The most powerful muscle car of the 1970s technically came from Buick, as the automaker built two prototypes for its 1970 GS ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

The Chevelle SS 454 LS6 earned its aura from a simple formula: a midsize body wrapped around one of the most brutal big ...

Few vehicle phrases roll off the tongue as beautifully as 'Chevy 454 big block.' This selection of words can and has put a smile on many a car enthusiast's face for decades, owing to how good the 454 ...

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Like all intermediates introduced in the 1960s, the Chevrolet Chevelle lost its high-compression V8 engines in the early 1970s. Chevrolet kept the nameplate in production through 1977, but the ...

Chevrolet's anxiously awaited 454 SS Pickup arrives just in time to tantalize us with the promise of real muscle-truck performance at a time when the market still offers very little to enthusiasts who ...

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 shackles are off. General Motors CEO Mary Barra recently stated that aggressive fuel economy standards nearly forced the company to "start shutting down plants" to comply. With those regulations ...