The Oldsmobile Cutlass SX looked like a polite, well-optioned intermediate, yet under its conservative sheetmetal it hid one of the most serious big-block powerplants of the muscle era. Marketed as a ...
On the street, torque is king. One of the best and simplest ways to make gobs of frame-twisting torque is with cubic inches. Among the torque kings in the GM world are the Buick, Pontiac, and Olds ...
The year is 1970, and the war in Detroit is ravaging the automotive landscape like there would be no tomorrow (there wasn’t). Cubic inches and horsepower were literally crowding the showroom floors of ...
When we last left our intrepid, 455-powered '64 Olds F-85, we had patched it together with a few budget bolt-ons to get it running, but it quickly began to show its age. The '64 Olds F-85 body was in ...
Over the decades, Detroit was the source of some very controversial decisions – from GM’s retiring from competitive racing in early 1963 to the more recent cancelation of the HEMI and Challenger Mopar ...
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of MotorTrend Classic] Imagine the Indianapolis Colts playing the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. Payton versus Eli, ...