Meaning of muscle car | Babel Free

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Any of a variety of automobiles, especially American coupes from the 1960s and early 1970s, that are modified to look and perform like race cars and equipped with large, powerful V-8 engines that allow for quick acceleration to high speeds; but still designed for travel on regular highways.

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“In his senior year, he had run⟳ across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help⟳, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.”

“During high school he'd spent four years working as a breakfast cook⟳ and dishwasher in Sal's calzone restaurant, saving up enough money to buy⟳ himself a muscle car, a maroon 1973 Mercury Cougar XR-7, which he painted black.”

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