The Buick GS Stage 1 arrived in 1970 with a simple mission: overwhelm the rear tires with torque while pretending to be a ...

During the pinnacle of the muscle car golden age, the GS Stage 1 was the fourth quickest factory-built performance ride over a quarter mile, the undisputable torque king, and the best-handling ...

As with the GS's standard 455, the Stage 1 carried a Rochester 4MV Quadrajet carb (with 1.375-inch primary throats and 2.25-inch secondaries) mounted on a dual-plane, cast-iron intake manifold. The ...

Toward the end of the seventh decade of the last century, the Great Spirit of Horsepower dug up the war hatchet and threw General Motors into the all-out, no-holds-barred high-performance muscle car ...

As the muscle car wars of the 1960s tapered to an end in 1970 with the looming advent of government efficiency standards, emissions regulations, and insurance companies that balked at putting young ...