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Although there’s a lot of hum out there about foreign made cars, for my muscle, they just don’t have the same soul as American vehicles. Yes, there are a ton of Eastern vehicles that can go quicker, and last better than most Yankee automobiles, but none have the grace and sweetness of a Snake or a corvette. These Yankee muscle vehicles are the stuff the dreams of generations were formed by, with their speed, their power, their luxury, and their hot styling.

Long before the times of the compact and efficient rice burners, street hogging, gas guzzling American cars actually ruled the entire world, as the Yankee empire did. Naturally, in a lot of ways those days are gone, and I guess that it’s right that they won’t come again. Chrysler has been acquired by Daimler Benz, and the other Yank automobile firms do such a lot of their producing over seas that it’s a real challenge to even think about their automobiles as Yank.

Yet, notwithstanding the cut backs and the layoffs, and all of that, some of the meaning of Yank automobiles still continues on the roads today. For my money, if you’re a fan of Yankee sports cars, you mustn’t buy the computer controlled, excessively slick machines of today, but get one of the more trendy vehicles of yesterday. The 50s, and to a degree, the sixties were where it was at re Yank vehicles. That was the age of the all steel frame that would hold together like no-one’s business, of the huge, heavy solid Yankee vehicles that would square up to years and years of abuse.

That was a long time before the distortion of unibody construction kicked in, when men were men, and Yank automobiles were automobiles. Perhaps those days are gone, but the autos from those days at least a lot of them are still on the road today, and many of them can be had by any fairly well off collector. There’s nothing better than the roar of an old, bored out v8 engine under the roof of one of the classic Yankee vehicles, and that is no lie. One other thing.