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Before Plymouth ever sold a single production A12 Road Runner to the public, there was a pilot car — the very first one built, used to prove the entire 440 Six Pack program to Chrysler itself. Known as the ‘Wayward Beeper,’ this 1969 Road Runner A12 carries a history most six-figure Hemi cars can only envy, including a magazine-tested quarter-mile run tuned by the legendary Ronnie Sox. Its significance runs deeper than most survivors from that year.
The Black Ghost was a Detroit street racing legend that some people assumed never actually existed — a black 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a 426 Hemi, built and raced by a police officer who kept beating everyone who challenged him. His son Gregory Qualls now owns the car and finally tells its full story at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. It’s since been named car #28 in the National Historic Vehicle Register.
A freshly rebuilt 1969 Yenko Camaro — over 500 horsepower and 550 lb-ft in a car that weighs just 3,500 pounds — gets its first real pull down the road, and the tires lose the argument almost immediately. Built with an M21 four-speed and 4.10 gears, this is not a car designed for gentle acceleration. Watch what happens when patience runs out.
Ford built more than 607,000 Mustangs in 1966, but fewer than 5,500 of them carried the K-code — a 271-horsepower 289 High Performance V8 you had to know to specifically order. Spotting one wasn’t easy either; the giveaways were subtle, like a thicker vibration damper and the absence of a vacuum advance unit on the distributor. Convertible K-codes are rarer still, with fewer than 200 believed to have been built that year. Six decades later, this quietly rare engine option remains one of the most coveted finds in the entire Mustang universe.
WeBe Autos walks through a sprawling Pennsylvania property packed with classic and muscle cars that have sat untouched for decades — from half a dozen 1966 Mustangs to a rare 1958 Ford Retractable hardtop and even a 1914 Model T. Every car here has a price and a story, and most have not moved in twenty-five years or more. Take the walk and see what’s still waiting to be saved.
This compilation rounds up drag racing launches gone wrong across some of the most powerful cars on the road today — Hellcats, Chargers, GT-Rs, and Mustangs all included. Some end in wild wheel hop, others end a lot worse. It’s a reminder that raw horsepower and clean traction are two very different problems. Watch to see who gets it right and who very much does not.
A routine Coffee and Cars meet turned dangerous when a Mustang driver headed straight toward a crowd of onlookers, sending two children to the pavement as bystanders scrambled to get clear. The moment was caught on a shaky Facebook live feed by High Tech Corvette, whose “Douchebag of the Week” series exists specifically to call out drivers like this one. No one was seriously hurt, but the footage is a stark reminder of how quickly a casual car show can turn chaotic.
This 1969 Dodge Charger General Lee tribute is caught mid-jump over a swamp — a nod to the exact stunt that chewed through hundreds of real Chargers during the original show’s run. Some tallies put the number of cars destroyed as high as 317 across just 147 episodes. Here’s why so few genuine screen-used Generals survive today, and why tributes like this one matter.
At the 2013 Pigeon Forge Rod Run, a white 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T packing the rare 426 Hemi option stopped show-goers in their tracks. It’s the first model year Dodge ever used the R/T badge, and Hemi-equipped Coronets from that year are seriously scarce. Take a walk around one of the ones that survived.
A 575-horsepower V6-swapped Mustang built by Limitless Performance lines up against a 720-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Nissan GT-R at a Street Car Takeover event in Houston — and the Mustang’s driver is not even using all of his nitrous. What looks like a mismatch on paper turns into one of the more lopsided upsets in street racing this year. Watch to see how it plays out.
In 1966, Chevrolet stopped treating the SS 396 badge like an afterthought and gave the Chevelle its own dedicated muscle car identity – three different 396 V8 options, a stiffened suspension, and just enough attitude to matter. Buyers responded by snapping up tens of thousands of them at a base price under $2,800, a number that looks almost unbelievable next to today’s auction results. This is the year the Chevelle earned its reputation the hard way.
Dodge only offered Sublime green for a single model year, which is one reason a Charger wearing it still stops traffic decades later. Add a 426 Hemi – an option only 112 buyers were willing to pay for in 1970 – and you’ve got one of the rarest, loudest combinations Mopar ever built. This is the story behind the color and the engine that made this Charger impossible to ignore.
A 1968 and 1969 Camaro might look like twins to the untrained eye, but Chevrolet reworked the nose, tail, fenders, and even the gauge cluster in just twelve months. From the four-piece taillights to the squared-off dash, these are the details serious first-gen Camaro fans use to tell the two years apart at a glance. Here’s exactly what changed – and why it matters to collectors.
Ford’s Mustang sold over 400,000 units in its first year and practically invented a category by accident. Chevrolet answered with the Camaro in 1967, and Dodge joined the fight in 1970 with the Challenger, setting up a three-way rivalry that played out on showroom floors and Trans-Am tracks alike. Here’s how one company’s runaway hit turned into the most famous three-way fight in American muscle car history.