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Though the recipe of stuffing a potent full-size ... pony cars, and even compacts received potent V8 engines that made them fearsome straight-line performers. Though the golden age of muscle ...

so-called "gentleman muscle cars," like the following five. A few months after Pontiac introduced the GTO package for its Tempest/LeMans intermediate line, other famous Detroit brands followed.