By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to another edition of the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, where we discover cars that were never really thought of as Muscle Cars, and to try and change your mind about them. In the mid 70′s the Muscle Car was all but dead, or was it? Chevrolet introduced a new compact rear-wheel drive car in 1971 called the Vega. Now, a lot has been written about what a piece of crap the Vega turned out to be, and I can’t dispute that. However, the chassis designed for the Vega was pretty good, and when properly tweaked, it could be a champ. So GM produced a sexy little brawler using the chassis of the Vega, incorporated some design influence from Ferrari, dusted off a name last used on the Corvair, and dropped in an optional V-8. But is it a Muscle Car? Let’s find out if the Chevy Monza belongs in the Parking Lot.

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Last week, this sweet clip of a Super Trofeo GTR ripping it up at Monza was uploaded to StreetFire, and for some mind-numbingly dumb reason, I didn’t blog it. Maybe I had too many lunch beers? Anyway, I’m not going to make the same mistake with this onboard footage of the 2,800-pound, 570 HP, weapons-grade Raging Bull turning laps. I saw a race-prepped Gallardo at SEMA last year, and it confirmed my belief that Italian supercars are even sexier when stripped of all their supple leather niceties and extra bulk. Turn the sound up for this one. It’s sonic nirvana.