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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.
The number 67 runs through Rick Zipperian’s life: his high school graduation year, his age when this truck debuted, and the model year of the Chevy C10 pickups he has always loved. Instead of a numbers-matching muscle car, he built a 1967 C10 with a muscle car’s heart and unveiled it beside his son’s 1967 Chevelle at the Cavalcade of Customs in Cincinnati. Read on to find out why a work truck turned out to be the perfect way to honor a milestone year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every Father’s Day, Santa Rosa’s Juilliard Park fills with more than 300 restored cars, hot rods, rat rods, and low riders for a free show run by an all-volunteer contractors’ association for close to three decades. This year, seven-year-old Ripley Hansen led his dad Tor through the rows, and dad admitted he was the one learning. From trophies for Best Flames and Best Rat Rod to why a modest entry fee and free admission keep the rows growing, read on to see what makes this Sonoma County tradition work.
Twice in the 1990s, Ford built a Mustang so track-focused it was only sold to buyers holding a valid competition racing license: first with the 107-unit 1993 Cobra R on the outgoing Fox-body platform, then with the 250-unit, 5.8-liter 1995 version on Ford’s all-new SN-95 chassis. Both stripped out comfort features entirely in favor of lower weight and genuine racing credibility. Read on to find out how Ford kept reviving the Cobra R formula well into the 2000s.
Cornerstone Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram in Elk River, Minnesota gives a full walkaround of a brand-new 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the factory drag car that needed its own legal reclassification just to leave the lot on street-legal drag radials. The video runs through the full 15-trim Challenger lineup surrounding it and the details — from the second PCM to the missing exterior badge — that made the Demon unlike anything Dodge had sold before. Watch to see what a genuine Demon allocation looked like in person.
A Daytona Beach reader’s memory of his 1965 Plymouth Valiant reveals a rare factory combination most Mopar fans never encountered: a small-block V8, a four-speed manual, and a Hurst shifter in a car built mainly for economy-minded families. Chrysler’s 273 Commando made this compact sedan into an early, overlooked entry in the muscle car story, years before the Duster made performance Valiants familiar. Read on to find out why this specific combination remains one of Mopar’s most undervalued early performance packages.
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.
Most Hemi Dart stories are about the famous 1968 factory lightweights built for NHRA Super Stock racing around the 426 Race Hemi. This 1968 Dodge Dart GTS tells a different one: a first-generation Chrysler FirePower Hemi, bored from 331 to 342 cubic inches, tucked under a completely stock-looking hood and fenders. It’s an engine most Mopar fans forgot Chrysler ever built into a Hemi lineage at all. Read on to find out how a discontinued 1950s engine ended up hiding inside a 1968 A-body.
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 not every East Coast venue has stuck the way its longtime Hudson Valley date has. Here’s how Goodguys built its reputation, and why a show with 1,500-plus hot rods and muscle cars running for decades in Rhinebeck matters more than it looks.