Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

It had the kind of firepower that could embarrass the biggest muscle icons of its time, yet it's time in the sun never came.

Stringent emission regulations, high insurance rates, and a fuel crisis ended the golden age of muscle in the first part of the 1970s. Some of the era's biggest names made it into the 1980s, but they ...