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Lebanon Ford Performance is selling a purpose-built Mustang capable of mid-10-second quarter miles for $59,995, straight off the dealer lot. The comments split between buyers doing supercharger math and one self-described Mopar loyalist grudgingly admitting the car earns its reputation — sleeper looks, no fender flares, and a question about the warranty that nobody quite answers.
Fifty years, two complete engine rebuilds, and a great deal of stubborn patience are what it took to make this 1965 Buick Gran Sport drive like new again. The Gran Sport was Buick’s answer to the GTO, built on GM’s new A-body platform, and it came wrapped around an engine unlike anything else in Detroit. Owners who keep these cars running will tell you the powerplant is the entire story. Read on to find out what made it worth the trouble.
The Goodguys Summer Get-Together has grown from a single Pleasanton parking lot into one of the biggest gatherings on the muscle car calendar, drawing thousands of American-made and American-powered cars every year to a weekend built around swap meets, seminars, and vintage drag racing. Its 24th running at the Alameda County Fairgrounds keeps that tradition going. Read on to find out how a modest 1983 car show became a national institution.
Chip Foose unveils the Mach Foose Mustang at SEMA 2017, a build that grafts 1971 Mustang body panels and 1970 rear quarter panels onto a modern 2011 Mustang GT chassis. Viewers call the muted gray paint and subdued stripes seductive precisely because it isn’t loud, a rare restrained choice for a SEMA reveal. Comments pour in from across the world praising Foose’s decades of work, while at least one lifelong Mustang fan says this is the exact car he’d want to own. Watch to see the reveal that stopped the show floor.
AMC built barely 2,300 Rebel Machines for a single model year, gave them the most powerful engine the company ever put in a regular production car, and wrapped the whole thing in red, white and blue reflective striping so nobody could miss it. One New York couple bought theirs the year they got married and never let it go. Here is why AMC only got one real shot at a muscle car this aggressive, and what makes the Machine worth chasing decades later.
Dodge could have sold the Hellcat on horsepower numbers alone. Instead it hired the star of the biggest car franchise in movie history, scored three commercials to a track built for tension rather than a jingle, and closed each one with a line that reads more like a recruitment pitch than an ad. The Brotherhood of Muscle campaign told buyers almost nothing about the cars. Here is why that was exactly the point, and why it worked.
Leaf springs gave classic Mopars their character and their single most frustrating flaw: axle hop that turns a hard launch into wasted motion. Swapping to a triangulated four-link ends it for good, but the install demands a welder, a quarter-inch of thread measured exactly right, and a decision about whether you are willing to modify a car permanently. Here is what the conversion actually involves, what it changes on the street as well as the strip, and which Mopars should keep their leaf springs.
Guy Carpenter was 19 years old in 1967, hanging around Wheeler Chevrolet and saving for a 427 Corvette he never ended up buying. What he got instead may be rarer: a 1969 Camaro Z/28 with roughly 15,000 original miles and genuine Smokey Yunick hardware still bolted under the hood. Yunick’s parts almost never left his Daytona Beach shop on anything he had not built himself. Read on for why an unrestored survivor makes those parts matter so much more.
Keeping a decades-old muscle car or hot rod on the road depends on a fragile supply chain of reproduction parts, machine shops, and specialty suppliers that has swung wildly in quality and availability over the decades. When that industry gets it right, restorations get easier and more cars end up back on the road. Read on to find out what’s actually changed, and why enthusiasts are paying attention.
Dodge’s engineers found a strange use for the Demon’s air conditioning system – one that has nothing to do with keeping the cabin cool and everything to do with chasing quarter-mile elapsed times. Jason Fenske breaks down the SRT Power Chiller and After-Run Chiller in exact numbers, down to the degrees Fahrenheit they shave off intake air. It’s the kind of detail hiding in plain sight on a factory spec sheet.
Walter Banks parked his 2016 Shelby GT350 Mustang in the shade at a small-town cruise-in, right alongside rat rods held together by rust and freshly restored muscle cars that still smell like new paint. That mix of eras and budgets is exactly what keeps local cruise-ins packed year after year. Read on to find out why events like this one keep drawing bigger crowds than formal concours shows.
Tom Derych spent his teenage years launching a 440-powered Dart Sport down New York National Speedway, and fifteen years looking for a real muscle car to replace it. He found a Sublime Green 1970 Charger at a show in 1989 with a blown 440 that looked spectacular and barely ran. What he built from it displaces 472 cubic inches and wears 1966 iron Hemi heads. Read on for how the combination came together.
A Sunday night at Larry’s Fun Fest, an event that has drawn crowds as large as 5,000 to Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin, turned tragic when three men were shot near a food vendor. Authorities believe the shooting stemmed from an ongoing rivalry between gang members from the Chicago and Milwaukee areas rather than anything connected to the racing itself. Two men died at the scene, a third later at a hospital, and the shooter was not immediately caught. Read on to find out what’s known so far.
This 1969 Camaro carries a double-COPO order — Order 9561 for the 425-horsepower L-72 427 big block and four-speed, stacked with Order 9737’s Sports Car Conversion Package — making it one of only twelve four-speed Berger Chevrolet COPO Camaros believed to survive. Dale Berger himself signed the radiator support, and a Copo Connection certificate backs up every number on the car. Owned since 1998 and restored on a rotisserie with accuracy as the priority, it’s the kind of documented survivor that resets expectations for the entire category. Watch to see the paperwork that makes this Camaro one of a kind.
A black and gold Pontiac Firebird Trans Am built in the image of Smokey and the Bandit sold for $275,000 at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, and Burt Reynolds drove it onto the block himself. It was not the first one he sold, and it was nowhere near the last. The car underneath the paint had almost nothing in common with a 1977 Trans Am. Read on for what buyers were really paying for.