Here we go again – back to when gas was cheap, cars were pretty, and America was the biggest carmaker on Planet Piston. Not only that, but it made heaps of cool machines every year, icons of the ...

For many people out there, the debut of the 455 HO V8 long-stroke engine in 1970 was the Pontiac GTO they’ve been waiting for since 1965 when GM decided that the highest this series could go was 400 ...

I have a slightly modified '81 Firebird. The Q-jet I built for the engine runs way too rich-black smoke rich. I followed the "bible" of Q-jets by Cliff Ruggles, How to Build and Modify Q-jets, to the ...

The Pontiac 455 H.O. sits at the crossroads of cubic-inch excess and the first real wave of emissions-era compromise, which is exactly why collectors obsess over when it was built and what those cars ...

Looking back at the '70 GTO, many enthusiasts regard it as the last goodyear, the one that still offered high-compression engines and performance uncompromised by government regulation. While that may ...

Khris is a Mechanical Engineer and a classic car aficionado, who adores his Jags, Alfas, and old-school American muscle cars. He keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the ...

A GTO with a 455 ran a quarter-mile in 13.6 seconds and the Ram Air Judge matched it to the tenth of a second. Most importantly, in today's collector's market, a '70 Judge 455 is a $118,000 car while ...