaroboy68ss > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:31

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Nova/Chevy II

Chevelle (an actual 2 door SS would be a good start)

camaroboy68ss > Sn210 12/08/2014 at 17:32

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But must be a two door and t-tops as an option

Textured Soy Protein > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:32

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1965 Buick Riviera GS

Take the platform from the Cadillac CTS, make it into a big 2-door coupe, and make it look like a modern version of the picture above. Hideaway headlights and all.

But it'll never happen, so I'll just have to get a '65 at some point.

KnowsAboutCars > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:35

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El Camino SS. More sporty small pickups can't be a bad thing.

Chrysler 300 letter series. 300C Hellcat!

lucky's pepper > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 17:55

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With the Taurus getting long in the tooth it's time for a rear-drive replacement to compete with the Charger. Base it on the Mustang's platform which is to good to not make other cars out of.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/08/2014 at 18:02

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oh and Pierre Cardin can get his final say on a Javelin reboot all day in my book. I think the way the SRT brand is a catch all for the crazy you are absolutely correct.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/08/2014 at 18:07

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AMC = failure. Same with Studebaker. Same with Edsel. And Rambler, and Plymouth, and Mercury and, yes, even Pontiac. Let them go. Let them rest in peace.

lucky's pepper > KirkyV 12/08/2014 at 18:10

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Not really a muscle car? I think the orange on at bottom is a V8 Perana, which certainly qualifies in my book.

CaptDale - is secretly British > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 18:13

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The Buick GSX

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve in Manhattan 12/08/2014 at 18:15

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Brands that died in ignominy are somewhat different than brands that just softly faded away, or brands that were cut down when just... kind of there. Granted, AMC died with *some* ignominy, but not wholly due to it. This does raise a question, though - has there ever been a brand that was really successfully revived since death? Model lines, again and again, but marques not so much. Talbot is probably the closest thing to a success on that front, and that was really flakey and a long time ago. MG almost went that way, but was snatched from the brink and now leaves something to be desired. Then again, if you look at it from the perspective of brand presence in a country, you have a litany of imports that are on-again, off-again with decades between. Maybe continuity of engineering and design vision - however tenuous - counts for more than continuous sales.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/08/2014 at 19:03

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Bugatti. But not Maybach.

Steve in Manhattan > KirkyV 12/08/2014 at 19:07

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Sargent Shriver rear-ended me in one of these in the 70s. Dad's Coronet was barely damaged. The Capri was totaled.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve in Manhattan 12/08/2014 at 19:17

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It does seem always to be a risk that a car will not be seen as a "genuine" X if it's reanimated many years out of date, but the Bugattis were exclusive enough with the EB110 to where that didn't matter much, even before the widespread success of the Veyron. Somebody tried to revive Packard, IIRC, and it was a fiasco. I think brand revival is possible, but it has to be an entity with serious horsepower and will to do so, and the will not to move too quickly. Maybach, I think, was too much of an attempt to "move over Rolls Royce" without enough time spent garnering good will, let alone a certain limit to customer base. The Stutz revival way of attempting brand necromancy is also clearly wrong - small budget and throwback only works if you do it very strategically indeed like Morgan relaunching the three-wheeler line nearly seventy years on.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/08/2014 at 20:48

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Maybach I never understood - if you're going to make a high-end German limo, make one. Was it only us car guys who saw the S-Class resemblance? Don't get me wrong - the S-Class is a platform worthy of veneration, but I might want something different hiding that platform. And the Maybachs were, by and large, UUUUUGLEE. I've heard that JayZ insists on one when he's shuttled about by others. Dunno which car is the Beyonce of richmobiles, but the 62 ain't it.

John Norris (AngryDrifter) > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 21:02

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Makoyouidiot > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 22:59

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Javelin FTW

shop-teacher > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 12/08/2014 at 22:59

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Hell yes!

shop-teacher > BrownMiataDieselWagon 12/08/2014 at 23:00

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One of the best names ever.

shop-teacher > camaroboy68ss 12/08/2014 at 23:00

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This is my top pick.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > TheHondaBro 12/08/2014 at 23:12

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I think AMC is due for a comeback. As far as I know, Chrysler never sold the rights to the name so they could potentially bring it back, perhaps with a Challenger-based Javelin or AMX. Hell, they could stuff as much power as they could into a reskinned, AWD Dart and call it a Spirit. I'd be fine with that.