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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.
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.
Pro Stock cars run over 1,300 naturally aspirated horsepower through a quarter mile in under seven seconds — precision machines with almost no room for error. At the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas, driver Deric Kramer found that margin the hard way when his car drifted out of the groove and rolled several times before coming to rest. He walked away uninjured. Read on to find out what decades of NHRA safety development had to do with that outcome.
A 1967 Chevelle with a swapped-in 454 big block, a Muncie four-speed, and only 4,000 miles on that combination doesn’t come up for sale often — especially with a VIN-verified 138 body code and a Kentucky ownership history that kept the undercarriage remarkably clean. Vanguard Motor Sales has documented the restoration work in detail. Read on to find out what a real 138 car actually means and why this one commands serious buyer attention.
In 1981, Pontiac answered a shrinking performance budget with a genuinely strange idea: the first mass-production turbocharged V8 in an American car, wrapped in the loudest graphics package the Trans Am ever wore. The 210-horsepower engine was groundbreaking and unreliable in roughly equal measure, and reviewers are still divided on whether the gamble paid off. Read on to find out why collectors now pay a premium for the rare survivors that got it right.
Six muscle cars made a factory habit out of hiding serious performance behind plain trim, insurance-friendly badges, and body styles nobody expected to be fast — including a supercharged Studebaker and a Ford pickup. The strategy wasn’t an accident; it was a pricing decision aimed squarely at 1960s insurance underwriters. Today, those same disguises make authentication one of the hardest problems in the collector market. Read on to find out which cars made the list and why documentation is worth more than the badge on the fender.
In 2005, Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet all had their absolute best on dealer lots at the same time — a 500-horsepower Viper, a 550-horsepower Ford GT built to honor Le Mans, and a Corvette C6 that undercut both on price without giving up much performance. Nobody realized how specific that moment was until all three became collectibles. Read on to find out what a head-to-head comparison test revealed about each car’s real character.
Ford built one of its best naturally aspirated V8s for the SVT Mustang Cobra and Ford GT, then quietly dropped variants of it into a Lincoln and a Mercury that almost nobody cross-shops for performance. The used market still hasn’t caught up to what’s actually under the hood of these cars. Read on to find out which two overlooked models carry genuine Cobra-engine credentials for a fraction of Mustang money, and what to check before buying one.
The muscle car era produced more than horsepower bragging rights — it produced genuine engineering firsts that quietly became standard equipment decades later, from Ram Air induction to the first mass-produced overhead-cam engine built by a major American automaker. Five specific innovations, built under real deadline pressure by manufacturers racing each other for market share, still shape how performance cars are designed today. Read on to find out which five made the list, and why disc brakes owe more to the Corvette than most drivers realize.
A 1970 Chevelle and a 1969 Camaro have been arguing over GM muscle car supremacy for more than fifty years, and neither side has ever fully won. One brings 454 cubic inches and up to 450 factory horsepower; the other brings the most coveted body style of the first-generation Camaro and a lighter chassis to match. Read on to find out why General Motors basically built this rivalry on purpose — and why it still hasn’t been settled.