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This 1967 Mustang Fastback, the first Mustang body style built to handle Ford’s big-block power, now runs a modern 302 crate engine dyno-tested at 370 horsepower. It’s a common resto-mod formula: keep the aggressive ’67 silhouette, swap in reliable modern power underneath. Here’s what makes this generation such a natural platform for the build.
Every muscle car crowd loves a good debate, and Hot or Not photo posts like this one never fail to deliver. With no year, make, or model attached, this glossy red classic has to win or lose the argument purely on looks: stance, color, chrome, and proportion. It is a reminder that the communitys eye for what counts as a genuine head-turner is anything but universal.
Plymouth built the 1968 Road Runner to be cheap and fast, then let buyers pile a $714 Hemi on top of a car designed around a stripped-down budget pitch. Only 1,019 out of roughly 45,000 Road Runners built that year got the big engine. Here’s why so few buyers took Plymouth up on its most contradictory option.
BMW’s 8-Series Concept revived a nameplate that vanished from showrooms for nearly two decades after the original E31 coupe was discontinued in 1999. Debuted at the exclusive Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este rather than a traditional auto show, the concept previewed a production coupe arriving in 2018 with a lineup topped by a twin-turbo V12. Its low hood, sweeping roofline, and 21-inch wheels signaled BMW’s intent to reclaim flagship coupe territory it had quietly ceded years earlier.
The “Ice Charger” from The Fate of the Furious looked like a classic 1968 Dodge Charger on screen, but underneath it was a purpose-built, all-wheel-drive stunt car with three locking differentials and spiked tires. Six identical copies were built just for the Iceland scenes. Here’s where the real cars ended up.
Most retellings of the muscle car’s decline stop at the 1980s comeback, but the real numbers behind the collapse, and the technology that eventually revived it decades later, tell a far more dramatic story. Here’s what actually happened between the insurance crisis of the 1970s and the 700-horsepower factory cars of today.
Only 17 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertibles were built in 1970 with the 440 Six-Barrel engine and a four-speed manual transmission, fewer than the automatic version of the same car, and a fraction of the attention the Hemi ‘Cuda gets. Here’s why this quieter big-block convertible might be the rarer find of the two.
This 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport arrived during the one year Ford dared to redesign the Torino from the ground up, then walked the styling back within twelve months. Under the hood sits a 351 Cobra Jet, a Cleveland-block V8 carrying real Boss 351 lineage. Here’s why this specific model year stands apart from every Torino before or after it.
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra hides a numbers-matching 429 Thunder Jet V8 behind one of Ford’s most overlooked muscle-car nameplates. A Marti Report confirms its rare factory combination of a close-ratio four-speed, 3.50 Trac-Lok rear end, and factory air conditioning, an unusual pairing for a car built to run the quarter-mile. Here’s why this quiet-badged Torino deserves more attention than it ever got.
1967 was the first year Buick fitted the Riviera with its all-new 430-cubic-inch V-8, replacing the older Nailhead design with a bigger-valve engine rated at 360 hp and 475 lb-ft of torque. Buick kept the 430 in production for only three model years before superseding it with the 455 in 1970, making this a narrow window in Riviera history. Add the Gran Sport package’s heavy-duty suspension and Positraction rear end, and a numbers-matching example like this one represents a genuinely rare combination.
When Motor Trend rounded up 1968’s newest supercars for a comparison test, the stripped-down Plymouth Road Runner stood out precisely because it refused to compete on comfort. Its standard 383 V-8 made 335 hp and 425 lb-ft, backed by a strengthened four-speed and basic drum brakes rather than options-list luxury. Quarter-mile results varied wildly by test — from a so-so 15.5 seconds to a sharper 14.65 — proof that even celebrated muscle cars could be inconsistent performers off the showroom floor.
