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A 2017 Ford GT and a 2017 Camaro ZL1 share a track session where both drivers admit it’s their first time turning laps in either car. What follows splits viewers almost evenly between the GT’s raw numbers and the ZL1’s value-driven performance, with the onboard telemetry revealing more about driver skill than either car’s spec sheet. The comment section still hasn’t settled the debate.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T ordered with the Special Edition package, a sliding sunroof, and a 440 describes a buyer who wanted the full performance car and the full luxury car in one signature. That combination was unusual when it was new and is genuinely scarce now. The R/T’s own sales collapsed by roughly half that year as insurance costs caught up with the segment. Read on for what this order sheet says about 1970.
Gas Ronda’s bright orange 1965 Mustang is one of a handful of A/FX factory drag cars built with Ford’s 427 SOHC Cammer engine, an all-out answer to Chrysler’s Hemi that Ford engineers designed in roughly 90 days. Holman-Moody stripped these cars down to almost nothing before the season started. Restored to as-raced condition, it shows exactly how far a factory would go to win a class in 1965.
An all-wheel-drive Audi S2 running a Precision 6466 turbocharger on a 2.2-liter five-cylinder against a nitrous-fed Chevelle leaning on cubic inches is one of the oldest arguments in street racing, staged in metal. Turbo versus nitrous, import versus muscle, four driven wheels versus two. The horsepower numbers are only half the story. Read on to find out which factor usually decides it.
Most serious street builds stop somewhere near 1,000 horsepower and call it finished. The 1967 Chevy Nova known as The Hulk runs a pair of 88mm Pro Mod turbochargers and roughly 2,500 horsepower, putting a car General Motors originally sold as an economy compact into the low seven-second range. It has appeared on Street Outlaws, and its numbers still sound like a typo. Here is what it takes to build one.
Shelby rated the 1965 Cobra 427 at 410 horsepower in street trim and roughly 485 in competition specification, numbers that made it the fastest American road car of its era. So where does a figure like 575 horsepower come from? The answer involves continuation cars, modern crate engines, and a shape that never stopped being built. Here is how to tell the original numbers from everything that followed.
Only twelve people ever ordered a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a 426 Hemi and a convertible top — and just five came with a manual transmission, like this Plum Crazy Purple example from the Brothers Collection. The factory fender tag tells the whole story, down to the exact rear gear ratio and interior trim code. See how V8TV verifies a claim this rare, one code at a time.
Eleanor is one of the most recognizable Mustangs on earth, and almost nothing about it is what people assume. It was never a factory Shelby, the name was borrowed from an earlier film, and Shelby American never built a 1967 GT500 convertible for the public at all. That makes a drop-top Eleanor a custom built on top of a custom. Read on for the design history, the production reality, and the copyright fight it triggered.
A 1934 Ford coupe wearing the bones of a wrecked sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 has no business working as well as it does. The donor brought a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4, magnetic dampers, and Brembo brakes to a body shell built when Ford’s best V8 made 85 horsepower. The nickname Road Kill R came from how the parts were sourced. Read on to find out why this particular pairing splits the hot rod world down the middle.
The same man has owned this 1955 Chevrolet for forty-one years. Nine of those years went into a build that started out as a drag car and quietly turned into something else entirely, ending up with 1,250 horsepower, a fully custom interior, and a father-and-son story attached to it. The Pro Street stance it wears is not a random styling choice. Read on to find out what it is actually quoting.
Ford built the third-generation “Bullet Bird” Thunderbird for only three model years, and 1963 was the last of them. Of the 63,313 built that year, just 5,913 were convertibles, powered by a 390 FE making 300 horsepower and 427 lb-ft and backed exclusively by an automatic. It was never intended to race anything, and that was entirely the point. Read on to find out what Ford was really building here.
A 1964 Dodge Polara doesn’t usually headline a muscle car video, but a 440 cubic-inch big block fed by dual Edelbrock quads, a 4-speed manual, and a Dana 60 rear end change that equation fast. Southern-car rust history and a seller’s unusually honest paint rating round out a listing built for buyers who read spec sheets, not just headlines. See why this overlooked full-size Mopar is drawing serious attention.
Chevrolet sold the 1968 Corvette L88 with no heater, no radio, a horsepower rating everyone knew was fiction, and a requirement for racing fuel most gas stations never carried. It was designed to discourage casual buyers, and it worked so well that only 80 were built that year. Here is what Chevrolet was actually hiding behind that deliberately unimpressive 430-horsepower number.
ScottieDTV found this 1966 Chevrolet Caprice at the 2017 NSRA Street Rod Nationals South in Knoxville, and the mods are almost invisible — a seamlessly grafted Big Block Chevelle hood, a Ridetech air suspension that lays the car nearly on the ground, and a Tuned Port Injection 350 under the hood. It’s a full-size cruiser built with more restraint than flash, and the comment section calls it one of the best Caprice builds anyone’s seen. Watch to see the details up close.
A 1982 Corvette showing up in Iceland is far less strange than it sounds once you know what that model year actually was. It was the last C3 ever built, the first Corvette with electronic fuel injection, the only one offered exclusively with an automatic, and, as a Collector Edition, the first to break $20,000 and the first with an opening rear hatch. Chevrolet built 25,407 of them. Read on to find out why it deserves a second look.