This 1940 Ford Cabriolet’s spec sheet lists a 302 small block and C4 automatic, neither of which existed until decades after the car was built. See what Ford actually put under the hood back in 1940. Then see why swapping in a modern drivetrain has become the standard way to keep prewar Fords like this one on the road.
Only two of these were ever built, and this 1957 Ford Ranchero hides one of the most unlikely muscle car secrets of the entire decade under its work-truck sheet metal. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week goes looking for the story behind a supercharged engine nobody expected to find in a Ranchero, and the NASCAR connection that explains how it got there.
Welcome to Muscle Car Fan. I have turned wrenches on these engines for years, and I have watched buyers pay big money for the wrong motor. Here are four muscle car engines and drivetrains, and […]
Chevrolet officially rated the 1967 Corvette L88 at 430 horsepower — a number almost nobody believes, with real output reputed to be closer to 560 or even 600. Only 20 of the 22,940 Corvettes built that year carried the option, which required deleting the heater, radio, and air conditioning just to qualify. A Sunray DX-entered L88 went on to win the 12 Hours of Sebring outright that same year. Read on for how Chevrolet built the most powerful — and most deliberately hidden — engine it ever put under a Corvette hood.
Welcome to Muscle Car Fan. Every muscle car has a backstory, and some of them are stranger than the cars themselves. Today I have twelve cars with wild stories: a name borrowed from a Ferrari, […]
Plymouth and Dodge sold nearly the same budget muscle car from the same platform. Here is how the Road Runner and the Super Bee compare, and which one I would take. 1968 Plymouth Road Runner […]
Patch panels, replacement panels, or walk away? Honest shop talk on rust repair for muscle cars, with ballpark cost estimates and the mistakes that cost people the most.
Chrysler built only 16 examples of a fuel-injected 392 Hemi for the 1958 300D, and 15 of them were quietly retrofitted back to carburetors within the same model year. That’s just one chapter in a decade where Chrysler’s FirePower Hemi and DeSoto’s own separate Hemi family kept leapfrogging each other in displacement and horsepower. Read on to find out how a 331-cubic-inch engine grew into some of the most powerful production V8s of the 1950s.
Welcome to Muscle Car Fan. If you are new to muscle cars, chances are somebody has already told you a few things that are not quite true. That the GTO started it all. That they […]
You found a 1970 Buick Gran Sport 455 Stage 1, and the price says it had better be the real deal. The Stage 1 name is easy to claim and hard to prove, and the torque is rough on everything behind the engine. Here is what to check before you hand over a deposit.
Some factory muscle cars were built in small numbers on purpose. These three are the ones most gearheads never get to see in person, and each has a story behind it. 1987 Buick GNX Turbo […]
Clay and Sons Mopar recycling yard in rural Missouri hides more factory-original muscle than most private collections, and The Auto Archaeologist’s latest find proves it: a real 1968 GTX still wearing its original 426 Hemi and 4-speed. The yard behind it holds Darts, a Barracuda, and a yellow Coronet that have viewers calling it Mopar heaven in the comments. Watch to see what else is sitting in that field.
Survivor or restored? Auction buyers pay for originality, documentation, and verified correctness. Here is how to tell which one deserves your money.
Welcome to Muscle Car Fan. Maybe you love someone who loves Mustangs, or you want to finally understand why they talk about them so much. Here is the whole story in four cars, four different […]