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The 1970 Dodge Charger R/T’s 440 Magnum never got the magazine glory that the 426 Hemi did, but it delivered nearly all the same street performance with far less hassle and a lower price tag. Only about 10,337 R/Ts were built that year out of nearly 50,000 total Chargers. Here’s why the ‘lesser’ big block still earns so much respect from Mopar fans.
A 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air was Chevrolet’s plain, budget-friendly full-size sedan — never intended to compete with the flashier Impala, let alone chase four-digit horsepower numbers. One heavily modified Swedish example did exactly that anyway, reportedly built around a rear-mounted turbo setup. Here’s what it typically takes to turn a factory Bel Air into that kind of machine.
The second-generation Buick Riviera changed so little between 1968 and 1969 that even longtime owners argue over which model year a given car actually is. The differences come down to grille patterns, marker lights, and where the reverse lights sit — small details that are easy to mix and match over fifty years. Here’s how to actually tell the two model years apart.
It’s still not quite finished, and that’s exactly what makes it interesting. ScottieDTV catches up with a 1966 Chevrolet Nova Chevy II street machine mid-build at Steve Holcomb Pro Auto Custom Interiors, an LT1 under the hood and fresh wheels on order, proof that the most compelling build videos are the ones that catch a car before the paint has fully dried on the story.
Naming the single best muscle car engine of the 1960s starts fights at every car show in America, and Car News TV isn’t shy about picking a fight. Their countdown of the decade’s five greatest engines, told entirely through sound and archival footage rather than narration, forces a question every enthusiast eventually has to answer: what actually makes an engine great, the numbers on the spec sheet or the sound it makes doing it?
Only 70 Dodge Charger Daytonas were ever built with the fabled 426 Hemi under that towering rear wing — a car engineered purely to win NASCAR races Dodge was otherwise losing. Owner Tom Lembeck’s example is one of the rarest survivors of that aerodynamic experiment. Here’s the history behind the wing, the nose cone, and the engine that made it all worthwhile.
In 2015, Ford and Chevrolet finally built pony cars close enough in horsepower that bragging rights came down to feel rather than spec sheets. The Mustang GT’s independent rear suspension made it the more composed daily driver, while the Camaro SS answered with sharper, more connected handling. Here’s how the two actually stacked up once the engines stopped arguing.
A 1973 Plymouth Road Runner wasn’t built for anything resembling a European road trip — it was a detuned, emissions-strangled shadow of the muscle car it used to be. Yet a retired NHRA and AHRA drag racer took one across Europe and the former Soviet Bloc, not once, but three times. Here’s what made this unlikely combination work.