1970 Muscle Car Road Tests

Here are ten of the best muscle cars from the 1970s. The 1970s was a memorable decade for cars both good and bad. 1970 amc rebel machine 1970 mercury cyclone spoiler gt 1970 plymouth gtx and 1970 buick gsx stage.

The decade started off in style but soon faced a crisis with an embargo put in place by oil exporting countries driving up gas prices and reducing supplies around the world.

1970 muscle car road tests. But it does deliver the performance. Read this full musclecar road test article at motor trend classic. Archival story on 1970 chevrolet camaro z28 road test. A prophesy of the 1970 ls6 chevelles place in muscle car history this road test originally appeared in the may 1970 issue of hot rod.

1968 shelby green. Mega muscle car power ebbed as we progressed deeper into whats now commonly referred to as the malaise era. That first supercar chevelle back in 1965. In america big gas guzzling cars that struggled to get 10 miles per gallon suddenly fell out of favor.

Nick relampagos brought out his 1970 camaro to our classic industries super chevy muscle car challenge presented by. The worlds rarest and most expensive musclecars 1970 plymouth hemi cuda vs. 1974 amc hornet x hatchback. 1970 buick gsx stage 1.

In terms of its engine power some experts consider the 1970 buick gsx stage 1 the greatest muscle car of all time. Since our test car the 1978 911 sc may. 1969 chevrolet camaro zl 1 vs. We have noticed a trend pun intended in motor trends 1960s road tests of characterizing muscle cars as made for men only as if these cars were just too brutish for women to handle.

The 10 quickest cars of the 1970s. Read this full muscle car road test article at motor trend classic. During the 1970s it had the most powerful engine of all the muscle cars as it produced 510 lbsft of torque. The automatic transmission test car had a little help from a 410 to one axle ratio not exactly what we would have dialed up of our own free will.