Question about cars

[estepheia]

I know absolutely nothing about cars, so please tell me:
What does "low volume muscle car" mean? Does it mean the car does not make a lot of noise? Specifically, what does a 1967 Plymouth GTX Convertible (i.e. Angel's car) sound like? And what's a muscle car? I just checked ads and found a red Convertible that costs almost $36.000. Apparently these cars are pretty rare. But do they have a specific image? What kind of person, other than Angel, would buy this kind of car?
And is it loud?

Oh, and one more question. Where was Buffy's grave located? I seem to remember a forest. It wasn't a proper cemetery, was it?

Comments

[beccaelizabeth]

Muscle cars
have their own club, with a handy description/definition
have their own series on one of those channels, Speed or Men&Motors
are reviewed here, where we also discover that 'Top Gear' is a secret propaganda front for the Black Thorn (see their logo)
and here, where they apparently give a summary of who could be expected to drive it. But that is in the UK. The usual phrase in the UK is "American muscle car" so I suspect the US sees them differently.

"low volume" I didn't find a definition for, but I think from context I saw it used in it was talking about how many were made. As in not many.
Found a page here says 1967 Plymouth GTX Convertible, one of only 686 ever built. Which would seem to fit.

wandered into a forum full of people arguing about what exactly a 'muscle car' is. Apparently some people use the phrase to refer to a specific era, others to refer to a particular power/weight ratio, or if it was designed for racing.

Buffy's grave was in lots of trees. Enough to get lost in. Not a cemetery.

[shatten.livejournal.com]

Interesting thing about American (so called) muscle cars is just how little muscle they actually have. Most US cars would die a quick embarrassing death on a German Autobahn and it seems to be widely recognised that US cars suck big time... I think the only ones people want (except for fanatical collectors) is the Hummer Jeep because that really is a muscle car... Something like 4 tons, but it can still dig itself out of a bog...

So there you are - Muscle car in American = large noisy wagon named after a wild horse or a poisonous snake. But for the rest of the world, its a small child in his pram with a fake steering wheel attached.

In other words, and oxymoron.

What can I tell you, Germans make the best cars, followed by the Japs and then the Italians (somewhere down the list if French too, but lets not got there)...

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you Becca. You've been a great help.
(Sorry, I meant to reply earlier but got tied up in RL today)