The Chevy 454 SS muscle truck debuted for the 1990 model year, the obvious result of designers' study hall dreams brought to life. They started with the lightest full-size pickup they could get their ...

The early 1990s were a great time if you were a muscle truck fan, with the release of the 1990 Chevy 454 SS and the 1991 GMC ...

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 ...

This 1990 Chevrolet 454 SS pickup truck is the exact definition of a "time capsule." Nothing has ever been a better representation of the expression. The model has only 11 miles on the clock and still ...

Indianapolis, Indiana. In the motorsports space, it's the home of a monthlong racing extravaganza that culminates each Memorial Day weekend with a 500-mile IndyCar race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Executive Editor John Baechtel first tested Chevy's '90 454 SS pickup ("Still Simmerin'," HRM April '90), he was less than stunned. But that was then. For 1991, it's a different story. The pickup ...

Chevrolet's SS moniker stands for "Super Sport," a name that appeared first on the 1956 concept car called the Corvette Super Sport. This was GM's attempt to turn the first-generation Corvette into 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, ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...