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Did Google just spill the beans on the 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500? It seems like the cat might be out of the bag, as Ford enthusiasts have been spotting camouflaged prototypes zipping around for a while now. Most folks thought this beast would roar into 2018, but surprise—2017 might be the year! Is Google playing Santa with this muscle car secret, or are we all just jumping the gun? Either way, it looks like Ford’s gearing up to unleash something wild pretty soon!
This 1951 Oldsmobile 98 still runs the original 303 cubic inch Rocket V8 that helped ignite Detroit’s horsepower war, and it still wears its factory interior after all these decades. Surviving this honest is rare for a car this old. Here’s why the Rocket name mattered, and why finding one still original is worth stopping for.
Only 28,800 Mustangs left the factory in 1967 with the S-code 390 big block, out of more than 400,000 built that year, making this Candy Apple Red example a genuine rarity hiding in plain sight. Its one-year-only GTA badge and factory 320-horsepower rating set it apart from the small-block Mustangs most buyers actually chose. Read on to find out why values on these cars have stayed surprisingly reasonable.
Ford poured a million dollars into redesigning the F1’s cab for 1951, giving it a wider body, bigger windshield, and doors that finally kept the weather out. This Forest green survivor pairs that landmark cab with a fully modernized street drivetrain. Here’s what made the Five-Star Cab such a big deal, and why this build makes the most of it.
Dodge set out to build a Challenger that beat its own 707-horsepower Hellcat and back it up with more onboard technology than any SRT before it. The Demon’s New York Auto Show debut delivered both: an 840-horsepower Hemi and drag-strip-specific tech most manufacturers reserve for actual race cars. It’s proof that fast and sophisticated don’t have to be mutually exclusive in Detroit.
Original stainless trim can be brought back to a mirror finish with nothing but hammers, dollies, and a patient wet-sanding progression — 180 grit up through 3,000, with water washing away debris the whole way. It takes longer than buying repro, but the fit and finish still beat anything off the shelf.
Most muscle car buyers walk right past the 1970 Pontiac Catalina Sport Wagon, but a well-optioned example could be had with the brand-new 455-cubic-inch V8 in up to 370-horsepower HO tune — genuine big-inch muscle wearing a body built to haul six or nine passengers. Only 113 of the 29,394 wagons built that year came with a manual transmission. Read on to find out why this factory sleeper still flies under the radar.
Ford handed Carroll Shelby a brand-new Mustang platform in 1965 and let him tear it apart — the result was a race-ready fastback most buyers weren’t quite prepared for. Fewer than 600 were built that first year, each one rebuilt with a stiffer chassis, a hotter 289, and none of the compromises a regular Mustang made. Here’s what actually separated a real GT350 from the pony car it started as.
Dan Mershon has owned eleven Shelby Cobras, and he says the 289 is the one that actually looks right – no flared rear fenders, none of the bulk that later kit-car replicas chase. Only 580 289 Cobras were built between 1963 and 1965, including six ultra-rare factory Dragon Snake competition cars. Here’s what makes the original narrow-body Cobra a different animal from everything that copied it since.
Chevrolet almost let its meanest 1967 Chevelle engine disappear entirely, pulling it from the order sheet before quietly bringing it back as a dealer-only option nobody advertised. Only 612 cars ever got the L78 396 that model year, each one built in a narrow three-month window and stamped with details collectors still hunt for today. Rated at 375 horsepower and built to run with Ford and Mopar’s best, it turned a mid-size Chevy into a genuine street fighter. Here’s what made this rare Chevelle tick.
SpeedKore’s carbon fiber beauties are making jaws drop at SEMA 2016! These aren’t your grandma’s muscle cars; think 2017 Dodge Challenger Hellcat, Ford Mustang GT Fastback, and the classic 1970 Plymouth Cuda and Dodge Charger, all wrapped in sleek carbon fiber. It’s like if Batman had a garage sale, and you’re invited! The craftsmanship is so stunning, even the other cars are jealous. SpeedKore isn’t just raising the bar; they’re launching it into orbit!
Ford quietly swapped engines mid-year on the 1968 Shelby GT500, and the change turned an already potent muscle car into a legend. Early cars carried the proven 428 Police Interceptor, good for a genuine 360 horsepower, before Ford dropped in the underrated 428 Cobra Jet and renamed the car GT500KR, King of the Road. Only 1,570 KR models were built that year, split between fastbacks and convertibles.
The 426 Hemi wasn’t just Plymouth’s biggest engine option in 1970 — it was a race-bred monster so brutal it got banned from NASCAR before ever touching a road course. Only 666 ‘Cuda buyers checked that option box, and just 14 of those cars left the factory as convertibles. Beneath the shaking hood scoop and the low idle rumble sits 425 horsepower and 490 lb-ft of torque that still turns heads at every cruise-in. Here’s what made the Hemi ‘Cuda’s V8 one of muscle car history’s most unforgettable powerplants.
Pontiac built exactly eight 1969 Firebird Trans Am convertibles, and V8TV has now featured every single one of them, including this fourth car, the one with the lowest VIN sequence number of the group. The eighth car in the set went missing for years before finally surfacing and getting restored in 2016. See what makes this particular Trans Am worth a second look inside an already impossibly rare set of eight.
Aftermarket transbrakes have been a drag-strip staple for decades, but no manufacturer had ever built one into a car straight from the factory floor — until Dodge did. Here is how the system locks multiple clutches at once to hold a car dead-still under full throttle, and what that means for reaction times once the light goes green. The engineering behind this one feature says more about the muscle car horsepower wars than most spec sheets ever could.