-Five years ago, all the smarties, including those occupying positions of responsibility on this staff, told you that those manifestations of the great performance binge of the 1960s known as Pony cars were as surely doomed to the automotive tar pits as ragtops and side-mounted spares. No one believed these predictions more than the Detroit moguls who read the omens of inflation, energy shortages and the ravings of consumerist loonies as sure death for all performance automobiles in general and Pony cars in particular. Ruthlessly they offed the Barracuda, Challenger and Javelin from the corporate menus while altering the Cougar and Mustang to a point where they were to high-performance motoring what Longines Symphonette represents to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. READ MORE ››
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