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Somewhere in the Mopar world sits a small handful of 1970 Dodge Challenger R/Ts that even seasoned Hemi historians rarely get to see in person, built around a fiberglass hood borrowed from a racetrack homologation special. Few buyers understood what they were ordering, and the option vanished from build sheets almost as fast as it appeared. Read on to find out just how rare this Hemi and N94 hood combination really was.
Out of nearly 50,000 Dodge Chargers built for 1970, barely one in five carried the R/T badge, and of those, only a fraction were ordered with a four-speed manual instead of the far more common automatic. The 440 Magnum was not even the top engine option that year, yet it remains one of the most beloved big-block Mopars of the era. Read on to find out just how rare this combination really was.
A 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air was never meant to be anything more than dependable, affordable transportation, Chevrolet’s plain-Jane offering that sat below the flashier Impala. Somewhere along the way, one particular example ended up wearing a rear-mounted turbo setup chasing four-digit horsepower numbers nobody in Detroit could have imagined in 1966. Read on to find out what it takes to turn a sensible family sedan into a four-digit-horsepower monster.
A muscle car forum debate over whether a Buick Riviera is a 68 or a 69 usually reveals more about the car than any spec sheet could. This particular Riviera wears a mismatched blend of grille and bumper styling from both years, the kind of detail only a handful of Buick devotees would even notice. Read on to find out exactly what separates a 1968 Riviera from a 1969 one, and why the two years get confused so often.
It’s still not quite finished, and that’s exactly what makes it interesting. ScottieDTV catches up with a 1966 Chevrolet Nova Chevy II street machine mid-build at Steve Holcomb Pro Auto Custom Interiors, an LT1 under the hood and fresh wheels on order, proof that the most compelling build videos are the ones that catch a car before the paint has fully dried on the story.
Naming the single best muscle car engine of the 1960s starts fights at every car show in America, and Car News TV isn’t shy about picking a fight. Their countdown of the decade’s five greatest engines, told entirely through sound and archival footage rather than narration, forces a question every enthusiast eventually has to answer: what actually makes an engine great, the numbers on the spec sheet or the sound it makes doing it?
Two of America’s most iconic nameplates went head-to-head in 2015, and for once the numbers were close enough that bragging rights actually meant something. The Mustang GT and Camaro SS both packed around 430 horsepower and the most aggressive handling packages either brand offered that year. Read on to find out which pony car actually came out ahead once the spec sheets stopped mattering.
A homemade video shot at a small Michigan dragstrip in 2001 captures something the big-budget car shows almost never do: what grassroots Mopar racing actually looked like when nobody was performing for a camera crew. Pat Muscle Car Fan’s footage from Ubly Dragstrip is a time capsule of a scene that shaped how an entire generation of Mopar owners learned to race.
Chevrolet built about 120,000 Impala Super Sports for 1966, but only a sliver of those left the factory pairing the 425-horsepower L72 427 big block with a four-speed manual instead of the far more common automatic. It is a combination so rare that even dedicated Bow Tie historians cannot agree on an exact production count, hidden inside a car that looked like nothing more than a comfortable family cruiser. Read on to find out what made this pairing so scarce, and why so few original buyers dared to check that box.