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This Plymouth Gran Fury spent its factory life as a police interceptor, running a durable 440 big-block built for pursuit duty rather than bragging rights. A tunnel-ram intake punching through the hood has since turned that quiet workhorse into a full-blown street machine. Read on to find out what made the factory engine special in the first place.
Chrysler built the Barracuda and Challenger from the same E-body platform in 1970, sharing every engine up to the 426 Hemi between them, yet a documented Hemi ‘Cuda convertible now outsells a comparable Challenger by a wide margin at major auctions. Both nameplates died together in 1974, but only one came back. Read on to find out which E-body actually earned the bragging rights.
This 1970 Chevelle SS454 isn’t just numbers-matching — it’s optioned with the range-topping 450-horsepower LS6, finished in special-order Hugger Orange, and believed by its owner to be one of the very first LS6 Chevelles built. Commenters are already calling it the greatest American muscle car ever produced. It’s easy to see why: the engine, the color, and the production story all point toward the same rare car. Watch the full walkaround to see the documentation behind the claim.
The Hot Rod Super Nationals has been bringing muscle cars and hot rods to the Canfield Fairgrounds since 1987, and after a decade-long detour to Quaker City Motorsports Park, it’s been back home since 2016. With attendance topping 30,000 over a three-day weekend and collectors driving in from as far as California, this is one of the Ohio Valley’s genuine car culture institutions – right down to the Saturday night cruise into Boardman.
This 1966 Ford Mustang 289 convertible looks like every other first-generation droptop until you read the fifth character of its VIN. Ford offered the 289 three completely different ways that year, from a mild 200-horsepower two-barrel to the solid-lifter 271-horsepower K-code, and the cars are visually identical from the curb. Only 72,119 convertibles were built out of 607,568 Mustangs. Read on to find out what separates a cruiser from a genuine performance car.
A turquoise 1967 Nova wagon isn’t supposed to be the fastest thing at Drag Week, but a 540 cubic-inch twin-turbo big-block turned this family hauler into a seven-second wheelie machine. It even kept its air conditioning running for the long highway stints between tracks, unlike most dedicated race cars. Read on to see how the build actually pulled it off day after day.
The 1969 Dodge Charger and Super Bee shared Chrysler’s B-body bones but chased two completely different buyers — one wanted a boulevard cruiser, the other wanted the cheapest ticket to a 13-second quarter mile. A mid-year option turned the budget car into the one that actually embarrassed its fancier sibling at the strip. Read on to see how the math worked out.
Red on red isn’t a subtle color combination, and neither was Ford’s 1967 decision to finally give the Mustang a genuine big-block option. The GT390 changed the whole equation, turning a good-looking pony car into a real muscle car overnight. Read on to find out what made the S-code cars rare, and why this exact color combination still turns heads more than half a century later.
This 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS hides a 427 big-block under sheet metal most people assume belongs to a plain family car. Built during GM’s most dominant era in the U.S. market, it proves the company’s full-size lineup could hit just as hard as its dedicated muscle cars. Read on to see which 427 option actually made it special.
The Dodge Durango SRT drops a 475-horsepower HEMI V8 into a three-row family SUV, launching to 60 mph in about 4.4 seconds while still hauling six passengers and their gear. It became America’s fastest three-row SUV the moment it arrived, and an even wilder version followed. Read on to see why it belongs in muscle car conversations.
Mercury built the Cougar Eliminator to answer a question nobody asked out loud: could the plush, buttoned-down Cougar throw a punch like a Boss Mustang? With engine options running from a workable 351 to a 428 Cobra Jet, and production numbers this thin, finding one today is harder than most people think. Read on to find out what actually made this muscle cat rare.
Pikes Peak doesn’t just test a car’s speed — it tests brakes, cooling systems, driver nerve, and the thinning mountain air itself. This 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda took on more than twelve miles of switchbacks during the 90th running of one of the oldest motorsport events in America. Read on to find out what it actually takes for a street-bred muscle car to survive a mountain built to break machinery.
Plymouth’s Lemon Twist paint code paired with a 426 Hemi and a four-speed manual makes for one of the rarest combinations in the entire muscle car world — a car so scarce that most Mopar fans will never see one in person. Read on to find out just how few of these actually left the factory, and why that number keeps shrinking the more you dig.
The Chevrolet Camaro was born out of a joke-filled 1966 press conference and an urgent need to answer Ford’s two-year head start with the Mustang. Six generations, one long production gap, and a homologation-special Trans-Am engine later, the rivalry it started still hasn’t cooled off fifty years on. Read on for the full story behind the badge.
Gabriel Henaut grew up the son of a mechanic in France, cutting his teeth on Mk1 Volkswagen Golfs before deciding an American V8 was worth chasing down despite feeling like pure fantasy. Petrolicious follows his search across the Atlantic and the 1973 Chevrolet Camaro that ended up living permanently in the French countryside. Watch the full story to see why more than one viewer said it brought them to tears.