The late 1960s were full of loud, long-hooded muscle cars that seemed to measure their success in feet and cylinders. AMC ...

Classic American performance cars from the late 1970s often live in the shadow of their better-known rivals, yet every so ...

Erik Sherman is an automotive journalist and motorcycle enthusiast. Although he has served and worked all over the world in different capacities, his passions belong to all things automotive. His love ...

Just as there was once an age of giant reptiles some 100-odd million years ago, there was once an age of American automotive giants. Although they may be dinosaurs today, the “Big Three”—General ...

Though overshadowed by Detroit's Big Three, the AMC left its mark on the original muscle car era with some iconic tire-shredders. In 1954, the Hudson Motor Car Company joined forces with the ...

With the Spirit, which replaced the Gremlin in 1979, AMC's designers and engineers pulled off their usual more-with-less ...

The opportunity to bring together two rare AMC muscle cars, a 1970 Rebel Machine and the even rarer 1971 Matador Machine, came about due to my long friendship with AMC enthusiast Fred Philips. When ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, muscle cars were successful with the young car-buying demographic, not just with power and style, but also with cool model names. For the first few decades after cars ...

For muscle car collectors, acquiring a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6 ranks among the ultimate discoveries—comparable to unearthing the Ark of the Covenant—while a 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda ...

The muscle car has proven a resilient component within American car culture. From its earliest rumblings in the mid 1950s to the current version of the Ford Mustang, American automotive enthusiasts ...

Take a relatively lightweight two-door midsize or compact car and stuff a big V8 under the hood — this formula was born in Detroit in the mid-1960s, and it defined the classic muscle car era for about ...