In the fall of 1963, the 1964 Pontiac LeMans GTO officially established the ‘muscle car’ genre by pairing an intermediate body with the V8 from the big Pontiacs (Catalina and Bonneville). Oldsmobile ...

1964 was probably the kick-start year for Detroit. The muscle car, the pony car, the Hemi, the Thunderbolt – all came out within months of one another. The GTO got a head start with its introduction ...

From the February 1978 issue of Car and Driver. Remember the streetfighters? They were the kind of cars that you'd spend Saturday night in, chasing around Asbury Park or cruising the Gut in Eugene.

Motor Trend's Dec. 1967 issue presented an overview of the 1968 supercars, among them an Oldsmobile 4-4-2 that the editors described as "a performance car par-excellence." They started the 4-4-2's ...