The 1964 Pontiac GTO might not be the first muscle car ever built, but it is often credited with jump-starting the era that followed. In fact, the first true muscle car (defined as a model with a ...

By definition, a muscle car must have some pretension of "muscle ... Jet 429ci big-block which was only available (during the '70s at any rate) in 1971. The E-Body platform was Chrysler Corp's ...

In the ’70s, some motorists got stars in their eyes when they looked at muscle cars, while others gravitated toward supercars or even subcompact models. While what’s “cool” just depends on ...

Muscle cars from the golden age of the 60s and 70s also used to be the golden standard of straight-line performance, but everything changes, and as time passes, the big-block icons of the past don ...

The Road Runner — named for the famous bird from "Looney Tunes" — was a hit for Plymouth in the late 60s and early 70s. However, as the muscle car era wound down, so too did the Road Runner.

The original muscle car era gave us some of the most beautiful cars ever built in the US. However, not all cars from that exciting era became styling icons. The '60s and '70s will forever be ...

muscle cars, and three decades of European sports cars didn’t happen overnight. “Its earliest roots started on a small scale in the ‘70s with the brothers’ father, who was a car enthusiast ...

The high cost ruled out many of the muscle cars of the era ... A significant body change had been planned for the '70 model, but that would be put off until the 1971 model year.

Almost every era of classic automotive Americana is represented by this massive collection, from pre-war cars to the big-finned displays of 1950s excess, and even ’70s muscle cars. Not every car ...