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Classic 1971 Plymouth Cuda on display at a muscle car show.

Walkaround of Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals (MCACN) 2017

Internal Combustion’s 4K walkaround of the 2017 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals captures the Rosemont, Illinois show known for its Time Capsule survivor awards alongside concours-level restorations. The creator calls out Mopars, Boss 429 Mustangs, and Pontiac Firebirds as personal favorites, while one viewer argues the show is missing the average joe car altogether. MCACN’s indoor November format gives fragile, unrestored originals a weather-proof stage most summer shows can’t offer. Watch to see what an indoor survivor-focused show actually looks like up close.

Muscle Car News: Muscle car explosion sets off Novato house fire

by Jack Harmon

A Novato homeowner was doing what countless classic car owners do on a weekend — trying to coax a long-dormant engine back to life in his garage. A strange chemical smell on the first attempt should have been a warning sign. Instead, a second try on the ignition ended in an engine bay explosion, a spreading hillside fire, and a two-alarm response from local firefighters. Here’s what actually happened, and why old muscle cars carry this exact risk.

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This Is the 1,000-HP 2017 Trans Am 455 Super Duty

by Kiril

At the 2017 New York Auto Show, a small Florida company stole attention away from every major manufacturer with a car that technically should not exist: a modern Trans Am making roughly 1,000 horsepower from a NASCAR-engineered 455 big-block. Built on a Camaro-based chassis and priced well into six figures, it is less a restoration than a full continuation of Pontiac’s most legendary nameplate. Read on to find out what your money actually buys.

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Who says Britain can’t do muscle cars? Meet the 800bhp Sutton CS800 Mustang

by Kiril

Clive Sutton already had a reputation for tuning Mustangs to 700bhp, then his shop decided to go further. The CS800 squeezes as much as 825bhp and 640 lb-ft out of the Mustang’s 5.0-litre V8 using a Stage 2 Whipple supercharger, backing the numbers with a full carbon-fibre body kit and a bespoke interior. Here’s what it takes to build Britain’s answer to the American muscle car.

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Star-spangled, no bangers: 25 important American cars

by Kiril

Automotive historians point to a specific starting line and a specific peak for the muscle car era, separated by just six years and followed by a collapse that took barely half that long. A single stacked model year put nearly every brand’s most extreme performance car on sale at once, and the decline that followed was driven by regulation, insurance, fuel prices, and even a change in how horsepower was measured. Here’s how the era’s beginning, peak, and sudden end actually lined up. Read on to see which cars defined the peak.

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How I Ruined All My Cars

by Kiril

Every classic muscle car owner has a story about the mistake that cost them an engine, a transmission, or a rear end — and the stories keep repeating because these cars share a handful of very specific weak points. From carburetor floods that can hydro-lock a cylinder to reproduction tires that shock-load a differential, here are the ownership mistakes that quietly ruin more muscle cars than any track day ever could.

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Shelby’s All-New 750-Horsepower Super Snake Debuts

by Kiril

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.

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6 Sedans That Are Secretly Muscle Cars

by Kiril

Four doors, a trunk, and — in some cases — more horsepower than the muscle cars they get compared to. From Dodge’s 707-hp Hellcat sedan to a Holden-built Chevrolet SS with a manual transmission, these sedans prove the muscle car formula survived long after two-door coupes stopped being the only way to build one. Read on to see which family cars are actually the quickest thing in the driveway.

Humans uncovering secrets in a mysterious barn filled with artifacts.

Uncovering $1,000,000 Barn Find! You Wont Believe what it is….

by Wes

Tom Cotter tracks down a car so rare only 85 were ever built in Episode 16 of Hagerty’s Barn Find Hunter — one carrying a seven-figure valuation despite needing a full restoration. Hagerty’s own description dares viewers to guess what it is before watching. What makes the find real, rather than just valuable, is a detail casual viewers might miss: most of the original parts are apparently still there.

Sleek black police car with hood open at outdoor event.

You Don’t Want to See This Saleen Mustang Cop Car in Your Rearview Mirror

by Kiril

California’s Riverside Police Department took delivery of a 2016 Ford Mustang GT that had been handed to Steve Saleen’s shop and returned with a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 making roughly 730 horsepower and 600 lb-ft of torque, plus revised suspension, big brakes, and a rear wing under black-and-white livery. Built as a rolling memorial and community outreach tool rather than a patrol car, it is the modern extreme of a police Mustang tradition that dates back decades. Read on to find out how it came together.

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Quick Spin: Review of the Dodge SRT Charger Hellcat

by Kiril

A four-door family sedan that can out-accelerate two-seat sports cars sounds like a contradiction Detroit would never build — until Dodge wrapped a supercharged 707-horsepower HEMI in one and called it the Hellcat. Bone stock, it runs an 11-second quarter mile from a car that tips the scales at well over 4,500 pounds. Read on to find out exactly what Dodge crammed under that hood.

A person posing with a bright orange 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1 convertible.

Here’s a Tour of the 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1

by Wes

Doug DeMuro barely had time with the new 2019 Corvette ZR1 before filming, but touring it at its Dubai debut still turned into a look at the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built. Commenters could not resist joking about an American supercar getting its unveiling in a city built around European exotics. Watch to see the quirks DeMuro found anyway, and why this first look still gets rewatched years later.

Snag This Classic 1967 Chevelle Malibu Muscle Car

by Jack Harmon

This 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu wears SS badging on the outside, but the real story is underneath: a frame-off restoration built around a 5.3-liter LS V8, a 4L60E automatic, and a Quick Performance 9-inch rear end, all with just 15,000 miles logged since the rebuild. Listed out of Ubly, Michigan, it’s the kind of restomod that trades numbers-matching originality for a chassis built to keep up with modern traffic. Read on to see what else went into the build.

Classic orange muscle car parked in driveway.

Could Be the Most Original 1971 Plymouth Hemi ’Cuda on the Planet

by Kiril

In February 2013, two brothers went looking for one very specific car: an unrestored 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda in a screaming factory color, with its original build sheet, a four-speed, and one owner from new. Plymouth built only 114 of these for the entire model year, and just 7 convertibles. What the brothers found inside three weeks turned out to be exactly what they were chasing. Read on to see how rare this car really is.

A sleek red sports car with modern design and glossy finish.

2018 Chevy Chevelle release date specifications and price !! CAN THIS BE REAL!?!?!?!

by Wes

Before the 2018 model year, a rendering claiming to reveal a revived three-door Chevrolet Chevelle spread online, complete with invented horsepower figures and a suspiciously plausible price tag. It never happened — Chevrolet never built it, and the Camaro remained the brand’s only performance coupe. Read on to find out what the rumor actually claimed, and why fans wanted a modern Chevelle badly enough to believe it.

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