Re: America's First Muscle Car

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2012/8/4 6:40:58

Thanks for the link and story. I've had the pleasure of driving a couple of 734 Speedsters over the years and it's quite an experience!! One could argue at length over what was the very first "muscle car", probably depends a lot on your definition. But a contender for the title, and well before the Packard Speedster, was a very early (190?) Stanley when they placed an oversize boiler in a light body. I believe this was the concept behind the Stanley racer that said such phenonemal records.

And there were others, gasoline-powered, that did similar things in the very early years - was it Locomobile (correction - Peerless) with the "Green Dragon"? The "Blitzen Benz"? Sorry, I don't recall the specifics.