Many of the parents and grandparents had one of those brands for either their truck or muscle car and they are lifelong diehard fans of the brand. Maybe this is just a Southern US thing, but people here are “raised” in Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge families. So that’s where the whole idea of “muscle cars get you girls” come from.Īnd muscle cars DO get you girls, but not the way the posters make it out to be. There’s a ton of posters and pictures online of pin up girls and models posing with these things. The only thing about as old as big V8 cars in the US is women posing with them. (2.) Muscle cars DO attract women, but not in the way you think. So now I tell everyone I have a 346ci LS1 under the hood, but before I bought it I would have never known. After time I got used to it, and now I have a “feel” for how big cubic inches are, just how most car guys have a “feel” for Liters. I just stood there, nodding my head when people would talk about engine displacement in cubes because I quite honestly had no idea what that meant. When middle aged adults at Cars & Coffee saw my Camaro they would engage in conversations about how they had a 496 cubic inch (8.1L) first gen Camaro back in the day and loved it to death. This was not only took me some time to understand, it caused a lot of awkward situations. So now when someone tells you they have a 350 Chevy small block, divide that number by 61 and you get your answer (5.7 L). So what even is a cubic inch? Well 1 Liter is about equal to 61 cubic inches. If you had over 1 HP per cubic inch, you actually had a decently efficient engine power wise. So guys always bragged about how many cubic inches they had. Since pretty much all performance cars were V8’s, it was a quite reliable method to determine how powerful a car was by its “cubes” under the hood. You see, back decades ago in the United States (especially in the 50’s-60’s), engine size was expressed in cubic inches.
Well prepare to throw all that out the window. Just about any car guy is going to know what you mean when you say a car has X.X Liters under the hood.
You’re used to hearing about displacement in engines being 2.0L, 5.0L, etc.
Most of the world makes sense, and thus most of the world uses the Metric system.
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