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A fan rendering imagines the Shelby GT350R wearing police livery, but the fantasy holds up better than most once you look at the real car underneath it. The GT350R’s 5.2-liter Voodoo V8 revs to 8,250 rpm and makes 526 horsepower, the highest-revving naturally aspirated V8 any American automaker has ever built.
Only 2,111 of the 1965 Ford Mustang convertibles Ford built came with a front bench seat instead of buckets, a fraction of the more than 70,000 convertibles produced that year. This Texas Hill Country survivor is one of them. Here’s why almost nobody ordered it this way, and what the rare 76C body code actually means.
When Dennis Ermi bought this 1968 Plymouth Road Runner in 2009, it needed serious paint and engine work before it earned the nickname “Old Runner.” Today it runs a supercharged 472 cubic-inch engine producing roughly 1,000 horsepower under a pearlescent orange-and-black finish. One commenter recognized himself standing next to it in the video and left a promise instead of a caption: “till death do us part.”
This 1967 Chevrolet Corvette wears a factory-correct Goodwood Green paint job, an original tank sticker, and over $150,000 in nut-and-bolt restoration work — but the drivetrain underneath sparked an immediate argument in the comments about whether it even counts as the engine everyone assumes it is. Built to satisfy both a concours judge and a cross-country road trip, this LS7-powered Corvette is chasing two very different goals at once. Watch to see how it pulls off both.
This ’67 Camaro is running a 454 big block Chevy never actually put in a first-gen car from the factory – the real number was a 396, and the 454 didn’t arrive until 1970, reserved for Chevelles and Corvettes. So how’d it end up here, supercharged and ready to embarrass cars three decades newer? Turns out builders have been chasing this exact combination for decades, and the reason why says everything about what muscle car fans really want.
The Ford F-100 spent 35 years working harder than almost anything else on the road, and along the way it beat every rival to a feature that’s now standard on every truck in America. From its surprise 1953 name change to the four-wheel-drive trick nobody else had yet, here’s why this half-ton hauler still owns every classic truck show it shows up to.
Chevrolet set out to build 50 lightweight, aluminum-bodied 1962 Impalas purely to dominate the NHRA drag strip, but a body-panel stamping problem cut the run to just 16 or 18 actual cars. The result, badge-coded Z-11, is one of the rarest regular-production Chevrolets ever built, backed by a Winternationals-winning pedigree. Read on to find out why this 409-powered homologation special never even offered an automatic transmission.
Built in the year everyone blames for killing the muscle car, this all-black 1971 Pontiac Firebird Formula 455 still hides real teeth: a 335-horse HO big block, 480 lb-ft of torque, and a heavy-duty three-speed for anyone who ordered it to be driven hard. Overshadowed by its Trans Am sibling’s spoilers and stripes, the Formula was and remains the second-gen Firebird’s best-kept sleeper secret.
Air Flow Research built V8BUILDS to answer a question every gearhead has quietly asked at a static car show: how would these things actually run? The autocross-and-show hybrid started small at Willow Springs International Raceway before outgrowing itself, and its next stop lands at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Classic muscle, resto-mods, pro touring builds, and V8-swapped imports are all welcome on the cone course — because at V8BUILDS, the only membership requirement is a V8 doing real work under the hood.
A plain-looking yellow two-door hides one of Mopar’s best-kept secrets: 1966 was the only year Plymouth let ordinary buyers order the legendary 426 Street Hemi in a Belvedere. Born out of a NASCAR homologation fight and rated at 425 horsepower, it turned a mid-size family car into a genuine street terror — and did it in staggeringly small numbers. Whether this particular car is running the real thing or just wearing the look, it’s a reminder that some of the era’s wildest engineering hid behind the most modest badges.
Growing up in the Pomona Valley during the early 1970s meant living down the block from guys who ran real Funny Cars and Top Fuel dragsters — rock stars, as far as any gearhead kid was concerned. The gasser look this 1969 Chevelle wears traces back to NHRA’s old Gas Coupe & Sedan classes, a straight-axle, nose-high style that had already faded from official competition by the time this car got built. SoCal builders never let it die, though, keeping the stance and the attitude alive as a backyard tradition long after the sanctioning bodies moved on.
The first Shelby Super Snake was a 600-horsepower one-off built to promote Goodyear tires, and Ford turned down the chance to put it into production. Four decades later, Shelby brought the name back as a real conversion program, and this Las Vegas-built GT500 is one of the results. Here is the story behind the badge.
Ford built its most hyped modern supercar around a V6, and asked buyers to trust the engineering. At Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, Lou Costabile caught one of the first production 2017 Ford GTs alongside Ford’s own performance marketing manager, who calls it the ultimate expression of form following function. The comments don’t fully agree, and one viewer even makes a detailed case for a 900-hp handmade rival that costs a fraction as much. Who’s right depends on what you think a supercar is actually for.
Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale week has a way of setting the tone for where muscle car money is headed each year, and 2017 was no exception. With 1,719 vehicles crossing the block and 40 sales records falling, the results revealed which corners of the market were heating up — and which classics were starting to share the spotlight with unexpected competition. A Shelby GT350 and a Boss 429 both cracked six figures, but the real headline was who else was cashing in.