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At Sanair Dragway in October 2007, a 1971 Boss 351 Mustang lined up against a 505-horsepower Corvette Z06 in a grudge match billed as the ultimate street machine showdown. On paper, the Corvette’s power advantage should have made it a formality. What happened at the tree turned this into one of the more talked-about upsets in street racing footage. Watch to see who actually crossed first.
An untouched 1969 Camaro SS L78 396 emerged straight from a barn and into the spotlight at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals’ Barn Finds and Hidden Gems section. With its rare 425-horsepower big block and 4-speed still intact, this survivor represents one of the most collectible factory combinations Chevrolet ever built. Auto Archaeology tracked it down exactly as time left it. See what decades of dust couldn’t hide.
The Camaro ZL1 was already Chevrolet’s fastest production Camaro — so the 1LE package exists purely to make it sharper through corners, built around race-derived Multimatic spool valve dampers most drivers have never heard of. Brian Makse takes the 2018 ZL1 1LE out for a proper first drive to find out whether the added stiffness and track focus are worth the trade-off in everyday comfort. See what 650 horsepower and serious suspension engineering actually feel like together.
Glen Kellmann has owned his 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T convertible since 2003, and in all his years of attending car shows, he says he’s never once run into another one — Chrysler built fewer than two hundred that year. Lou Costabile catches up with him and his factory 440-powered ragtop to find out what it’s like owning a piece of muscle car history this scarce. Hear the full story behind one of the rarest convertibles from the era.
Plymouth licensed a cartoon character’s name and horn sound for a production car, then built an entire ad campaign around selling speed without the luxury price tag. This period commercial for the 1970 Road Runner captures the muscle car boom at its confident peak, years before insurance hikes and emissions rules changed everything. It’s a glimpse of exactly how Plymouth wanted buyers to see the car the moment it hit showrooms.
AMC never had GM or Ford’s budget, but the 1970 AMX Javelin Mark Donohue Edition in factory Big Bad Blue proves the smallest of Detroit’s players could still build something worth stopping for. Owner Roger Nelson has kept this one since 2007, and Lou Costabile catches up with him at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals to hear the story behind a car named for the driver who beat factory Mustangs and Camaros on the track. Find out what makes this Javelin different.
A bone-stock 1960 Ford Falcon doesn’t sound like the kind of car that gets its own in-depth review — until you learn it was Robert McNamara’s personal answer to the import invasion, and the quiet foundation the Mustang was later built on. Regular Car Reviews gives this unassuming compact the full deadpan treatment its channel is known for. There’s more history hiding under that plain sheet metal than the Falcon’s reputation suggests.
Ten years, four manufacturers, and a horsepower war Detroit never planned on fighting — MaccaIsntDead’s tribute to 1964-1974 muscle cars tries to compress the entire golden era into one sitting. From the loophole that created the Pontiac GTO to the emissions regulations that quietly ended everything, it’s a decade that burned hot and fast before insurance companies and oil embargoes shut it down. Watch to see which cars made the cut.
Jay Leno bought this 1963 Corvette Stingray without ever seeing it in person, then handed the rare, fuel-injected Sting Ray to master restorer Mike McCluskey to bring it back to exact factory-stock condition. It carries the split rear window Chevrolet built for one model year only, one of the most collectible details in Corvette history. Restoring it correctly meant matching factory details most owners would never even notice. See what stock perfection actually required.
Rain kept the crowds a little smaller at the fourth annual Street Machine & Muscle Car Nationals, but it didn’t stop a wild mix of gassers, lead sleds, and Pro Street builds from filling the Fairplex in Pomona. A supercharged 1929 Dodge Brothers coupe running a 452-cubic-inch Hemi shares space with a Batmobile-liveried Camaro and a smoking Oldsmobile 442 burnout. See which build stands out from a packed Southern California show season.
Meet the Lamborghini Reventon 2008, a car so exclusive that only 20 lucky buyers got to experience its bull-inspired glory. With a name meaning “small explosion,” it zooms past at a top speed of 221 mph, faster than your average jet—unless you’re flying a fighter plane. Wrapped in carbon fiber, it’s the stealth bomber of cars, minus the invisibility. With a 6.5-liter V12 engine and a price tag that makes your wallet weep, this coupe is more about bursts of speed than bursts of laughter!
Long before the muscle car era officially began, this 1959 Corvette in Crown Sapphire was already running Chevrolet fuel-injected 283, one of the most advanced engines GM built that decade. It belongs to the Brothers Collection, a group known for prizing genuine performance pedigree over showroom polish. The car raises a real question about when American muscle actually started. Watch to see the fuelie technology that arrived years ahead of its reputation.
A 1969 Corvette L88, one of just 116 ever built, lines up against a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W30, one of only 772 produced, in a quarter-mile showdown between two of GM rarest muscle cars. Factory horsepower ratings from this era were notoriously conservative, and this race exposes exactly how much they were hiding. Two unicorns meet on the same stretch of asphalt with nothing but bragging rights at stake. Watch to see which factory legend actually crosses the line first.
A 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 XL sat untouched for thirty years in the hands of its only owner, its 428 big block and four-speed manual silent the entire time. When the Hotwoods Pontoon team finally turned the key, nobody was sure the engine would even fire after three decades of dust and dried-out fuel lines. What happened next turned a routine start-up into something closer to a resurrection. Watch to see if three decades of silence gave way to a running engine.
For decades, collectors swapped rumors about an unrestored 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 hiding somewhere in the Chicago area with barely 4,000 miles on the odometer. Owner David Beem finally tracked it down through a tip from salesman Cory Peterson, and brought it to the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals for its public debut. What emerged was not a rumor anymore, it was 4,305 original miles of untouched Chevelle history. Watch to see whether the legend held up to the real thing.