One of the first modern performance trucks, the 454 SS was C1500 turned into a tire-shredding street weapon powered by a big-block V8 that was once available on muscle car legends such as the Chevelle ...

A 1990 Chevrolet C1500 454 SS pickup is drawing attention as a well-preserved example of Chevrolet’s early entry into the muscle truck segment. Offered at $31,000, the truck shows 113,931 miles and ...

Produced by Chevrolet and GMC from 1988 to the 2000 model year, the fourth-generation C series in half-ton format doesn’t excel in any particular area. But for a short period at the beginning of the ...

Pickups began life almost as soon as automobiles became available to the general populace. They were spartan, just like most cars, used for hauling produce, construction materials, or whatever one ...

In 1990, GM threw down the gauntlet in the modern full-size muscle truck arena with the introduction of the Chevy 454 SS. It is the stuff of study hall daydreams: take the lightest full-size pickup, a ...

In the early 1990s, a unique breed of vehicle emerged on American roads: the muscle truck. These machines combined the practicality of pickups with the high-performance attributes of muscle cars, ...

Chevy wanted in on the emerging performance pickup game in the early 1990s, so i's engineers took off-the-shelf parts and created the bad-ass Chevy 454 SS. Based on the half-ton C1500, the 454 SS ...

We asked talented artist Abimelec Arellano to imagine just that and to hew as close as possible to the original design in doing so. Single-cab pickups are a nonstarter in today's truck market, but ...

Chevrolet's anxiously awaited 454 SS Pickup arrives just in time to tantalize us with the promise of real muscle-truck performance at a time when the market still offers very little to enthusiasts who ...

Todd Sherwood takes his 1993 Chevy 454 SS down the drag strip at the 2008 Havoc East Show. Todd’s Chevy won the 2007 Sport Truck Challenge and is on the November 2008 cover.  ...

When you think about classic sport trucks, what comes to mind? Most likely either the Ford F-150 SVT Lightning or the Dodge Ram SRT-10. Those are two great examples, but they were preceded by the ...

The market for trucks is often subject to the winds of change. While in previous years, manufacturers would produce several models of pickup to cater to different buyers, as opposed to now, when ...