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Everyone remembers the Mustang and Camaro when the pony car wars of the late 1960s come up, but the Mercury Cougar XR-7 quietly out-luxuried both of them. This 1969 example paired leather upholstery and a walnut-toned dash with the option to order the same 428 Cobra Jet terrorizing dragstrips in Ford’s own cars that year. Read on to find out what made Mercury’s gentleman’s muscle car a genuine performance threat hiding behind upscale trim.
David Reese built this 1966 Ford Mustang Gasser back in 2013, and it still runs its 351 Cleveland exactly the way a period-correct gasser should. What makes War Horse unusual isn’t the raised nose or the drag strip runs — it’s that its owner has actually driven it cross-country on public roads. Watch to see how a dedicated race car earns that kind of mileage.
Ford sold nearly 300,000 Mustangs in 1969, but only about 1 in 20 buyers chose the convertible, and this quad-headlight droptop shows exactly why survivors like it turn heads at every show. From the compact straight six all the way up to the thunderous 428 Cobra Jet, the ’69 convertible offered something for every kind of buyer willing to pay the premium. Here’s what made this body style the rare bird of Ford’s restyled Mustang.
This 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner packs a 390-cubic-inch V8 that could be optioned up to 401 horsepower on paper, paired with a stripped-down three-on-the-tree manual and no power assist anywhere. Years before anyone used the phrase ‘muscle car,’ Ford was already quietly building the ingredients for one. Read on to find out what driving a full-size Ford built this way actually felt like.
This race-prepped Camaro isn’t just for sale, it’s a rolling piece of the pony car war Chevrolet started on purpose. When reporters asked what ‘Camaro’ meant, Chevy’s famous answer was ‘a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs,’ and the rivalry that followed pushed both brands into a genuine horsepower arms race. Decades later, this car still runs like it has something to prove.
In This Is Us, Jack Pearson sells his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle to help buy the family house, a moment that stings more once you know what he gave up. 1970 was the peak year for the SS Chevelle, when the big block grew to a true 402 cubic inches behind the familiar 396 badge and the LS6 454 topped the range. Read on to find out why the show’s choice of car says more about Jack than any line of dialogue.
This widebody Dodge Viper claims a title most builders wouldn’t dare chase: the only air-bagged, wide-body Viper anywhere. With a claimed 1,200 horsepower packed into a chassis never designed for that kind of power, it’s part show car, part street brawler. Here’s what it actually takes to make a build like this work.
A 650-horsepower Camaro isn’t supposed to out-lap a Ferrari 488 GTB, a McLaren MP4-12C, and a Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring, but that’s exactly what the 2018 ZL1 1LE did, running a 7:16.04 with an ALMS driver behind the wheel. Multimatic’s adjustable DSSV dampers and a genuinely track-tuned aero package back up the number. At ,995, it embarrasses cars costing three times as much.
Plymouth never built a 1971 Superbird – NASCAR’s rule changes killed the aero-car program before it could happen. Gary and Pam Beimke built one anyway, working from documentation for a prototype 1971 Daytona to complete their own tribute in 2001, followed by a matching Superbird in 2003. Add a sunroof and a Hemi and you’ve got one of the more unusual builds on the Mopar show circuit. Here’s the real story behind the Superbird that was never supposed to exist.
A nitrous-huffing, LS-swapped Chevelle showing up to Pure Street class and out-running the big-block faithful is the kind of pass that starts arguments in the pits. Pure Street doesn’t care what’s under the hood — DOT tires, a full interior, and a car that drives itself home are the only requirements — which is exactly why a swap turning real numbers there matters. We dig into what makes these small-block conversions competitive and how nitrous is closing the gap on traditional big-block combinations.
Dodge’s Domestic. Not Domesticated. campaign sent a Challenger up an ice-covered Alaskan mountain road and dared the snow belt to keep parking its muscle cars every winter. The star of the 30-second spot is the 2017 Challenger GT, the first all-wheel-drive muscle coupe sold in America, with a 305-horsepower Pentastar V6 and a front-axle disconnect that keeps it rear-drive until the roads turn slick. The ad’s Russia joke gets the laugh, but the engineering underneath is what makes the claim hold up. Read on to see how it works.
A blue 1969 Camaro, a first-gen Nova, a ’66 Chevelle, and a full-size Oldsmobile all take their turn peeling out of the same Cars & Coffee lot — and the comments make clear which exits actually earned the crowd’s respect. Two moments around the 1:02 and 3:20 marks draw the loudest reaction. Watch to see which car nailed the send-off best.
The five-figure muscle car market has cooled at the top, but the real action right now is happening under $10,000 — a corner of the hobby where second-tier icons like fourth-gen Dodge Chargers, Mercury Cougars, and even AMC Matadors are quietly building a following. We look at which overlooked classics are still genuinely affordable, and why a growing appetite for vintage trucks and SUVs is reshaping where collector money goes next.
A blue Chevelle sitting in a used-car lot doesn’t look like much until you check what’s under the hood. Chevrolet’s 1970 SS454 came in two flavors, and only one of them, the solid-lifter LS6, earned real muscle car legend status. Fewer than 4,500 Chevelles ever left the factory with this engine, out of over 62,000 SS models built that year. Here’s why that scarcity still makes collectors stop in their tracks.