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AMC’s factory Trans-Am team was in shambles heading into 1970, until Roger Penske and Mark Donohue took it over and rebuilt it from scratch. The result was a Javelin that ran with Ford and Chevrolet all season long, backed by a 100-unit street special that fans still confuse with a completely different homologation car.
This 1957 Ford Thunderbird represents the final year of Ford’s original two-seat design before the four-seat Squarebird took over — and this example, toured at Garrett Classics in Texas, wears nearly every desirable factory option Ford offered that year: the 312 V8, power brakes, power steering, power windows, and rare factory air conditioning. Finished in Raven Black over red with its signature porthole hardtop, it’s a strong argument for why the last two-seat Bird still commands serious money today. See what samspace81 found under the hood.
Wheels lined up a 1,025-horsepower Demon 170 against a C8 Corvette, a Hellcat, and a fleet of vintage muscle – then a stock-looking Duster and a battered El Camino nearly stole the spotlight. Here’s why the comments section is still arguing about it.
Nostalgia Drags 2026 filled Meremere Dragway with straight-axle Gassers, Wild Bunch doorslammers, and a nitro Funny Car throwing demo burnouts — a scene mainstream drag racing left behind in the 1970s. Here’s the real story behind the raised-nose look, and why this corner of New Zealand refuses to let it go.
Regular Guy Garage is dropping a 347 stroker into a 1986 Mustang Notchback, and against the current of nearly every build video out there, he’s doing it with a carburetor instead of fuel injection. His reasoning — no sensors, no wiring harness, no computer to fight with — has resonated with viewers who own everything from Chargers to Firebirds to Camaros. Watch to hear the full case for going old-school.
At a July 2026 classic car auction in Greensboro, North Carolina, a Cross-Fire Injection Camaro Z28 and a modular-V8 Mustang GT both crossed the block for less than $15,000. Two Corvettes joined them in the same price range. Here’s what that says about where affordable muscle car ownership really stands right now.
priceman141’s rundown of six supposedly strange muscle car facts turned into an unplanned classification debate the moment it hit the comments, with viewers arguing that only the Plymouth Superbird actually qualifies as a muscle car among the cars featured. Whether or not the video gets the categories right, it surfaces a genuinely rare piece of Detroit history in the Ford Boss 429 along the way. Watch and decide which side of the muscle car versus pony car argument you land on.
For the 2022 Dodge Challenger SRT Jailbreak, Dodge scrapped its usual color-and-trim restrictions and let buyers build almost any combination they wanted — on top of an 807-horsepower supercharged HEMI. Here is what made the last of Dodge’s rule-breaking Challengers such a standout, and why it is already one of the more collectible late-era Hellcats.
Classic muscle cars were built during a narrow window of cheap gas and factory-versus-factory competition that’s never been fully repeated — which is exactly why the appeal never faded. Here’s a quick look at why this specific era still headlines auctions and car shows decades later.
Plymouth’s pony car hit dealer lots weeks ahead of the Mustang, then spent a decade morphing through six-pack big blocks, a 426 Hemi, and a one-year-only shark-nose face before Chrysler pulled the plug in 1974. Here’s the fast history behind every year of the Barracuda.
Richard Hammond spent a day daily-driving DriveTribe’s 707-horsepower Dodge Charger Hellcat, and by the end, the car built for chaos had quietly won him over. Here’s what the specs, the sound, and his own reaction reveal about America’s most unhinged family sedan.
1972 was the last year Chevrolet built a Corvette with full chrome front and rear bumpers, and the last year for the high-performance LT1 small-block and its ZR1 racing package. It’s also the year Chevrolet switched from gross to net horsepower ratings, making a 350 or 454 Corvette’s numbers look smaller on paper even though nothing mechanical had really changed. Nearly 20,500 Sports Coupes sold that year, proof the C3 was still going strong right before its biggest transition.
A 1969 Pontiac GTO convertible built with the factory Ram Air IV and a four-speed manual is one of the rarest driveline combinations Pontiac ever offered — quicker than nearly any GTO on the road and scarcer than most Judges. This Champagne-over-black example shows why collectors chase the plain-looking GTOs just as hard as the flashy ones.
Pop the hood on a Chevelle badged SS 396 and there’s a decent chance the engine underneath isn’t actually 396 cubic inches anymore — Chevrolet kept the name even after the big-block grew to 402ci in 1970. What started in 1965 as a limited-run, Corvette-powered option became one of the most chased badges in muscle car history. Here’s how a number that stopped being accurate became legendary anyway.
Ford buried the Shelby GT500 name twice before bringing it back as a 760-horsepower supercharged Mustang capable of a 10.7-second quarter mile — and even Jay Leno couldn’t stop comparing it to a McLaren F1.