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 ...

Pontiac was never good at letting go. Even as emissions strangled Detroit’s horsepower culture, the division that built the GTO refused to surrender quietly. And in 1975—against logic, policy, and ...

It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...