This third-generation small block was a completely new design, including a distributorless ignition and a new cylinder firing order, rated at 345 HP and 350 ft·lbf torque. For its first year, the C5 was available only as a coupe, even though the new platform was designed from the ...
If you ordered a Chevelle SS in 1970, a car like this was about as good as it got. A 454ci V8 occupies the engine bay, but this wasn’t just any old big-block. We are looking at the LS6 version that churned out 450hp and 500 ft/lbs of torque. There’s no point having all ...
Furthermore, the potent 450-horsepower LS-6 version of the 454 was optional, making an SS -- as the brochure stated -- "a very deceptive car." "Solid gentlemanly comfort without bombast," one ad promised Monte Carlo buyers. The sales brochure called it "a car without pretense" that "...