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AMC Built the Corvette’s Cheapest Rival in 1969 — Then Watched the AMX Disappear From Muscle Car History

A Michigan dealer has a driver-ready 1969 AMX listed at ,900, built around a 390 V8 with a comp cam. AMC’s forgotten two-seater once undercut the Corvette by more than ,400 and still won a Society of Automotive Engineers award for it.

Oldsmobile’s 442 Made 370 HP in 1970 — A Restomod Nearly Doubled It With a 650-HP LT4

by Jack Harmon

A Bakersfield shop pulled the original drivetrain out of a 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 and dropped in a supercharged LT4 making roughly 650 horsepower. The body, color, and cabin stayed period-correct — only the heart changed. Here’s how that stacks up against the real W-30’s factory numbers.

Ford Put Its Meanest 1970 Engine in a Pickup — Fewer Than 5% of Ranchero GT Buyers Ordered a 429, and This Drag Pack Super Cobra Jet Is the Rarest of All

by Jack Harmon

A 1970 Ranchero GT with a Drag Pack 429 Super Cobra Jet is a truck almost nobody ordered: fewer than 5% of Ranchero GTs got any 429 at all, and Ford rated this one at 375 horsepower it plainly made more of. Muscle Car Of The Week walks around an untouched Dark Ivy Green survivor, factory inspection stamps and all.

Ford Blocked Power Steering and A/C From the 1965 Mustang’s Best V8 — Buyers Paid Extra to Go Without

by Jack Harmon

Only about 7,273 of the 680,968 Mustangs Ford built in 1965 left the factory with the K-Code 289 Hi-Po V8 — and buying one meant giving up an automatic, power steering, and air conditioning. It’s also the engine that convinced Carroll Shelby the Mustang was worth racing.

Chevrolet Built This 1970 Chevelle Wagon With a 327 — Its Owner Gave It the 454 GM Never Offered

by Jack Harmon

A factory 1970 Chevelle wagon came with a modest 327 small-block — Chevrolet never let this body style near the 454 or the SS badge. Decades later, a European dealer gave it the big block GM’s own rulebook said it couldn’t have.

This Trans Am Has Never Been Repainted – And That’s Exactly Why It’s Worth $300,000

by Jack Harmon

Inside a Nebraska shop that restores other people’s cars but refuses to touch its own best find: a Super Duty-powered Pontiac wearing fifty-year-old factory paint, worth more exactly as it sits. One rare color and a decades-old labor strike explain why.

Ford Built Only 60 Fairlanes With a Hidden 427 Race Engine in 1966 – You Couldn’t Just Order One

by Jack Harmon

Ford’s 1966 Fairlane GT looked like an ordinary mid-size cruiser, but a handful of them hid a NASCAR-bred 427 nobody could just special-order. Here’s how a tiny homologation run ended up winning the 1967 Daytona 500.

American Legends Tore a V8 Out of a Ferrari F430 — Then Gave It to a 1968 Mustang

by Jack Harmon

A Phoenix shop ripped the V8 out of a Ferrari F430, bolted it between the fenders of a chopped 1968 Mustang fastback, and strapped on twin turbochargers for an estimated 700 horsepower. Here is the story behind one of SEMA’s most argued-over builds.

Classic blue Ford Mustang parked in a garage.

Ford Mustang 1969 Mach 1 351W Fastback

by Kiril

Ford built two completely different 1969 Mustang Mach 1s that looked identical parked side by side, and most buyers had no idea which one they were driving home. Same badge, same stripe, same scooped hood, same displacement on the fender. The difference came down to a single character in the VIN. This Acapulco Blue fastback settles the question the moment its hood comes up, and the answer explains a lot about how Ford sold the Mach 1.

Don Yenko Sold a Teenager an Unconverted Leftover Camaro in 1968 — It Became One of the Rarest Yenkos on Earth

by Jack Harmon

A Pennsylvania teenager bought a 1967 Camaro that Yenko’s shop hadn’t even converted yet — then repainted it before it had 7,000 miles on the clock. Decades later, restorers spent 14 months undoing his paint job and uncovered one of the most original Yenko Camaros left standing.

A Man Sold His GTO Judge to Get Married in 1978 — Decades Later He Found One of Only 12 Left in Its Color

by Jack Harmon

A rare Warwick Blue 1969 GTO Judge, one of roughly a dozen known survivors in that color, still runs its factory four-wheel drum brakes and numbers-matching Ram Air III V8. Owner Frank Szymkowski Sr. sold his first Judge to get married back in 1978 — and this one just won Goodguys’ 2024 Muscle Car of the Year.

Classic red convertible car parked outdoors with autumn trees in the background.

Ford Galaxie 1965 427 R-Code

by Kiril

A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XL convertible with the R-code 427 was one of the strangest performance cars Ford ever sold: a two-ton, four-seat drop-top carrying a dual-quad big block that the factory refused to pair with an automatic transmission. Checking that single order-sheet letter changed the suspension, the driveshaft, and the brakes before the car ever reached a dealer. Read on to find out why so few of these survived the decade they were built in.

Dodge Dropped the Hemi V8 From the 2026 Charger — MotorWeek Still Named It Best Car of the Year

by Jack Harmon

Dodge’s new Charger ditched the V8 completely for a twin-turbo six that most fans expected to disappoint. A full day of track testing proved otherwise, with brakes that never faded and a 0-60 time nobody predicted.

Dodge Cut the Charger’s V8 for Six Cylinders and 550 Horsepower — It Still Weighs 1,000 Pounds More Than the Mustang GT

by Jack Harmon

The 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack Sixpack swapped its V8 for twin turbos and beat the Ford Mustang GT’s horsepower number by 70. Then Edmunds weighed both cars and found out why that number didn’t matter on the track.

A Widow Finally Sold Her Husband’s 1970 Nova SS After 40 Years in the Garage — Its “396” Badge Was Already a Lie the Day Chevy Built It

by Jack Harmon

A 1970 Chevrolet Nova SS sat untouched in a widow’s garage for four decades before she finally let it go. But the engine mounts, the cut grille, and even Chevrolet’s own 396 badge tell a more complicated story than a simple barn find.

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