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 ...

Though overshadowed by the likes of the 426 HEMI, 427 "side oiler", or 454 LS6, these five muscle car V8s were engineering masterpieces ...

You may not think of the Buick GS Stage 1 455 when you think of '70s muscle cars, but it remained one of the most powerful in its category well into the '70s – despite the lowered compression ...

so-called "gentleman muscle cars," like the following five. A few months after Pontiac introduced the GTO package for its Tempest/LeMans intermediate line, other famous Detroit brands followed.

They escalated things in 1967 with the introduction of the Chevy Camaro and Pontiac Firebird, but an odd corporate decision years earlier kept all of these awesome rides out of the muscle car elite.