Here we go again – back to when gas was cheap, cars were pretty, and America was the biggest carmaker on Planet Piston. Not only that, but it made heaps of cool machines every year, icons of the ...

Nineteen-seventy is often considered the high-water mark of the muscle car era, but for whom? That was the year General Motors lifted its rule that limited A-body vehicles (Chevelle, Tempest, F-85, ...

I have a slightly modified '81 Firebird. The Q-jet I built for the engine runs way too rich-black smoke rich. I followed the "bible" of Q-jets by Cliff Ruggles, How to Build and Modify Q-jets, to the ...

For many people out there, the debut of the 455 HO V8 long-stroke engine in 1970 was the Pontiac GTO they’ve been waiting for since 1965 when GM decided that the highest this series could go was 400 ...

The Pontiac 455 H.O. sits at the crossroads of cubic-inch excess and the first real wave of emissions-era compromise, which is exactly why collectors obsess over when it was built and what those cars ...

Looking back at the '70 GTO, many enthusiasts regard it as the last goodyear, the one that still offered high-compression engines and performance uncompromised by government regulation. While that may ...

It's pretty much impossible to talk about muscle cars without talking about the Pontiac GTO. Pontiac is, after all, credited with birthing the American muscle car movement by sending the first of its ...

Khris is a Mechanical Engineer and a classic car aficionado, who adores his Jags, Alfas, and old-school American muscle cars. He keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the ...