Permit us to make a counterintuitive analogy. Muscle cars were the truck-based SUVs of the 1960s. What we mean is, in both cases, automakers took cheap, simple, aging architectures, recast them around a guiding principle (e.g., speed, luxury), and sold them in the millions. In SUVs' case, it was a light-truck chassis fitted with a Montana ranch's worth of leather seating. To create muscle cars, carmakers expertly mined the same two-doors they pawned off to dads, substuted racing engines, and sold them to grads. (Oh, don't forget that both strategies ended violently after a sharp upturn in gas prices.) That brilliantly simple formula was epitomized by the 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner, a big-assed family car, severely tweaked in the engine department. Compared to the simpleton that rolled off the line three and a half decades ago, Matt Delaney's updated '70 is like a V12 Lamborghini.
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