Due to stricter government regulations, the era of unrestrained factory-built performance was coming to an end in 1971. However, GM's excitement division answered with the largest displacement engine ...

The 1976 Pontiac Trans Am arrived at a moment when muscle cars were supposed to be finished, choked by emissions rules and rising insurance costs. Instead of fading quietly, it proved that ...

Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...

The 1978 Trans Am WS6 arrived just as the classic muscle era was running out of road, yet it refused to fade quietly into history. You see it in the stance, the shaker hood, and the way the car tried ...

For most enthusiasts who lived through the 1960s and 1970s, a muscle car had to be based on a large-volume production model and hide a large, potent, naturally aspirated V8 under the hood. While the ...