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In 1969, Ford dropped the last real Shelby Mustang before shelving the program for good, packing a 428 Cobra Jet under a five-scoop hood and a nose stretched further than any Shelby before it. Leftover cars were simply re-badged as 1970s the following year. Here’s what made this final GT500 different from every Shelby that came before it.
We researched top floor jack and jack stand options on Amazon — here are the ones worth buying for your muscle car, ranked by ratings and real buyer feedback.
A stunning 1970 split-bumper Camaro gets strapped to the dyno, throttle pinned, Flowmasters barking off the shop walls. The second-gen Camaro’s first year gave us the most beautiful face Chevy ever styled — and this one backs the looks with a soundtrack worth turning up. The dyno doesn’t just measure power, it broadcasts attitude. Watch and hear what this gorgeous first-year second-gen actually delivers.
Mercury’s Cyclone chased Detroit’s aero wars onto the NASCAR high banks with a 503-unit homologation special built to out-nose the Ford Torino Talladega. By the time the nameplate died in 1972, Mercury could only find about 30 buyers for it. Here’s the rise and quiet collapse of Ford’s forgotten muscle car twin.
A 1970 Hemi Cuda, a rare 455-powered Pontiac T-37, and a four-speed Corvette 454 all lined up at the one drag race in America where modifications are banned outright. The 2025 Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race put decades-old factory muscle back on the strip exactly as it left the assembly line. Here’s what happened when nobody was allowed to cheat.
The new and upcoming 2018 Chevrolet Chevelle is a totally brand-new concept from vehicle manufacturing company Chevrolet. This new vehicle concept is based on Chevrolet’s previous models such as the Chevrolet Camaro. To put it […]
AMC never had anywhere near the R&D budget of GM, Ford, or Chrysler, yet it built cars like the 340-horsepower Rebel Machine and the two-seat AMX that could run mid-14-second quarter miles from the factory floor. A new video counts down the 15 quickest muscle cars the independent automaker ever produced, from the ultra-rare 1,512-unit SC/Rambler to the 401-cubic-inch second-generation Javelin AMX. It’s proof the muscle car wars had a scrappy fourth competitor most fans forget about.
The Plymouth Barracuda hit showrooms two weeks before the Mustang in 1964, then spent ten years morphing through three different platforms before ending as a race-bred Hemi icon. Fewer than a dozen 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles were ever built. Here is the full decade, one year at a time.
Ford needed thousands of these built just to make Trans-Am racing legal, and that homologation math produced one of the sharpest-handling Mustangs of the muscle car era. Powered by a high-revving 290-horsepower 302 small-block instead of a big-block brawler, the Boss 302 was built to beat Chevrolet’s Camaro Z28 on road courses, not just stoplights. It worked: Ford took the 1970 Trans-Am Manufacturer’s Championship.
Twice a year, some of the fastest small-tire cars in the country converge on a narrow Indiana strip with a patch of grass splitting the racing surface. Brown County Dragway has earned a reputation as the sketchiest track in no-prep racing — and War in the Woods XIV just proved why the danger is the draw.
A routine freeway merge on California’s I-15/78 interchange turned into a standoff after one driver forced her way into a gap that had already been generously offered — directly in front of a police cruiser, which responded with a honk instead of a stop. Dashcam footage caught the whole exchange, a reminder of why more drivers, especially those behind the wheel of something valuable, are running cameras full time. What the officer chose to do next is the part worth watching for.
A modern Dodge Demon 170 can out-run a 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda by nearly five seconds in the quarter-mile — a gap wide enough to end most muscle car debates before they start. See how a lineup of today’s factory monsters stacks up against the classics that inspired them, in verified numbers.
The Pontiac Trans Am from 1970-1975 was a muscle car with a flair for drama—think swooping body styles and engines named like action heroes, such as the Ram Air III and IV. The ’74 SD-455 was the muscle-bound heavyweight, boasting an engine so strong it could almost bench press the car itself. By ’75, the Trans Am got a facelift with a wrap-around rear window, but emissions regulations were like a diet plan for the engine, slimming down those power gains. Who needs horsepower when you have style, right?
A Camaro ZL1 owner puts his own 580-hp supercharged coupe up against a naturally aspirated 6th Gen SS in a real head-to-head – and walks away second-guessing which one is actually the smarter $40K buy. Heat soak, rev-matching, and a full driving comparison decide it, not the spec sheet.
A Connecticut owner’s 1969 Oldsmobile 442 makes the case that the base car — not the six-figure W-30 — is the smarter muscle car to actually own and drive. Here’s the engineering story behind the badge, and why the rarest variant isn’t always the right one.