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For its 50th anniversary in 2017, Shelby American didn’t throw a retrospective – it built the most powerful Super Snake the company had ever sold to the public, with an optional supercharger pushing past 750 horsepower. Here’s what separates the base and optional power packages, what the hardware underneath had to do to handle it, and how a limited 500-unit run turned a legendary one-off into something you could actually order.
For nearly three decades, Sonoma County’s Father’s Day ‘Show & Shine’ has turned a public park into an open-air museum of stock rides, hot rods, rat rods, and low riders. The Engineering Contractors Association-run event skips the velvet-rope treatment of concours shows in favor of trophies for character, like Best Flames, Best Rat Rod, and Best Engine, alongside the usual categories. Free for spectators and open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., it’s become less about the cars and more about the dads and kids who show up together every year.
In 1993, Ford and SVT unleashed the Mustang Cobra R, a limited-edition thrill ride with only 107 examples ever roaring onto the scene. Fast forward two years, and the Cobra R was back, now boasting a 5.8-liter Windsor V8 and a sweet new platform. Only 250 of these were made, and they were more exclusive than a VIP club — you needed a racing license to snag one. So, why the $1M price tag? Well, rarity and a V8 that roars louder than your neighbor’s lawnmower make for a million-dollar combo!
Dodge SRT Demon was not just another trim above the Hellcat — it was a factory-built drag car with a VIN, requiring its own fuel and a certification most production cars never need. Cornerstone Auto dealership walkaround catches the 2018 model at showroom level in Minneapolis, laying out where it sat next to the rest of the Challenger lineup. It is a straightforward look at one of the rarest performance cars Dodge ever built.
A Daytona Beach reader remembers his 1965 Plymouth Valiant as a plain two-door sedan with a secret: a genuine 273 Commando V8 backed by a Hurst-shifted four-speed, a combination Plymouth offered on the compact Valiant for only a short stretch in the mid-1960s. It predates the big-block muscle car boom by a couple of years, and it’s rare enough that he says he’s never seen another one like it since. Sometimes the most memorable classic isn’t the flashiest one on the block.
A collector car auction that started at a regional airport in 1988 has grown into one of the largest events of its kind, now filling the Indiana State Fairgrounds with roughly 3,000 vehicles each spring. Here’s how Mecum’s Indy Spring Classic became a fixture of the Indy 500’s biggest week, and why the timing was never an accident.
This 1968 Dodge Dart GTS isn’t hiding the famous 426 “elephant” Hemi everyone expects to find in a Hemi Dart – it’s running a first-generation Chrysler FirePower Hemi, an engine family that predates the 426 by more than a decade, bored from 331 to 342 cubic inches. Here’s the surprising engine history behind a Dart that looks stock but very much isn’t.
What started in 1983 as a single one-day car show in a California fairgrounds parking lot grew into a national circuit spanning coast to coast, though the East Coast has always been the tougher region to hold onto. Here’s how Goodguys built its reputation, and why a Hudson Valley date with 1,500-plus hot rods and muscle cars matters more than it looks.
At the SEMA Show, Fullboost sat down with Johnathan Goodwin to check out the E-Charger, a bolt-on system that claims to add horsepower without the usual fuel economy penalty that comes with a belt-driven supercharger or turbo. Instead of stealing power straight from the crankshaft, it applies stored electrical energy through an electric motor only when extra push is needed, recharging itself through regenerative braking. Goodwin claims up to a 25 percent fuel economy improvement alongside the added power. See how the pitch holds up on camera.
Before General Motors even published an official number, insiders were already hinting that the new Camaro ZL1 1LE could embarrass cars costing several times its price around the Nurburgring. It backed up the talk, lapping the 12.9-mile Nordschleife in 7:16.04, the fastest time ever posted by a Camaro and good enough to rank among the fifteen quickest production cars in the world. For a car built around a supercharged V8 and a six-speed manual, that’s a number usually reserved for exotics.
The factory 1970 Boss 302 made a modest 290 horsepower – built not to impress anyone but to satisfy an SCCA rulebook that forced Ford to sell 6,500 street cars just to go racing. Today, that same Boss badge shows up on builds pushing 800 horsepower from a heavily reworked small block. Here’s what Ford actually shipped in 1970, and how far modern builders have pushed the platform since.
Just a week after Chevrolet unveiled the track-focused Camaro ZL1 1LE, spy photographers caught a heavily camouflaged prototype wearing an even more aggressive aero kit at GM’s proving grounds. Wide fenders, a shelf-like front splitter, and a massive rear wing fueled speculation that the storied Z/28 nameplate might be staging a comeback. With engine details still unconfirmed and testing already underway, one question hangs over the whole project: how much further can Chevrolet push a Camaro before something has to give?
Discovered inside a private Ontario collection of unrestored Mopar muscle cars, this 1969 Dodge Charger 500 is believed to be the very first one built, and one of only 15 built with the 426 Hemi and four-speed manual. Decades of factory paperwork document its promotional life, including two decades of magazine road tests on the streets of New York City. For collectors, its untouched paint and interior may be worth more than any restoration could recreate.
A 2016 Ford Mustang GT transformed by Saleen Automotive into a 730-horsepower rolling memorial for California’s Riverside Police Department, this supercharged cop car swaps stock street presence for supercar-grade power and Saleen’s motorsport pedigree. Built as tribute rather than typical patrol equipment, it echoes Saleen’s history of extreme builds, from tuned Mustangs to the S7 supercar. Few squad cars anywhere approach this kind of performance, making it one of the rarest and most talked-about police vehicles in the country.
A handful of original miles can be worth more than a six-figure restoration, collector cars with under 100 miles routinely fetch 88% above guide value. This piece digs into why untouched originality commands such a steep premium, and what really separates a genuine “survivor” from a car that just looks old.