Pontiac’s GTO is back in 1969 with outrageous paint & a 370HP Ram Air IV.

Carroll Shelby’s exciting tenure at Ford produced the memorable Mustang Cobra.

The 396 ‘rat motor’ turned the meek Chevelle into a pavement pounder.

In 1967 Chevrolet introduced a car that is still one its biggest sellers.

“What’s that? A Buick?” The Gran Sport ended all conversation after that.

The most mind boggling car the NHRA stock classes had ever seen.

The car that started the whole Detroit Musclecar craze almost didn’t happen.

4 barrell, 4 speed, dual exhaust - 442 - Olds’ entry in the horsepower wars.

After a down year in 1968, in classic Corvette fashion, Zora Arkus-Duntov and his engineers threw themselves furiously into fixing the car, so by 1969 Corvette was once again “king of the hill” among American high performance cars.

Racing became the car’s research and development laboratory, as America’s most famous racers worked tirelessly to raise Corvette’s performance level despite the “no racing” edict handed down from GM’s board of directors.

Chevrolet’s design studio, now headed by wild man Bill Mitchell, had been promising something “all new” since 1959, and hints of it had been shown at Chevy’s Motorama and other big auto shows for a few years.

Chevrolet makes a major discovery—if you want your car to be cool, make it a TV star!  The Corvette became the central figure in a major network TV show, “Route 66,” where two cool young dudes went in search of America each week in their Corvette convertible.

By leveraging General Motors’ checkbook clout, its engineering expertise and the sheer will of a passionate engineer named Zora Arkus-Duntov, Chevrolet put the Corvette on the map by making it the fastest, sexiest-looking and best handling American car in existence.

Muroc Dry Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats is where Hot Rodding started.  In the years after WWII, people with a need for speed took their game to the ends of the earth… literally… and ran ‘em flat out, just to see how fast they’d go.

The history of Super Stock racing, born at the US Nationals in 1960, which began the era of factory performance cars, the force behind the muscle car craze.

From the earliest days of the automobile, people looking for horsepower have known that making an engine move more air was the secret.

For two decades, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler went on a war footing, each trying to outproduce the other in the arena of huge horsepower.

How the Corvette was born, and its early years when the ‘Vette nearly died from poor sales and ridicule from the motoring press.