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Classic black muscle car driving on a sunny street.

Ford Mustang 1970 BOSS 302

Ford built the Boss 302 purely to satisfy SCCA Trans Am homologation rules, which required at least 6,500 street versions before the race car could compete — Ford blew past that bar, building 8,641 over two years with 7,013 of them in 1970 alone. The 302-cubic-inch V-8’s 290 factory horsepower undersold what the car could really do, and Parnelli Jones proved it by winning the 1970 Trans Am championship outright. Ford retired the Boss 302 after just two model years, its job against the Camaro already done.

Rusty vintage pickup truck with red rims parked outdoors.

Chevrolet C10 Rat Truck 550HP Sleeper Rat Rod

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Underneath this C10’s deliberately rough patina sits a 550-horsepower drivetrain that has nothing in common with its beat-up exterior, a classic rat rod sleeper built on one of the most collectible classic truck platforms around. Here is what it actually takes to build one that can back up the look.

Woman posing beside a classic blue vintage car in a tropical setting.

Car or Girl? What is your pick?

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Classic cars like this one weren’t built for efficiency; they were built to turn heads at stoplights and dominate weekend car shows decades later. Deep paint, real chrome, and body lines drawn before computers ever touched a car design tell you everything about the era before you even read the badge. The debate over which classic deserves the spotlight hasn’t slowed down since these cars left the factory floor.

Classic red muscle car with a white roof parked in a garage.

1969 Pontiac Firebird Convertible Restored by New Mexican Priest Set for Charity Raffle

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This 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible was restored not by a shop, but by a parish priest and a crew of volunteers and seminarians as part of a program called V8s for Vocations. Pontiac built only about 11,000 Firebird convertibles that year, making this one-owner, 79,000-mile survivor genuinely scarce. It was raffled off in 2017 to help fund seminary education, giving the car a backstory most restorations never come close to matching.

Close-up of a blue engine air cleaner with tuning tools.

Muscle Car Love Is a Wonderful Thing

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Long before fuel economy rules smoothed out Detroit’s shapes, muscle cars were designed to be looked at, not slipped through a wind tunnel. Here is the regulatory history behind why those bold, sculptural lines eventually gave way to the rounder, more efficient cars that followed.

A classic red drag racing car on a race track at sunset.

Hot or Not?

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This second-generation Barracuda hides one of 1968’s most underrated factory performance packages, a 275-horsepower 340 small-block Plymouth built barely a few thousand of. Here is why the Formula S 340 earned a reputation as a genuine sleeper, and how rare it actually was.

Red sports car performing a burnout with smoke around.

Dodge Demon Unleashes Hellhound of Muscle-Car Madness

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Dodge built exactly 3,300 examples of the Challenger SRT Demon — 3,000 for the US and 300 for Canada — turning what was already the most powerful production V-8 in Detroit history into an instant collector’s item. Stripped down to a curb weight nearly 200 pounds lighter than the Hellcat it’s based on, the Demon became the first production car certified by Guinness World Records to lift its front wheels off the ground during a run.

Classic black Ford Mustang parked on a road with trees in the background.

Guess the year, make and model!

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Ford crammed ten engine choices, including two brand-new homologation specials, into the redesigned 1969 Mustang SportsRoof, making this one of the hardest model years to guess correctly just from the outside. Here is what changed in the 69 restyle and why the engine bay tells the real story.

A classic red muscle car parked outdoors near a building.

How much would you pay for this one?

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The triple-carb 440 under this Cuda’s hood was not a casual option. Plymouth built barely 1,700-some of them in 1970, split between four-speed and automatic cars. Here is what made the 440 Six Pack such a rare and serious performance package, and why guessing its value takes more than eyeballing the sheet metal.

Plymouth GTX 1970

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The 1970 Plymouth GTX offered buyers a choice between three big-block V-8s — a 375-hp 440, a 390-hp 440 Six Barrel, and a 425-hp 426 Hemi — but only 7,748 were built that year. Just 72 left the factory with the Hemi, making surviving examples exceptionally rare today. The GTX’s declining sales that year foreshadowed Plymouth’s shift toward other muscle car nameplates in the years that followed.

Blue sports car driving on a desert road with mountains in the background.

Shelby’s First Concept in a Decade Takes the Ford Mustang to New Widths

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Shelby’s 2017 Super Snake Widebody was the company’s first all-new concept in more than a decade — and its first wide-body take on the sixth-generation Mustang. A 750-hp Whipple-supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 and inches of added track width signaled a shift toward cornering grip rather than pure straight-line speed. Hand-built fenders, carbon fiber spoilers, and Brembo brakes rounded out a package built to prove Shelby could do more than drag strips.

General Motors pioneered vehicle airbags in 1974.

Trivia 6

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Nearly two decades before airbags became mandatory, General Motors quietly built and sold them, first on government fleet cars, then as a factory option across four full-size luxury nameplates. Here is the surprisingly early and short-lived story of GM’s Air Cushion Restraint System, and why the technology vanished from showrooms for almost twenty years.

Classic convertible car with sleek design and soft top.

Year & Model? Rate it 1-100!

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Guessing the year on a prewar Oldsmobile convertible is trickier than it looks: the drop-top body and the straight-eight engine collectors often look for did not actually arrive on the same model in the same year. Here is how to tell a real Series 60 from the bigger, straight-eight-powered senior cars, and why so few of these soft tops survived to be argued over today.

Classic red 1969 Ford Mustang in a showroom.

For Sale: 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 for $429,900

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Ford didn’t build the Boss 429 Mustang to sell to regular buyers, it built it to satisfy NASCAR’s rule that a race engine had to be sold to the public first. The result was a hand-assembled big block Mustang that never actually raced under its own name. Here’s the strange homologation story behind one of the rarest and most expensive Mustangs Ford ever built.

Classic red 1960s Ford Mustang car in pristine condition.

See prices of 10 collector cars sold at Barrett-Jackson Tuesday

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The Charlie Thomas Collection brought roughly 145 vehicles to Barrett-Jackson’s 2017 Scottsdale auction, selling for a combined $7.1 million as part of a week that ultimately generated $102.5 million and set 40 world records. Here’s a look at what one of the largest single-owner collections in recent Barrett-Jackson history actually sold for, and how it fit into a record-breaking week.

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