Badass rides that GM killed for no good reason...

There are a lot of "Cars that never were" but here's a few that I think the public would have loved and bought if they'd ever made production. # 1. 1970 LS6 Nova and Camaro. Originally, the mighty LS6 454 was going to be offered in the Camaro SS and the Nova SS as well as the Chevelle line. It wouldn't have been hard to do-the 396 was already an option so the 454 would have been a bolt-in. Cheverolet was so serious about it, that the intake manifold design lost 15 hp over the 1969 427 design because the carb pad was lowered to clear the low hoodlines of the Nova and Camaro. For whatever reason, the GM brass killed them at the last minute. # 2. 1974 GTO. Originally, Pontiac was going to keep the GTO nameplate on the LeMans platform and offer the SD-455 that had only been available in Firebirds in 1973 because of emissions certification problems. That would have given sales a shot in the arm. The other plan, after the decision to downsize it to the X body Nova / Ventura platform was to offer it with a 400 and revive the "Judge" nameplate. How cool would that have been? Pontiac engines are externally identical from a 326 to a 455, so it would have been a drop-in. However, since the X body Ventura was about 600 lbs lighter than a Trans-Am, a 400 Ventura / GTO would have blown the doors off even the SD-455 Trans-Am which was now the flagship. The brass didn't think that would be good, so the downsized Goat got a 350 with 7.6:1 compression that wheezed out 200 hp. # 3. 1977 Hurst / Olds. Hurst built a prototype with a 403 V8, a W31 cam and intake,a TH350 with a 2,400 rpm converter and a shift kit, and a 3.42 posi rear end. It was black and silver and featured a special suspension with a fast-ratio Trans-Am steering box, and T/A sway bars. In early testing it was faster than both the L82 Corvette and a WS6 Trans-Am. The buff magazines raved and public interest was high, but it never made production. Once again, the bean counters over-ruled the gearheads, and enthusiasts and the public lost out. Mastermind