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Sammy Miller’s 1984 run at Santa Pod dragstrip in a car called Vanishing Point covered the quarter mile in 3.58 seconds at 386 miles per hour — and it wasn’t burning gasoline to do it. The car ran on hydrogen peroxide, pressurized air tanks, and a chemical reaction that produced 14,000 pounds of thrust. There’s an even faster desert run buried in the same story that never made the official record books.
A classified ad hunting for four completely different American classics, a 1930s Ford coupe, a postwar pickup, an early Mustang, and a Chevrolet SSR, reveals more about how collectors think than most polished auction listings ever do. The buyer will even consider an unfinished project, as long as it’s solid. Read on to find out why this specific combination makes sense as a starter collection.
Pontiac was not supposed to build the 1964 GTO at all. A corporate rule banned engines over 330 cubic inches from the compact Tempest, so three engineers found a loophole in the option book and dropped a 389 in anyway. Management approved 5,000 units as a hedge against failure. Buyers ordered more than six times that number in the first year, and Detroit spent the next decade chasing what Pontiac started by accident.
Hurricane Irma pulled the ocean itself away from parts of the Bahamas, leaving docks stranded over bare seabed and locals staring at conch shells sitting in open air. The cause wasn’t a tsunami — it was the storm’s extreme low pressure pulling water toward its own eye. The water returned within a day, but the footage remains one of the stranger reminders of what a major hurricane can do to a coastline before it even makes landfall.
A homemade video shot at a small Michigan dragstrip in 2001 captures something the big-budget car shows almost never do: what grassroots Mopar racing actually looked like when nobody was performing for a camera crew. Pat Muscle Car Fan’s footage from Ubly Dragstrip is a time capsule of a scene that shaped how an entire generation of Mopar owners learned to race.