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A heavily built Ford Falcon XY GT crossed the traps at 200.74 mph in Sydney’s 275 Tire class, a number its own video title undersold as nearly 200. Built by Dandy Engineering, one of Australia’s most respected drag shops, the run has become a reference point for Falcon fans years later. Watch to see American power and Australian engineering meet at the top end.
When Rich Sperling bought this 1959 Pontiac Catalina in 1991, the Wisconsin seller practically talked him out of it, insisting nobody around wanted a Pontiac over a Chevy. More than three decades later, Sperling still owns the Silver Mist Sport Sedan, complete with its original four-on-the-tree manual transmission. Watch to hear the full story behind a car nearly nobody wanted.
Dodge spent twelve separate teaser videos building up to the Challenger SRT Demon, and this installment hinted at something no factory muscle car had claimed before: a car sold with its own crate of drag strip tools. The Demon arrived with drag radials, a transbrake, and a horsepower figure that required a trip to the race gas pump. Read on to find out how far Dodge actually went to back up the “dual purpose” claim.
Somewhere in Australia sits a 1976 Ford Falcon XB coupe that answers to a name most owners would never give their car: XBOSS. The XB hardtop is the shape that gave Australia its own muscle car identity, put a Falcon in one of the most famous movies ever made, and then vanished from the lineup almost as quickly as it arrived. Read on to find out why a two-door Falcon still commands this kind of reverence half a century later.
Carroll Shelby did not turn the Mustang into a race car with horsepower. He did it with a rulebook technicality so blunt that the first cars had a spare tire bolted where the back seat used to be, purely so the SCCA would classify them as two-seat sports cars. That trick launched three straight championships and a car that is now essentially unobtainable. Read on for how it actually worked.
Shelby put the words King of the Road on a 1968 Mustang, which is the kind of claim that requires backing up. It got a different engine than the GT500 it replaced, a reinforced chassis, and for one single model year, a convertible body. Finding one of those droptops under decades of barn dust is the sort of discovery that ends with a phone call to a registry. Here is why it matters.
Justin Bieber’s Ferrari was just one of many high-profile cars at this Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale sale, alongside NASCAR and Hollywood names on hand for the show. The event traces back to a 1967 local car show turned annual auction empire. Here is how it grew, and why some of the cars on the block that day were not for profit at all.
Chevrolet needed a name for its answer to the Mustang, and when a reporter finally asked what it meant, the general manager did not consult a dictionary. He described a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs, and car people have been repeating it ever since. The real story involves two thousand rejected words, a French term that does not quite exist, and a codename that got thrown away.
A turquoise 1964 Chevrolet Biscayne turned heads at a Bedford Park, Illinois car show, but the story behind it is what kept viewers watching. Owner Alex Levesque runs the Automotive Mentor Group, a restoration shop that also works to give former gang members a real second chance. One viewer’s own $150 Biscayne story from 1974 says everything about how far this car has come. Watch the full segment to see it.
From the outside it reads as a pearl orange Plymouth Cuda with a Hemi under the shaker, which is already a serious thing to own. Look through the driver’s window and the story changes completely, because the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Schwartz Performance built this E-body for an owner in India, and moving the wheel turned out to be the smallest part of the job. Read on to find out what had to move with it.
A pearl white Firebird GTA with a Buick-derived V6 and two turbochargers strapped to it is not the combination anyone expects to see running quarter-mile times that embarrass big-blocks. But Buick spent the 1980s proving that a boosted six could humiliate V8s, and this Firebird is what happens when someone takes that lesson to its logical extreme. Here is why the engine everyone dismissed keeps winning.
Plymouth gave the ‘Cuda its quad-headlight face and fender gills for exactly one model year, and that year happened to be the one where insurance companies and emissions rules finally caught up with the muscle car business. Order it with three two-barrel carburetors on a 440 and you were buying the last of something. Barely two hundred and fifty people did. Read on for why 1971 closed the book.
A restored red 1972 Plymouth Barracuda looks the part, but 1972 was the year Chrysler’s biggest engines vanished from the order sheet entirely. The Hemi and the 440 Six-Pack were both gone, leaving the 340 as the top option at 240 horsepower under the new SAE net standard. Production fell hard, and the heavy-duty hardware disappeared alongside the engines. Read on to find out what changed and why the last E-bodies still matter.
Bobby Alloway brought this 1965 Buick Riviera to the 2016 SEMA Show looking almost stock from twenty feet away, which is exactly the trick. Underneath the unchanged sheet metal sits a Chevrolet 502 big block, a Tremec five-speed, an Art Morrison front clip, and Billet Specialties wheels measuring 19 inches front and 22 rear. The original Nailhead V8 is nowhere to be found. Read on to find out what makes this build work.
The dream of a low-buck muscle car bargain is still alive at every car show, and so are the stories of buyers who chased it home only to find rust, a mismatched engine, or a title problem. This article walks through why genuine bargains are so rare now, the checks that expose a bad deal before money changes hands, the costs that never appear on the sale sticker, and the one situation where a cheap muscle car is actually the smart buy. Read on to find out how to tell the difference.