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Helmet cam footage from a Street Outlaws No Prep Mayhem run puts you inside BoostedGT’s Ford Mustang as it lines up against Flaco’s twin-turbo LSx S10 on an unprepped Wichita track. With no traction compound to keep the tires hooked, every foot of the run comes down to raw car control. See how two very different combinations, big-inch turbo Ford power versus a swapped LS truck, handle a track with zero grip.
This green wagon is hiding its year, make, and model behind some deliberately similar styling cues from Plymouth’s B-body lineup, the same family that spawned the Belvedere, Satellite, and GTX. Get the grille shape and taillight details right and the guess gets a lot easier. Take your best shot at the year, make, and model before checking the comments for the answer.
Chevrolet and Ford both launched two-seat sports cars in 1955, but the Corvette and Thunderbird took completely different approaches to winning buyers. One chased performance, the other chased comfort, and the comfort-focused car won the sales race by a landslide. Here’s how that lopsided rivalry ended up saving the car it was supposed to beat.
Keeping a hot rod or muscle car roadworthy depends on more than just good wrenching, it depends on an entire parts and restoration industry working the way it should. When that supply chain is healthy, everyday driving a classic gets a lot less stressful. Here’s a look at what that actually means for owners keeping these cars on the road.
At a small cruise-in show, a brand-new Shelby GT350 Mustang ended up parked in a grove of trees next to rat rods and restored classics, and that mix is exactly the draw. Local cruise-ins don’t need velvet ropes to pull a crowd; they just need cars people actually love. Here’s what keeps events like this one going strong.
Tom Derych spent the mid-1970s racing a 440-powered Dart at New York National Speedway, but it wasn’t until 1989 that he found the Mopar he’d really been chasing. A Sublime Green 1970 Charger with a troubled blown 440 became the starting point for a hand-built 472-cubic-inch Hemi-headed engine. Here’s how he turned a non-running show car into the muscle car he always wanted.
Chevrolet turned pace car duty at the 1969 Indianapolis 500 into one of the most collectible RPO packages of the muscle car era. Every Z11 Camaro left the factory in the same Dover White and orange houndstooth livery, but the engine underneath varied wildly. Here’s what separated the small-block replicas from the rare big-block, four-speed pace cars true collectors still hunt for.
Despite what a lot of listings say, Chevrolet never actually put a 454-cubic-inch big block in the Chevelle SS during the 1969 model year, that engine arrived a year later. The biggest option in ’69 was the 396, offered in three horsepower tunes topping out at 375. The ‘396/454’ label usually shows up because so many of these cars end up as 454 swap platforms. Here’s what the factory actually built versus what most of these cars are running today.
On a summer night in Union Grove, Wisconsin, a drag strip packed with thousands of racing fans became the scene of a targeted, point-blank shooting that left three men dead. Authorities say the gunman singled out his victims before vanishing into the crowd, turning a night of quarter-mile passes into a manhunt. Here’s what investigators pieced together about the attack and the rivalry believed to be behind it.
