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This red 1970 El Camino SS wears its black stripe and vinyl top the way Chevrolet intended: parked among the muscle cars it was built to run with, not tucked away in a garage. Underneath the truck bed is a full Chevelle SS drivetrain, and across five model years Chevrolet pushed it from a 325-horsepower newcomer to the 450-horsepower LS6 454 before emissions rules caught up with it. Read on to see how the numbers changed year by year — and why the VIN tag matters more than the badge.
This 1977 Chevrolet Malibu has survived nearly 45 years with just 44,000 original miles and a dashboard that’s somehow never cracked — a rarity for any GM product from this era. Filmed at Country Classic Cars in Staunton, Illinois, it’s the kind of straight, unmolested survivor that malaise-era collectors are only now starting to chase. Viewers are already debating headlight trim details across Malibu model years in the comments. Watch to see what 44,000 careful miles really looks like.
This 1967 Chevelle skips a factory-correct restoration in favor of an old-school street machine build, complete with a big-block or LS swap, reinforced suspension, and deep-dish wheels. The choices made under the hood and underneath the body reveal a builder chasing a specific look and driving feel rather than numbers-matching authenticity. Read on for what actually separates a good street machine build from a great one.
The Vanderhall Venice is neither motorcycle nor car, and that ambiguity is exactly the point. Built around a turbocharged four-cylinder and a lightweight composite body on an aluminum chassis, this American-made three-wheeler trades a fourth wheel for a driving experience most sports cars cannot match. Read on to find out what actually separates it from the trikes of decades past.
Pontiac says the 1964 GTO invented the muscle car. Chevrolet launched the Chevelle SS package the same model year. Chrysler loyalists point to the letter cars of the 1950s, and Oldsmobile fans go back to the 1949 Rocket 88. The argument has never been settled and probably never will be. Here is what each side actually claims, and why the Chevelle ended up mattering more than the debate itself.
Mike Musto argues the internet has horsepower backwards, using a balanced Chevrolet Malibu SS built around an LS1 and a Viper-sourced Tremec T56 transmission to make his case for drivability over raw numbers. One commenter dismissed the build as merely ‘medium’ next to a 707-horsepower factory Hellcat — and the response it triggered turned into a real debate about what horsepower numbers actually mean without context. See why balance might matter more than bragging rights.