Muscle Cars And Drag Racing
There were highly recognized new car dealers in the seventies who became a huge window for muscle cars by having showrooms that were set up as speed shops for the factory to improvise on their auto research. These dealers with the high sales volume to boast were the primary ones to sell the latest factory spares and also built their own high powered equipped race cars and participated in drag racing to show off their self developed machines. Drag racing was eventually a good stage to show off their performance related machines. Among the most recognized of these dealers were Mr.Norm’s Grand Spaulding Dodge and Nickey Chevrolet both placed in Chicago, Royal Pontiac from Michigan, Yenko Chevrolet from Pennsylvania and Holman Moody who were affiliated with Ford were from North Carolina. The Muscle Cars trend went along with the youth culture that was prevailing at different times. For instance during the sixties, these high powered automations became a reflection of the modular fashions, Beatle hair styles, acid rock, folk songs, etc. Auto manufacturers found ways to relate themselves with the youthful counter culture by introducing wild colors and wacky names like Plum Crazy and Tor-red. The Muscle Cars industry became so large that is created its own trade group called the Speed Equipment Manufacturer’s Association and the Speed Equipment Market Association.
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