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5 Italian Sports Cars That “Owned the Road”

Maxim Magazine spotlights five cars that perfectly blend Italian style with American build.

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5 ITALIAN SPORTS CARS THAT OWNED THE ROAD WITH AMERICAN MUSCLE

These classics mixed slick Euro style and pure American horsepower.

Exotic Italian cars are distinguished by their amazing and sophisticated multi-cylinder engines and sexy, hand-hammered sheetmetal crimson curves.

But some Italian car builders have long been jealous of America’s abundance of rumbling V8 power and scratched their heads and wondered how they could marry their art to yankee technology.

The results have been amazing. Machines with jaw-dropping lines and an engine soundtrack ripped from the rural American drive-in diners of George Lucas‘s American Graffiti youth. The following are some of our favorites. Read more at Maxim…

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    DAN CARNEY, Maxim

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    1974 DeTomaso Pantera. Photo: Mecum Auctions.

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