Plymouth Prowler
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There’s been a lot of cars that have tried to evoke a retro style. Most of them fall flat on their face. However, when the Prowler was designed, the engineers had full autonomy. They were told they needed to create a retro hot rod style vehicle. What came out was the Plymouth Prowler.
The Prowler was such a huge departure from anything else on the market at the time. While it had a 214 horsepower engine, it didn’t feature a manual transmission. So while it was designed after the insane hot rods of the past, it wasn’t meant to travel as fast as they are.
The Prowler is a cool showpiece that only was made for a half dozen years. However, it showed that companies are able to take risks to make some cool cars!
Dodge Super Bee
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The Super Bee is one of the forgotten muscle cars of the late 60’s and early 70’s. American companies made a ton of muscle cars in that short period of time. The Super Bee can sometimes get lost in the shuffle.
Why name a muscle car after a buzzing insect? A muscle car is supposed to growl at you, it’s supposed to roar like a lion. Well, to be fair, it came because the car was based on the “B” Body architecture. They thought the car was super, it was B architecture… name done!
The Super Bee was similar to the Plymouth Road Runner. Both were essentially the same car, but the Super Bee was more expensive. Because of this, people bought the Road Runner. This turned the Super Bee into a rare and collectible car instead of just another common mass production muscle car.
