Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Bring back the Trans-Am and the Road Runner!

I've seen a few concept cars based on the new Camaro and they all look disjointed. The reason is people are trying to make them look like a "Smokey and the Bandit" '70's T/A. Forget that. The body closely resembles a 1969 Camaro, so make it look like a 1969 Trans-Am. Offer a hood tach and some 18 or 19 inch Rally II style wheels. Make the LS3 the base engine and the supercharged LS9 an option. Think that would sell like hotcakes? I do. Chrysler could do the same thing. They could put a urethane front bumper on the Challenger that resembled a '71-72 Road Runner, and even add a Superbird style rear wing. Paint it Petty blue and put some NASCAR style 20 inch wheels on it and a loud flowmaster exhaust. Make the 5.7 Hemi the base model and the 6.4 the upgrade. Or make a "Bullet" nose with hidden headlamps for the Charger, add the Daytona wing and call it the Superbird or Charger Daytona.  Like that baseball movie- "Build it, and they will come." Start e-mailing GM and Chrysler and all the buff magazines and see if public opinion means anything.  Mastermind  

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