The 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 arrived as a factory street car that behaved more like a race machine with plates. Officially, Chevrolet and General Motors called it a 450 horsepower midsize coupe, but ...

The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle LS6 arrived at the absolute peak of the American muscle car wars, bringing so much factory horsepower that some dealerships reportedly hesitated to hand over the keys for ...

What makes a classic Chevrolet a rare car, when the Bowtie was America’s best-selling brand for the better part of the post-war era? It’d have to be either a very low production number, a ...

This Chevrolet Nova from 1970 has been completely restored and modified to make an excellent show car in a unusual shade of blue. Chevy II evolved from basic compact to stylish, powerful Chevrolet ...

Lock your doors. A lynch mob of angry purists is about to descend on Las Vegas. That's where you'll find a real '70 SS 454 Chevelle that's been stripped of its LS6 big-block for a Gen IV LSA ...

Nova sales recovered in 1970, reaching 307,280 units, and the two-door sedan dominated the series with over 226,280 orders. The appetite for V8 engines skyrocketed this year, jumping from 88K orders ...

The line that graphs the appeal of the speedy Chevy Nova throughout the nameplate's history is a jagged one, beginning in 1962 when Nova was used to label the uppermost trim level for the Chevy II ...

Bowing for the 1964 model year, the Chevy Chevelle was Chevrolet’s answer to the Ford Fairlane. The Chevelle was built on GM’s mid-size A-Body platform along with corporate cousins the Oldsmobile ...

Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...

New York's Vince Pileggi graduated high school in June, 1965. A few months later, he bought a '59 Impala convertible with a 3x2 348 and Powerglide automatic. In no time, he changed it to stick shift ...

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 ...