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A look at Pontiac's muscle cars that have become part of American automotive history. In order to help the new Grand Prix along, Pontiac turned to ASC/McLaren in order to create a limited edition ...
You can imagine that not many people took this route. The Mercury Capri ASC/McLaren is a truly obscure 1980s performance car. Unless you have personal experience with one, you probably forgot ...
That output is modest by today’s standards, and it wasn’t outrageous even by 1990 standards, but the car returned a decent 0-60 mph time of around 7 seconds. The $5,000 ASC-McLaren package ...
The silver lining is that those looking for a rare 1980s muscle car can buy a surviving Capri ASC McLaren in great shape for anywhere between $15,000 and $30,000, depending on the mileage and history.
Pontiac built a lot of wildly festooned cars in the 1980s and '90s, but this one is more interesting than most. The Grand Prix Turbo by ASC/McLaren featured a turbocharged V-6 and was stuffed with ...
To build the cars, Muscat approached ASC, a company well-known for building one-off or low-volume convertibles. ASC then brought McLaren on board to assist with the design and construction ...
Does any car represent the transition between the 1980s and 1990s better than this Pontiac Grand Prix? It's a rare 1990 Grand Prix Turbo ASC-McLaren, and it's such a glorious product of its time ...
Today's Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is a rare model built in collaboration by Ford, American Specialty Cars (ASC), and the licensing of the British F1 maker McLaren's name. The result is ...
Wait, what's that, you've never heard of the ASC/McLaren Capri? Okay, come with me. These cars were the brainchild of a mechanical engineer named Peter Muscat. His wife worked for Ford at the time ...
You mean you've never heard of the ASC McLaren Mustang? For whatever reason, these cars have largely slipped below the radar today, but were held with quite high regard during the late 1980s.