The age of muscle cars built up momentum for six years before erupting at the debut of the 1970s, and there was one particular motor that can righteously be called the epitome of that piston cataclysm ...

"We'd be happy with 480 hp on motor, any more we'd consider it a gift from the racing gods," is what we thought as we travelled up Interstate 15 with our Rapp Racing small-block securely strapped in ...