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Two nearly identical turbocharged Mustangs, two well-known names from the online street racing scene, and a Houston backstreet that had hosted plenty of grudge matches before this one. Chris Hamilton’s BoostedGT went up against a car nicknamed Black Jesus in a race that came down to a margin thin enough to guarantee a rematch.
This 1964 AMC Rambler American 440 convertible has a name that confuses everyone who hears it – “440” refers to AMC’s top trim level, not a big-block V8, and even longtime commenters can’t agree on which of AMC’s inline sixes is actually under the hood. samspace81’s quick road test walks through a car built during Rambler’s commercial peak, right as the muscle car era it never joined was just getting started. Former Rambler owners fill the comments with their own stories. Watch to see what made this quiet compact worth remembering.
The LeSabre name did not start as a car. It started as a jet-inspired 1951 GM Motorama show piece so popular that General Motors kept displaying it for years. By 1960 it was Buick’s entry-level full-size line, and the convertible is the version worth remembering, with returning VentiPorts, a brand-new Tri-Shield badge, and a 364 V8 that could be ordered to run on regular gas. Read on for what made 1960 a turning point for Buick.
Ford built the Boss 351 for exactly one model year, 1971, to homologate a racing program it had already walked away from. Fewer than two thousand left the factory before the entire Boss nameplate was retired. Underneath the wider, heavier restyled Mustang sat a 351 Cleveland assembled from a parts-counter wish list, and in Grabber Lime it announced itself from a block away. Here is what the engineers managed to push through, and why the car is still undervalued.
Burnouts look like pure chaos, but the smoke show hides a surprising amount of engineering logic underneath it. The maneuver started as a practical fix for a specific starting-line problem drag racers kept running into, decades before it became a backyard and social-media spectacle. Here’s how it went from a track necessity to one of muscle car culture’s defining rituals.
Dodge built exactly 71 Hemi Challengers for 1971, the engine’s final year, and not one of them was a convertible. That makes this smoky, 426-powered droptop a build rather than a survivor, assembled by someone who decided the combination should have existed even though the order books say it never did. Read on to find out why the factory walked away from its most famous engine.
Chevrolet sold the Rally Sport and Super Sport packages separately in 1967, so a genuine RS/SS required a buyer to pay for both, and factory-correct examples are rarer than either package alone. This one keeps that foundation and swaps in 502 cubic inches of modern General Motors crate big block, an engine rated well beyond anything the factory offered. Read on to find out why builders keep making that trade.
Put a Hemi badge, a bowtie, and a galloping pony on the same drag strip and the internet will argue about the results for years. Independent 0-60 testing on the Camaro SS, Mustang GT, and Challenger has produced wildly different spreads depending on trim, tires, and driver. Here’s what the numbers actually show, and what’s really under each hood.
Ford built roughly 100 Fairlane Thunderbolts for 1964 with fiberglass hoods, fenders and doors, Plexiglas windows, no heater or radio, and a trunk-mounted battery, all to get a 427 High Riser into the most favorable Super Stock bracket the rulebook allowed. The 425-horsepower rating on the paperwork fooled nobody in the sport. Gas Ronda won the Winternationals with one, and Ford lost money on every car it delivered. Read on for what separates a real Thunderbolt from a very good tribute.
That exhaust note did not come from the base engine. In 1973 Chevrolet sold two entirely different 350 cubic-inch V8s in the Camaro, separated by one option box and a hundred horsepower, and the more serious one was built with four-bolt mains and a forged crank. This was also the last year the second-generation car wore its clean chrome front end before federal bumper rules changed it. Read on for what separated the two engines.
Housed at Chicago’s Klairmont Kollections museum, this 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible has been called the most photographed rear end in automotive history thanks to its towering tail fins. The car also came loaded with factory air conditioning, power vent windows, and cruise control — features far ahead of their time. Commenters even tracked down its exact paint code. Watch to see why fans still call it the greatest Caddy ever built.
Ford built roughly 21,000 two-seat Thunderbirds for 1957, and only a couple hundred of them left the factory with the supercharged F-code 312. This one is not that car. It is a hand-built tribute running Mummert aluminum heads, an Edelbrock intake and triple carburetors under a pearl white porthole hardtop. Read on for what made the 1957 Thunderbird the best of the two-seaters and how this build chases the same idea by a different route.
What actually makes a muscle car video worth millions of views? It’s rarely the polished restoration reveal — usually it’s the raw burnout, the drag strip near-miss, or the sound of a big-block firing up for the first time in years. Here’s a look at why this kind of content keeps climbing the most-watched charts.
The Ice Cream Cruise’s annual burnout contest never plays it safe, and this entry proves it — a truck catches fire mid-pass while the on-site fire crew scrambles to keep the show going. Between tire chunks flying into the crowd and a Dodge that can’t settle on a gear, this clip has Australian and American burnout fans arguing in the comments about whose scene is wilder. Watch to see how close things got to going seriously wrong.