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At the 2017 World of Wheels show in Rosemont, Illinois, Lou Costabile finds a Lightning Blue Roush Stage 3 Mustang that isn’t owned by a collector at all — it’s a rolling partnership between Roush Performance and Meguiar’s Car Care Products. Driver Spike Anderson explains exactly how that arrangement works and why this six-speed, supercharged Mustang exists in the first place. The story behind the car turns out to be as interesting as the car itself.
The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray was a complete reinvention — new chassis, independent rear suspension, hidden headlights, and a split rear window that lasted exactly one model year. Put one in the hands of Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop, a place known nationally for black paint and a stance that looks like it is trying to get under the pavement, and the result is a specific kind of collision between two design philosophies. Read on to find out what makes that combination work.
Nobody at this drag event could identify the mystery vehicle drawing a crowd – until 1320video tracked down the owner and got the hood open. It turns out to be a Local Motors Rally Fighter, essentially a sand rail in body panels, hiding a supercharged LS3 V8. Watch to see it make a pass nobody expected.
By 1973 the American luxury convertible market had narrowed to exactly one survivor, and the Cadillac Eldorado was it. Lincoln had walked away in 1967 and Chrysler’s Imperial followed a year later, leaving Cadillac alone with a 500-cubic-inch V8, front-wheel drive and no competition to undercut it. Then one of them paced the Indianapolis 500. Read on for what it was really like to own the last of a dying breed.
A 1969 Dodge Charger gets a modern supercharged Hellcat V8 transplant in this build, appropriately named ‘Reverence,’ from the specialists at Cleveland Power & Performance. The test drive captures how a decades-old muscle car icon behaves with more than 700 horsepower now sitting under the hood. Watch to hear exactly what a Hellcat swap sounds like packed into a classic Charger this size.
An 84mm turbo poking through the grille tells experienced drag racers everything they need to know before the engine fires. This Mustang carries an LS swap and runs in the eight second bracket, which requires roughly four-figure horsepower and a chassis certified to match. Read on for why the boost curve matters more than the peak number, and why consistency is harder to achieve than speed.
The 1970 Boss 302 exists for one reason: Ford needed to beat the Camaro Z/28 in Trans-Am racing, and the rules said it had to sell street versions to do it. The engine that resulted borrowed cylinder head technology from an entirely different Ford engine family to solve a breathing problem, and production more than quadrupled between the first and second model years. Read on to find out what changed, and why the 1970 car is the one enthusiasts chase.
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.
Ray Brownfield’s red 1966 Mustang convertible looks like a straightforward restoration until you ask which 289 is under the hood. Ford sold three completely different versions of that engine in 1966 behind identical fender badges, and the spread ran from 200 horsepower to 271. Brownfield has owned the car since 2005 and turned the restoration around in five months. Read on to find out why that single engine question changes what the car is worth and how it drives.
The 2017 Camaro 1LE was not one package but two, and the cheaper version turned out to be the surprise. A $4,500 box on the V6 coupe bought suspension hardware pulled from the SS, a limited-slip differential, and skidpad numbers that embarrassed cars costing twice as much. The V8 version went further still. Here is exactly what each one included, what the two setups did differently, and why the 1LE became a cult badge almost immediately.
A turbocharged, LSx-swapped Chevrolet Nova SS launched so hard at SCT Indianapolis that its front wheels left the ground entirely, dragging its rear bumper for roughly half the quarter mile — and losing its hood along the way. Viewers immediately noticed the near-cinematic violence of the moment and the driver’s cool head in keeping the car straight. Watch the full run, and the wheelie that had commenters wondering if a wheelie bar should be mandatory.
From twenty feet away this is a clean 1966 Corvette Sting Ray. Lift the hood and you find a supercharged 454 big-block, an engine Chevrolet would not put into production for another four years, topped with fuel injection and custom tuned by Craven Performance. It is the kind of build that forces every C2 purist to decide where modified ends and something else begins. Read on for what it took to make it work.
The original post about this 1967 Camaro says almost nothing, and that restraint is more interesting than a spec sheet would be. First-generation Camaros built for street machine duty are not shy cars, and the gap between what left the Norwood assembly line in 1967 and what sits under a car like this now is enormous. Read on to find out what builders actually do to these cars and which decisions separate a serious build from an expensive one.
USA vs AUS!! is the entire debate, and muscle car fans on both sides of the Pacific are certain their country builds the better burnout. One side treats it as spontaneous hooliganism; the other turns it into a judged sport with a stage and a trophy. Read on to find out which country’s approach actually holds up.
This Candy Apple Red 1965 Ford Mustang convertible pairs the desirable A-code 289 four-barrel V8 with a four-speed manual, GT trim, and factory Rally-Pac gauges – a combination that was already rare when new. Spotted on the lot at Garrett Classics in Texas, it’s sparked a lively debate among viewers over its exact model year. Watch to see what details actually settle the argument.