Among big-block muscle fans, a quiet consensus has been building around a car that rarely makes the posters or the auction ...

Old-school muscle cars are cool no matter what is under the hood, and while there have been some epic small-blocks, it just feels right for a classic street machine to be equipped with a big-block.

It's all too easy to overlook Chevy performance cars built in the mid-'70s. Sandwiched between the real-deal muscle machines of the first go-around (1957-'72) and the credible second-wind of the '80s ...