GMC SYCLONE




 “A truck as a muscle car?” you ask. Let me explain. While compact pickups aren’t your usual muscle fare, this one qualifies on every level. The simple suspension, Spartan interior, and emphasis on straight line speed are muscle car traits. The turbocharged 4.3L V6 might have an unusual approach, but the results were impressive: zero to sixty in 5.3 seconds, and a quarter mile in 14.1 seconds. This GM truck could lay the hurt on Ferraris of the era.
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JENSEN INTERCEPTOR
The tea and crumpets British car industry seemingly offers very little to the muscle car enthusiast, unless you’re open-minded to the sporty GT class. GT cars are the muscle cars of Europe, with their classic good looks, and angle towards high speed handling over low speed agility. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the Jensen Interceptor. This beauty had the classy interior you would expect of a pricey British brand, but stuffed with 440 cubic inches of Chrysler firepower. It’s a period correct, yet educated muscle car.

PONTIAC FIREBIRD FORMULA 400 WS6
The original muscle era was over by 1977, but at least Pontiac was still trying. While the base 5.7L V8 made an embarrassing 155 horsepower, the optional 6.6L with the WS6 RPO code cranked out a respectable (for the time) 220 hp. The WS6 package was icing on the disco cake, as it added sway bars, better springs, and (depending on year) improved the brakes. The true muscle car was dead, but this zombie kept on going.

2004–2006 PONTIAC GTO
When the Pontiac Firebird finally called it quits in 2002, the “excitement” division was left without a performance car. GM accidentally made a good decision here, and imported the Holden Monaro VZ. With a 6.0L V8, manual transmission, and rear-wheel drive in a coupe body, the looks don’t live up to the legendary name, but the performance does. The GTO offers all the easy and cheap performance upgrades of the old Firebird, but with a dramatically improved interior and ride.
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MERCURY CYCLONE
Originally the performance version of the Mercury Comet, the Cyclone was kinda the division’s answer to Falcon/Mustang sales. Like the Torino GT above, you could get the FE 390 and 427, but the better choices came along in ’69 and ’70, with the 428 Cobra Jet and Boss 429. Optional performance packages were as common as stripes, and increased the power to Shelby levels. It’s the muscle car that makes losing Hemi owners go “What was that?”

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