so-called "gentleman muscle cars," like the following five. A few months after Pontiac introduced the GTO package for its Tempest/LeMans intermediate line, other famous Detroit brands followed.

Muscle cars from the golden age of the 60s and 70s also used to be the golden standard of straight-line performance, but everything changes, and as time passes, the big-block icons of the past don ...

In the following years, intermediates, pony cars, and even compacts received potent V8 engines that made them fearsome straight-line performers. Though the golden age of muscle cars didn't last as ...