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This custom 1972 Pontiac Firebird runs the volume-production 350 V8, built during a year a UAW strike and tightening federal regulations nearly wiped out the entire Firebird nameplate. Read on to find out why every surviving 1972 Firebird — even one powered by the humble 350 — is scarcer than the model years on either side of it.
This 1975 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400 wears the same displacement badge Pontiac used through the golden age, but a new federal catalytic-converter mandate had already cut its claimed output to 185 horsepower by the time it left the Dallas showroom floor. Only around 13,670 buyers ordered one that year, most of them still chasing the shaker-hood stance even after the real horsepower numbers had quietly disappeared. Read on to find out what happened to Detroit’s V8s in the single strangest model year of the muscle car era.
Humberto Garcia spent decades chasing the feeling of his father’s 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III — and during the restoration of this Ivy Moondust example, found something inside the car that connected directly back to that memory in a way nobody expected. Filmed at his own Carpentersville, Illinois restoration shop, this is a car story that starts with a childhood dream and ends somewhere considerably more personal. Watch to hear it firsthand.
This Cranberry Red 1970 Chevelle SS packs the legendary LS6 454 and a four-speed manual — a combination that still commands serious respect among collectors. V8TV walks through the bench seat, the 8-track player, and 500 pound-feet of torque, while longtime fans debate a steering wheel detail in the comments below. Watch to see what 450 factory horsepower actually looks like in motion.
This 1968 Mustang fastback looks stock at a glance, but Customs by Killkeary dropped a modern Coyote V8 under the hood, turning a classic silhouette into a genuinely different driving experience. Read on to find out how shops make a fifty-plus-year-old chassis work with thoroughly modern power, and why this kind of build keeps growing in popularity.
A New Edge Cobra Mustang with twin turbochargers punching through its grille has become a fixture at I-29’s Heads Up No Prep events, where driver Boost12 keeps returning to test how much boost a no-prep surface can handle. 1320video caught this run as the turbo Mustang fought for traction on an unprepared track — the kind of pass that can go picture-perfect or sideways in an instant. Watch to see which one this was.
A five-year side project between paying jobs turned this 1971 Plymouth Cuda into a SEMA showstopper, powered by a Magnuson-supercharged Hemi V8 sitting on a custom Art Morrison chassis. More than 500 hours went into the interior alone, leaving the door handles as the only stock parts left on the entire car. Read on to see what it takes to build something this obsessively detailed as a side hustle.
A twin-turbo Chevrolet Corvette pushing 1,100 horsepower doesn’t just dominate stoplight showdowns — it flirts with 9-second quarter-mile times in a car most owners could still drive to work. Building reliable four-digit power takes more than bigger turbos, from fuel system upgrades to drivetrain reinforcement. Read on to find out what it actually takes to get there.
Chrysler rated the 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda’s 426 engine at 425 horsepower, a number most enthusiasts agree was deliberately underrated to dodge insurance scrutiny during the height of the muscle car wars. With only 666 built and a documented convertible recently selling for $2.53 million, this screaming yellow hardtop carries real rarity behind its factory options list. Read on to find out what actually separates a genuine Hemi ‘Cuda from a clone.
Pickup trucks aren’t supposed to run sub-8-second quarter miles, but the Red Dragon — a bone-stock-looking Chevrolet Silverado hiding twin turbochargers and a claimed 1,300-plus horsepower — has done exactly that on national television. Built its reputation on Discovery’s Street Outlaws, this truck has lined up against purpose-built race cars and a big-turbo Toyota Supra, closing a gap that used to favor lighter, purpose-built machines. Read on to find out what it actually takes to push a full-size truck this far past what Chevrolet ever intended.
A W-30 badge on a 1969 Oldsmobile 442 already means something rare, but this car carries an extra layer most American muscle cars never get: a passport. Oldsmobile built just 171 W-30 sport coupes for the entire model year, and only five of them were sold new in Canada. Read on to find out what the Force-Air Induction system actually did and why tracking down a car like this has more in common with genealogy than car shopping.
When Bennie Horton turned eighteen, his father handed him more than a graduation gift — he handed him a 1965 Ford Mustang GT Convertible in Silver Smoke Gray the family had owned since new. Four years ago, Bennie gave the car the restoration it deserved, and today it carries a story most owners can only dream of: a documented lineage, a decades-old photograph held by an uncle who’s never seen the finished car, and a family that never let it go.
Dodge’s 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat paired a 707-horsepower supercharged V8 with an 11.2-second quarter mile and a factory fuel economy rating nobody expected it to hold onto. This is the story of what that power actually cost owners day to day, from tire wear to insurance premiums, and why the Hellcat era changed how every manufacturer building a pony car thought about horsepower. Read on to see how the numbers held up once the burnout ended.
A Plum Crazy 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda with a Shaker hood, billboard stripes, and three two-barrel carburetors feeding a 440 is about as loud as Mopar ever got. Plymouth quoted 385 horsepower, a figure even people close to the factory considered conservative. What is genuinely surprising is how few buyers ordered it that year: just 254 cars. Read on to find out what happened to make one of Plymouth’s best engines disappear almost overnight.
This 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda carries the model’s only four-headlight styling and arrived in the final season Plymouth offered the 426 Hemi — a combination that made fewer than 120 Hemi ‘Cudas among the rarest muscle cars Plymouth ever built. Read on to find out what was happening in the market that made Plymouth’s most powerful car also its rarest.