Offbeat or Obscure Muscle Cars are a growing phenomena. For all those articles that you read about the Hemi powered Plymouths or Dodges, or the Big Block Chevys, Pontiacs, or Oldsmobiles, there is a plethora of performance available to the collector of muscle, and at reasonable prices. This is part one of this series that will be run here at Car Throttle, and it's a collection of postings that I have done over at CarDomain. Part 1 will deal with the pre-dawn of the classic Muscle Car era (which is generally thought of as the 1960's), from about 1950 to 1959. The Fabulous Hudson Hornet: Reaching back to the dawn of the 50’s, when most cars has less than 100 HP under the hood, handling was