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Shelby swapped the screaming small-block of the GT350 for a 428 Police Interceptor V8 in 1967, wrapped it in the most aggressive bodywork a Mustang had worn yet, and built only 2,048 of them. Ford’s factory horsepower rating was famously conservative, and most people who’ve driven one believe the real number was well above what the brochure claimed. It remains one of the rarest big-block Mustangs Shelby ever put his name on.
Bill Warzynski bought his 1965 Pontiac GTO new — and never sold it. Nearly fifty years later, Lou Costabile’s My Car Story catches up with him at the Cantigny Park Car Show for a conversation with the rarest kind of witness: an original owner of the car that’s widely credited with starting the muscle car era. No gaps, no guesswork, just five decades of direct history. Watch to hear it firsthand.
1970 turned out to be the last real hurrah for Ford’s Mustang lineup before insurance companies, emissions rules, and a fuel crisis reshaped the whole muscle car world. Buyers that year could choose from a 428 Cobra Jet, a 499-unit Boss 429, or a Boss 302 – options that would mostly vanish within a couple of model years. A clean survivor like this one is a snapshot of Mustang at its absolute peak, right before everything changed.
The 1969 Corvette ZL1 option cost almost as much as an entire base Corvette, which explains why Chevrolet only ever sold two of them to the public. Just 71 cars total left the factory with a genuine ZL1 engine, split between Camaros and Corvettes. A discovery of the original block tooling decades later gave GM a way to build the engine again.
The Plymouth Barracuda and Dodge Challenger shared the same E-body platform, the same engine lineup up through the 426 Hemi, and the same fate when EPA and insurance rules ended the big-block era in 1974. What set them apart was never under the hood – it was two inches of wheelbase, a different grille, and which showroom you happened to walk into. Which one is the better muscle car has been a real argument in this community for over 50 years now.
Speed Academy tours GM’s Tonawanda, New York engine plant while the supercharged LT4 V8 — at the time GM’s most powerful production engine ever — comes together on a line with nearly a century of manufacturing history behind it. It’s a rare look at the precision it takes to build 650 horsepower into a factory small-block. Watch to see how boost, tolerances, and decades of know-how come together.
TestDriven walks the floor of the only place on earth where a Chevrolet Corvette has ever been built — the Bowling Green, Kentucky assembly plant — during C7 Stingray production. It’s a rare look at how much of the process still comes down to skilled hands rather than robots. Corvette owners have been making pilgrimages here for decades; this is the next best thing. Watch to see the Stingray come together, station by station.
A sandwich shouldn’t be enough to make anyone nervous before a drag strip roll race, but that’s exactly what was on the line when a Nitrous Outlet Viper lined up against a Procharged C7 Corvette at Street Car Takeover OKC. The dyno numbers going in suggested one clear favorite, and the pass itself told a different story entirely. Miss Stangkilr’s Corvette wasn’t just racing for a sandwich — it was racing for the kind of reputation that follows a car around for years. Watch how the numbers stack up against what actually happened at the tree.
Only fifty 1967 Mustang GTA K-Code convertibles were built, and this one carries Marti Report confirmation that it’s the very last off Ford’s San Jose line — the same plant that built the earliest Shelby GT350s. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week digs into what made the 289 High Performance V8 special and why Ford quietly expected these cars to get raced hard. Watch to see the Lime Gold survivor up close.
Jeffrey Harkins bought this 1969 Ford Ranchero already dressed up as a low-rider, sagging on the wrong springs with side pipes bolted on for looks. Eight months of real work later, from suspension to floor pans to a swapped-in Mustang 302, it sits proud and ready for its first show. It’s a reminder that the best rescues aren’t about paint, they’re about undoing somebody else’s bad decisions first.
A Hemi Challenger and a Lamborghini line up on a closed public road in Mosjoen, Norway, for the kind of street-legal grudge match that decides local bragging rights. American torque against Italian launch control, side by side, with no strip lights or rollout adjustments to soften the result. It’s the rawest version of this rivalry you’ll find. Watch to see which car actually gets to the far end first.
Muscle car or pony car — the two get treated as interchangeable, and most of the time nobody notices the difference. Car Throttle breaks down where the terms actually came from, why a mid-size Chevelle and a compact Mustang aren’t technically the same species, and how a handful of big-block pony cars blurred the line for good. It’s the kind of debate that gets people talking at every cruise night. Watch to see which side of the argument you land on.
American Motors wasn’t known for excitement, which makes the 1969 Hurst SC/Rambler such an outlier — a 315-horsepower drag-strip special built in partnership with Hurst Performance itself. It ran 14.2 seconds in the quarter mile for under three thousand dollars, all wrapped in AMC’s most forgettable economy body. Muscle Car of the Week breaks down exactly how an economy brand pulled it off.