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The Red Dragon is a Chevrolet Silverado that has no business running quarter-mile passes in the 7-second range, and does it anyway. Packing twin turbochargers and over 1,300 horsepower, this full-size truck has appeared on Discovery’s Street Outlaws and taken on some of the fastest street cars in the country. Here’s what it takes to turn a grocery-getter pickup into a genuine race weapon.
The factory 1970 Boss 302 made a modest 290 horsepower – built not to impress anyone but to satisfy an SCCA rulebook that forced Ford to sell 6,500 street cars just to go racing. Today, that same Boss badge shows up on builds pushing 800 horsepower from a heavily reworked small block. Here’s what Ford actually shipped in 1970, and how far modern builders have pushed the platform since.
Just a week after Chevrolet unveiled the track-focused Camaro ZL1 1LE, spy photographers caught a heavily camouflaged prototype wearing an even more aggressive aero kit at GM’s proving grounds. Wide fenders, a shelf-like front splitter, and a massive rear wing fueled speculation that the storied Z/28 nameplate might be staging a comeback. With engine details still unconfirmed and testing already underway, one question hangs over the whole project: how much further can Chevrolet push a Camaro before something has to give?
This 1969 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 is rare on two fronts: Oldsmobile built only 171 W-30 sport coupes that year, and just five of them were sold new in Canada. Its Force-Air Induction system fed cold air through hoses in the wheel wells straight into a Rochester four-barrel, backing a 400 cubic-inch V8 rated at 360 horsepower. Few muscle cars combine genuine factory performance hardware with this kind of documented scarcity.
Bennie Horton’s 1965 Ford Mustang GT Convertible has only ever had one family behind the wheel — his father bought it new and handed him the keys as a graduation present. Finished in Silver Smoke Gray over a 289 V8, the car went through a full restoration a few years back and now looks the way it did the day it left the factory. Unbroken single-family ownership like this is rarer in the Mustang world than almost any option code. Find out what makes this convertible worth the trip to see in person.
Discovered inside a private Ontario collection of unrestored Mopar muscle cars, this 1969 Dodge Charger 500 is believed to be the very first one built, and one of only 15 built with the 426 Hemi and four-speed manual. Decades of factory paperwork document its promotional life, including two decades of magazine road tests on the streets of New York City. For collectors, its untouched paint and interior may be worth more than any restoration could recreate.
Most 1967 Plymouth Barracudas left the factory with a small-block V8 under the hood. The Formula S package could also be ordered with a 383-cubic-inch big-block, a rare and often-overlooked option that turned Plymouth’s redesigned pony car into a genuine performer. Here’s why this seldom-ordered combination deserves more credit than it usually gets from muscle car collectors today.
A supercharged Camaro ZL1, a Hellcat, a Shelby GT500, a Scat Pack, and a naturally aspirated Mustang GT lining up for a straight-line shootout is about as good as modern muscle gets. The forced-induction cars post the eye-catching times, with the ZL1 dipping into the 9s and the Hellcat and GT500 not far behind. But the Scat Pack and the Mustang GT, both running without a supercharger, close the gap by more than the horsepower numbers say they should. That’s the real story here.
A 2016 Ford Mustang GT transformed by Saleen Automotive into a 730-horsepower rolling memorial for California’s Riverside Police Department, this supercharged cop car swaps stock street presence for supercar-grade power and Saleen’s motorsport pedigree. Built as tribute rather than typical patrol equipment, it echoes Saleen’s history of extreme builds, from tuned Mustangs to the S7 supercar. Few squad cars anywhere approach this kind of performance, making it one of the rarest and most talked-about police vehicles in the country.
From where the Oldsmobile 442 name actually came from to which comedian ended up with one of Carroll Shelby’s rarest supercharged Cobras, muscle car history is full of details that have nothing to do with horsepower. Some of the strangest trivia predates the term ‘muscle car’ entirely. Here’s what separates casual fans from people who really know the era.
A small fender badge separated an ordinary 1966 Mustang from something built with real intent. The K-code 289 packed 271 horsepower, hand-selected engine blocks, and a no-compromise attitude that Ford only offered on 5,469 cars that year. Here’s the story behind Ford’s most overlooked high-performance option from the Mustang’s earliest and most important years.
By 1970, Ford was quietly toning down its pony car lineup under pressure from insurers, even as the Mach 1 package kept selling in huge numbers. This white-with-red-stripes example represents that transition year perfectly: cleaner styling, a strengthened 351 V8, and one of the last truly aggressive Mustangs before the muscle car era began winding down for good.
When a customer asks to put your shop’s own logo on his truck’s door, you have earned something no advertisement can buy — and that is exactly how this 1957 Chevy pickup arrives at Hudsons Rod & Customs. The big block still makes power, but the owner wants modern LS reliability, so a driveline swap is coming, along with a fresh custom interior to replace the Cadillac-print leather. It is a good cruiser about to become a great one. See the plan take shape.
The 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat paired a 707-horsepower supercharged V8 with a 3.5-second 0-60 time, an 11.2-second quarter mile, and a 200-mph top speed, all while still returning around 16 mpg combined. Dodge sold it with a back seat and a warranty. Here’s how it performed once real-world testing began.
Plymouth rated the 1971 ‘Cuda 440 Six-Pack at 385 horsepower, though most agree the real number ran higher. Only 254 were built that year, down from over 1,000 just twelve months earlier, and just five came as four-speed convertibles. Here’s what drove one of Plymouth’s best engines into sudden scarcity.