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This Candy Apple Red 1970 Boss 302 exists because Ford needed 6,500 street-legal siblings built before it could race against the Camaro Z/28 in SCCA Trans-Am — Ford built 8,641. A 290-horsepower small-block, F60-15 tires, and upgraded suspension turned a homologation requirement into one of the most capable street Mustangs Ford ever built. Read on to find out what Ford actually won because of it.
A 1964 Ford Falcon took home the Best Ford in a Ford award at the Back to the 50’s 2017 car show, an unusual win for a car built as economical transportation rather than a performance machine. Ford’s optional Sprint package added the Fairlane’s 260-cubic-inch V8 and a stiffer suspension, giving select Falcons real personality behind the wheel. The Falcon’s unibody platform also directly influenced the Mustang launched later that same model year. This deep dive covers why the humble Falcon earned its trophy.
The sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 was called the fastest muscle car on the market when it debuted at the New York Auto Show, but the number that proved it came a year later on Germany’s Nurburgring. A ZL1 1LE lapped the Nordschleife in 7:16.04, shaving 13.56 seconds off its own sibling without adding a single horsepower. Here is exactly where that time came from, and why it changed how the Camaro is judged.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T doesn’t belong on the narrow, orderly streets of Vantaa, Finland, and that’s exactly why this one turns heads every time it shows up. Filmed at a European muscle car cruise thousands of miles from Detroit, this 440-powered Charger proves American iron still commands attention wherever it lands. Watch to see why a simple powerslide had fans asking for a reupload.
Long before the Challenger Demon’s real specs were public, rumors claimed it would simply ‘rival’ the Hellcat and the next GT500. The reality blew past that modest framing entirely, an 840-horsepower supercharged HEMI, a 9.65-second quarter mile, and an NHRA-certified quarter-mile record the actual GT500 wouldn’t even show up to challenge for another three years.
Long before Riviera meant a swoopy two-door coupe, Buick used the name on this formal, chrome-heavy 1957 Super four-door hardtop, powered by the distinctive 364 cubic-inch Nailhead V8. Small styling cues like four VentiPorts per fender and chrome rear chevrons quietly told other drivers exactly how much Buick they were looking at. Read on to find out how Dynaflow made this Super feel smoother than any geared automatic of its era.
Chevrolet built 7,209 Nova SS 396s for 1969, and most buyers skipped the milder engine option for the one built to actually hurt people at the drag strip. Five hundred pounds lighter than a Chevelle running the same 396, this compact turned into one of the quickest cars Chevrolet sold that year. Read on to find out why Chevrolet let its cheapest muscle car become one of its fastest.
Dodge shipped the 2015 Charger SRT Hellcat with two key fobs, and only one of them unlocked the full 707 horsepower under the hood. Behind that party trick was a four-door sedan capable of an NHRA-certified 11.0-second quarter mile and a 204 mph top speed, numbers no family car had any business posting. Read on to find out how a practical sedan ended up rewriting the rulebook for what a four-door could be.
Pop the hood on this factory-black 1963 Plymouth Sport Fury and you’ll find the engine nobody brags about at car shows, and it might be the smarter choice. While everyone chases the 383 Golden Commando, this convertible went a quieter direction entirely. Read on to find out why the less famous engine might actually be the one to own.
Plymouth built exactly 666 Sport Fury GTs for 1970, and the model vanished after two model years. It was a full-size C-body with a 440 Commando V8 rated at 350 horsepower, or a rarer 440 Six Barrel making 390 horsepower and 490 lb-ft. Only 64 got the Six Barrel. At 4,122 pounds it outweighed a Road Runner by roughly 650 pounds. Read on to find out why almost nobody bought one.
This 1972 Chevelle wears deep black paint, a tucked stance, and a 555-cubic-inch supercharged big block under the hood — a combination that places it squarely in the Pro Touring movement reshaping classic muscle cars from the chassis up. Builders in this space have pushed similar Chevelles past 700 and even 775 horsepower while keeping the original silhouette intact. Here’s what separates a Pro Touring build from a straight restoration, and why the changes go far deeper than the engine bay.
Carspotter Jeroen caught a camouflaged Corvette ZR1 prototype mid-test, its supercharger whining like, in one viewer’s words, a TIE fighter, complete with visible exhaust flames and a Mercedes seemingly overtaken in the process. Filmed near known manufacturer testing routes before Chevrolet ever confirmed the car’s final specs, the footage remains a rare, unscripted look at the development mule behind one of the most track-focused Corvettes Chevrolet has built. Watch to see what gave this disguised prototype away.
Ordering the W72 400 in a 1979 Trans Am forced you to take the WS6 handling package and a four-speed manual as well, with no exceptions. That bundle produced 220 horsepower, 320 lb-ft and a 0-60 run of 6.90 seconds in the middle of the malaise era. Only 2,485 were built in that configuration without T-tops, with another 2,917 wearing the T-top roof this one has. Read on to find out why 1979 was the cutoff.
This Chevy Nova wagon predates the car’s reputation as one of the era’s sneakiest muscle cars, wagon bodies disappeared from the lineup right as the Nova SS was becoming a serious performer. Here’s how a compact family hauler and a legendary muscle car ended up sharing the same nameplate, and why genuine Nova wagons are rarer today than the SS models everyone remembers.