There was a moment in the late 1960s when American performance cars weren’t just about what rolled off the factory floor. As corporate rules were tightening, insurance companies were watching, and ...

Most of the time we, the general public, tend to give credit for the success of this or that four-wheeled vehicle to the company that gave birth to it. But on the peculiar American automotive scene, ...

Chevrolet’s most extreme muscle car of the 1960s was so powerful, so rare, and so unhinged, it barely survived the streets ...

Don Yenko was a Chevy dealer in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, who was interested in Sports Car Club of America, or SCCA, racing. In 1966, before the Chevy Camaro was available, Yenko petitioned the SCCA ...

What makes a classic Chevrolet a rare car, when the Bowtie was America’s best-selling brand for the better part of the post-war era? It’d have to be either a very low production number, a ...

A Pennsylvania Chevy dealer built only 37 of them. Insurance companies refused to insure them. Most were wrecked. Only a handful survive.

If you're a fan of early Camaros, or muscle cars in general, then some of your favorites have to be the Yenko-modified examples, built for those who wanted more than what Chevrolet was willing to ...

Don Yenko grew up in his family’s Chevrolet dealership. In 1957, he set up a performance shop at the dealership for adding a bit more punch to Chevy cars. The shop sold performance parts to customers, ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, high-performance car dealerships flourished. Big-engined cars, Paxton supercharged and rollbar equipped, could be purchased from your local dealer—ready to run on ...

Speciality Vehicle Engineering (SVE) has just introduced a handful of upgrade packages for the 2023 Chevrolet Camaro, each promising to transform the muscle car in unique ways and make it even more ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...