Re: Supercar "roots"
Some of the magazines were using the term "Supercar" in the early 60's. One of the magazines was called "SPEED AND SUPERCAR" which was formerly SPEED and CUSTOM but had changed it's name in 1965 or 1966. It had a monthly editorial page by Dean Parker called "the Supercar Scene".
Parker (and others) used "Supercar" to describe any Detroit iron with big hi HP engines. The full size passenger cars he referred to as "regular supercars". GTO size cars he called "intermediate supercars" and he called Camaros type cars "sport compact supercars".
I don't know when the term "Musclecars" was first used but I don't think it was common in the 60s or even in the 70s. Looking at my magazine list, the first magazine I show with the word "Muslecar" in the title was printed in the 1980s.
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