Woodward 2009: Muscle cars of the Motor City
Woodward 2009: Muscle cars – Click above for high-res image gallery
As we've come to expect from the Woodward Dream Cruise, the vast majority of the vehicles taking part are classic muscle cars from Detroit's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. Naturally, we had no trouble filling our memory cards with images of rumbling V8-powered Camaros, Mustangs, GTOs and Trans Ams.
While the slow speeds didn't allow these big-inch muscle cars any tire burning or stoplight-to-stoplight antics, we still got to appreciate all those cubes via the ground shaking and unburnt hydrocarbons emitted from their tail pipes as we walked down the avenue. Take a good look at our high-res image gallery below for the best muscle cars from the 2009 Woodward Dream Cruise.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
info 12:52PM (8/16/2009)
That abomination of a car, Plymouth in the first picture, has to be one of the most ridiculous things ever to come out of Detroit. That isn't even a bad joke.
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fixitfixitstop 1:05PM (8/16/2009)
Are you on drugs? The Superbird and Daytona Chargers are 2 of the most valuable Mopars in history. Speaking of history, you should be aware that they were only produced to satisfy NASCAR requirements so that they could race with those bodies.... you know, back when NASCAR actually used real cars.
tankd0g 3:47PM (8/16/2009)
That doesn't make it any less ridiculous looking or handling.
info 7:38PM (8/16/2009)
The only ones on drugs are the ones that consider this thing as anything worthwhile. This is just one example why the rest of the automotive world just laughs at the US auto industry as a whole and it is ridiculous crap like this and that, and what followed, that put the US auto industry at the brink of extinction. The US car manufacturers traditionally have relied primarily on domestic sales. Even on their home market they failed.
And don't even mention NASCAR. Running in circles had never been a worthwhile attribute of any car. If that Plymoung POS is any indiocator of what NASCAR had to offer, nothing much has changed.
XGM 1:03AM (8/17/2009)
These were some of first American cars to be designed with aerodynamics. It may look ridiculous, but fact is that everything contributes to the overall aerodynamics. The ignorance of some people never cease to amaze me...
info 9:07AM (8/17/2009)
"These were some of first American cars to be designed with aerodynamics". Years too late compared to the rest of the world. Are you seriously suggesting that this was anything high tech? It is ignorance like that that got the US car maskers into trouble in the first place.
daleam 12:49PM (8/16/2009)
Drool.
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fixitfixitstop 12:50PM (8/16/2009)
Just out of curiosity, I went and did a google image search to see if anybody has tried to Superbird (yeah, I'm verbing it) the current Charger. I found this http://www.mikes73.com/2010superbird.jpg
That was not what I had in mind...at all.
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daleam 1:55PM (8/16/2009)
Wow. What a lame comment. I'm glad Fixit set the record straight!
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why not the LS2LS7? 4:35PM (8/16/2009)
That car is so stupid-looking. I love it so.
The partly-faired-in rear wheels are pretty much the coup-de-grace.
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cdwrx 12:09PM (8/17/2009)
I declare shenanigans on the '69 Camaro 327 SS.
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