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Buick’s 1970 GSX Stage 1 carried a horsepower rating that barely budged from the base engine, a number built for insurance adjusters, not drag strips. Decades later, owners and historians are still fighting over whether it really deserved the Hemi Killer nickname, or whether a mismatched magazine test built a legend that never quite held up.
Don Yenko built the Deuce Nova to solve a problem insurance companies created — premiums on obvious muscle cars had gotten so steep that he hid a 360-horsepower LT1 engine inside Chevrolet’s most unassuming compact instead. This sunflower-yellow survivor is the third Yenko Deuce Nova MuscleCarOfTheWeek has featured, following an orange car and a Brothers Collection example. Watch to see how a car built to be ignored became one of the most sought-after Novas ever made.