Most car experts have described muscle cars of the ‘70s as a low point in the genre's performance, but it’s not the manufacturers’ fault! By 1970, they became heavily regulated and sadly had to calm down a little when it came to horsepower.

You can fault the folks in the ‘60s who got a little carried away, and hey, you just know that car nuts of the ‘70s made some semi-legal modifications to put the “muscle” back in anyways.

And this didn’t mean that ‘70s cars couldn’t evolve stylistically! Manufacturers pumped ot what would become the most sought-after models of all time. Models that would influence a massive muscle car resurgence of the 1980s. So here are 15 1970s muscle cars that not only kept the subculture afloat, but inspired the generations to come.