1970 was the peak of the Muscle Era, and this was both a triumph and a disappointment for gearheads. It was the culmination of the horsepower wars, and several iconic Detroit machines emerged that ...

Toward the end of the seventh decade of the last century, the Great Spirit of Horsepower dug up the war hatchet and threw General Motors into the all-out, no-holds-barred high-performance muscle car ...

It was June 1998, but I remember the dialogue as if it were yesterday. "Aren't you even going to go look at it? It's an old car," my then-girlfriend asked. "I don't need to, as I know what it is.