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A widebody Mustang notchback render from designer Chris Cyrulewski went looking for investors instead of a dealership, landing right in the middle of a niche that’s been building momentum for years. The notchback body style has quietly become a favorite canvas for exactly this kind of aggressive, tuner-inspired transformation. Read on to find out where the widebody look actually comes from, and why concept renders like this one shape real garage builds.
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 reached 0-60 in the high 3-second range using nothing but a naturally aspirated 460-horsepower V8 and a new 10-speed automatic transmission’s Drag Strip mode. That number matched cars costing far more just a few years earlier, without a supercharger or turbocharger anywhere under the hood. Read on to see how the transmission, not just the engine, made the difference.
ScottieDTV’s teaser shows exactly one thing: an 850 horsepower second-gen Camaro backing out of Greening Auto Company, no burnout, no dyno pull, just an engine note loud enough that commenters said it “almost spilt my drink.” A full feature was promised for the following week, and the reaction here proves the wait is already killing fans. Watch the clip to hear what has second-gen Camaro owners this worked up.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT pairs a 475-horsepower 6.4-liter HEMI V8 with an 8,700-pound tow rating, a combination no other three-row SUV in its class attempts. Dodge’s engineers built a family hauler that reaches 60 mph in roughly 4.4 seconds while still handling weekend towing duty without missing a beat. Read on to see how a vehicle built for cargo and carpools ended up outrunning dedicated sports cars.
The 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T could be ordered with four completely different V8s, from a torque-heavy 383 Magnum all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi — and each one sounded nothing like the others. Only a few hundred Hemi and Six Pack cars were ever built. Read on to find out which engine actually made the best case for itself.
The fastback body style gave the first-generation Mustang its most dramatic profile, and pairing it with the GT package in 1966 created one of the most desirable combinations Ford ever offered on the platform. This example carries both. Read on to find out why the fastback GT still commands a premium over its hardtop and convertible siblings nearly six decades later.
Most movie cars end up crushed or locked in a studio vault the second filming wraps. This one didn’t. A flame-spitting 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible, built for a role in XXX: Return of Xander Cage, showed up available to rent through Turo — and underneath the prop flamethrower rig sits a genuine, documented HO-engine GTO from the last year before Tri-Power disappeared. Read on to find out what makes this particular movie car a real piece of muscle car history.
Dodge built a real consequence into the Demon’s production line: sell at MSRP and your customer’s car rolls off early with a coveted low serial number, mark it up and you go to the back of the queue. One Florida dealer tested that system anyway, and the story spread fast. Read on to find out whether Dodge’s serial-number leverage actually worked.
This 1972 Pontiac Trans Am wears Cameo White paint, a saddle interior, and a 455 H.O. under the hood — but the real story is how few cars like it Pontiac managed to build at all. A 174-day strike at the Norwood, Ohio plant gutted that year’s production, and only 458 of the 1,286 Trans Ams built came with this car’s four-speed manual. Read on to find out how a labor dispute turned an ordinary model year into one of the rarest in Trans Am history.
This 1960 Buick Invicta convertible still carries its original 401 cubic-inch Nailhead V8, a genuine 325-horsepower engine Buick built for buyers who wanted real performance without admitting they wanted a hot rod. The nickname that followed the Invicta around, “the banker’s hot rod,” captures exactly the contradiction between its respectable badge and what was actually happening under the hood. Read on to find out what made this quietly powerful Buick tick.
Take a genuine 1968 Dodge Coronet, strip off the rear wheels, and bolt on a pair of snowmobile tracks, and you get a machine that shouldn’t work but somehow does. This half-track conversion trades quarter-mile bragging rights for the ability to plow through drifts most trucks wouldn’t attempt, built by a hobbyist working almost entirely from scratch. Half-track conversions have a strange, scattered history in American car culture — finding one wearing a genuine muscle car body is rarer still. Read on to find out what makes this build so unusual.
Judy and Jim Scott’s 1969 Mustang Mach 1 wears a shade of blue Ford almost never offered, and the hours Judy spends polishing every inch of it — from the undercarriage to the interior — show in every panel. Read on to find out where Grabber Blue actually came from, and what separates a genuine show winner from a car that only looks the part.
Chevrolet never offered a factory 454 in its half-ton C10 trucks — the 402 big block, marketed under the ‘400’ badge, was as large as a 1972 short-bed buyer could order from the factory. That makes this 454-powered C10, built in the final year before the second-generation trucks were redesigned for 1973, a documented swap rather than an original build sheet, and a genuinely quick one at that. Read on to find out what it actually takes to fit a passenger-car big block into a half-ton truck built for something much milder.
Built by Bonnell’s Rod Shop out of Fairview, Pennsylvania, this 1968 Camaro restomod called the ‘Impulse’ has made multiple appearances on the SEMA show floor and was headed to auction through Mecum. Every bespoke detail was engineered to make the car look as fast as it actually is. Read on to find out what separates a build like this from the rest.