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Former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz publicly said the Ford Mustang beats the Chevrolet Camaro on packaging and visibility, an unusually blunt admission from someone who once helped run Camaro’s own manufacturer. His criticism centered on the Camaro’s narrow greenhouse and awkward driving position rather than its performance credentials. Read on for why an industry veteran’s unfiltered opinion still carries weight in the pony car debate.
A stock 1966 Chevy Nova left the factory with roughly 100 horsepower — this one makes an estimated 2,200. Built around a ProCharger F-series centrifugal supercharger and a reinforced chassis, it’s proof that no muscle car platform stays forgettable once the right builder gets involved. Read on to find out what it takes to survive that much power.
V8Builds isn’t a park-and-wait car show — it’s built around an actual autocross course that turns spectators into participants. Its second installment at Auto Club Speedway pulled a bigger crowd and a deeper car count than ever before. Read on to find out what makes this format different from every other Saturday cruise-in.
This 1969 Camaro wears the Pro Street look in its purest form — a blower punching through the hood, tubbed rear wheels stuffed with wide slicks, and a 521-cubic-inch Hemi combination capable of mid-8-second quarter miles at close to 180 mph. Read on to find out what it actually takes to build one this aggressive.
Rutledge Wood’s ride for HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 was a white 1970 Dodge Charger with Petty Racing history: Kyle Petty bought it as a teenager and had its quarters widened by the Petty Enterprises fab shop, it passed to his son Austin, and it still carries its original 383 and four-speed. Wood added Wilwood brakes and a prototype RideTech StreetGrip suspension for a thousand miles of driving. Read on to find out why this Charger out-ranks nearly everything on the tour.
Ford’s Mustang and Chevrolet’s Camaro have been trading blows in garages and on race tracks for almost sixty years, ever since Ford’s 1964 debut caught Detroit completely off guard. What started as a sales race turned into genuine motorsport warfare through the Boss 302, Z/28, and COPO era, and neither side has ever fully settled the argument. Read on to find out how this rivalry has survived two near-death experiences and counting.
Ringbrothers didn’t just restore this 1966 Chevelle, they aimed a Whipple-supercharged LS7 making 980 horsepower at everything a stock A-body used to be. The build debuted at the 2014 SEMA Show wrapped in hand-laid carbon fiber and a custom color called “Sand Storm,” and it introduced an entirely new HRE wheel series along the way. Read on to find out what it actually took to earn a name like “Recoil.”
Rod Sheffar spent nearly twenty years hunting one specific combination of Pontiac hardware: a factory W72 four-speed Trans Am, no automatic substitutes accepted. When one finally surfaced on eBay from a seller three states away, there was exactly one acceptable response time. Read on to find out what a fifty-dollar option box made this car worth two decades of searching.
This 1962 Impala came to Jason Hill’s Lubbock, Texas shop already carrying a stalled build, a 502 big block from an owner who ran out of money before he ran out of ambition. Hill pulled the big-inch engine entirely and went a smarter direction, and the result earned a spot at SEMA 2015 after twelve straight years of builds from his shop. Read on to find out why less displacement turned out to be the right call.
The first Ford Mustang ever built was not even supposed to leave the dealership. A Newfoundland airline pilot bought it three days before launch, and Ford spent two years trying to talk him into giving it back. Read on for the accidental sale, the name that almost wasn’t Mustang, and the front-wheel-drive platform switch that almost happened decades later.
The Chevrolet 3100 was never meant to be a showpiece — it was a farm truck, built for hauling feed and fence posts, not turning heads on a Saturday night. This 1951 custom takes that humble half-ton and reworks it into something its original buyer never could have imagined. Read on to find out what makes the Advance Design generation such a favorite starting point for custom truck builders.
A Corvette racing a three-row family SUV sounds like an easy call on paper, but the 2006-2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 hid a 420-horsepower Hemi under its ordinary sheet metal that made the outcome far closer than the horsepower numbers suggest. Between the LS2’s 4.1-second 0-60 time, the SRT8’s nearly ton-and-a-half weight disadvantage, and a four-wheel-drive launch advantage, this matchup has more layers than a typical drag strip mismatch. Read on to find out which car actually crosses the line first.
Adam Kappell’s radiant green 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Type LT RS pairs a track-focused performance package with Chevrolet’s plushest available trim, a combination most Z/28 buyers that year skipped entirely. With only 11,574 Z/28s built out of nearly 97,000 total Camaros for 1973, the odds of finding one dressed in luxury-level Type LT trim get slim fast. Read on to find out just how rare this particular build really is.
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra carries Ford’s rare $155 Drag Pack option and a story that runs deeper than any spec sheet — passed down through Troy’s family after his father was killed in one of three identical Torinos he once owned. Read on to find out what made the Drag Pack version a genuine 13-second car, and just how few of them survive today.
Somebody spotted drain holes drilled right beside a Shelby GT350’s exhaust tips and couldn’t leave it alone online — the kind of detail that looks like a factory oversight until you remember Ford doesn’t do anything to its most exotic V8 by accident. The Voodoo 5.2-liter engine’s flat-plane crankshaft lets it rev to 8,250 rpm and make 526 horsepower without a turbo in sight. Read on to find out why those holes are there on purpose.