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Ford handed Carroll Shelby a brand-new Mustang platform in 1965 and let him tear it apart. The result was a race-ready fastback most buyers were not quite prepared for. Roughly 560 were built that first year, each one rebuilt with a stiffer chassis, a hotter 289, a deleted rear seat, and none of the compromises a regular Mustang made. Read on to find out what separated a genuine 1965 GT350 from the car it started as, and why that distinction matters so much today.
One careful owner put just 17,000 miles on this 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS before the current owner tracked it down and restored it — and it’s a genuine, factory-built SS, not a badge job. Low-mile survivors like this one are rare precisely because most Novas of this era got driven hard and used up. Read on to find out what makes an original like this one different from anything else on the market.
This 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T carries a factory badge and a nowhere-near-factory heart: a 528 cubic inch Ray Barton Hemi making more than 809 horsepower on pump gas, backed by a TorqueFlite automatic and 3.55 gears built for real street use. One viewer joked the car needed eight gas station stops just to survive filming. Behind the joke is a genuinely serious build from one of Mopar’s most respected engine shops. Watch to see what 809 pump-gas horsepower actually looks like in motion.
A Ford Torino GT built for Street Car Takeover’s Heavy Street-style class went into eliminations with zero test passes — and still lifted its front wheels beating a 707-hp Hellcat Charger, a Hellcat Challenger, and a Cadillac CTS-V. See how a half-century-old Ford handled three modern factory muscle cars in one quarter-mile pass.
The Pigeon Forge Rod Run has filled Tennessee’s Parkway with flathead V8s and muscle car chrome for more than thirty years, but it began in a hotel parking lot in 1983, when organizers expecting a few hundred cars watched roughly 1,000 arrive. The region’s taste for fast cars runs deeper still, back to moonshine runners outrunning the law on Smoky Mountain roads. Read on to find out how a car club’s cruise-in grew into one of the Southeast’s biggest gatherings.
A featherweight 1970 Plymouth Duster 340 and a rare, dealer-installed 1967 Chevelle SS396 L78 lined up on a Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race strip, where every part has to match factory specs. The $2,547 economy car many owners still call a ‘Big Block Killer’ had to prove it against one of only 612 genuine L78 Chevelles built that year.
This 1979 Camaro Z/28 wears T-tops, flat black stripes and a Procharged small block sending more than 600 horsepower to the rear tires. The factory version made 175. That gap is the entire story of the second-generation Z28, a car that sold in record numbers during the worst period for American performance in living memory. Read on for how it managed that and why builders still start here.
Pontiac’s most famous nameplate spent its final factory year bolted onto a compact economy car most enthusiasts wrote off as a pretender. This surviving 1974 Ventura GTO still wears the shaker hood and Rally wheels that made the badge official — with one telling upgrade under the hood. Here’s how a car built to save face turned into a genuine bargain for the 7,058 people who bought one.
By 1973 the muscle car era was supposed to be over, and Pontiac had not been told. That model year produced the Super Duty 455, an engine with four-bolt mains, forged rods, and dry-sump provisions wearing a production badge. It almost did not reach customers at all. Read on for what separated a real SD-455 from every other big-inch Firebird, and what a loud startup usually means underneath.
A hidden Oregon warehouse holds one of the largest private muscle car collections on Earth — more than 350 vehicles, including a one-of-two 1969 Camaro ZL1 and the prototype that convinced Carroll Shelby to supercharge the GT350. The owners have never revealed their names, and the doors open only a few days a year.
