Muscle Cars
There’s a version of this story most people know. The ZL1. The all-aluminum big block Camaro that Don Yenko wrestled out of GM’s corporate machinery one careful phone call at a time. We covered that car in Part 14, and…
Muscle Cars
Something unusual happened when Chevrolet released the L88 option for the 1967 Corvette. They didn’t want you to buy it. They actively discouraged it. The order form warned buyers that the engine was “not recommended for highway use.” The heater…
Muscle Cars
There are rare moments in automotive history when someone figures out how to break the rules so completely that the rule-makers have no idea what hit them. The 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is exactly that kind of moment. It didn’t…
Muscle Cars
If you want to start an argument among muscle car enthusiasts, walk into any car show and say this out loud: “The LS6 Chevelle was the greatest production muscle car ever built.” Then step back and watch what happens. Someone…
Muscle Cars
The Cars Nobody Made Room For Every bracket has a bubble. Every tournament has the teams that shouldn’t be there on paper but keep winning anyway. In this series, we’ve spent six parts working through the big-four manufacturers and their…
Muscle Cars
The Most Dangerous Thing About Chevy Was the Volume Walk into any swap meet in the country and you’ll find Chevy parts. Big-block heads, small-block cranks, intake manifolds stacked three deep against a folding table run by a guy in…