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Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale week has a way of setting the tone for where muscle car money is headed each year, and 2017 was no exception. With 1,719 vehicles crossing the block and 40 sales records falling, the results revealed which corners of the market were heating up — and which classics were starting to share the spotlight with unexpected competition. A Shelby GT350 and a Boss 429 both cracked six figures, but the real headline was who else was cashing in.
CarsFX’s countdown of 2018’s most anticipated muscle cars mixes the expected — the Dodge Demon, the Viper, the supercharged Camaro ZL1 — with one entry almost nobody saw coming: the hand-built EQUUS Bass 770, which commenters say out-styles anything currently built by Ford. The list isn’t perfect (a few older models slipped in), but the reaction proves one car stole the whole show. Watch to see which upcoming muscle car has fans arguing the most.
General Motors capped the Camaro’s engine displacement in a way that put it at a disadvantage against rivals — until one Pennsylvania dealer decided the rulebook didn’t apply to him. Don Yenko’s dealer-built engine swaps eventually became a factory-documented option, and decades later the same name resurfaced on a supercharged Camaro built specifically to answer the Dodge Demon. Here’s how a workaround became one of Chevrolet’s most enduring performance names.
This 1969 Dodge Charger isn’t a restoration – it’s a transplant, with the classic fastback body dropped directly onto the chassis of a 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat. That donor brought along a 707-horsepower supercharged HEMI, modern suspension, and a thoroughly contemporary interior, all wrapped in unmistakable late-1960s sheet metal. The build sits at the center of a growing restomod trend that trades numbers-matching purity for something that can actually keep up with modern traffic.
A memory made at a Denver-area drag strip in 1998 turned into an almost two-decade quest for one Camaro enthusiast. When he finally found the exact black 1991 Z28 that had stuck with him since high school, he was also picking up the final model year before Chevrolet redesigned the Camaro entirely. See how patience, engine choices, and a five-speed gearbox all came together in one featured car.
Mistaken for his teammate’s identical car and later disguised as a Road Runner and then a Dodge Charger, this Plymouth Superbird spent decades with its true history erased, until a collector’s detective work and Richard Petty’s own crew proved The King really had driven it. A full restoration at Petty’s shop brought one of NASCAR’s genuinely lost cars back into the light.
Fifth Gear puts two of television’s most famous cars through a real head to head, the Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee against Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino. Host Vicki Butler-Henderson gets behind the wheel of both to find out which screen legend actually handles better once the cameras stop editing for drama. The result says as much about decades of TV car myth as it does about either car.
At its 2017 Detroit Auto Show press conference, Ford officially confirmed the return of both the Bronco SUV and Ranger pickup, built on a shared body-on-frame platform at its Michigan Assembly Plant. Details were scarce, but the timeline was clear: Ranger for 2019, Bronco for 2020. DPCcars covers the announcement that turned two decades of rumors into an actual product plan.
A driver takes a 2017 Camaro ZL1 out for their first-ever laps on track, sharing the session with a Ford GT — one of the most exclusive supercars Ford has built in decades. With a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4 V8 and a chassis engineered specifically for road-course work, the ZL1 was built for exactly this moment. Watch how a first-timer handles a car with this much capability.
A Jeep balanced up on two wheels tends to stop traffic at any car show — but for the Clayton family, their 1978 CJ5 was never really about the trick. Bought new by Butch Clayton’s father and restored by three generations since, this Wrangler forerunner has spent 39 years quietly becoming something closer to family than machine. Here’s the story behind the CJ5 that turned heads at a quarterly Lowcountry meet.
According to its uploader, this 1985 Camaro IROC-Z28 was showing just 4.3 original miles before it eventually sold at a Mecum auction for ,000 — a genuine time-capsule survivor of the year Chevrolet introduced Tuned Port Injection and borrowed suspension tuning tricks from the Corvette. Watch to see what a virtually unused third-generation IROC-Z looks like decades later, and why collectors treat single-digit mileage as its own distinct category of provenance.
Roughly 7,802 Dodge Challengers built in 2017 had a transmission control module glitch that could leave the car showing Park on the dash while it was actually anything but. The fault traced back to software meant to smooth out shift quality, and Chrysler fixed it with a free dealer update. No accidents were ever tied to it, but it’s a solid reminder that horsepower isn’t the only thing worth double-checking.
In June 2017, the Dodge Challenger did something it hadn’t managed in at least seven years, it outsold both the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro in a single month, 6,605 units to 6,186 and 4,691. Here’s how the old-guard underdog pulled off the upset, and why the year-to-date numbers tell a more complicated story.
A Ford engineer backing his own Shelby GT350 out of his driveway got the cops called on him by an annoyed neighbor, and that awkward morning became the reason the 2018 Mustang GT has a ‘Good Neighbor Mode.’ Quiet Start and Quiet Exhaust settings can drop noise by 10 decibels and be scheduled straight from the steering wheel. Sometimes the best engineering comes from genuine embarrassment.
