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A 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1968 Hemi Dart share an engine family and almost nothing else. One was Dodge’s upmarket answer to the pony car wars, sold at dealerships nationwide with everything from a slant six to a 426 Hemi. The other was built off-site by Hurst because Chrysler refused to sanction it, in a run of just 80 cars. Read on for how both came to exist, and why they sound nothing alike.
A Camaro RS met a supercharged, 1,000-horsepower Corvette in a roll race, and the one-word title says how it went. This piece breaks down why the horsepower math almost never favors the RS in matchups like this, what it actually costs to push a Corvette to four-digit power, and why grudge races like this one have become such a fixture of car meet culture.
Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon with a supercharged Hemi V8 rated at 840 horsepower, factory-fitted wide-body fender flares, and a production run capped at just 3,300 units total. The reveal landed alongside news that Ford was extending availability of its own Shelby Mustangs, giving performance buyers two big storylines at once. Both moves capped a mid-2010s horsepower race that pushed Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet to repeatedly one-up each other. Read on to find out which of these limited-run factory monsters will matter more to collectors decades from now.
The 1970 Shelby GT500 is the rarest single model year in the nameplate’s history, and the reason is one of the strangest stories in Ford’s performance past: there was never really a 1970 production run at all. Just 286 GT500s wore 1970 VINs, and they were applied to leftover 1969 cars under federal supervision. Here is how it happened, how to spot a genuine one, and why Carroll Shelby had already walked away by then.
On paper this matchup is over before either Charger leaves the line: one carries a supercharged 707-horsepower V8, the other a naturally aspirated 5.7 making roughly half that. But the Daytona name on the underdog was borrowed from the first car in NASCAR history to lap a closed circuit at 200 mph, courtesy of Buddy Baker at Talladega in 1970. The 2013 Daytona Edition never claimed to be a straight-line fighter. Read on for what it actually was.
A hand grenade where the shift knob should be sounds like a joke, because it is one, but it’s also part of a long tradition of muscle car owners using novelty parts to make a statement. This viral image plays on the idea that the best security system is simply looking dangerous. Here’s why gag mods like this keep circulating.
Five cars defined 1960s muscle car culture, but two of them have wilder backstories than most people realize: a GTO that exploited a GM loophole to become a 32,450-unit phenomenon, and a Barracuda so rare its Hemi convertible now sells for millions. Here’s what made these five cars the icons they became.
The tire-smoke send-off at the end of a car meet feels like a modern muscle car tradition, but its roots go back to post-war cruise culture and legendary strips like Detroit’s Woodward Avenue. Social media has since turned a quiet parking-lot ritual into a spectacle that can draw a crowd within hours. Here’s where the tradition actually came from.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon started at $84,995 and left the factory with 808 horsepower. The 840-horsepower figure everyone quoted required one additional box on the order sheet, and that box cost exactly one dollar. It is one of the strangest pricing decisions in modern automotive history, and Dodge would revisit the same trick years later on a much larger scale. Here is what a single dollar actually bought.
In the mid-2010s, three hypercars fought for the title of world’s fastest production car, but only one of them actually won it. Koenigsegg, Bugatti, and Hennessey each pushed past 267 mph, yet a technicality in how records get certified kept one blistering-fast contender out of the books entirely. Here’s how the numbers actually broke down.
Years after an Instagram hashtag study revealed the internet’s favorite classic cars, the collector market has confirmed those hunches with real money on the table. First-generation Mustangs, 1968-1970 Dodge Chargers, and Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles remain benchmark sales at major 2026 auctions, often for six and seven figures. But a new generation of buyers is also rotating dollars toward less expected favorites, from muscle trucks to vintage SUVs. Here’s what’s actually driving classic car values today.
What actually makes a muscle car worth a 95 instead of a 70? It’s rarely about how clean the paint looks in a photo. Professional appraisers lean on the collector-car hobby’s classic 1-6 condition scale alongside a separate check for numbers-matching originality, and the two don’t always agree. A rough-around-the-edges original can outrank a glossy restoration once the numbers get checked. Here’s what the pros actually look for.
Pontiac sold a full-size performance coupe in 1967 that most American enthusiasts have never laid eyes on, and the biggest engine you could order in it did not come from Pontiac at all. The Parisienne Sport Coupe wore Pontiac sheet metal over Chevrolet mechanicals, a compromise born from Canadian trade economics that accidentally created one of the best-value big-block cruisers of the decade. Read on to find out what made it different, and why it still hides in plain sight.
The Plymouth Duster and the Dodge Dart shared a platform, a parts bin, and most of a drivetrain catalog, and Chrysler still managed to turn them into rivals. One arrived in 1970 with borrowed front sheet metal and outsold every expectation. The other had a three-inch-longer wheelbase, a better badge in some circles, and a name that had to be changed after complaints. Read on for what actually separates them, and which one is the smarter buy today.
Can you place the year, make, and model in this photo? The stance and polished wheels are a strong clue, this is a 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390, the special options package that paired a 325-horsepower big-block V8 with heavy-duty suspension and dual exhaust. It’s the same combination that made a debadged Highland Green fastback famous in one of cinema’s greatest car chases. Scroll down to see how the real answer compares to your guess.