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I dunno..Clausie's car looks pretty freakin' Super to me. Well yah! It's suppose to look like a Bobcat!
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I dunno..Clausie's car looks pretty freakin' Super to me. Well yah! It's suppose to look like a Bobcat! -AND drive like one  (maybe better handling, due to newer/better suspension components).. -IMO all pre 75 cars looked super (well not ALL, -but you know)
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I get a smile when people call my OHCammer a muscle car. I do step in and correct them. Pony car yes, muscle car no.
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Rember when Mustang and camaro first came out the bigest engine you could get was a 350 Chevy 289 Ford.(64-1/2 -- 67)This was pony car. Then Pontiac Firebird came out with firebird 400 so chevy started ofering 396 and ford 390.With these motors they were muscle cars.
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Rember when Mustang and camaro first came out the bigest engine you could get was a 350 Chevy 289 Ford.(64-1/2 -- 67)This was pony car. Then Pontiac Firebird came out with firebird 400 so chevy started ofering 396 and ford 390.With these motors they were muscle cars. I'll buy that... 
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You guys are all bought out by a 40-year old bogus line. The term Pony was thought up by Ford geeks to create a class they thought they could control. Just like the horse itself.
Goobers and geeks allowed the phrase and the thought-process to gain ground and eventually become a market standard.
My 68 bird is not in the pony class or category, and it never was. Okay, I can see the Cougar being thrown in there, but not my monster Firebird.
I am not going down on this non-industry-standard bullcrap category, originated by Ford.
AND the Mustang was actually NOT named after the horse, it was to be named after the Mustang airplane!! Fords marketing dept screwed it up and came out with a horse! So plane= birds! Birds it is! pony style birds...lol
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Why did they stick with the horse thing? Where were the checks and balances?
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????or are they a pony car?
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dang if i care anymore.it is what ever you want it to be
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I get a smile when people call my OHCammer a muscle car. I do step in and correct them. Pony car yes, muscle car no. I dunno if6, BMW makes a pretty nice 6 banger too.
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We spent an hour or so today at the regular Saturday evening Sonic Car hop. There were a few dozen mustangs and foreign rockets, and one Chevelle and our bird.
EVERYONE looking at the cars hung around our bird and the Chevelle. Nobody cared about the other cars.
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We spent an hour or so today at the regular Saturday evening Sonic Car hop. There were a few dozen mustangs and foreign rockets, and one Chevelle and our bird.
EVERYONE looking at the cars hung around our bird and the Chevelle. Nobody cared about the other cars. And why should they?
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We spent an hour or so today at the regular Saturday evening Sonic Car hop. There were a few dozen mustangs and foreign rockets, and one Chevelle and our bird.
EVERYONE looking at the cars hung around our bird and the Chevelle. Nobody cared about the other cars. don't that say it all?
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Why did they stick with the horse thing? Where were the checks and balances? Robert , I dont know the story I read did tell that...
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I don't care what "they" say, when a SLOWbaru pulls up next to my 69 400, and the light changes it's all Muscle baby!!!
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Once there was Mustang Sally.
Now be wary...High Output MaryAnn is the loose!
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Thats "Ride Sally Ride", not "Go MaryAnn Go!"
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