The 1970s were tough times for the U.S. auto industry. There were a whole host of government regulations along with high fuel costs that had U.S. automakers in rapid change mode. And if you don't believe this to be the case, you only need to look at the average car in 1970 and then compare it to the average car in 1979 - you will surely see the drastic change. The first change you will notice is how rapidly cars shrunk over this decade (mostly due to the mandated EPA CAFE standards). As an exa
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The Chevrolet Corvette has been America's sports car since 1953. Only a few times over this long run has it had any competitors. And some of these times the competition came from an unexpected sources. One of these sources was from the American Motors Corporation (AMC), which was once America's fourth largest automobile company that was formed from the merging of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company in 1954. Due to not having the development dollars that the big thr
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There's no doubt the Corvette, even though a 2-seat sports car, was one of the meanest muscle cars on American streets during the 1960s. The high-revving small-block Chevrolet 327 CID V8 along with the monster big-block 427 CID V8 solidified the Corvette's performance reputation during this time. Unfortunately everything changed in the 1970s, Chevrolet's big-block 427 had grown to 454 CID but with new government regulations and the 1973 Middle East oil crises, it was living on borrowed time. T
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