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Two Rare Mopar Aero Warriors Found Hidden in a Hay Barn!!!!

Deep inside a Wisconsin barn, under a stripe of bird droppings and a small mountain of collapsed hay, sat two of Mopar’s rarest aero warriors: a 1969 Dodge Charger 500 and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, untouched for the better part of thirty years. Their owner found each one through a different stroke of luck, a vague classified ad and a tip from a wing car club, decades before either car ever left the barn. Read on to find out how both cars ended up parked together, and why one of them still wears its original barn hay to car shows.

Bright orange Ford Mustang parked outdoors near an American Muscle banner.

World’s Largest One-Day Mustang Show Returns In August

by Kiril

Every August, one stretch of Pennsylvania drag strip pavement hosts what has grown into the World’s Largest One-Day Mustang Show, drawing more than 1,400 cars and thousands of spectators for a single day of racing, showing, and charity fundraising. Six decades of Mustang history share the same show field. Read on to find out what it takes to pull off a gathering this size without it collapsing into gridlock.

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Mecum Kissimmee 2017: New Era Underway

by Kiril

Mecum’s 2017 Kissimmee auction ran ten days, moved nearly 2,700 cars across the block, and closed with more than million in total sales. Headline results included a ,000 Maserati Ghibli Spider and a rare ,000 Tuxedo Black Corvette convertible, while online viewership set records of its own. Here’s a look back at the auction that traditionally sets the tone for the entire collector car year.

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Burt Reynolds to auction replica ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Trans-Am

by Kiril

Every original 1977 Trans Am used in Smokey and the Bandit was destroyed after filming, leaving replicas as the only way to own a piece of the film’s legacy. Burt Reynolds commissioned his own painstaking recreation, drove it for tens of thousands of miles, and it later sold at auction for ,500 – with a similar Reynolds-owned replica later fetching over ,000. Here’s why collectors pay real money for a car that’s technically not the original.

Muscle Car News: Classic Recreations Shelby Mustang gets EcoBoost power

by Jack Harmon

Classic Recreations, the only shop officially licensed to build continuation Shelby Mustangs, just did something purists never saw coming: it dropped a turbocharged EcoBoost engine into a car built to honor Carroll Shelby’s big-block legacy. Owner Jason Engel says the move isn’t about abandoning tradition, it’s about keeping a niche, hand-built business alive in markets where displacement taxes make a big V8 impractical. Read on to find out how a turbocharged Shelby continuation stacks up against the original.

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Camaro goes nuclear: Chevrolet escalates the muscle car war

by Kiril

Chevrolet’s Camaro ZL1 1LE gives up nearly sixty horsepower to the Dodge Challenger Hellcat on paper, yet it laps a road course faster than the supercharged Mopar has ever managed. The gap comes down to what each manufacturer actually optimized for – straight-line traction versus corner-carving grip – in a horsepower war that shows no sign of ending. Read on to see how Chevrolet closed the gap without matching the Hellcat’s number.

Orange 2019 ZR1 on a dyno with RPM gauge showing power.

FIRST 2019 ZR1 ON THE DYNO!!! The Numbers are INSANE…

by Wes

A Pennsylvania shop got one of the first 2019 Corvette ZR1s onto a dyno before almost anyone else in the country, turning Chevrolet’s 755-horsepower factory claim into a real, verified number. The comment section has since turned the whole video into a running joke about everything this ZR1 supposedly did “first.” Behind the humor is a genuinely important early data point for the most powerful Corvette GM had built to that point. See what the rollers actually revealed.

Classic blue and white pickup truck parked near a Gulf gas station.

They Turned This 1967 Chevy C10 Into A ’60s Muscle Car

by Kiril

A 1967 Chevy C10 wasn’t built to be fast – Chevrolet’s second-generation Action Line trucks topped out around 325 horsepower from the factory. That hasn’t stopped builders from transforming these honest work trucks into genuine muscle car rivals, some packing twin-turbo LS power well past 1,000 horsepower under bodywork nobody would suspect. Here’s how a humble half-ton became one of the truck world’s favorite muscle car disguises.

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Mopars Galore At The 2017 Chrysler Nats! See Over 250 Pictures!

by Kiril

Nearly 3,000 vehicles spanning prewar sedans to modern Hellcats fill the show field at Chryslers at Carlisle every year, drawing Mopar die-hards willing to argue over a date code for hours. This piece walks through why Carlisle became Mopar’s unofficial capital, what makes the swap meet and car corral half the draw, and why factory-correct detail matters so much to this particular crowd.

Two men repairing an old car in a garage.

Camaro Resurrection: Bringing a Car Back to Life after Sitting for 20 Years

by Kiril

A first-generation Camaro that spent twenty years buried in a barn gets a second chance in this resurrection story, one rooted in a friendship that traces back to a 1979 magazine assignment in Escondido, California. What it takes to bring a car back from two decades of decay says as much about stubbornness as it does about mechanical skill. Read on to find out what actually happened when the engine turned over again.

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Volvo S90 R-Design review: ‘A pervy Swedish muscle car’

by Kiril

Volvo’s S90 R-Design earned an unlikely muscle car nickname from reviewers, not because of raw power but because of a level of visual aggression rare for the brand – blacked-out trim, sport seats, and a genuinely provocative reworked front end. Underneath, the numbers stay modest: up to 232 horsepower and a 0-60 time around 6.7 seconds. Here’s why a Swedish sedan earned a nickname usually reserved for big-block Americana.

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Dodge Flexes its Muscles at the Detroit Auto Show

by Kiril

At the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, Dodge let visitors drive a 707-horsepower Hellcat Challenger without leaving the showroom floor. The rig moved with every brake, throttle, and steering input, syncing to a virtual track on a wall of screens. It was one of the most talked-about attractions at that year’s North American International Auto Show. Read on to find out how Dodge pulled off the stunt.

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2017 Ford Torino: One Of The Famous Muscle Cars Is Making Its Biggest Comeback

by Kiril

A rumor about a revived Ford Torino, built on the Mustang’s platform with a 435-horsepower V8, spread widely enough in 2016 and 2017 to feel like real automotive news. The concept actually traces back to an April Fools’ joke that Ford never confirmed, yet the idea keeps resurfacing in enthusiast renderings years later. Read on to find out why this hoax refused to die.

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One Man’s Collection of 700 Unusual Cars Is Going Up for Auction

by Kiril

One retired trucking company owner in Norwalk, Ohio spent over 50 years quietly buying vehicles with no plan beyond “just one more,” and ended up with over 700 of them, including 250 Studebakers, a DeLorean, and a car that turns into a boat. Here’s what happened when the entire collection finally went up for auction.

Two men inspecting a car engine with blue flame paint.

Dad’s day a great day in Santa Rosa to ogle classic cars

by Kiril

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.

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