A 1964 Pontiac Catalina Safari that started life as a police wagon now runs a 468-cubic-inch Nelson Racing Engines big-block under the hood, turning the least glamorous body style in Detroit’s lineup into what The Drive’s BIG MUSCLE crew calls a tire-shredding monster. The comment section is already campaigning for a full season of wagon builds. Watch to see what convinced them.
A rotted second-gen Camaro that most shops would have scrapped is instead becoming a hand-formed widebody, with every fender flare shaped from flat steel to match a 3D render instead of a bolt-on kit. See why fans are calling the fabrication work on this build ‘crazy’ in the best way.
A stock Dodge Challenger SRT8 and a numbers-matching 1970 340 Six Pack Challenger T/A run six straight quarter-mile races, swapping drivers for the final two to separate skill from machine. According to an owner of both cars, the SRT8 trapped 107 mph while the vintage T/A, running on a worn original transmission, hit 115.90 mph. See how a fifty-year-old sleeper kept pace with a modern factory performance car.
Detroit’s big names get all the glory, but some of the most fascinating muscle cars ever built came from the underdogs. Smaller companies, dealer specials, and one-year wonders took on the legends and sometimes beat […]
Ford once rented out a 306 horsepower, race-bred Mustang by the day. That is just one of the twelve stories behind the Mustangs that changed muscle car history, counted down from number twelve to number […]
The 426 Street HEMI is the most legendary engine in American muscle car history. Built for one purpose — domination — the HEMI’s hemispherical combustion chambers, massive displacement, and raw horsepower made it the benchmark […]
Nobody can agree on the exact specs of any single General Lee because The Dukes of Hazzard chewed through somewhere between 200 and 300 Dodge Chargers over its 1979-to-1985 run, with only about 18 surviving in driveable condition. Stunt coordinator Al Wyatt Sr. built the fleet around lessons learned from an earlier film, and the welded-shut doors that became the character’s signature trait were pure structural necessity. Read on to find out why a genuine survivor is rarer than winning a drag race.
A Top Banana Yellow 1970 Dodge Super Bee skipped the ultra-rare Hemi for a 440 Six Pack instead — and gave up just 35 horsepower for a fraction of the price. See why collectors now call it the sleeper every Mopar fan should want.
Mercury’s 1969 Cyclone Spoiler II only exists because NASCAR’s homologation rules demanded 500 street cars for every race car. Decades later, fewer than 75 of the 503 built — split between two NASCAR driver tribute trims — are known to survive.
Schwartz Performance took a dented California 1969 Mustang fastback, spent roughly 1,400 hours on it, and handed the finished car away to a stranger at a Las Vegas trade show. Under the Boss-inspired paint sits a 444-horsepower Coyote Boss 302 crate engine, a fabricated G-Machine chassis, and a GT500-spec brake package. Read on to find out how a brake company ended up building one of the more serious restomods of the SEMA era.
A 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator hides a genuine Boss 302 V8, a close-ratio four-speed, and the factory Super Drag Pack — one of roughly 50 built this way. Here’s why Mercury’s refined pony car quietly became one of Detroit’s most overlooked giant-killers.
TOM’S REFURB pulled a 1969 Mustang Mach 1 Fastback out of a barn after nearly twenty years untouched, nicknamed it Blue Berry, and got it running again — right before the story took a turn nobody in the comments saw coming. Viewers are already campaigning for a full restoration, timestamping the exact moments things went sideways. Watch to see how a twenty-year barn find survives its first drive back on the road.
Only 14 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles were ever built. That single number explains why the muscle car era still fascinates collectors: some of the most desirable machines Detroit ever made were produced in tiny quantities, […]
You have found a 1969 Mustang Mach 1 fastback for a price that feels too good to be true, and the seller keeps saying it just needs “a little rust repair.” That sentence has ended more restoration dreams than any engine problem ever has. On these cars the rust you can see is rarely the rust that decides what the project will cost. The metal hiding behind carpet, under seam sealer, and inside the frame rails is what separates a rewarding build from a bottomless money pit. Before you hand over a deposit, here is what to look for, what the federal records say, and why a rough Mach 1 is still very much worth saving.