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The Camaro was born as Chevy’s rushed answer to the Ford Mustang, rolling off the line months ahead of schedule just to compete. Fifty years, six generations, and more than five million cars later, it has become an American institution in its own right. Here’s how Chevrolet marked the milestone, and how a car built to catch up ended up setting the pace.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang GT found an extra 25 horsepower and, more importantly, a 10-speed automatic smart enough to hold torque straight through every shift. Combined with the Performance Package’s grippier tires, that Drag Strip mode dropped the GT’s 0-60 time to a genuinely shocking 3.9 seconds. Here’s how a bone-stock Mustang joined the sub-4-second club.
ScottieDTV caught this 1971 Chevrolet Camaro backing out of Greening Auto Company’s shop, and the sound alone explains why the clip outlasted the full feature it was teasing. Under the hood sits a build pushing roughly 850 horsepower, numbers that turn a stock second-gen Camaro into something closer to a street-legal race car. The full story behind the build was only a week away when this was filmed. Turn your volume up and see what all the noise is about.
Dodge took the 392 HEMI out of the Challenger, dropped it into a three-row family SUV, and somehow built something that drives like a Charger wearing a taller body. With 475 horsepower, a near-perfect weight balance, and a genuine Track drive mode, the 2018 Durango SRT proves a family hauler does not have to feel like one. Here’s what makes it work.
1966 marked the final year of the original Mustang fastback body style before Ford’s bigger 1967 redesign changed the car for good. This Springtime Yellow GT, with its black stripes and black interior, wears that shape about as well as any Mustang from the era. Here’s the story behind the last call for one of the most iconic silhouettes in American car history.
This 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible spent its screen time flame-throwing its way through XXX: Return of Xander Cage, and now you can rent it through Turo instead of a soon-to-be-salvage-title Corvette. Underneath the movie rig sits a genuine slice of GTO history, built the same year Pontiac swapped Tri-Power for a single four-barrel and pushed its optional HO 400 to 360 horsepower. Only a fraction of the 81,722 GTOs built that year got that engine.
With only 840 horsepower and a strictly limited production run, the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was always going to tempt dealers into gouging customers. Dodge fought back by tying serial numbers to fair pricing, sell at MSRP and get a low number, mark it up and get pushed to the back of the line. Here’s how the plan worked, and where it fell short.
A crippling 174-day strike at GM’s Norwood plant made the 1972 Trans Am one of the lowest-production years in the model’s history, and only 458 of the 1,286 built that year came with a 4-speed manual. This Cameo White example is one of them, running the 455 H.O. that carried the Trans Am through a genuinely wild year for Pontiac. Here’s the story behind one of the most overlooked rare Trans Ams out there.
Buick never called the Invicta a muscle car, but a 325-horsepower 401 Nailhead V8 under a “respectable” full-size body earned it the nickname “the banker’s hot rod” anyway. This 1960 convertible still wears its original engine, a rare survivor of one of the more understated performance stories in American car history. Here’s why this Buick deserves way more credit than it usually gets.
Someone looked at a 1968 Dodge Coronet, a car built to run the quarter-mile, and decided it needed snowmobile tracks instead of rear tires. The result is a genuinely strange half-track muscle car built to plow through snow no set of tires could handle. Here’s why this kind of oddball conversion is rarer than it sounds, and why it still deserves a look.
Buick built north of 33,000 Rivieras in 1971, but only 3,175 wore the Gran Sport package that added a 455 V8, heavy-duty suspension, and real performance hardware under that polarizing boattail body. Add a rarely-ordered option like factory cornering lights, and you land on a car that’s uncommon within an already uncommon build. It’s proof that the interesting story on a boattail Riviera often lives in the option boxes, not just the sheet metal.
This 1969 Mustang Mach 1 wears one of Ford rarest late-1960s colors, a High-Impact blue that turned pony cars into rolling statements. Behind the paint is a labor-of-love build, kept show-ready by owners who treat every detailing session like it matters. Find out what made the Mach 1 Ford answer to the pony car wars, and why this shade of blue still stops people in their tracks.
A 454 big block wasn’t exactly standard equipment in a 1972 Chevy C10 half-ton — which is what makes a short-bed example running one such a fun find. This truck represents the last model year of Chevy’s second-generation C/K design before a full redesign took over, and it’s wearing a whole lot more muscle than it ever did from the factory. Here’s why these unassuming work trucks make some of the best hot rod builds around.
This isn’t your average ’68 Camaro. It’s the ‘Impulse,’ a bespoke restomod built by Bonnell’s Rod Shop that’s made multiple appearances on the SEMA show floor. Every panel and detail was chased down to make the car look as fast parked as it is on the road. Built to head to auction through Mecum, it’s the kind of build that turns heads even in a room full of Camaros.