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This 1964 Pontiac Catalina Safari started its life as a police wagon, about as unglamorous an origin as a muscle car story gets. Owner Mike Artman rebuilt it around a Nelson Racing Engines 468 cubic inch big block, turning a fleet vehicle into a genuine tire-shredding performance wagon. Watch the burnout and decide if wagons deserve more respect.
Drag racing legend Don “Big Daddy” Garlits doesn’t lend his name to just anything, yet here he is introducing a one-of-one Dodge Challenger packing over 1,000 horsepower. The HellScat fuses two of Dodge’s performance sub-brands into a build that exists nowhere else, and it’s not headed for a museum. It’s going home with whoever wins the Dream Giveaway raffle.
The 1968 Shelby GT500KR carried a name Carroll Shelby only used for a single model year, backed by a 428 Cobra Jet V8 that Ford badly undersold on paper. This vintage road test captures the car as period buyers actually saw it, not as a restored show piece decades later. See what made dealers scramble to keep one on the lot.
Are you a fan of the classic curves of a ’57 Chevy or does the sleek silhouette of a ’67 Mustang make your heart race? Maybe you’re more into the futuristic lines of a Tesla Model S? We’re curious to know which year and model revs your engine! Whether your favorite ride is a vintage beauty or a modern marvel, cast your vote in our fun poll. After all, who doesn’t love a little friendly debate over horsepower and hubcaps? Join in and let’s see which car takes the checkered flag for the favorite year and model!
Four model years, one platform, and just enough small changes to make year identification a genuine skill among Chevelle fans. This breakdown walks through what actually separates a 1964 from a 1965, 1966, and 1967 Chevelle — details most casual fans miss entirely. See if you can spot them before the video gives it away.
Don Yenko is famous for turning Camaros and Chevelles into muscle car legends, but his rarest project might be the one built on Chevrolet’s humble Vega platform. Lou Costabile tracked down a 1972 Vega Yenko Stinger in orange paint at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, owned by a collector whose entire Yenko lineup follows one unshakable color rule. Find out why Mark Hassett won’t own one in any other shade.
Ford chose the 2018 Detroit auto show to bring back one of its most storied nameplates: the Mustang Bullitt, now packing 475 horsepower and the kind of deliberate restraint that’s defined every revival since 2001. Then, almost as an afterthought, the brand teased something even more serious waiting in the wings. AmericanMuscle was there to capture both moments as they happened. See what else Ford had up its sleeve.
From the mid-50s to the 70s, American street racers were the kings of cool, cruising boulevards and racing deserted runways. Muscle cars with sleek lines, custom paint jobs, and engines that left police cruisers in the dust were the emperors of the road—and their drivers raced for glory and the fastest girls. But crashes, the law, or love eventually sidelined most racers. Still, some of these legends have been passed down, with grandchildren now revving those engines at local dragstrips.
An independent appraiser spent three to four hours crawling under this 1968 Buick GS 400 before signing off on it — magnet-testing the body, photographing the underbody, and confirming its numbers-matching engine and original Turbo 400 transmission. Pulled from an estate with the original engine included on a stand, it’s the kind of documented survivor that rarely surfaces at ,000. Watch to see what a professional inspection actually finds.
Chevrolet chose Dubai, not Detroit, to introduce the most powerful Corvette it had ever built for public sale — a supercharged, 755-horsepower ZR1 aimed squarely at cars wearing far pricier badges. The launch put the C7 Corvette’s ultimate expression in front of a market that treats American horsepower as a legitimate status symbol, not a novelty. Watch to see what happens when Chevrolet’s halo car gets judged on Ferrari and Lamborghini turf.
Most people restore a classic truck once. The owner of this 1957 Chevy pickup did it twice over fifteen years, taking it from driver quality to a full show-quality build with a supercharged 383 stroker, ghost-flame paint, and a custom interior he built himself. Vanguard Motor Sales has it on the lot in Michigan now. See what fifteen years and two ground-up rebuilds actually produces.
This 1967 Camaro SS396 convertible carries the top-tier 375-horsepower 396 big block and a Granada Gold color combination rarely seen even among first-year Camaros. Convertibles from that debut year survived in far smaller numbers than hardtops, making a documented example like this genuinely scarce. Featured as the Camaro nameplate crossed its 50th anniversary, it’s a direct look at where the whole legacy began. See what made the very first SS396 worth remembering.
A Demon and a Hellcat, owned by the same person, hit the same dyno on the same day — no excuses, no inconsistent conditions, just two supercharged Hemis measured back to back. The results land closer together than Dodge’s factory numbers might suggest, with a bigger gap still to come once the Demon’s PCM gets unlocked. Which car actually earns its reputation once the numbers are real? See exactly where they landed.
The 2018 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport borrows the Z06’s wide body and suspension hardware but skips the supercharger, and reviewers called it the best-handling C7 Corvette yet built. It landed as a deliberate placeholder ahead of the next ZR1 and the mid-engine C8 that would follow. Sometimes the middle child in a lineup ends up being the one worth driving. Find out why this Corvette earned that reputation.
Believed to be the final Pontiac GTO Judge convertible built for the 1969 model year, this special-order example carries the 366-horsepower Ram Air III 400 V8 and a color combination most Judge buyers never chose. It’s part of The Brothers Collection, a group of muscle cars defined by being the first or last of their kind off the line. Being the last of anything in muscle car history is its own rare distinction. See what closes out a legendary model year.