While many classic car manufacturers had two separate engine sizes -- small blocks and big blocks -- Pontiac only had a single V8 platform.

The year was 1969, and customers who still wanted a GTO, despite the obvious trends that pushed more and more people to smaller cars and more efficient engines, were offered a 350-horsepower engine ...

Say what you want about the GTO, but the muscle car obsession, as great as it was, no longer made sense in the early '70s. Looking back, we already know that the first years of the new decade were the ...