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Most show cars arrive on a trailer. This 1971 Camaro street machine drove 275 miles under its own power to reach the show field, with an LS swap under a hood that was never meant to hide it. Chevrolet built 114,630 Camaros that year, and only 4,862 of them were Z/28s. Read on to find out why a strike at the Norwood plant made 1971 the second-generation F-body’s real first year.
Every month, without fail, a market square in central Helsinki fills with American muscle cars, classics, hot rods, and the occasional Japanese oddball — all gathered for a meet that has nothing to do with Detroit, SEMA, or any American car culture hub. This Jamboolio video captures the September 2017 Cruising Night at its liveliest, from a 1967 Mustang commenters called “perfect” to a Death Proof-inspired Nova prowling the crowd. It’s proof that the sound of a V8 translates in any language. Watch to see what shows up next.
A 1,500-horsepower turbocharged Foxbody Mustang known as the Dragonfly squares off against a Supra with real Street Outlaws pedigree, and the pass turns into something nobody in the stands expected: over 200 feet of controlled power wheelie down the center of the track. Built to run 7-second passes and still be driven home afterward, Dwayne’s small-tire Mustang put on a display of car control that comment sections are still talking about. Watch how close this one actually got.
By 1977 the muscle car era was finished, and yet 411,038 people still bought a Chevrolet Monte Carlo that made no pretense of going fast. Two engines, one automatic transmission, and a $300 option package explain what those buyers were actually paying for. Read on to find out why the last of the big Monte Carlos is finally getting a second look from collectors who once ignored it entirely.
Chevrolet built the 1957 Bel Air Sport Coupe hardtop for exactly one model year, and more than 166,000 buyers took one home. The car that launched an entire nostalgia industry hid a genuinely reworked platform under the chrome, plus an engine option almost nobody on the showroom floor knew to ask for. Read on to find out what separates the ordinary 1957 Bel Air from the one collectors chase today.
Plymouth built somewhere around 550 ‘Cuda convertibles for 1970, and only 262 of them carried the 340 four-barrel. Narrow that by transmission and paint code and the surviving population gets very small very quickly. This EB5 Blue Fire Metallic car sits at the intersection of all of it — and the engine that made it rare at the time is the one enthusiasts now argue was the best choice in the catalog.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1968 Hemi Dart make for one of the loudest pairings in the Mopar world, but their backstories couldn’t be more different. Only 80 Hemi Darts were ever built, farmed out to an outside contractor after Chrysler refused to factory-install the 426 Hemi in a compact car. See what made one of these cars a dealership staple and the other a factory-disowned drag weapon.
A Camaro RS versus a supercharged, four-figure-horsepower Corvette rarely ends in the Camaro’s favor, and the one-word reaction to this matchup makes the outcome pretty clear. These lopsided roll races have become a fixture of car meet culture, where heavily built Corvettes routinely square off against stock or mildly modified rivals. Here’s a look at why the horsepower gap usually decides these races before the lights even go green.
Schwartz Performance took a dented California 1969 Mustang fastback, spent roughly 1,400 hours on it, and handed the finished car away to a stranger at a Las Vegas trade show. Under the Boss-inspired paint sits a 444-horsepower Coyote Boss 302 crate engine, a fabricated G-Machine chassis, and a GT500-spec brake package. Read on to find out how a brake company ended up building one of the more serious restomods of the SEMA era.
The 1970 Shelby GT500 is the rarest single model year in the nameplate’s history, and the reason is one of the strangest stories in Ford’s performance past: there was never really a 1970 production run at all. Just 286 GT500s wore 1970 VINs, and they were applied to leftover 1969 cars under federal supervision. Here is how it happened, how to spot a genuine one, and why Carroll Shelby had already walked away by then.
On paper this matchup is over before either Charger leaves the line: one carries a supercharged 707-horsepower V8, the other a naturally aspirated 5.7 making roughly half that. But the Daytona name on the underdog was borrowed from the first car in NASCAR history to lap a closed circuit at 200 mph, courtesy of Buddy Baker at Talladega in 1970. The 2013 Daytona Edition never claimed to be a straight-line fighter. Read on for what it actually was.
The tire-smoke send-off at the end of a car meet feels like a modern muscle car tradition, but its roots go back to post-war cruise culture and legendary strips like Detroit’s Woodward Avenue. Social media has since turned a quiet parking-lot ritual into a spectacle that can draw a crowd within hours. Here’s where the tradition actually came from.
Pontiac sold a full-size performance coupe in 1967 that most American enthusiasts have never laid eyes on, and the biggest engine you could order in it did not come from Pontiac at all. The Parisienne Sport Coupe wore Pontiac sheet metal over Chevrolet mechanicals, a compromise born from Canadian trade economics that accidentally created one of the best-value big-block cruisers of the decade. Read on to find out what made it different, and why it still hides in plain sight.
Only produced for a few weeks in early 1969, the Ford Torino Talladega was built almost by accident, a homologation special meant to satisfy NASCAR’s rulebook rather than draw showroom traffic. Holman-Moody reshaped its nose, dropped its stance, and paired it with Ford’s torque-heavy 428 Cobra Jet V8. On the track, it delivered results nobody expected: 29 Grand National wins and a manufacturer’s championship in just two seasons. Here’s how a rushed rulebook special became one of NASCAR’s most dominant machines.
Regular Car Reviews takes on a 1967 Dodge Coronet 440, a car the host bluntly calls “more a symbol of virility than a car.” Under the hood sits a 7.2-liter, 480 lb-ft V8, backed by nothing more than drum brakes, bias-ply tires, and lap belts. Watch to find out why a decades-old B-body still leaves viewers stunned.