Muscle Cars of the 1960's / Where Did They Go?
A Muscle Car Journal Viewpoint... All About Horsepower The name of the game during the 1960's was horsepower. During the early 1960's Carroll Shelby made news by putting a Ford V-8 on an imported Cobra modified frame. Shelby also did groundbreaking work with the Ford Mustang and it's modified Shelby Ford engines (750 HP and more). You might say that the decade of the 1960's is best remembered as the Muscle Car years and also the Pony Car years. We all remember or have heard of the fabulous muscle cars of the 1960's. Some will say that the muscle car competition was kicked off by Ford's Mustang. Chevrolet followed suit a few years later with the Camaro whose specifications almost matched the Mustang entirely. 68 Olds 442 Interestingly enough, the muscle car competition between America's automakers included all types of body styles. In some cases , sports cars, trucks, even family cars had the biggest V-8 under their collective hoods. Cubic inches were king a