Muscle cars were introduced to the market between 1962 and 1972, which is known as the golden decade of the world’s automobile industry, and Detroit companies including General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Muscle cars are classified into two categories: muscle car and pony car, which were first In the American press, they were used to describe powerful and relatively cheap cars. In this article, we are going to compare two muscle cars.
Pontiac GTO
Those who obsessively insist that the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 didn’t usher in the muscle car era attribute it to the 1964 GTO. While General Motors was against installing big engines on small cars. In 1964, Pontiac used an 8-cylinder engine with an amazing volume of 6.4 liters as an option and added the suffix GTO to it. The result of this work was wonderful and this car was able to win in GM competitions in the presence of competitors such as Chevrolet and Oldsmobile. In the following years, other versions of this model were made, but the 1967 model was the most complete and powerful and had the best performance compared to the previous models. In this model, a 6.5-liter 8-cylinder engine was used, which produced 360 horsepower. was producing
The 1964 Pontiac GTO was indeed one of the stalwarts of the muscle car world, but by the end of the decade, new competitors had entered the market that made it difficult for the company. For this reason, in 1968, the company’s engineers decided to produce cheaper models of this car with a weaker engine in order to increase sales, but the CEO of Pontiac was against this idea and wanted the car’s engine to be in accordance with the standard models. For this reason, the engineers removed part of the car’s appearance features to produce cheap models named JUDGE. This name was taken from a popular TV program at that time. This car with a 360 horsepower engine is cheaper than the GTO. Was
Pontiac transm
If the Pontiac GTO was the father of all muscle cars, the Pontiac Transom is the last muscle car of the first and golden generation. The first generation Pontiac Firebird was introduced in 1967 along with the Chevrolet Camaro to compete with the Mustang. In the first generation, the Firebird was offered with six engines, with most buyers choosing the 320 horsepower 400 cubic inch model.
In 1968, the Transam model was introduced as a reinforced and powerful example of Firebird. With the introduction of the second generation of this car in 1969, Firebird got a new life. In this generation, the Firebird was significantly more muscular than the Chevrolet Camaro and was recognized as a superior car. In 1970, the most powerful model equipped with the Firebird, i.e. the model equipped with the Transm option and equipped with Ram Air, had a 440 cubic inch engine with a power of about 500 horsepower. . The name of the transm is derived from the competition of the same name that is held in North America
With the beginning of the oil crisis in the early 70s, almost all muscle cars were not produced, and the manufacturers at least tried to reduce the fuel consumption of their former powerful products by drastically reducing power. This issue caused the transm to be the only real muscle car and the last savior of the American muscle car generation in the mid-70s. In 1973, the famous golden eagle was engraved on the engine door of the engine and remained as a symbol of this car until the last years of production. In three periods, i.e. 74, 77, 79, the appearance of the transm underwent fundamental changes, the most important factor in the success of this generation of transm was due to the introduction of the 455 engine.
This was enough to reach a speed of 6 miles per hour in about 5.5 seconds with the help of the astronomical torque of this transm engine. Although this engine was abandoned in 1976, it was able to experience the production of more than 100,000 units despite the reduction in transm power. Another factor of this success was the heroic appearance of a black Pontiac Transom in 1977 in the movie Smokey and Bandit, which brought considerable popularity to it. Since 1979, the transm power experienced a more significant decrease, but in 1980, with the release of the turbo model, a part of the decrease in the car’s acceleration was compensated. Although the third generation of Transm, which was introduced in 1982, was a smart car and a spokesperson for all competitors and a full-fledged fighter, it was a relatively successful car, and the fourth and last generation of this car was also produced from 1993 to 2002, but car historians believe that the generation The second Pontiac Transm, especially the models before the 1979 facelift, is the best muscle car in history.
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