History & Heritage

The stories, timelines, and turning points that shaped American classic cars.

1969 AMC AMX 390 V8 engine bay with the hood open
History & Heritage

Emissions, Unleaded Fuel and the Muscle Car

Mike Sullivan · · 6 min
1975 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu Classic — swivel bucket seat interior
History & Heritage

Forgotten Chevelle Comfort Options of the Colonnade Years

Tom Ramirez · · 6 min
1970 Plymouth Road Runner on a period street, the kind of car insurance surcharges priced out of reach
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How Insurance Surcharges Strangled the Muscle Car

David Mercer · · 6 min
1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray wheel and Girling disc brake caliper detail in Rally Red finish
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1965 Corvette Disc Brakes

Wayne Coburn · · 8 min
1983 Chevrolet Corvette pre-production prototype being evaluated in the factory before the scrapping order, one of only 43 built
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Why No 1983 Corvette

Tom Ramirez · · 6 min
1932 Lincoln Model KB formal town car with a coachbuilt Brunn body, an example of America's golden age of custom coachwork
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The Golden Age of American Coachbuilders: LeBaron, Fleetwood, Brunn

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
White and blue racing Chevrolet Corvette at the 12 Hours of Sebring with mechanics in period overalls working in the pit lane
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Corvette racing history: Sebring and Le Mans

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min
Mid-1970s Chevrolet Chevelle 350 — emissions engine bay detail
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The Malaise-Era Horsepower Decline

Tom Ramirez · · 7 min
1964 Chevelle Malibu — suburban street mid-size proportions
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The Mid-Size Gap the Chevelle Filled

Patrick Walsh · · 6 min
1990 Chevrolet Corvette C4 coupe in black paint in an everyday suburban setting, showing its practical daily driver appeal
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C4 Corvette Daily Driver Story

Mike Sullivan · · 9 min
A 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler engine bay showing its 429 Cobra Jet big-block from the horsepower wars.
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The Horsepower Wars: How Detroit Escalated

Mike Sullivan · · 6 min
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 - open highway golden hour
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The Second-Generation Chevelle (1968-1972): Muscle's Golden Years

Mike Sullivan · · 8 min
Three classic American pickup trucks of different makes parked in a row on a rural lot at golden hour, evoking the decades-long brand rivalry
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The Big Three Truck Wars Through the Decades

Robert Halloran · · 7 min
Show-quality 1941 Willys gasser with deep candy paint and chrome, straight-axle nose-high stance, in dramatic light
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Famous Gassers and Their Builders

Patrick Walsh · · 6 min
1953 Chevrolet Corvette fiberglass body panels in factory — workers assembling early production car in period-correct manufacturing setting
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First Corvette fiberglass body: why Chevrolet chose the material that defined a legend

Tom Ramirez · · 8 min
Extreme close-up macro detail of a Duntov solid-lifter camshaft from a 1956 Chevrolet small-block V8 showing cam lobes and lifters under dramatic studio lighting
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Duntov Cam Corvette Camshaft: What It Was and Why It Matters

Wayne Coburn · · 8 min
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 — single-headlamp face debut
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1971 Restyle: Single Headlamps and the Compression Comedown

Mike Sullivan · · 7 min
A 1975 C3 Corvette beside a 1984 C4 Corvette representing the generational handoff from Zora Arkus-Duntov to Dave McLellan as Corvette chief engineer
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Zora Duntov's retirement and the McClellan succession

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min