For many gearheads, the year 1970 represents the peak of the muscle car era — or at least the peak of the first muscle car era. A big part of what conspired to make 1970 special is that to remain ...

Want your ride featured on HOT ROD?Click hereto find out how! Start typing in "1969 Oldsmobile" into Google, and the autofill search likely won't suggest "1969 Oldsmobile 88." The Olds 442 might be ...

GM replaced its 1964-’67 A-bodies with new 1968 models, with new sheetmetal scheduled for every two years. Through ’69, the GTO was GM’s preeminent musclecar, and the 4-4-2 was its more refined ...

The 1970s were a particularly upsetting time for American car enthusiasts. Not only were insurance costs climbing and new emissions regulations strangling big-capacity V8 engines, but the '73 oil ...

Back in the good old days when there was no replacement for raw displacementand what was good for General Motors was good for America, the General produced no less than three distinct 455ci engines: a ...

Have you ever wanted to take a muscle car off-road? Perhaps you’ve dreamed of following in James Garner’s footsteps and tackling the Baja peninsula in a lifted Olds 4-4-2 just like the actor/racer did ...

Remember the formidable 1970 Oldsmobile 442 with its monstrously over-powering and over-torquing 455-cube V8 rated at 560 hp and 540 lb-ft? If you say anything but ‘No,’ you’re lying – the car never ...

One of the many things we love to do around here is showcase 60s-era muscle cars that managed to fly under the radar. With Cameros, Chevelles, GTOs, and Cutlasses, it was so easy for some truly ...