The 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 was one of the best–and last–true muscle cars. Automotive heavy metal was on its way out by then, the victim of a variety of factors from rising insurance premiums to tightening federal environmental and safety regulations.
Automotive journalists still loved muscle cars, but buyers were not biting the way they did in the Sixties. At the same time, British rockers Black Sabbath were introducing musical heavy metal to a flower-power world, befuddling music critics but thrilling the public. Times were a-changin’.
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