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For years, Detroit street racers only knew the Black Ghost by reputation, a black 1970 Challenger R/T SE with a 426 Hemi that beat them and vanished before anyone learned who was driving. Gregory Qualls knows exactly who, because it was his father, an off-duty Detroit police officer. After decades in storage, the car resurfaced, earned a spot on the National Historic Vehicle Register, and inspired a full documentary. Hear the son tell the story only he can tell.
A freshly rebuilt big-block Chevy, a Muncie M21 four-speed, and 4.10 gears meet a light 1969 Camaro built in the spirit of Don Yenko’s legendary COPO cars — and the tires lose the argument almost immediately. Viewers can’t stop talking about the sound, and one small dashboard gesture at the end says everything about what this build means to its owner. Watch to see the first real pull.
Ford built more than 607,000 Mustangs in 1966, and almost none of them looked any different from this one — until you popped the hood. Order the K-code option and you got a 271-horsepower, solid-lifter 289 hiding under ordinary sheet metal, an engine so under-the-radar that fewer than 5,500 buyers ever checked that box. Read on to find out how to spot a genuine K-code and why collectors chase it so hard today.
Ford revived the Boss 302 name for just two model years, 2012 and 2013, building a Mustang with a carbon-fiber-plate limited-slip differential, shock absorbers adjustable with a flathead screwdriver, and an aero package borrowed directly from the Boss 302R race car. The rarer Laguna Seca edition added Recaro seats and its own suspension tuning. Read on to find out what separates the two model years at a glance.
WeBe Autos walks through a sprawling Pennsylvania inventory of classic and muscle-era cars, from a $250 parts-only 1966 Mustang to a $16,000 1958 Ford retractable hardtop. Between the price tags sits a real lesson in what makes a barn find worth chasing versus worth parting out, and how dealers who specialize in scattered private collections actually price decades of outdoor storage. Watch to see what survives, what doesn’t, and what it’s all actually worth.
A montage of Hellcats, GT-Rs, Mustangs, and Chargers all losing the fight against their own horsepower at launch, this compilation has racked up nearly 200,000 views for a reason that goes beyond spectacle. Buried in the reactions is the real explanation: too many of these cars are hitting the strip on street tires instead of tires built for the job. The physics behind wheel hop, traction rolls, and sudden oversteer are all on display. See exactly what separates a clean launch from the next viral fail.
This 1969 Dodge Charger tribute recreates the General Lee’s most famous stunt, a jump over a muddy creek that echoes what The Dukes of Hazzard did to hundreds of real Chargers during its original run. The show almost used a different car entirely before a stunt coordinator changed course. Read on to find out why the Charger got the call instead.
This 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T showed up at the 2013 Pigeon Forge Rod Run wearing a 426 HEMI badge, one of the rarest engine options Dodge ever put in a midsize body, and got nothing more than a quick, unscripted walk-around. No narration, no backstory, just a camera and a car worth stopping for. What that raw footage reveals, and what separates a documented HEMI Coronet from the clones that outnumber them, comes down to details most people would walk right past.
A base-looking V6 Mustang with three people on board, the air conditioning running, and a passenger whose only job is pushing the nitrous button just ran down a heavily tuned Nissan GT-R putting out roughly 720 horsepower. Limitless Performance’s 575-horsepower build, nicknamed “The WEIRD,” reportedly wasn’t even using its full nitrous shot on the pass. Commenters are calling it the ultimate sleeper, and arguing about what a six-cylinder Mustang beating a supercar really proves.
Before 1966, Chevrolet’s big-block Chevelle existed only as a tiny, mid-year experiment built in roughly 200 units. Then Chevy turned the SS 396 into a full series with three distinct engine options, and buyers snapped up around 70,000 of them at a base price under $2,800. Read on to find out which engine option collectors chase hardest today, and how a car that cost less than $3,000 new now commands six figures at auction.
This 1970 Dodge Charger wears Sublime, a High Impact paint color Dodge offered for a single model year before dropping it, paired with the legendary 426 Hemi under the hood. The combination of rare paint and an already scarce engine option makes this a genuine unicorn in the Mopar world. Read on to find out why one-year-only colors like this now command such a premium.
Park a 1968 and a 1969 Camaro side by side and most people call them twins. They aren’t. In twelve months, Chevrolet reworked the grille, the hood, the fenders, the taillights, and even the gauge cluster on America’s answer to the Mustang, changing the car’s entire visual identity without touching its basic proportions. If you can’t immediately tell the two years apart, you’re not alone. Read on to find out the six details that separate them for good.
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.
A viewer’s engine ran smooth, started fine, and seemed simply low on power, until he pulled a worn camshaft and found some valves barely opening at all. Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske breaks down the four things every gasoline engine needs to make power, and why each one quietly fades with age. One fix turned into a bigger power gain than anyone expected. What’s actually happening inside an engine that feels “just old”?
At an RT66 Test N Tune event in 2015, Rich Kent’s E85-fueled 1962 Mercury Comet did something a brand-new 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat never expected: it beat it clean off the line. The video’s own description reveals the Hellcat had run nearly three seconds quicker just a week earlier, turning a simple grudge race into a years-long argument about driving versus horsepower. Watch to see the run that started the controversy.