While iconic muscle cars like the Chevelle and Camaro often steal the spotlight, the Chevy Nova II remains a true hidden performance hero. Originally designed as an economical compact car to rival the ...

This 11-second muscle car dominated drag strips in the early 1960s, and would remain Ford's fastest muscle car of the era. No, it wasn't a Mustang.

Chevrolet's SS moniker stands for "Super Sport," a name that appeared first on the 1956 concept car called the Corvette Super Sport. This was GM's attempt to turn the first-generation Corvette into a ...

The general view is that the 1960s muscle car era kicked off with Pontiac's 1964 introduction of the GTO. The GTO would spark a revolution across Detroit's automakers, putting the youth market in its ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...