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A 1970 Chevelle SS built by NR Classics trades its factory big block for a 468 stroker that Chevrolet never offered from the showroom floor. Air suspension, Wilwood brakes, and a Holley Sniper EFI system replace nearly everything else underneath the blacked-out body. It keeps the shape people fell for in 1970 and rethinks almost everything that made it hard to live with.
Ford built 754 Torino Talladegas in roughly six weeks at its Atlanta plant, each with a stretched nose, re-rolled rocker panels, and a front bumper adapted from a 1968 Fairlane’s rear end. Every one left with a 428 Cobra Jet, an automatic, and a black bench seat, because Ford was not really selling a car so much as satisfying a NASCAR rulebook. The payoff was a Daytona 500 win and a manufacturers’ championship. Read on for the details most Talladega listings get wrong.
A crew called B is for Build stripped a 2019 Mustang GT down to its chassis and wrapped it in reproduction 1967 Fastback panels, racing a two-week deadline to debut it at SEMA as a Shelby GT500 tribute. The real 1967 GT500 was already rare — Ford built only 2,048. This one borrows its look, not its lineage, and viewers can’t stop asking how the crew pulled it off in time.
A 1964 Mercury Marauder with the factory-rare dual-quad 427 — one of just 42 built that year — turned up at a Detroit car show still owned by the same man for two decades. Nick Zakarian’s fastback-roofed big Mercury hides one of the rarest engine options Ford Motor Company ever sold. Here’s the NASCAR-bred history behind the nameplate most muscle car fans have forgotten.
Pontiac named its most famous option package after a punchline from a late-sixties sketch comedy show, and it worked well enough that the name outlived the company. Line a 1969 GTO Judge with the 366-horsepower Ram Air III against a custom 2006 GTO running a twin-turbo LS2 at roughly 750 horsepower and you have two cars wearing the same badge and chasing the same reputation by completely opposite methods. Read on to find out which approach actually holds up.
A tiny 100-unit homologation run let AMC legally race the Javelin in 1970 Trans-Am — and Roger Penske’s factory team, with Mark Donohue behind the wheel, turned that rule-book loophole into three race wins and a shock second-place finish in the championship.
A weekend freeway cruise turns tense fast when a Hennessey-tuned C7 Corvette Stingray, pushing roughly 600 horsepower through an ECS supercharger, spots a patrol car mid-pull at triple-digit speed. The comment section has turned into a swap meet of near-miss stories from viewers who’ve had their own close calls at similar speeds. Watch to see how close this particular encounter came to going a very different way.
You’ve found it: a numbers-matching 1967 Corvette Sting Ray, big-block 427 under the hood, sitting in a barn find listing or a classifieds ad with a price that seems almost too good. Before you hand over a deposit, understand what you’re actually buying. The C2 Sting Ray’s fiberglass body can hide decades of hidden rust in the steel frame and birdcage structure underneath it, and a “numbers-matching” claim is only as good as the paperwork and stampings behind it. One restoration featured by Car and Driver — of a 427 roadster owned by the magazine’s own technical director — shows exactly how deep those problems can run, and how rewarding it is to dig them out properly. This guide walks through what that restoration revealed, what NHTSA has on record for the Corvette of this era, and what you need to check before you buy.
The Shelby GT500CR wears a 1967 body but hides a modern secret: a Shelby-licensed continuation car that can top 900 horsepower, more than double what Carroll Shelby’s original ever officially made. It also almost didn’t survive 2025 — here’s the shop’s real story.
A single stretch of muscle car headlines captured just how wide the hobby’s range really is: a collector-car auction billing itself as the world’s largest, a long-overdue disc brake upgrade for classic GM cars, and a 526-horsepower Ford Shelby GT350 built around a flat-plane crank V8. Read on to see how a record auction, a cheap brake fix, and one seriously fast new Mustang all connect.
A Cleveland engine shop is turning genuine 797-horsepower Hellcat Redeye HEMIs into complete, pre-wired units that ship on a pallet and bolt into nearly any Challenger. The clip proves the concept about as literally as possible, firing the motor with nothing else attached. Here’s what’s actually inside the swap, and why Dodge never sold this powertrain as a standalone option.
A rare 429-powered 1970 Ford Torino Cobra rolled into a vintage NMCA drag event on nothing but factory-width rubber — and dipped into the 12s anyway. Ford built barely two thousand of these with the big engine, and far fewer with the gearing to make a pass like this possible. Here’s the math behind one of the toughest quarter-miles in muscle car history.
By 1974, Plymouth had swapped the beloved 340 out of the Duster for a detuned 360 that made noticeably less impact despite the larger displacement. Yet against all odds, 1974 became the Dusters best sales year ever, with 281,378 cars produced during the height of the first oil crisis. Fewer than 4,000 of those were the new 360-powered version. What does a sales record set under the worst possible conditions say about what buyers actually wanted?
A factory Hemi Road Runner is rare enough on its own, but this 1970 hardtop belongs to an even smaller club: cars built with Chrysler’s TorqueFlite automatic instead of the four-speed most Hemi buyers demanded. MotoManTV takes it for a drive during a 2015 Classic Car Week special, digging into why Plymouth’s rarest drivetrain pairing almost never got ordered at all.
The 1967 Shelby GT500 known as Eleanor is one of the most recognizable movie cars ever built, and almost none of what people believe about it survives contact with the facts. Eleven cars wore the bodywork for the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, and only three of them could move under their own power. Steve Stanford and Chip Foose drew the silhouette. Read on to find out how far it really sits from a genuine Shelby.