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Street Outlaws The Reaper reveals new Procharged Camaro at PRI

For years, Street Outlaws’ The Reaper raced anonymously behind a nickname alone. At the PRI trade show, he pulled the cover off a new Procharged Camaro, trading his prior combination for a centrifugal-blower setup that no-prep racers often favor for its more manageable power curve. Fans in the comments, who know him by his real name, James Goad, flooded in with support for the new build’s debut on Oklahoma City’s notorious 405 list. Watch the reveal that has longtime fans debating what it means for his next run.

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800-hp ‘Yenko’ 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport revealed

by Kiril

Yenko’s name has not meant much on a new car in decades, but a modern stroker build on the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport just brought it roaring back. With a supercharged 6.8-liter making roughly 800 horsepower, wrapped in Grand Sport hardware and genuine Yenko styling cues, only fifty of these were ever built. Read on to find out what’s actually under the skin.

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Ford Mustang Notchback By Chris Cyrulewski

by Kiril

A widebody Mustang notchback render from designer Chris Cyrulewski went looking for investors instead of a dealership, landing right in the middle of a niche that’s been building momentum for years. The notchback body style has quietly become a favorite canvas for exactly this kind of aggressive, tuner-inspired transformation. Read on to find out where the widebody look actually comes from, and why concept renders like this one shape real garage builds.

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Muscle-car heaven: America’s 50-year love affair with the Camaro

by Kiril

The Camaro was born as Chevy’s rushed answer to the Ford Mustang, rolling off the line months ahead of schedule just to compete. Fifty years, six generations, and more than five million cars later, it has become an American institution in its own right. Here’s how Chevrolet marked the milestone, and how a car built to catch up ended up setting the pace.

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Electric Classic Muscle Car – Zombie 222 Fastback Ford Mustang

by Wes

A first-generation Ford Mustang fastback shouldnt be able to disappear into silence, yet the build nicknamed the Zombie 222 does exactly that, hiding a reported 800-plus horsepower behind a fully electric powertrain. Shown on the GoodGuys Rod & Custom circuit years before EV conversions became a mainstream corner of the classic car world, it split viewers between purists mourning the missing V8 and converts stunned by what they saw in person. Was this the moment the electric muscle car stopped being a joke?

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Drag Strip mode dips Mustang GT into sub-4-second 0-60 mph bracket

by Kiril

Ford’s 2018 Mustang GT reached 0-60 in the high 3-second range using nothing but a naturally aspirated 460-horsepower V8 and a new 10-speed automatic transmission’s Drag Strip mode. That number matched cars costing far more just a few years earlier, without a supercharger or turbocharger anywhere under the hood. Read on to see how the transmission, not just the engine, made the difference.

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2018 Dodge Durango SRT first drive: When the tow vehicle IS the track car

by Kiril

The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT pairs a 475-horsepower 6.4-liter HEMI V8 with an 8,700-pound tow rating, a combination no other three-row SUV in its class attempts. Dodge’s engineers built a family hauler that reaches 60 mph in roughly 4.4 seconds while still handling weekend towing duty without missing a beat. Read on to see how a vehicle built for cargo and carpools ended up outrunning dedicated sports cars.

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Holy Hell, You Can Rent The Pontiac GTO From XXX: Return Of Xander Cage

by Kiril

Most movie cars end up crushed or locked in a studio vault the second filming wraps. This one didn’t. A flame-spitting 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible, built for a role in XXX: Return of Xander Cage, showed up available to rent through Turo — and underneath the prop flamethrower rig sits a genuine, documented HO-engine GTO from the last year before Tri-Power disappeared. Read on to find out what makes this particular movie car a real piece of muscle car history.

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Dodge Plays Hardball to Halt Dealer Markups on Challenger SRT Demon

by Kiril

Dodge built a real consequence into the Demon’s production line: sell at MSRP and your customer’s car rolls off early with a coveted low serial number, mark it up and you go to the back of the queue. One Florida dealer tested that system anyway, and the story spread fast. Read on to find out whether Dodge’s serial-number leverage actually worked.

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1968 Dodge Coronet Gets Rear Tracks, Becomes A Muscle Snowmobile

by Kiril

Take a genuine 1968 Dodge Coronet, strip off the rear wheels, and bolt on a pair of snowmobile tracks, and you get a machine that shouldn’t work but somehow does. This half-track conversion trades quarter-mile bragging rights for the ability to plow through drifts most trucks wouldn’t attempt, built by a hobbyist working almost entirely from scratch. Half-track conversions have a strange, scattered history in American car culture — finding one wearing a genuine muscle car body is rarer still. Read on to find out what makes this build so unusual.

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Muscle Car Madness a hit in Rangiora

by Kiril

Craig Stare thought Muscle Car Madness might last a couple of years. Twenty-seven years later, the Rangiora Showgrounds show in North Canterbury is one of the largest car events in the Southern Hemisphere, drawing hot rods, American muscle, and Australian iron from across New Zealand’s South Island for one of its biggest weekends ever. From the real cost of owning a Chevelle on the far side of the world to how the show survived a change of ownership, read on to see what keeps this event growing.

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the LAST Vanishing Point Challenger – 1970 Dodge Challenger RT HEMI

by Wes

Ted Stephens owns all five surviving screen-used Dodge Challengers from the 1997 TV remake of Vanishing Point — the only ones left, since every car from the original 1971 film has been destroyed. His favorite of the five, a white 1970 Challenger RT, hides a detail almost no movie car ever gets: a genuine HEMI under the hood instead of a stunt-friendly substitute. It’s a piece of film history most fans don’t even know exists.

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What Tesla Owners Do When the Thrill Wears Off?

by Kiril

Being an early Tesla adopter used to mean turning heads in every parking lot – until everyone else got one too. This piece looks at what tends to happen once the novelty of silent, instant acceleration wears off, and why some owners find themselves drawn right back toward something loud, mechanical, and unmistakably muscle car. Quick and thrilling, it turns out, aren’t always the same thing.

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Tesla Model S P100D Gets Called Out by 900 HP Hellcat, Shows Up for the Race!

by Kiril

A Model S P100D running Ludicrous mode took on a pulley-swapped, drag-radial-equipped Dodge Hellcat at Atlanta Dragway, and the margin at the stripe came down to hundredths of a second. This piece breaks down what each car actually brought to the line, why reaction time mattered as much as horsepower, and how Dodge’s own SRT Demon was built a year later to answer exactly this kind of race.

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0-60 MPH in 2.3 Sec! How the Dodge Demon is The World’s Fastest Accelerating Production Car

by Wes

The Fast Lane Car set out to verify Dodge’s claim that the 2018 Challenger Demon was the world’s fastest-accelerating production car — and watched it run the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds, bone stock. Getting there required a factory transbrake, adjustable launch control, and a supercharged Hemi V8 pushing well past 800 horsepower. Commenters call it the last true American muscle car for a reason. Watch the full run and hear that supercharger whine for yourself.

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