The Chevy 454 big block V8 is an iconic powerhouse in American automotive history, and it sat under the hood of some absolute GM classics.

This list includes true production muscle cars ... making this the rarest Chevrolet muscle car of all time.

Prior to the classic muscle car era, GM banned all of its divisions from putting engines bigger than 400 cubic inches of displacement V-8s in intermediate cars, so Chevy, Pontiac, and Olds rides ...

The concept of the COPO cars originated with Fred Gibb, a dealer and Chevy tuner who ordered fifty 1968 L78 V-8-equipped Novas fitted with three-speed automatic transmissions to homologate the cars ...

Only 2,124 full-size Impalas got the SS427 package in 1967, and they were referred to as ‘Chevrolet SS427,’ not ‘Impala SS427’ ...

Sales jumped 50% after that move. "The Chevy brand is in better shape than it has been in decades and decades," Bob Lutz, former GM chairman and author of Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle ...