Posts By: Kiril
Pop the hood on this factory-black 1963 Plymouth Sport Fury and you’ll find the engine nobody brags about at car shows, and it might be the smarter choice. While everyone chases the 383 Golden Commando, this convertible went a quieter direction entirely. Read on to find out why the less famous engine might actually be the one to own.
Plymouth built exactly 666 Sport Fury GTs for 1970, and the model vanished after two model years. It was a full-size C-body with a 440 Commando V8 rated at 350 horsepower, or a rarer 440 Six Barrel making 390 horsepower and 490 lb-ft. Only 64 got the Six Barrel. At 4,122 pounds it outweighed a Road Runner by roughly 650 pounds. Read on to find out why almost nobody bought one.
This 1970 Chevelle wears deep black paint, a tucked stance, and a 555-cubic-inch supercharged big block under the hood — a combination that places it squarely in the Pro Touring movement reshaping classic muscle cars from the chassis up. Builders in this space have pushed similar Chevelles past 700 and even 775 horsepower while keeping the original silhouette intact. Here’s what separates a Pro Touring build from a straight restoration, and why the changes go far deeper than the engine bay.
Carspotter Jeroen caught a camouflaged Corvette ZR1 prototype mid-test, its supercharger whining like, in one viewer’s words, a TIE fighter, complete with visible exhaust flames and a Mercedes seemingly overtaken in the process. Filmed near known manufacturer testing routes before Chevrolet ever confirmed the car’s final specs, the footage remains a rare, unscripted look at the development mule behind one of the most track-focused Corvettes Chevrolet has built. Watch to see what gave this disguised prototype away.
Ordering the W72 400 in a 1979 Trans Am forced you to take the WS6 handling package and a four-speed manual as well, with no exceptions. That bundle produced 220 horsepower, 320 lb-ft and a 0-60 run of 6.90 seconds in the middle of the malaise era. Only 2,485 were built in that configuration without T-tops, with another 2,917 wearing the T-top roof this one has. Read on to find out why 1979 was the cutoff.
This Chevy Nova wagon predates the car’s reputation as one of the era’s sneakiest muscle cars, wagon bodies disappeared from the lineup right as the Nova SS was becoming a serious performer. Here’s how a compact family hauler and a legendary muscle car ended up sharing the same nameplate, and why genuine Nova wagons are rarer today than the SS models everyone remembers.
A monthly parking-lot gathering outside a burger joint in North Little Rock might not sound like much, until the first Mustang rolls in and the crowd starts drifting toward it. It’s a small, informal version of a car culture ritual playing out in strip-mall lots across the country nearly every week. Here’s what keeps people showing up to admire cars they’ll never own.
No-prep drag racing strips away the sticky, prepped launch pads that make horsepower predictable, and that chaos is where Chris Hamilton’s small-block turbo Mustang, known to Street Outlaws fans as BoostedGT, has built its reputation. Running as little as 347 cubic inches backed by a single 88mm turbo, the car regularly beats bigger, naturally aspirated rivals at grudge events like Bounty Hunters. The formula trades displacement for boost and tunability, which turns out to matter more than raw cubic inches once the track gets slippery.
Beyond checking door jambs, underbody condition, and body straightness, seasoned buyers know two more things separate a solid classic muscle car from an expensive mistake: verified numbers-matching VIN, engine, and axle codes, and a genuine paper trail of receipts and build sheets. Rust often hides in floor pans, trunk floors, and frame rails, spots a flashlight and magnet reveal faster than a quick walk-around ever will.
A dusty photo of a gold fastback with hidden headlights is stirring debate among readers trying to nail the exact year and model. The shape hints at Dodge’s most iconic body style of the muscle car era, but the details that separate one model year from the next are surprisingly easy to miss. See if your eye is as sharp as you think.
This 1967 Chevy C10 is part of GM’s first ‘Action Line’ generation, the truck era widely credited with turning pickups from bare-bones work tools into vehicles people actually wanted to drive. By 1968, factory buyers could option as much as 325 horsepower straight from the showroom floor. Here’s what made this generation such a natural starting point for street truck builds.
Most SEMA show trucks lean on wild paint and radical bodywork to get noticed. This 1968 Chevrolet C/10 does the opposite — a cleaned-up stance, deleted mirrors, and a supercharged LS3 under the hood that does the talking instead. Here’s why restraint can be the harder trick to pull off at a show built around going over the top.
Filmed by ScottieDTV at the 2012 Grand Rod Run, this 1969 Chevy Nova SS 396 is built to be driven, not trailered — exactly the kind of street-driven muscle car whose lighter unibody let it punch above its class against heavier Chevelle and Camaro siblings. Commenters flooded the video with their own Nova ownership stories rather than critiquing the build, a sign of how deeply this compact sleeper is woven into everyday enthusiast memory. Watch to see why this owner’s pride in his Nova is so well earned.
The Camaro was never supposed to last fifty years — it was a rushed response to the Mustang, built on borrowed time and a hastily developed platform. Instead it became one of the longest-running nameplates in American performance history, surviving a cancellation and multiple redesigns along the way. Here’s how a car built to catch up ended up outlasting most of its rivals.