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Originally Posted by RGWelch
For my $0.02, I say the AC Cobra was the first "true" American Supercar...
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I would agree here, if I didn't personally look back a few decades earlier to the Duesenberg. Race cars to limos, all were known for performance (you bought the chassis, then arranged for the kind of body you wanted on it). J or SJ (supercharge) models, produced from the late 1920s 'til about 1934 IIRC.
America's answer to RR, Mercedes, Bugatti...or so said the popular press looking back when I was growing up in the '50s and '60s. My grandfather - a Packard man until they stopped making them - had nice words for Stutz, Cord, and others (that he could never afford), as well, though none of those attained the performance cachet as the "Duesie" did.
Dirk