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Owner Randy Smalley waited two full years to get his hands on this 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R in white with blue and red stripes, and when asked why he had to have this particular car, his answer was simply, why not. Underneath the understated paint sits a flat-plane-crank Voodoo V8 built for the track, not the driveway. Watch to hear that engine come alive.
Dominator’s 1967 Dodge Dart built its Street Outlaws reputation on a nitrous-fed Hemi, but owner Joe Woods eventually tore that combination out for something far more extreme. The car’s current heart is a 632 cubic-inch big-block Chevrolet paired with twin 88mm turbochargers, a serious departure from its Mopar roots. Here’s why a Dart built for nitrous ended up running a turbocharged Chevy engine instead.
George Hansen has owned this 1957 Ford Thunderbird since 2012, the final model year before Ford permanently retired the two-seat T-Bird concept for a four-seat redesign. Under the hood is a 312 cubic-inch V8 that Ford also offered in a rare supercharged F-code version built fewer than 250 times. It was the two-seat Thunderbird’s best-selling year ever, right before its identity changed forever.
The 2013 Shelby GT500 didn’t just raise the bar for Mustang performance — it obliterated it, launching with the most powerful production V8 America had ever built and a top speed that flirted with 200 mph. Here’s how Ford and Shelby turned a pony car into a genuine supercar-hunter, and why this generation still commands so much respect among enthusiasts today.
This Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT Fastback carries twelve MCA National Titles and two National Grand Championships — an unusually decorated record for a car that, in period, actually sold worse than the plain hardtop. 1968 was a pivotal year for the GT, with a mid-year Cobra Jet engine option and new safety features arriving almost unannounced. Here’s what made this particular model year, and this particular car, stand out.
Pontiac built 3,797 GTO Judge models in 1970, but only 168 were convertibles, and just a small slice of those carried the range-topping Ram Air IV engine. Depending on which production records you check, surviving examples of this exact four-speed, Judge, Ram Air IV convertible combination number somewhere in the single digits. It’s a car whose rarity even collectors and historians don’t fully agree on down to the exact count.
Justin’s Procharged Chevrolet Corvette C7 debuted at Street Car Takeover’s 2016 Phoenix season opener running 10-second quarter-mile passes on boost alone, with no nitrous involved. As co-owner of the event series, he built the car to be a genuine daily driver, not a trailer queen, working through several early teardowns before the ProCharger F-1A setup held together reliably. It’s proof a stock-bodied C7 can live a double life.
1969 was the best sales year yet for the C3 Corvette, with nearly 39,000 built across ten factory colors. Most buyers stuck with the standard 350 or one of the 427 big-block options, but a rare few ordered the 430-horsepower L88 — only 116 built — or the almost mythical ZL1, of which just two were ever made. On a Shark-era Corvette like this one, color and engine code together tell the real story.
At the 2016 Goodguys Nashville Nationals, more than 2,500 hot rods, muscle cars, and customs filled the infield at Nashville Superspeedway for a weekend billed as “America’s Favorite Car Show.” The event doubles as a proving ground through the Tanks, Inc. Hot Rod of the Year competition, which includes a 100-mile reliability run on real roads. Closing time brings its own reward, when hundreds of engines fire up at once for the drive home.
Chevrolet’s supercharged Corvette ZR1 and a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet aren’t supposed to be in the same conversation, let alone the same race. With 638 horsepower and a 3.3-second 0-60 time, the “Blue Devil” actually had a shot in a short sprint to 100 mph, even against a jet capable of Mach 1.8. Motor Trend got rare clearance to find out which one actually got there first.
Seven 1970 Dodge Challengers were built for one Quentin Tarantino stunt sequence in Death Proof, most of which didn’t survive filming intact. This surviving example, dents and all, was imported from the U.S. and is now legally registered on the road in Finland. Its onscreen rival wasn’t a Challenger at all, but a matte black 1969 Dodge Charger R/T driven by Kurt Russell’s villain.
A Tennessee boat builder turned its hull-molding skills toward something that would never touch water: an all-fiberglass 1957 Chevrolet built for straight-line violence. Every panel is one continuous hand-formed shell wrapped around an Art Morrison chassis, a twin-turbocharged 540-cubic-inch aluminum Brodix, and staggered Billet Specialties wheels. It’s proof that skills built on the water can translate into something that tears up the strip instead.
Black Jesus isn’t a factory legend or a numbers-matching survivor, it’s a Fox-body Mustang built on junkyard parts, an LSX swap, and an 88mm turbo that somehow turned into one of Houston’s most feared street racers. Born out of a rivalry with a car nicknamed White Devil, it built its reputation the hard way: real street wins, a start at TX2K17, and a habit of embarrassing cars that cost ten times as much. Lining up against a 1500-horsepower twin-turbo Lamborghini Gallardo is just the latest chapter in that story.
A yellow Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce — one of the most extreme, track-focused versions Lamborghini ever built — turned up at Scottsdale’s Cars & Coffee in May 2017, its owner content to stay off camera and let the car do the talking. The LP750-4 badge means 750 naturally aspirated horsepower sent through all four wheels, a formula increasingly rare even among modern exotics. It’s a reminder that gearhead culture, muscle car or otherwise, tends to converge in the same parking lots.