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This Candy Apple Red 1965 Ford Mustang convertible pairs the desirable A-code 289 four-barrel V8 with a four-speed manual, GT trim, and factory Rally-Pac gauges – a combination that was already rare when new. Spotted on the lot at Garrett Classics in Texas, it’s sparked a lively debate among viewers over its exact model year. Watch to see what details actually settle the argument.
Nearly every car built has air conditioning to keep the people inside comfortable. Dodge found a way to steal that system and point it at the engine instead. The SRT Power Chiller on the Challenger SRT Demon redirected the cabin’s refrigerant to cool the air charge before a run down the strip, a factory-production first that Dodge teased ahead of the 2017 New York Auto Show. Read on to find out how it worked and what it made possible.
This white Mercury Cougar could be a modest six-cylinder cruiser or one of the scarcest big-block muscle cars Mercury ever built, and the only way to tell is a small badge easy to miss. Only a fraction of 1969 Eliminators carried the largest engine Mercury offered that year. Read on to find out just how rare this one really is.
At the Volo Auto Museum in rural Illinois, director Brian Grams walks through a 1972 Plymouth Duster finished in Hemi Orange paint and powered by Chrysler’s well-regarded 340 small block V8. It is not the museum’s flashiest car, but the flood of first-car memories it triggered in viewers — from a 1976 Dart Lite to a regretted 1971 Demon — says something about why budget Mopars still matter. Watch to find out what made this compact performance car a museum piece.
A 700-plus horsepower Chevelle convertible, an LS-swapped C10 pickup, a supercharged Hemi Cuda, and a naturally aspirated Ferrari 550 Maranello in the same test drive lineup. Three of them earned their character through modification decades after leaving the factory. One arrived that way. Read on for what separates a restomod from an engineered car, and which of the four actually wins on a back road.
Plymouth built only 635 ‘Cuda convertibles for the entire 1970 model year, and a rare handful carried an engine option that turns this ragtop from a nice classic into a seven-figure collectible. The color hiding under the folded top tends to split Mopar fans right down the middle. What’s actually bolted between the fenders changes the story completely. Read on to find out why.
At the Detroit Auto Show, Ford paired a virtual reality ride imagining flying drones and self-driving pods with real engineering demonstrations, including wind tunnel testing for the returning Ford GT and a new 10-speed transmission for the F-150. Read on to find out which parts of Ford’s future-mobility pitch turned out to be accurate, and which were pure show-floor theater.
Ford did not sell the second-generation GT to whoever showed up with a check. Buyers applied, Ford chose, and one of the earliest cars delivered went out the door at $527,000 after its owner specified a paint color that alone cost more than a well-equipped Mustang. Here is how the selection process worked, what the options actually added, and why the car underneath all of it is best understood as a race car that happens to have license plates.
This blue 1971 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray carries the LT1 badge, a solid-lifter small-block only 1,949 buyers ordered that year, out of 21,801 Corvettes built. Sitting right at the hinge point of the muscle car era, before compression ratios and horsepower figures collapsed across the board, this car represents one of the last genuinely quick factory small-block Corvettes. Read on to find out what separates an LT1 from an ordinary 1971 Stingray.
This orange 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible represents the final model year of the first-generation Firebird, a body style Pontiac kept in production into early 1970 while the redesigned second generation was finalized. Only 11,657 convertibles were built that year, and just eight came as genuine Trans Ams. Read on to find out what separates a true 1969 from the Firebirds built before and after it.
Dropping a modern supercharged Hemi into a 1968 Charger sounds like heresy right up until it fires. This car was the first running, driving vintage muscle car built around a genuine 707-horsepower 6.2-liter Hellcat V8 pulled from a 2015 Dodge Charger SRT, a combination that appeared on no order sheet in 1968 and makes far more power than the original 426 Hemi ever did. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make that swap work.
Spotted at the 2017 Bama Coast Cruise alongside the Metal Brothers’ display, this 1955 Chevrolet Nomad pairs a modern LS-series V8 with a traditional, unrestored-looking interior — built to be driven, not trailered. The video and its comments make the case for why Nomads still command a premium over other Tri-Five wagons, and why station wagons in general remain one of the most underrated entry points into classic Chevrolet ownership.
This rusty, graffiti-covered survivor carries the name of one of American car culture’s longest-running project cars: Project X. Bought for $250 in 1965 and rebuilt more times than almost any other muscle car in history, even landing a role in a 1980s movie, it’s a build that was never meant to be finished. Read on to find out how a bargain-basement purchase became one of the most legendary test mules in performance history.
This photo captures one of NASCAR’s rarest creations: a genuine wing car from the sport’s brief but wild ‘aero wars.’ Built by Dodge and Plymouth to chase top speed with towering rear wings and extended nosecones, cars like this one dominated the 1970 season before a single rule change legislated them out of competition almost overnight. Read on to find out why that rule mattered so much, and why surviving examples are worth seven figures today.
A muscle car disappearing into its own tire smoke captures one of the automotive world’s oldest traditions, the burnout. What started as a practical way to heat tires before a drag strip run has become a judged spectacle in its own right, with big-block torque, line locks, and sacrificial tires all playing a part. Read on to find out what separates an ordinary smoke show from a legendary one.