 |
This photo shows one of the rarest engine configurations in the entire first-generation Thunderbird lineup — but figuring out which of the three model years it belongs to takes more than a glance at the fins. This piece breaks down the production numbers and the supercharged engine option built for barely 1,500 cars.
That old meme comparing a subtly lowered classic to a modern stance build isn’t just a joke about changing trends — it’s a debate with real, tangled history behind it. Some trace lowered cars back to racetrack physics, others to 1940s taildragger customs, and still others to 1980s Japanese street culture. This piece untangles where stance actually came from.
Muscle car owners have a running joke about loving their ride more than anything else in their life — and it isn’t entirely a joke. This piece looks at why gearhead devotion gets compared to marriage, why the meme keeps resurfacing generation after generation, and what the humor actually reveals about what it takes to finish a build.
Ford did not offer a Mach 1 in 2010, so Mike Giertuga built one out of his son’s S197 Mustang GT. That car left the factory with a 4.6-liter V8 freshly bumped from 300 to 315 horsepower, a genuinely good Mustang that simply was not wearing the badge. Here is the on-again, off-again history of the Mach 1 nameplate, what the original 1969 car actually included beyond stripes, and one common myth about the 2010 chassis worth correcting.
Jeff Lutz has built three 1957 Chevy race cars, and this one is the culmination of everything the first two taught him plus what he learned campaigning a Pro Mod 1969 Camaro. The new car returns to steel roof and quarter panels, satisfying both class rules and the standards set on Street Outlaws. Lutz was the first Drag Week competitor to average in the six-second range. Read on for what makes the third attempt different.
A private tour through the Martin Auto Museum’s 170-plus vehicles gave nine-year-old Blake a walk through automotive history — from an 1886 Benz to a Duesenberg once linked to Al Capone’s inner circle. Surrounded by that much irreplaceable history, it was still the modern muscle cars that held his attention longest. See what makes this Phoenix collection, and its youngest fans, stand out.
Seal Beach’s Main Street show has grown from a modest 1980s sidewalk-sale add-on into one of Southern California’s largest beachside car gatherings, drawing 25,000 to 35,000 visitors to a town far smaller than its own crowd. This milestone edition brought sunshine, live music, and hundreds of showstoppers lined up along the coast. See how a small surf town built one of the region’s biggest car shows.
This Dallas street race leans fully into ‘run what ya bring’ territory, pitting a flat-black turbo LSx Nova against a nitrous-fed small-block Nova and a sleeper Firebird that looks far slower than it runs. No sanctioning body, no class breaks — just whoever shows up quickest. See how three very different builds stack up against each other.
A supercharged 1969 Plymouth Barracuda gets the full unedited treatment in this single continuous take filmed at Finland’s Vantaa Cruising meet — idle, burnout, launch, and an exhaust note commenters call insane before the clip even ends. Sharp-eyed viewers picked apart everything from a slightly misaligned trunk lid to exactly which Barracuda generation this is. Watch the whole take to hear why.
This C6 Corvette runs a 549 cubic-inch V6 fed by two 98-millimeter turbochargers, the product of roughly seven years of development. Building a six by deleting two cylinders from a big-block V8 is not vandalism, it is a real drag racing practice that trades cylinder count for a shorter, narrower engine with enormous per-cylinder displacement. Here is why the math works, what the C6’s rear transaxle brings to it, and why the seven-year timeline is the real story.
A single unlabeled photo hides a specific answer: this is a 1966 Chevrolet Nova, the first year of a total redesign that gave the car its sharp-edged, semi-fastback look. Under the hood, a rare L79 350-horsepower option turned an affordable compact into a genuine NHRA threat — one built in far smaller numbers than most SS badges suggest. See what else made this year’s Nova stand apart.
The Mile High Show and Shine Car Show has run for 12 years in Lead, South Dakota, but it’s riding on a hometown tradition that dates back to 1926, when Homestake Mining Company threw a party celebrating 50 years of Black Hills mining. Over 100 cars from America’s automotive past still turn out every year for a parade-and-judging format where attendees vote on their own favorites. Here’s how a car show earned its place in a century-old celebration.
This guess the year, make and model post hides its answer in the details, the car pictured is a Dodge Charger 440, one of the most feared muscle car engines of its era rated at 375 horsepower and 480 pound-feet of torque. The real challenge is nailing down which model year is pictured, since Dodge tweaked the Charger’s stripe and scoop details across several seasons of R/T production.
This 1966 Pontiac GTO runs the genuine factory Tri-Power 389 and four-speed manual that enthusiasts consider the GTO’s high-water mark, filmed for Garrett Classics in Lewisville, Texas. Longtime GTO owners in the comments ran through it like a correctness checklist — Hurst shifter, PMD Rally Wheels, factory power brakes — and approved. See what the car John DeLorean fought GM’s rules to create looks like when it’s done exactly right.
Pontiac built the first-generation Firebird for only three model years, from 1967 to 1969, before a full redesign — and each year left its own visual clues behind. The 1969 model brought the biggest changes of the run: a longer, wider body and a distinctive one-piece Lexan front bumper-grille, along with the mid-year debut of the Trans Am package. Spotting which year a given Firebird belongs to often comes down to details as small as the grille shape and bumper design.