Muscle cars are as American as baseball and apple pie, and while several Asian and European automakers have adopted the classic muscle car recipe of stuffing a big V8 engine into a small, rear-wheel-drive platform over the past 60 years, the muscle car remains a uniquely American phenomenon.
They were born in the post-war era of cheap gasoline and rapidly evolving automotive technology, which sparked a horsepower war between the major American automakers. Chevrolet struck the first blow…