The Buick Skylark

The 1965 Skylark Gran Sport had a larger engine - a 400 in³ Buick V8. This engine produced 325 hp and was known as the "nailhead" engine. Buick sold more than 15,000 Skylarks with the Gran Sport option that first year, and almost as many the next. It was renamed the GS 400 in 1967,Sales fell in the face of increasingly more hot and popular muscle cars from other marques when compared to those from the more stodgy and expensive Buick. Buick, however stepped it up a notch when introducing the Stage 1 option in 1969. This limited edition version produced 360 hp. The name Gran Sport replaced the GS moniker with the 1973 Gran Sport, and was again revived in the late eighties on the FWD Skylark model with various performance options added.

Dave Burton
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The 1974 Plymouth "Barracuda"

The Plymouth Barracuda was a 2-door car that was manufactured by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation the E-body Barracuda, no longer Valiant-based,as where the originals from 1964 was available as a coupé and a convertible, both of which were very different from the previous models.

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The Chyrsler 300 series circa 1955

The Chrysler 300 series were high-performance luxury cars built in very limited numbers by Chrysler 1955 and 1965. Each year's model used a new letter of the alphabet as a suffix (skipping "i"), reaching 300L by 1965, after which the model was dropped.
These cars were the vehicles that really rekindled interest in performance among major American manufacturers after World War II, and thus can be considered the muscle car's ancestors.
Chrysler has recently started using these designations again for sporting near-luxury sedans,from 1999 ,unlike the first series, the second does not have 300 hp engines, except for today's top-line 300C.

Dave Burton
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