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A scene from the 2014 film Need for Speed pits what’s billed as a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner against a 2006 Lotus Exige, but sharp-eyed commenters argue the Mopar is actually a dressed-up Satellite. Years after release, fans are still debating who would really win between American displacement and British featherweight engineering. Watch to see Hollywood’s version of the answer.
For four years the 4-4-2 was just another option box on the Cutlass order form. Then 1968 brought an all-new Coke-bottle body and Oldsmobile promoted it to a model of its own, with a 400-cubic-inch V8 hiding the long-stroke crank that would later appear in the 455. Oldsmobile sold 33,607 of them. Read on to find out why the 4-4-2 quietly outran cars that got all the attention.
Chevrolet showed up to the pony car fight two and a half years late, and its first attempt had no room for a learning curve. The 1967 Camaro SS answered the Mustang GT feature for feature, then went further with a big-block option Ford could not match. Of 220,906 first-year Camaros, only about 34,000 wore Super Sport badges. Read on for why the first-year SS still sets the template every Camaro since has chased.
A 1970 Plymouth Superbird spent nineteen years sitting before anyone put real miles on it, and it still shows just 674 on the odometer today. The factory B5 blue paint has never been touched by a repaint gun, and the numbers-matching 440 Super Commando under the hood still traces back to the original build sheet. Only 1,920 Superbirds were built for NASCAR homologation, and this one may be among the best-preserved survivors left. Is a car this original meant to be driven, or protected?
This nitrous V8 Holden Torana launches hard enough to send its nose skyward well past what its wheelie bars were built to handle — and several commenters swear the chassis looks visibly twisted by the time it comes back down. Filmed at an APSA event, this pass has racked up a quarter million views for one violent wheelstand. Watch to see just how far this launch actually goes.
The Coronet R/T only ever came with two engines — Dodge would not let anything softer wear the badge. One was the standard 440 Magnum, rated at 375 horsepower; the other was the far rarer 426 HEMI that turned an unassuming B-body into one of the era’s most feared street cars. By 1970, with just 2,615 R/Ts built out of over 114,000 Coronets, the model was already on its way out in favor of the Charger. Here’s what made this quiet-looking Mopar such a serious machine.
Justin Pritchard puts a 2018 Dodge Challenger T/A 392 through its paces for AutoTrader Canada, opening with a Call of Duty comparison that’s since become one of the most quoted lines in the car’s comments. Owners weigh in on second-gear thrills, twisty-road composure, and where this trim sits against the pricier Hellcat. A currency mix-up over the car’s roughly sixty-one-thousand-dollar price tag adds its own twist. Watch to see why so many buyers call this the sweet spot.
This nitrous-fed Camaro ZL1, nicknamed the Freedom Rocket, had already survived a 300-horsepower shot under one tuner’s setup. Then a new shop got involved, and the comment section has since turned into a full investigation of a possible jetting chart mix-up. Watch to see exactly where — and how violently — the engine finally lets go.
This 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S has just 5,804 original miles — and after two careful owners spanning nearly six decades, this was its first car show ever. Owner Ron George’s dad got him and his brother into Mopars as kids, and this unrestored survivor even has commenters debating a muffler note that later model years reportedly lost. Watch to see what nearly six decades of restraint actually looks like.
George was not hunting for a classic when he spotted a Buick Skylark with a for-sale sign in Lisbon, Ohio, in the summer of 2014; he just stopped for a closer look. What he found was a GS455-powered GSX tribute car with its original numbers-matching 350 engine stored safely away, parked in a garage alongside a small private muscle car collection. Read on to find out about the one-of-a-kind GM production mistake that makes a factory GS455 Stage I Skylark one of the rarest muscle cars of 1970.
Cliff Batson calls himself a Chevy guy — but he’s owned this 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback in an unusual shade of Lime Gold since 1990, and it’s never left his garage. Under the hood is a drivetrain combo collectors still chase decades later, and the body shares its shape with the most famous car chase in movie history. Watch to find out why a self-described Chevy guy never let this Ford go.
A 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat should win this one easily — at least that’s what the spec sheet says. But the Ford Super Duty pulling up next to it is running a built, bulletproofed 6.0-liter Powerstroke with its own tuner and transmission, and diesel torque doesn’t play by gas-engine rules off the line. Watch to see which one actually crosses the stripe first.
This 1971 Ford Mustang Sportsroof became Eleanor, the only car in movie history to receive on-screen star billing, thanks to director H.B. Halicki’s dangerously ambitious 1974 chase picture Gone in 60 Seconds. Dozens of cars were destroyed, Halicki broke his own back finishing the shoot, and the result is still studied by stunt coordinators fifty years later. See why this scrappy, low-budget original still outshines its famous modern remake.
A long-rumored sale finally happened when a 1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona from the Wellborn Museum Collection crossed the block at a Mecum auction, and Mopar fans everywhere had opinions before the gavel even fell. Commenters call the winged Daytona the Holy Grail of the breed, a car some of them once passed up for a few hundred dollars back when gas cost 28 cents a gallon. This time, nobody was letting it go cheap. What did the final number turn out to be?
