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A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner up for sale hides one of Detroit’s strangest factory options: a vacuum-actuated Air Grabber hood scoop that pops open with a cabin switch. This one pairs it with a 440-cubic-inch V8, a four-speed stick, and a Sure-Grip differential — the combination most real buyers actually chose over the flashier Hemi. Here’s what still makes it worth a second look.
The AMC Javelin arrived four years late to the pony car wars against Mustang, Camaro, and Barracuda — then delivered one of the closest championship finishes in Trans-Am history. A single point cost it the 1970 title, and a six-race win streak sealed the trophy in 1971. Here’s the racing story behind the 401-powered Javelin, plus what to check before buying one today.
Built in 1956 as one of the first true drag strips in the country, Cordova Dragway just pulled a crowd big enough to stop longtime regulars in their tracks. The 2026 World Series of Drag Racing brought six-figure vintage muscle cars and a 30-year-old match-racing club back to the same Illinois quarter-mile, and the numbers in the stands tell their own story.
Dodge’s Hellcat Redeye made 797 horsepower before it ever got wider tires to handle it. The factory Widebody package added 3.5 inches of fender and a set of 305-section Pirellis, turning a car that could spin its tires in third gear into a 10.8-second quarter-miler. Production ended in 2023, so every one left on the road is now a fixed piece of muscle car history.
A numbers-matching 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 squared off against a Buick GSX Stage 1, a Pontiac Trans Am SD-455, and a Hemi Road Runner in a strict Pure Stock Drags shootout. Only Chevrolet’s chronically underrated L88 Corvette could put it away. Here’s how the torque-heavy 455 stacked up against three of Detroit’s most famous engines – and why it still gets called one of the most underrated muscle cars ever built.
A heavily built Shelby GT500 pushing an estimated 1,500 horsepower squares off with a 1,200-horsepower Camaro ZL1 in a straight-line showdown. Both cars started as factory monsters before their owners pushed them into a different league entirely, and the pairing revives a rivalry that dates back to 1967.
Three Swedish friends took a 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air to Budapest for a downtown burnout, then shipped it to the United States to attempt Drag Week, an event requiring five strip passes at five tracks with hundreds of highway miles driven in between. The Bel Air was Chevrolet’s mid-tier family car, built more than 236,000 times that year. Read on to find out why that made it the right choice.
A Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody gets turned loose on a stretch of German Autobahn with no posted limit, clawing toward 185 mph. Partway through the run, a phone breaks free from its mount — and the driver makes a split-second call viewers are still talking about. Here’s what the run reveals about America’s fastest four-door.
A European car channel best known for reviewing supercars recently gave a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge the full walkaround-and-test-drive treatment, and its fans couldn’t stop talking about it. The Judge’s name came within a licensing dispute of never happening at all, and only a handful of the rarest version were ever built. Here’s the real story behind Pontiac’s loudest muscle car option, and the numbers that back up its reputation today.
A three-way design vote on a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda restomod just took a hard left turn: instead of a classic orange or period-correct blue scheme, the build team picked a modern quad-headlight front end nobody expected. Here’s why that call matters on a car with only 14 factory Hemi convertibles ever built, and where Project CudaCat heads next.
