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This 1970 Ford Torino King Cobra prototype was built to fight Chrysler’s aerodynamic NASCAR cars, wrapping an extended nose around the race-bred Boss 429 V8 before NASCAR’s rule changes killed the entire program. Only a handful of these prototypes were ever built, making this one of the rarest Fords in existence. Take a detailed look at a car that came remarkably close to reaching Ford showrooms before the aero wars ended.

This 1968 Camaro claims 1000 horsepower with zero turbo, supercharger, or nitrous — just massive displacement, 14:1 compression, and a camshaft aggressive enough to make it idle like it’s fighting itself. Freshly restored and cruising the streets of Houston at roughly 2,950 pounds with the driver, it’s the kind of build commenters say they’ve replayed a thousand times just for the sound. Watch to hear it for yourself.

Anthony Lucarz has owned his 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport for eighteen years, restoring it back to the factory specifications it left the assembly line with — including a real, functioning hood scoop and an 8,000-RPM tachometer most owners never got to use. My Car Story with Lou Costabile caught up with him and the Cobra Jet-powered Torino to hear how it’s held up. Watch to see what nearly 500,000 other viewers came back for.

Car News TV goes looking for the muscle cars everyone forgot, and the list includes a Mustang wagon that left viewers stunned it ever existed, a six-barrel Road Runner that sparked a comments-section correction, and a Studebaker Avanti nobody expected to see. Watch the full rundown and see how many you actually remember.

Ford rated this Mustang’s big block at just 375 horsepower, a figure almost nobody who drove one actually believed. Built to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules and assembled outside the factory by an outside engineering firm, this car packed race-bred internals most buyers never fully understood. Discover why enthusiasts still debate its real output decades later, and how a Hemi-inspired head design ended up under a Ford hood.

Rocky Mountain Race Week throws a group of street-legal cars making 2,000 to 3,000 horsepower into a five-day, multi-track endurance test through triple-digit Nebraska heat. This 2017 recap follows day one in Kearney, where sleep-deprived racers are still finishing builds the night before testing begins. Watch to see which of these 2,000-plus horsepower street machines actually survive the heat before the real racing even starts.

This 1969 Ram Air IV GTO convertible looks like a straightforward feature from The Brothers Collection, until the comments reveal Pontiac’s official 370-horsepower rating was likely a deliberate understatement to dodge insurance scrutiny. The real number, according to detailed viewer math, is closer to 420. Watch to see the car behind the controversy.

This 1968 lineup photo puts three very different Dodges side by side: the lightweight Dart GTS, the full-size Coronet R/T, and the radically styled Charger R/T. Each one represented a different bet on what muscle car buyers wanted that year, light weight and agility, big-block brute force, or head-turning design. The Coronet R/T’s Hemi option was built in numbers so small that survivors are among the rarest Mopars around today. Which one would you have driven off the lot in 1968?

Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard spent time with a 1963 split-window Corvette to explain what makes the C2 the most collectible generation in the model’s history — and where buyers get burned if they don’t know what to check. It’s a buyers guide built from decades of watching these cars change hands, including one correction Hagerty had to issue after the fact. Watch to find out what even an executive editor got wrong on camera.

The 1964 Pontiac GTO started life as a loophole in GM’s own corporate rulebook, and the rarest version of it packed three carburetors instead of one. Only a fraction of that first model year’s production carried the Tri-Power option that made the GTO a genuine performance threat. Here’s what separated the base car from the one everyone really wanted, and why a correct restoration is harder than it looks.

The “Eleanor” Hero Car from Gone in 60 Seconds sold for $1 million at Dana Mecum’s 26th Original Spring Classic — a result that stunned auction regulars watching bids climb in real time. See what made this 1967 Mustang worth seven figures, and how it stacks up against the biggest movie car sales in history.

Bladed Angel’s tour of six fast American cars under $10,000 has become a minor cult favorite for one honest reason: the host flubs a torque unit on camera, catches it, and leaves the apology in rather than editing it out. Picks range from a Mach 1 to sleeper domestics most budget shoppers overlook, but the real twist comes later, when the host admits he ignored his own Mustang advice and bought a 2016 GT instead. Watch to see the full list and the confession that follows it.

A single red convertible on a showroom floor kicked off one of Detroit’s fiercest rivalries — and the car everyone assumes won wasn’t the one that actually won in 1955. Ford’s Thunderbird and Chevy’s Corvette arrived within a year of each other, aimed at the same buyer, but built on opposite ideas of what a “sports car” should be. One offered two-seat purity; the other offered a V8, power windows, and comfort. The sales gap between them that year still stuns people who assume the Corvette always ruled.

Calvo Motorsports took a factory Dodge Viper ACR Extreme, kept the aero kit and stock 19-inch wheels untouched, and pulled 1750 horsepower from a sleeved version of the production block. The result: 0-200 mph in under half a mile at Texas Invitationals. See why this build still has fans wishing Dodge built it this way from the factory.

An ordinary commute turned into an extraordinary sighting when this creator passed a warehouse full of exotic and muscle cars being seized by the DEA and U.S. Marshals — combined value pushing toward four million dollars. From a Diablo Roadster to a heavily modified American muscle car, see what was inside before it scattered to auction forever.


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