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Dodge introduced the A12 Super Bee halfway through the 1969 model year with a lift-off fiberglass hood, three two-barrel carburetors on a 440, and steel wheels with no hubcaps. It was a factory drag car sold with a warranty, built for buyers who wanted maximum performance for minimum money. Dave and Kelly Molnar brought a restored example to MCACN. Read on to find out what made the A12 package different from everything else Dodge sold that year.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was engineered to lift its front wheels off the line from the factory, with 840 horsepower and a 9.65 second quarter mile. So when a prototype turned up at a racing event with an audible engine knock, the question everyone had been quietly asking finally surfaced. Read on for what detonation actually does to a supercharged engine, and why a prototype failure is not the same as a design flaw.
Most diesel-swapped muscle cars announce themselves with zip-tied plumbing and a cowl hood hiding the mess underneath. This Plymouth Cuda carries a compound-turbo 6.7-liter Cummins that looks like it was cast for the engine bay, backed by a reported 1,500 rear-wheel horsepower and a torque figure north of 3,000 lb-ft. The parts list explains the numbers. The fabrication explains why anyone took the build seriously.
Two enormous Corvette stories broke at nearly the same moment: credible spy footage of a mid-engine car running with minimal camouflage, and reports that the final front-engine ZR1 was close to being finalized. The Corvette community had to decide which one to argue about first. Read on to find out how both stories eventually resolved, and which side of the argument the results favored.
A Ford Raptor built for desert running, a Dodge Durango SRT with 475 horsepower in a three-row family SUV, and a 707 horsepower Challenger Hellcat all line up on the same strip. On paper the Hellcat should walk away, but drag racing punishes theoretical advantages the moment traction enters the picture. Read on for why all-wheel drive rewrites the first sixty feet, and where each vehicle actually gains its ground.
There are street races, and then there are runs that look like they were staged for a film crew. What Bad95killer captured on this stretch of road falls firmly into the second category: a 1,400 rear-wheel-horsepower C6 Z06 Corvette against a 1,170-wheel-horsepower Nissan GT-R, trading lengths at speeds that have no business happening on public pavement. The footage has racked up over 1.4 million views for exactly that reason. Which car actually had the advantage when it mattered most? Read on to find out.
Buying a classic car for the first time is one of those experiences where enthusiasm and ignorance make a dangerous combination, and the only cure is knowing what to look for before someone else’s problem becomes yours. The used muscle car market is full of vehicles that look incredible in photographs but reveal their real condition only to buyers who know exactly where to look and what to ask. What separates a lucky buyer from a smart one? Read on to find out what actually matters before you hand over a deposit.
A turbocharged modern Camaro and a nitrous-fed first-generation car lined up at the same Redemption 6.0 session in Tulsa, Oklahoma, finally putting decades of new-school-versus-old-school arguments to an actual test. Urban Hillbilly Videos captured the Big Tire Class run in full, unedited, letting two completely different performance philosophies settle their differences on the same strip. Read on to see which approach came out ahead.
Edmunds put a 2018 Camaro SS and a 2018 Mustang GT through track and street testing, expecting the usual story about 0-60 bragging rights. The real gap turned out to be philosophical, not numerical — a pushrod LT1 versus a dual-cam Coyote, and two very different answers to what a pony car chassis should reward. Read on to find out which car editors Carlos Lago and Mark Takahashi decided actually does fun better.
A two-character code on the door tag is the first thing serious 1969 Mustang buyers check — R-Code identifies the 428 Cobra Jet Ram Air V8, officially rated at 335 horsepower but closer to 400 in reality. RamblinAround documented one Acapulco Blue example carrying that code alongside a remarkably complete factory option list, all confirmed by a Marti Report. Read on to find out why Ford built the Cobra Jet in the first place.
A ’69 Camaro running a 540 cubic inch big block met a ’66 Chevelle running a 427 of its own on a straight back road, and the resulting footage from the 540merlin channel pulled in 1.5 million views. Neither car is factory stock, and neither driver needed commentary to explain what was happening. Read on to find out why GM’s own displacement cap kept the 427 out of the Chevelle when it was new — and why both bodies still hold up decades later.
Put a numbers-matching 1969 Hemi Challenger next to a brand-new Dodge product on the same drag strip, and the horsepower gap alone tells you everything has changed — and also nothing important at all. Read on to find out whether the old-muscle-versus-new-muscle argument was ever really about horsepower at all.
When a passion for muscle cars outgrows the driveway, it doesn’t stop there — it moves into the house. Dedicated collectors have long turned garages, man caves, and even living rooms into shrines for the hobby, and this one takes that instinct further than most. Here’s why serious car culture rarely stays contained to just the cars.
The 1969 Camaro looks simple from across a parking lot and turns genuinely complicated the moment real money enters the conversation — Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard has spent years mapping exactly why. From the ultra-rare ZL1 to the SS396 and Z/28, engine originality and structural condition can separate a $40,000 car from a $400,000 one. Read on to find out where first-gen Camaros actually rust, and what separates a real restoration from a convincing cover-up.
At a Quebec truck pulling event in June 2011, two commercial trucks loaded to 143,000 pounds each lined up for a drag race that has almost nothing in common with a conventional quarter-mile pass. Spectator Frank6507 caught the whole thing on a phone camera, and the footage has since been watched 1.75 million times. Read on to find out what 2,400 horsepower does to a truck that heavy — and why this grassroots tradition rarely gets seen outside Quebec.