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A rumor about a revived Ford Torino, built on the Mustang’s platform with a 435-horsepower V8, spread widely enough in 2016 and 2017 to feel like real automotive news. The concept actually traces back to an April Fools’ joke that Ford never confirmed, yet the idea keeps resurfacing in enthusiast renderings years later. Read on to find out why this hoax refused to die.
Humberto Garcia spent decades chasing the feeling of his father’s 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III — and during the restoration of this Ivy Moondust example, found something inside the car that connected directly back to that memory in a way nobody expected. Filmed at his own Carpentersville, Illinois restoration shop, this is a car story that starts with a childhood dream and ends somewhere considerably more personal. Watch to hear it firsthand.
One retired trucking company owner in Norwalk, Ohio spent over 50 years quietly buying vehicles with no plan beyond “just one more,” and ended up with over 700 of them, including 250 Studebakers, a DeLorean, and a car that turns into a boat. Here’s what happened when the entire collection finally went up for auction.
Every Father’s Day, Santa Rosa’s Juilliard Park fills with more than 300 restored cars, hot rods, rat rods, and low riders for a free show run by an all-volunteer contractors’ association for close to three decades. This year, seven-year-old Ripley Hansen led his dad Tor through the rows, and dad admitted he was the one learning. From trophies for Best Flames and Best Rat Rod to why a modest entry fee and free admission keep the rows growing, read on to see what makes this Sonoma County tradition work.
Twice in the 1990s, Ford built a Mustang so track-focused it was only sold to buyers holding a valid competition racing license: first with the 107-unit 1993 Cobra R on the outgoing Fox-body platform, then with the 250-unit, 5.8-liter 1995 version on Ford’s all-new SN-95 chassis. Both stripped out comfort features entirely in favor of lower weight and genuine racing credibility. Read on to find out how Ford kept reviving the Cobra R formula well into the 2000s.
This Cranberry Red 1970 Chevelle SS packs the legendary LS6 454 and a four-speed manual — a combination that still commands serious respect among collectors. V8TV walks through the bench seat, the 8-track player, and 500 pound-feet of torque, while longtime fans debate a steering wheel detail in the comments below. Watch to see what 450 factory horsepower actually looks like in motion.
This 1968 Mustang fastback looks stock at a glance, but Customs by Killkeary dropped a modern Coyote V8 under the hood, turning a classic silhouette into a genuinely different driving experience. Read on to find out how shops make a fifty-plus-year-old chassis work with thoroughly modern power, and why this kind of build keeps growing in popularity.
A Daytona Beach reader’s memory of his 1965 Plymouth Valiant reveals a rare factory combination most Mopar fans never encountered: a small-block V8, a four-speed manual, and a Hurst shifter in a car built mainly for economy-minded families. Chrysler’s 273 Commando made this compact sedan into an early, overlooked entry in the muscle car story, years before the Duster made performance Valiants familiar. Read on to find out why this specific combination remains one of Mopar’s most undervalued early performance packages.
A collector car auction that started at a regional airport in 1988 has grown into one of the largest events of its kind, now filling the Indiana State Fairgrounds with roughly 3,000 vehicles each spring. Here’s how Mecum’s Indy Spring Classic became a fixture of the Indy 500’s biggest week, and why the timing was never an accident.
Most Hemi Dart stories are about the famous 1968 factory lightweights built for NHRA Super Stock racing around the 426 Race Hemi. This 1968 Dodge Dart GTS tells a different one: a first-generation Chrysler FirePower Hemi, bored from 331 to 342 cubic inches, tucked under a completely stock-looking hood and fenders. It’s an engine most Mopar fans forgot Chrysler ever built into a Hemi lineage at all. Read on to find out how a discontinued 1950s engine ended up hiding inside a 1968 A-body.
What started in 1983 as a single one-day car show in a California fairgrounds parking lot grew into a national circuit spanning coast to coast — though not every East Coast venue has stuck the way its longtime Hudson Valley date has. Here’s how Goodguys built its reputation, and why a show with 1,500-plus hot rods and muscle cars running for decades in Rhinebeck matters more than it looks.
A New Edge Cobra Mustang with twin turbochargers punching through its grille has become a fixture at I-29’s Heads Up No Prep events, where driver Boost12 keeps returning to test how much boost a no-prep surface can handle. 1320video caught this run as the turbo Mustang fought for traction on an unprepared track — the kind of pass that can go picture-perfect or sideways in an instant. Watch to see which one this was.
A five-year side project between paying jobs turned this 1971 Plymouth Cuda into a SEMA showstopper, powered by a Magnuson-supercharged Hemi V8 sitting on a custom Art Morrison chassis. More than 500 hours went into the interior alone, leaving the door handles as the only stock parts left on the entire car. Read on to see what it takes to build something this obsessively detailed as a side hustle.
Planning a road trip around America’s best muscle car museums? One name that used to top these lists, Florida’s Muscle Car City, closed for good in 2021 and sold off its 200-plus car collection at auction. Here’s an updated look at which classic muscle car museums are still standing – including the one built next to an actual Corvette assembly plant, and why institutional backing matters more than you’d think.
A twin-turbo Chevrolet Corvette pushing 1,100 horsepower doesn’t just dominate stoplight showdowns — it flirts with 9-second quarter-mile times in a car most owners could still drive to work. Building reliable four-digit power takes more than bigger turbos, from fuel system upgrades to drivetrain reinforcement. Read on to find out what it actually takes to get there.