By the end of the decade, the industry had grown so large that it formed its own trade group, first called the Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association, later the Speed Equipment Market Association (SEMA). Mazda had to announce a recall, and Power learned to give away the broadest summary of survey results in order to build his brand and stoke interest within the industry being studied. We’ll give you the name of both the song – minus the color, of course – and the artist, but it’s up to you to fill in the blank. Plymouth was the year’s winningest name in NASCAR, thanks to Richard “The King” Petty and his high-wing, bullet-nose Road Runner Superbird. Flower-power colors, op-art graphics were the rage and helped muscleheads turn on to the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Hemi. Plymouth’s Road Runner touched off a minor craze for cartoony model names and logos. They also have an in-house wedding planner who would look into every minor detail. Buyers even got a do-it-yourself service manual, with instructions on how to perform minor service work. Chrysler, meantime, finally got serious about pony cars, trotting out a burly new 1970 Barracuda and an even huskier Dodge Challenger.

Whatever their performance or nameplate, all of GM’s 1970 muscle cars got nice updates of 1968-69 styling. Also rare among Mopar’s 1970 ponys were the Challenger T/A and AAR ‘Cuda featuring super-tuned 340 small-blocks and built to qualify the cars for Trans Am racing. The 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A was patterned after a Trans Am race car. Pontiac’s pony car again offered four flavors, with the hottest Firebird 400s and Trans Ams listing up to 370 bhp with new Ram Air shaker hood. Pontiac’s original muscle car also added an optional 455, though rated horsepower topped out at 360. The hot “Goat” setup still was Pontiac’s Ram Air 400 with automatic and a tight axle ratio, though Car Life managed a best ET of only 14.6 seconds/99.5 mph. You’ll also find information on the 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air as well as the lineup that generated the 1954 240 Bel Air: the 1954 Chevrolet 150 Special, 210 DeLuxe, and Delray. 1940s. Names like Hurst (shifters), Edelbrock (manifolds), Iskenderian (camshafts), and others were well known to gearheads from car magazines and prominent race-car logos.

In deluge systems, like the pre-action system, water enters the pipes when triggered by a heat or smoke detector, separate from the sprinkler heads. Since this creates quite a bit of pressure in the combustion chamber, direct injection can cause knocking, too, just like higher compression ratios. So, too, the highly visible new-car dealers that set up “speed shops” to improve on what their factories were doing. Season 12 starts with a new intro, theme, and set. When it’s set to hybrid mode, these systems charge their batteries when the sun is shining; when it isn’t, the system runs on battery backup while charging its batteries via alternating current (AC) power. If you do have lice, a special shampoo or treatment with a chemical pediculide is necessary. Hmm, Duchess of Pop doesn’t have the same ring to it. So — have we inspired you to ride the bidet wave? The Bird was much like 1969’s Dodge Charger Daytona but saw 1,920 assemblies versus 503 for the Daytona. Of course, and I carry a charger.

What didn’t you like? Wild colors were in vogue, so American Motors offered bright “Big Bad” hues for 1969-70. Dodge and Plymouth had a “High Impact” palette with wacky names like Tor-Red, Plum Crazy, and Go-Man-Go. That’s how muscle cars had such a big market impact even though they didn’t sell in big numbers. Read about that impact in the next section. There are many designs and styles offered in this contemporary fashion that may serve nearly all the specifications and to fit all tastes. Algorithms and Complexity: 7th International Conference, CIAC 2010, Rome, Italy, May 26-28, 2010, Proceedings. Ford borrowed Carroll Shelby’s raring-snake mascot for the Torino Cobra and other purposes. SS Camaros offered Chevelle’s new 402/396-cid V-8, but the racy Z-28 moved to a 360-bhp solid-lifter 350 borrowed from the Corvette. Dearborn made muscle news with restyled Ford Torinos and Mercury Cyclones offering new high-performance Cobra Jet 429s with 360-375 bhp. The same basic mill also powered a drag-worthy Boss 429 Mustang, carried over from ’69, and the Mercury Cougar Eliminator. Most people didn’t need, say, a GTO, but the GTO’s wild image would compel more than a few to buy a mild-mannered Tempest LeMans with much the same style.