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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.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner — two of Chrysler’s most storied B-body muscle cars — squared off in the latest matchup from the Search for Speed amateur racing league. One built its reputation on style, the other on stripped-down value, and both have loyal followings who’ll argue their case at any car show in America. Watch to see which Mopar cousin came out on top.
1972 was the year Chrysler pulled the Hemi from the order sheet for good and axed the Charger 500 and Super Bee nameplates right along with it, yet Charger sales still jumped nearly 29% over the year before. This SE hardtop represents Dodge’s answer to a changing muscle car market: fewer engine choices, but a 440 still available for anyone willing to look for it. Here’s why this transition-year Charger deserves more credit than it gets.
Twin 88mm turbochargers stick straight up through holes cut into this Corvette’s hood, feeding a combined 2,400 horsepower alongside a 400-shot of nitrous stacked on top. The car’s only real problem is putting all of that power to the ground, a traction fight that’s kept it from a genuine 200 mph pass so far. Watch to see what happens when a build this extreme runs out of runway before it runs out of power.
This ’69 Camaro won its race at the legendary underground gathering known as Cash Days — then rolled seconds later after running out of road and catching a curb at speed. Described as the first and only rollover ever caught on camera at the event, the footage is a rare, uncomfortable look at what street racing risks once the finish line is behind you. Watch to see exactly how fast triumph turned to disaster.
A GoPro mounted directly on a top alcohol funny car’s wheelie bar catches something spectators rarely see up close: the violent tire shake that comes with putting 2,000-plus horsepower to the pavement in under six seconds. Shot at Grand Bend Motorplex in Ontario with racer Racer X behind the wheel, the angle shows exactly how a launch this powerful can start fighting itself. Watch to see how close the car comes to losing the fight entirely.
Chevrolet built roughly 165,300 Chevy II and Novas in 1966, but the wagon was always the body style nobody seemed to order, which is exactly why finding one parked next to a sedan today, like this pair, is a genuine treat. Both wear the upscale Nova trim, but only one of them was a rare sight even on new-car lots back in 1966. Here’s why the wagon deserves way more credit than it usually gets.
A scale Shelby Cobra gets sent sideways across a living room floor in this home video, with a title that suggests the stunt didn’t sit well with whoever else lives there. It’s a small, low-cost slice of RC drift culture built around a car that’s been going sideways — on purpose and otherwise — since the 1960s. Watch to see just how close this Cobra gets to the furniture.
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.
Only about 453 people ordered Chevrolet’s brand-new Impala SS package when it launched in February 1961 for just $53.80 over a standard Impala — and in doing so, they bought into the very first SS-badged Chevrolet ever built. Under the right hood was a 348 V8 making up to 350 horsepower with Tri-Power. Here’s why this rare package quietly set the template every muscle car since has followed.
Nearly every panel on the 1969 Camaro was new that year, and buyers responded by pushing production to 243,085 units — the highest single-season total the first-generation Camaro would ever hit. Order the SS package and Chevrolet gave you a genuine choice between a 300-horsepower 350, a 375-horsepower 396, or a special-order 427 rated at 425 horsepower. Here’s what’s likely hiding under a hood like this one.
1968 was a one-year-only moment for the Dodge Charger: its dual circular taillights and reworked fastback body never appeared again after that model year. Under the hood of this R/T sits a 440 Magnum V8 good for 375 horsepower and a sub-6.2-second run to 60 mph. That same body style would go on to chase Steve McQueen through Bullitt just months later.
