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A Michigan collector’s wanted ad for any Plymouth Barracuda, in any condition, reflects just how scarce genuine survivors have become since Plymouth’s 1970 redesign turned the car into one of the era’s most sought-after E-body muscle cars. That redesign also produced the one-year-only AAR ‘Cuda, a homologation special built for Trans-Am racing that still drives collector demand today. Read on to find out what makes the 1970 model year so different from everything that came before it.
Planning a road trip around America’s best muscle car museums? One name that used to top these lists, Florida’s Muscle Car City, closed for good in 2021 and sold off its 200-plus car collection at auction. Here’s an updated look at which classic muscle car museums are still standing – including the one built next to an actual Corvette assembly plant, and why institutional backing matters more than you’d think.
A roadside police stop causes a chain of hard braking, one driver’s dashcam catches a heart-stopping near miss, and the video’s own title calls her a NASCAR natural. The comment section disagreed almost immediately, breaking the footage down car by car to argue over who actually deserves credit for keeping this from becoming a multi-vehicle pileup. Watch to see whether you land on the side of skill, luck, or something else entirely.
At SEMA, Fullboost’s Luke tracked down Johnathan Goodwin to find out how his “electronic supercharger” — a battery-and-motor bolt-on that boosts power without hurting fuel economy — actually works, bolted to a 1957 Pontiac instead of the Hummer it had quietly been tested in months before. The same hot rodders who usually chase cubic inches were suddenly asking about kilowatts. Watch to see exactly how the E-Charger fills a turbo’s torque gap.
This barn held two very different 1968 Mustangs — a base six-cylinder car, and a genuine mid-year 428 Cobra Jet Fastback GT that Ford built specifically to homologate for drag racing. Both need real mechanical work after years in storage, but only one of them is one of the rarest production Mustangs ever built. See what a side-by-side barn find reveals about how differently the same model year could turn out.
Todd Werner’s restored #43 Plymouth Superbird carries the STP livery and race history tied directly to Richard Petty, one of the most recognizable combinations in NASCAR history. Filmed from the passenger floor of the car itself at Atlanta Motor Speedway, this ride-along captures what made Plymouth’s aero-war weapon so intimidating before NASCAR regulated it out of competition after a single season. Watch to see why fans call it the greatest NASCAR machine ever built.
Tom Stutzman’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird wears one of Pontiac’s rarest paint colors over one of its rarest engines, a 400 cubic inch Ram Air IV most buyers never got the chance to order. Restored over several years by Barnes Classic Restorations and shown at the notoriously detail-obsessed Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, this Firebird represents the kind of correctness that takes real judges to fully appreciate. Watch to find out what separates a genuinely correct restoration from one that only looks right from a distance.
Plymouth had a problem in 1967: everybody suddenly wanted a pony car, and the original Barracuda still looked like what it was, a Valiant wearing a fastback window. So Plymouth started over on the sheetmetal, and buried in the options list was a big-block that turned a reworked economy car into something that could hang with the muscle crowd. Most people who spot one today assume it is the small-block version. Read on for the Barracuda most people forget existed.
Juan Escalante’s father fell for the Dodge Challenger at the 1969 Detroit Auto Show, months before it reached dealerships. The 426 Hemi, four-speed R/T he eventually bought — one of only 137 built with that combination — spent 24 years in Venezuela, where local enthusiasts nicknamed it ‘El Hemi,’ before a nine-year restoration brought it back. The car was finished in 2005. Its owner didn’t live to see it.
From where the Oldsmobile 442 name actually came from to which comedian ended up with one of Carroll Shelby’s rarest supercharged Cobras, muscle car history is full of details that have nothing to do with horsepower. Some of the strangest trivia predates the term ‘muscle car’ entirely. Here’s what separates casual fans from people who really know the era.
By its second model year the Mustang was the fastest-selling new nameplate in American automotive history, and tucked into the order form was a small fender badge most buyers walked right past. Ford hand-selected the blocks for this engine and rejected any with the slightest flaw, a level of quality control almost nobody bothered with on a volume car. Only 5,469 were built for 1966. Read on for the badge that still means something six decades later.
This 1970 Ford Mustang wears a bold white-and-red color combination from the final year of the pony car’s smaller, tighter-bodied generation — the last stand before Ford scaled the whole lineup up for 1971. Behind the stripes sits the returning Mach 1 package and a 351-cubic-inch V8 available in two distinct states of tune. Read on to find out why this particular model year marked the quiet end of an era.
Jeff Schwartz of Schwartz Performance Inc. spent two years turning a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda into something far more than a restoration: a Pearl Orange Metallic restomod packing 805 horsepower from a 426 Hemi, built on a modern chassis and engineered to handle like a road-ready race car. The shape is instantly familiar. Almost everything underneath it isn’t.
Red Victor doesn’t look like much — a modest Vauxhall Victor body hiding a turbocharged setup pushing roughly 2200 horsepower to the pavement. In this clip, that power translates into a genuine 0-60 time measured in a single second, a number that’s kept viewers arguing about the car’s legitimacy for years. The comment section reads like a decade-long debate about what ‘street legal’ should really mean. Watch the run and decide for yourself.
A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.