Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late '80s. In their place are elaborate, but flimsy, plastic covers hiding stamped-steel impact beams with a wide swath of Styrofoam ...

There are those who say the original muscle car era ended in 1972. It's true that the insurance companies started causing trouble after 1970, but it was the Feds who really threw a wrench in the works ...