Posts By: Kiril
A 1967 Chevrolet Corvair convertible and a 1986 Pontiac Fiero don’t look like they belong in the same conversation, but both cars broke GM’s own rulebook and paid for it. One got buried by Ralph Nader, the other by its own recall history. Here’s a closer look at which car actually took the bigger engineering risk, and why the answer isn’t the one most people assume.
Mark Wickens went looking for a Mini or a Mitsubishi Lancer in 2015 and drove home with production number 1638 of Ford’s Shelby GT run instead. Finished in black with a silver stripe, this numbered Mustang carries a genuine ‘Powered by Ford’ badge that separates it from tuner-built imitators, a detail collectors increasingly treat as a mark of long-term value. Nearly two decades later, this accidental find is still turning heads outside a Scottsdale burger joint. See why an economy-car search ended somewhere else entirely.
A 2005-2009 Mustang wearing a Cervini’s C-Series Eleanor tribute kit isn’t just a hood and some scoops — it’s a genuine side-exhaust system borrowed from a movie car that never existed as a real Shelby. Here’s what separates a tastefully built S197 tribute from a costume, why the side pipes matter more than the styling, and what a car like this is actually worth next to the real thing.
All Speed Customs skipped the Hemi entirely on this 1971 Plymouth Barracuda, dropping a V-10 and a paddle-shift transmission into a body reworked with custom modifications, silver paint, and red accents. The build, nicknamed Medusa, stopped traffic at the 2017 Detroit Autorama with a back-seat ‘wall of sound’ audio system and a fully custom interior. One viewer said it belonged in the Louvre. See why this Cuda broke every rule a numbers-matching restoration would follow.
In January 2017, the Detroit auto show had to share the headlines with an FBI arrest, a billion-dollar penalty, and a federal Notice of Violation. Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt was detained at a Florida airport over Dieselgate, Takata agreed to pay $1 billion for its deadly airbag inflators, and the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of undisclosed emissions software on roughly 104,000 diesel trucks and SUVs. Why should muscle car fans care about any of it? Read on for what those three scandals say about the industry that builds the cars we love.
Chevrolet redesigned nearly every panel on the 1969 Camaro and still pushed production to 243,085 units, the highest the first generation would ever see, thanks in part to an SS lineup offering four genuinely different engines — plus a separate, non-SS COPO 427 special order for buyers willing to skip the badge entirely. Read on to find out what’s likely hiding under this hood.
A phone call in 1966 about a yellow Charger sitting on a used car lot in Shelby, North Carolina started a story that kept one car in the same family for 40 years, 20 of them spent parked on a lift. It was the Charger’s very first model year, introduced with rotating hidden headlights that had not appeared on a Chrysler product since the early 1940s. Only 468 of the 37,344 cars built that year left with a Hemi.