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Ride in a 2005 Ford GT the Greatest Ford Design Ever ? Why Not!

Randy Smalley has owned his white-and-blue 2005 Ford GT since it was new, a Le Mans-inspired supercar he still drives through the Phoenix suburbs rather than storing away. Viewers have called its value trajectory ‘appreciating faster than it could even drive,’ a fitting line for a car built to answer Ford’s own GT40 legacy. Nearly twenty years later, the debate over whether the original supercharged V8 beats the modern turbocharged GT is still going strong. See what makes this one worth the ride.

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Plymouth Cuda 1970 AAR in Moulin Rouge Paint

by Kiril

Plymouth built 2,724 AAR ‘Cudas inside a five-week window in spring 1970, purely to homologate the Trans-Am cars Dan Gurney’s team was campaigning. Each got a 340 Six Barrel with three Holley two-barrels, a functional fiberglass hood, side-exit exhaust ahead of the rear wheels, and staggered tire sizes that were an American production first. This one wears the high-impact Moulin Rouge paint. Read on for why it only lasted one year.

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Chevrolet Corvette 1971 LT1 350

by Kiril

Chevrolet built 21,801 Corvettes for 1971 and only 1,949 carried the LT-1 small block, split 1,306 coupes and 643 convertibles. New low-lead fuel rules cut its compression to 9.0:1 and its rating from 370 to 330 horsepower, yet it still ran to sixty in about six seconds. It could not be ordered with an automatic or air conditioning, and just eight cars got the ZR1 package. Read on for why it stayed special.

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Ford Mustang 1400hp Turbo Foxbody Flying

by Kiril

A Fox-body Mustang never made more than 235 horsepower from the factory, and that was the 1993 SVT Cobra R. This teal example runs a forged 5.3-liter LS with twin 76-millimeter turbos making roughly 1400, after starting life with a single-turbo 6.0 combination. Getting there took a fuel system, a chassis, and a cage that cost more than the engine. Read on for what a build like this actually requires.

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Plymouth Suburban 1959 Station Wagon

by Kiril

Plymouth built well over 120,000 Suburban wagons for 1959, split across Deluxe, Custom, and Sport trims, with the mid-range Custom alone accounting for 53,869 units. They rode a wagon-specific 122-inch wheelbase with torsion-bar front suspension, came standard with a 132-horsepower flathead six, and could be ordered with a 305-horsepower Golden Commando V8. Almost none survived, because families used them up. Read on for what made the Big Fin wagons worth a second look.

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Ford Mustang 1967 GT Convertible 289

by Kiril

Ford built 472,121 Mustangs for 1967, and fewer than five hundred of them carried the K-code Hi-Po 289 with its solid lifters, 10.5:1 compression, and 271 horsepower at 6,000 rpm. This Wimbledon White convertible claims to be one, wearing a GT Equipment Group that was real hardware rather than a stripe kit. Telling a genuine car from a convincing tribute comes down to one character in the VIN. Read on for what to look for.

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Plymouth GTX 1970 440+6 4 Speed in Tor Red

by Kiril

Tom Bright had owned this Tor Red 1970 Plymouth GTX for exactly three weeks when he brought it to the 26th Annual Belvidere MOPAR Happening in Illinois, and strangers were already giving him thumbs up before he had finished parking. It carries the 440 Six Barrel and a four-speed, a combination far scarcer than most of the people walking past it realized. The GTX was Plymouth’s gentleman’s muscle car, positioned above the Road Runner. Read on for what makes this specific configuration so hard to find.

Ford Mustang Shelby GT350: A Carroll Shelby Legacy

by Kiril

The 1965 Shelby GT350 only exists because SCCA rules demanded a minimum run of street cars before Ford could go racing in B Production. What Carroll Shelby handed back had no rear seat, one paint color, side-exit exhaust, and 306 horsepower from 289 cubic inches. Roughly 562 were built that first year before the formula softened. Read on for what made the first-year cars different from everything that followed.

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Ford GT40 teaches Dodge Hellcat How to properly Race.

by Wes

A Ford GT40 — the car built specifically to humiliate Ferrari at Le Mans — lines up against a modern 707-horsepower Dodge Hellcat on an Illinois airstrip in this 1320video matchup from Omega Motorsport’s NoFlyZone Midwest. Sixty years of engineering separate these two cars, but only a quarter-mile separates them on the pavement. Watch to see which era comes out ahead.

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1956 Chevrolet Pickup Pro Touring

by Kiril

This 1956 Chevrolet pickup rolled into the 24th annual Auto Crusade car show wearing nearly all of its original 1956 sheet metal — just one small patch panel — under a stance and wheel package that’s already earning it awards. Commenters who know these trucks call it “pin perfect.” But according to its builders, it wasn’t made to sit still. See what a truck built to actually be driven looks like when it’s done right.

Chevrolet Corvette 1966 – Supercharged 454 Big-Block

by Kiril

Read the phrase 1966 Corvette with a 454 big-block and any Corvette historian is going to stop and reread it, because Chevrolet did not build a 454 until 1970. That does not make the car uninteresting; it makes it a different story than the badge suggests. The real 1966 big-block news was a brand-new 427, and the numbers behind it are worth the detour. Read on to find out what was actually available.

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1970 Plymouth Superbird With over 750 Hp!!!!

by Wes

Genuine 1970 Plymouth Superbirds are nearly impossible to find and even harder to afford, so this build started from a Plymouth Satellite instead and became a hand-crafted tribute complete with the aero car’s iconic nose cone and towering rear wing. Featured on Muscle Car of the Week, it lives in The Brothers Collection alongside vintage NASCAR racers and bone-stock originals. Watch to see how close a tribute build can get to the real thing.

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900HP 1972 AMC Javelin SST that’s a Daily Driver

by Kiril

When Mikey V’s father, a former American Motors employee, asked his son to choose between a Hornet and a Javelin, the answer became this 1972 AMC Javelin SST, now built to make an estimated 900 horsepower and still driven as a daily commuter whenever weather allows. At Wisconsin’s World of Wheels show, viewers praised the build for keeping genuine AMC power instead of a common big-block swap. See how a father’s question turned into one of AMC’s wildest daily drivers.

Pontiac GTO 1969 – Street Machine

by Kiril

The 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge took its name from a television catchphrase and was originally conceived as a cheaper GTO to fight the Road Runner. What Pontiac actually released was the loudest car in its showroom: exclusive paint, bold striping, a rear spoiler nobody could miss, and Ram Air power. Only 6,833 were built that first year. Read on to find out what it takes to push a car like that even further.

Chevrolet Chevelle 1969 vs Buick GNX 1987

by Kiril

A 1969 Chevelle SS 396 and a 1987 Buick GNX are separated by eighteen years and two completely opposed ideas about how to build a fast car. One answers with cubic inches and a big-block soundtrack. The other answers with a turbocharged V6 that beat a Corvette to 60 mph and was almost certainly underrated from the factory. Here is why collectors keep arguing about which one actually wins.

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