Hello and welcome back to the Bespoke Refinement Podcast. I am your host, Thomas Hill. I am the founder, owner, and operator of Bespoke Automotive Refinement.
We’re the number one Kansas City car detailing service. And today guys, we’re gonna be talking about my favorite muscle cars. Now how do you define a muscle car?
There’s a lot of different ways to define it. Some people define a muscle car as a old-school, big V8, big-bodied, aluminum frame, aluminum chassis, or metal chassis, metal frame, car made in the 60s and 70s. And I would say I would define it that as well.
Muscle cars really got their hype in the early 60s when the Ford Mustangs, the Chevy Camaros, the Dodge Challengers, the Pontiac Firebirds, Pontiac Trans Ams were all coming out. And there was this huge push by American Auto Manufacturers to create a sports car that guys that were coming home from war could afford to buy. It didn’t have to be a super wealthy individual to buy one of these cars.
So over the years, I’ve done quite a few old-school muscle cars with my Kansas City car detailing services. I would say my favorite one would have to be the 1967 Shelby GT500 Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds. If you talk to any car guy, they’re going to tell you the same thing.
That is their favorite muscle car. That’s their dream car. But I’ve loved that car since that movie came out in 2000.
I love the body lines. I love the color. I loved the way the chassis and the body flowed with all of the different angles.
I loved the stripes. Everything on that car was done perfect. That’s my favorite muscle car in the 60s.
Another one of my favorite muscle cars from the 60s is a 1969 Camaro SS Yanko in Grabber Blue. If you’ve ever seen the movie Too Fast Too Furious, that’s the car that they actually ended up jumping onto a boat. I love that car.
I think that car is extremely underrated and those cars are bringing anywhere from $200 to half a million dollars now. Now moving on to the 1970s, what are my favorite muscle cars? One of my favorite muscle cars from the 70s is actually going to be a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner.
1970 Plymouth Roadrunner Super B. These cars were created to be run in NASCAR and they had to have a really big wing on the back to keep the car planted to the ground while going 200 miles an hour. Everyone in the 1990s said the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron being able to hit 200-210 miles an hour.
Oh, this is the fastest we’ve ever seen a car be able to go before. People fail to remember that in the early 1970s, the Plymouth Super B, or excuse me, Super Bird, was going over 200 miles an hour in a Plymouth GM big-body chassis car with a massive wing on the back. And those cars to this day are honestly bringing even over a million dollars.
Another one of my favorite muscle cars from the 70s is going to be a 1972 Corvette Stingray. Now this, this is a little bit of an interesting topic because some people think that a Corvette isn’t considered a muscle car. It’s considered a sports car.
I would put it right there with either being a sports car or a muscle car. But my favorite 70s muscle car is a 1972 Corvette Stingray. Over the years with our Kansas City Car Detailing Services, we’ve had the pleasure of working on a lot of these.
A lot of customers have booked these early 70s Corvettes to be paint corrected, ceramic coated, or just washed. As well as the Plymouth Super Bird, we’ve also had the pleasure of working on quite a few of those over the years. Another one of my favorite muscle cars, and this one’s very controversial.
Some people love it, other people hate it. You either love this car or you hate this car. It is a 1972 Mustang Sportroof from the original Gone in 60 Seconds from 1994.
Now everyone believes that that car was a 1973 Mach 1, but it wasn’t. It was actually a crashed and rebuilt 1972 Mustang Sportroof. It had the 351 Cleveland in it.
It had been painted school bus yellow, because that was the cheapest color that they could paint it. And it had a 1973 grill, but it actually had a 1972 bumper. It was a very Frankenstein-like put-together car.
Most people extremely dislike that body style of Mustang. I’ve always been a big fan of them. I think that is the staple to old American muscle cars, because that’s one of the last true American muscle cars.
Before in the late 70s, where they all switched to cars that are a lot more fuel efficient and economically friendly, such as the Mustang IIs. They did away with the Camaro for a while. Over the years, I’ve been blessed to have worked on a lot of different old-school muscle cars with my Kansas City Car Detailing Services.
And if you’re looking to have a Kansas City Car Detailing Package performed, you can give me a call at 620-282-0402, or you can go online to BespokeRefinement.com. You can go onto our website there and check out all of the different packages and services that we offer for the Kansas City Car Detailing area. Thank you guys so much.