| ss="articletext"> | | | | car, family car, pickup; it had the biggest V-8 |
| How could muscle cars, the most powerful | | | | possible stuffed under the hood. Cubic inches |
| affordable cars the world had seen, lose their | | | | were king and advertised power was |
| oomph so quickly? What caused them to | | | | astronomical. These cars could kick sand in the |
| disappear? I'm not a private eye, not remotely | | | | windscreens of anything else on the road. |
| like one, but this was one case I had to solve. | | | | But then horsepower seemed to disappear |
| It happened back in the 70's, but the evidence | | | | overnight! |
| was still there. It was the case of the disappearing | | | | Take my favourite muscle car, the Ford Mustang. |
| horsepower and this is what happened. | | | | The macho models had V-8s, though meeker |
| In the era of the muscle car power was | | | | models came with an inline six. |
| everything. It didn't matter what it was, sports | | | | |