Posts By: Kiril
A 1934 Ford coupe wearing the bones of a wrecked sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 has no business working as well as it does. The donor brought a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4, magnetic dampers, and Brembo brakes to a body shell built when Ford’s best V8 made 85 horsepower. The nickname Road Kill R came from how the parts were sourced. Read on to find out why this particular pairing splits the hot rod world down the middle.
The same man has owned this 1955 Chevrolet for forty-one years. Nine of those years went into a build that started out as a drag car and quietly turned into something else entirely, ending up with 1,250 horsepower, a fully custom interior, and a father-and-son story attached to it. The Pro Street stance it wears is not a random styling choice. Read on to find out what it is actually quoting.
Ford built the third-generation “Bullet Bird” Thunderbird for only three model years, and 1963 was the last of them. Of the 63,313 built that year, just 5,913 were convertibles, powered by a 390 FE making 300 horsepower and 427 lb-ft and backed exclusively by an automatic. It was never intended to race anything, and that was entirely the point. Read on to find out what Ford was really building here.
FCA filed a trademark on the Cuda name, and the easy reaction was to dismiss it as routine housekeeping. What made this one worth a second look was the filing classification covering badges and decals, plus the fact that the company had already trademarked Barracuda a couple of years earlier. Two filings in a row is a pattern, not paperwork. Here is what the name is worth, and what would have to happen for it to return.
A 1964 Dodge Polara doesn’t usually headline a muscle car video, but a 440 cubic-inch big block fed by dual Edelbrock quads, a 4-speed manual, and a Dana 60 rear end change that equation fast. Southern-car rust history and a seller’s unusually honest paint rating round out a listing built for buyers who read spec sheets, not just headlines. See why this overlooked full-size Mopar is drawing serious attention.
Lokar’s Muscle Car Shifter Knob is built to replicate the look and feel of a factory GM shifter closely enough to fool most people at a car show, and it won SEMA’s award for Best New Interior Accessory Product. The install is straightforward but order-dependent: the shifter has to be in Park, the set screw inside the knob has to stay untouched, and the adapter housing has to be held steady while tightening. Here’s exactly how to avoid the mistakes first-timers usually make.
ScottieDTV found this 1966 Chevrolet Caprice at the 2017 NSRA Street Rod Nationals South in Knoxville, and the mods are almost invisible — a seamlessly grafted Big Block Chevelle hood, a Ridetech air suspension that lays the car nearly on the ground, and a Tuned Port Injection 350 under the hood. It’s a full-size cruiser built with more restraint than flash, and the comment section calls it one of the best Caprice builds anyone’s seen. Watch to see the details up close.
A 1982 Corvette showing up in Iceland is far less strange than it sounds once you know what that model year actually was. It was the last C3 ever built, the first Corvette with electronic fuel injection, the only one offered exclusively with an automatic, and, as a Collector Edition, the first to break $20,000 and the first with an opening rear hatch. Chevrolet built 25,407 of them. Read on to find out why it deserves a second look.
The car chases people still talk about have one thing in common: almost nothing about them was faked. Real drivers, real streets, real risk, and in several cases real crashes that stayed in the final cut. From a 1968 Mustang tearing through San Francisco to a Peterbilt stalking a Plymouth Valiant through the desert, here is what made each of these sequences work and why CGI has never quite replaced them.
For most of the 1950s, one horsepower per cubic inch was the number Detroit chased and rarely caught. Chevrolet got there in 1957 with a 283 cubic-inch small block, Rochester mechanical fuel injection, and a solid-lifter camshaft, wrapped in a Bel Air Sport Coupe most buyers ordered for the two-tone paint. Roughly 1,530 Chevrolets left the factory that year with the option. Read on to find out why almost nobody checked the box.
Tom Scarpello ran Ford’s Special Vehicle Team from 1998 to 2004, then founded a company to answer the question he kept hearing at car shows: why not just build the original Mustang again? Revology does not restore old cars. It builds new ones on officially licensed reproduction bodies, powered by Ford’s modern Coyote V8, with modern steering, brakes, wiring, and air conditioning. Here is what that actually gets you, and what it costs.
A stock Dodge Hellcat’s factory tires look aggressive enough to pass for an aftermarket upgrade, but every size on every trim rolled off the assembly line exactly as Dodge specified it. From the original 2015 car’s 275/40ZR20s to the Super Stock’s massive 315-width rear tires, the rubber underneath a Hellcat does as much work as the supercharged Hemi on top of it. Read on to find out exactly how much of a Hellcat’s quarter-mile time comes down to what’s bolted to the wheels.
Visal Chum first saw an Acura NSX as a teenager and didn’t stop thinking about it until he finally tracked down this 1992 Formula Red example decades later. Lou Costabile catches up with him at a Chicago car show to talk about the search, the patience it took, and why he calls the NSX ‘the purest sports car.’ Watch the full conversation above.
One car chase filmed across San Francisco in 1968 did more for the second-generation Dodge Charger than any advertising campaign ever could. The villains’ black R/T was not a movie prop built for the occasion. It was a production car anyone could order, with a 440 Magnum standard and a 426 HEMI on the option sheet. Read on for what the R/T package actually included, and why real ones still chase movie-car money.