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Dominator’s 1967 Dodge Dart built its Street Outlaws reputation on a nitrous-fed Hemi, but owner Joe Woods eventually tore that combination out for something far more extreme. The car’s current heart is a 632 cubic-inch big-block Chevrolet paired with twin 88mm turbochargers, a serious departure from its Mopar roots. Here’s why a Dart built for nitrous ended up running a turbocharged Chevy engine instead.
George Hansen has owned this 1957 Ford Thunderbird since 2012, the final model year before Ford permanently retired the two-seat T-Bird concept for a four-seat redesign. Under the hood is a 312 cubic-inch V8 that Ford also offered in a rare supercharged F-code version built fewer than 250 times. It was the two-seat Thunderbird’s best-selling year ever, right before its identity changed forever.
The 2013 Shelby GT500 didn’t just raise the bar for Mustang performance — it obliterated it, launching with the most powerful production V8 America had ever built and a top speed that flirted with 200 mph. Here’s how Ford and Shelby turned a pony car into a genuine supercar-hunter, and why this generation still commands so much respect among enthusiasts today.
Dodge’s teaser for the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon leaned hard on one idea: cold air, not just fuel and fire, makes a supercharged muscle car dangerous. It turned out to be true — the finished car delivered 840 horsepower, a 9.65-second quarter mile, and drag-racing hardware like a TransBrake and aerospace-grade driveline. Here’s how a teaser built around air intake predicted one of the most extreme muscle cars ever sold.
This Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT Fastback carries twelve MCA National Titles and two National Grand Championships — an unusually decorated record for a car that, in period, actually sold worse than the plain hardtop. 1968 was a pivotal year for the GT, with a mid-year Cobra Jet engine option and new safety features arriving almost unannounced. Here’s what made this particular model year, and this particular car, stand out.
Restoring a classic 1966 Ford Mustang’s metal body means avoiding chemical dips that can hide in seams and ruin fresh paint later, which is where coal-based media blasting comes in. Black Diamond, a branded coal slag product, cuts faster and cleaner than raw coal slag, though the abrasive isn’t without its own health tradeoffs. For delicate panels, shops often step down to gentler media like walnut shells instead.
Pontiac built 3,797 GTO Judge models in 1970, but only 168 were convertibles, and just a small slice of those carried the range-topping Ram Air IV engine. Depending on which production records you check, surviving examples of this exact four-speed, Judge, Ram Air IV convertible combination number somewhere in the single digits. It’s a car whose rarity even collectors and historians don’t fully agree on down to the exact count.
The 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe RST pairs a 420-horsepower, 460-lb-ft 6.2-liter V8 with a 10-speed automatic shared with the Camaro ZL1, hitting 60 mph in a claimed 5.7 seconds while still towing up to 8,300 pounds. Choosing that engine also unlocks Magnetic Ride Control, plus optional Borla exhaust and Brembo brakes. It’s proof Chevy is willing to loan its performance parts bin to the family truck.
Justin’s Procharged Chevrolet Corvette C7 debuted at Street Car Takeover’s 2016 Phoenix season opener running 10-second quarter-mile passes on boost alone, with no nitrous involved. As co-owner of the event series, he built the car to be a genuine daily driver, not a trailer queen, working through several early teardowns before the ProCharger F-1A setup held together reliably. It’s proof a stock-bodied C7 can live a double life.
1969 was the best sales year yet for the C3 Corvette, with nearly 39,000 built across ten factory colors. Most buyers stuck with the standard 350 or one of the 427 big-block options, but a rare few ordered the 430-horsepower L88 — only 116 built — or the almost mythical ZL1, of which just two were ever made. On a Shark-era Corvette like this one, color and engine code together tell the real story.
At the 2016 Goodguys Nashville Nationals, more than 2,500 hot rods, muscle cars, and customs filled the infield at Nashville Superspeedway for a weekend billed as “America’s Favorite Car Show.” The event doubles as a proving ground through the Tanks, Inc. Hot Rod of the Year competition, which includes a 100-mile reliability run on real roads. Closing time brings its own reward, when hundreds of engines fire up at once for the drive home.
Chevrolet’s supercharged Corvette ZR1 and a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet aren’t supposed to be in the same conversation, let alone the same race. With 638 horsepower and a 3.3-second 0-60 time, the “Blue Devil” actually had a shot in a short sprint to 100 mph, even against a jet capable of Mach 1.8. Motor Trend got rare clearance to find out which one actually got there first.
Seven 1970 Dodge Challengers were built for one Quentin Tarantino stunt sequence in Death Proof, most of which didn’t survive filming intact. This surviving example, dents and all, was imported from the U.S. and is now legally registered on the road in Finland. Its onscreen rival wasn’t a Challenger at all, but a matte black 1969 Dodge Charger R/T driven by Kurt Russell’s villain.
A Top Fuel dragster’s clutch has no pedal and no electronics deciding how it grips — just centrifugally-thrown weighted fingers, a device called the cannon, and washers weighed out in grams. Rebuilt after nearly every single run, the pack can hit 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit and sometimes partially welds itself together by the finish line. It’s the analog answer to sending 11,000 horsepower down a quarter mile in under four seconds.