They don't build muscle cars like they used to. As cliché as it is, it's true on several levels. When the third-gen HEMI and the LS go to pasture soon, we'll say it ten times more. But to understand ...

For many people out there, the debut of the 455 HO V8 long-stroke engine in 1970 was the Pontiac GTO they’ve been waiting for since 1965 when GM decided that the highest this series could go was 400 ...

How big is one cubic inch? In physical size? Tiny, obviously. Even in terms of engine displacement, which we are about to discuss, a single cubic inch is almost nothing. It's an amount regularly ...

The Golden Age of American Muscle ended in 1971, but it went out with a hell of a bang.

Oooh, two General Motors V8s within a cubic inch of each other! They have to be nearly the same engine, right? After all, the Chevrolet 454 and Pontiac 455 come from the same corporate parent, and ...

The Pontiac Firebird debuted in February of 1967, built on the same F-body platform as the Chevy Camaro, which had bowed five months earlier. The Firebird was a bit of a consolation prize for Pontiac, ...

General Motors (GM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009. This occurred toward the end of the Great Recession, and automakers sought bailout money to avoid going under. For GM, the company had to ...

In April 2009, GM officially killed the Pontiac Motor Division. But for true believers of Pontiac engines, GM's Widetrack division is far from deceased. Edelbrock is doing its part by adding to its ...

The Chevy 454 V8 and the Pontiac 455 V8, two of the most iconic engines from the 1970s, have powered some of the most memorable muscle cars of that era. The Chevy 454, particularly in its ...