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GRIZZ isn’t a real 1970 Superbird – it’s Joel Highsmith’s modern custom tribute build, and it’s chasing numbers no factory aero car ever touched: over 1,000 rear-wheel horsepower and a 194mph top speed. Gearhead Flicks’ feature has drawn nearly 725,000 views, plus a sharp-eyed comment correcting the car’s own naming and a wild detour involving a theft and recovery. Find out where GRIZZ is racing next.
When Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon, the rumor mill had been running wild for months, and the real numbers still managed to shock: 840 horsepower, 770 lb-ft, a 9.65-second quarter mile, and a Guinness-certified wheelie. Then came the strange details, like passenger seats priced at $1 each and a car so quick the NHRA effectively banned it in stock form. Read on to find out how Dodge built a showroom drag car that broke the rules on purpose.
The muscle car market took its hardest hit in decades after 2009, and recovery has been slow and uneven ever since. One of the quietest comeback stories belongs to a car most people forget was ever a muscle car at all: the Mercury Cougar Eliminator, built in numbers far smaller than the Mustang it was designed to beat. Here’s why collectors are paying attention now.
Do muscle cars still exist, or did the breed die with the 1970s? The orange 1969 Pontiac GTO in the photo, wearing the stripes and spoiler of the short-lived Judge package, is the perfect place to start that argument. Pontiac built just 6,833 Judges that year, and the Ram Air IV cars could run the quarter in the low 13s. Read on to find out how the definition was born, why it collapsed, and whether today’s V8 coupes deserve the name.
Eleanor, the Mustang from Gone in 60 Seconds, was never a real Shelby — just a heavily modified fastback wearing a body kit designed by Steve Stanford and built by Chip Foose. Only three of the eleven cars built for the film could actually run, and two of those didn’t survive filming. Here’s the real story behind the muscle car that became more famous than most of its human co-stars, and what its legacy says about what people actually mean when they talk about attitude.
Doug Bolton wanted the hottest engine Chevrolet built for 1970, and Roy Price Chevrolet was just blocks from his house in Bountiful, Utah. Decades later, his unrestored 4,300-mile LS6 Chevelle is still on the road rather than tucked away in a trailer. Read on to find out what makes an LS6 the engine every Chevy fan of that era wanted.
The new products section at the 48th Annual NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Louisville gathered roughly 150 debuts sorted into four price brackets, from under $200 to over $5,000, with names like Dakota Digital, Cooling Components, Cam Guard, and Watsons StreetWorks in the entry tier. It is the one room where builders can handle next year’s parts before anyone else. Read on to find out why serious rodders and muscle car owners alike make it their first stop.
Brenda Wallace bought her 1970 Chevelle SS396 new from Wright Chevrolet in Clarksville, Tennessee, and never let it go. That single detail puts her car in rarer company than the horsepower numbers alone suggest — Chevrolet built just 2,144 of the top L78 version that year, and one-owner survivors with documented history are harder to find than clean examples of either engine. Here’s what made a genuine 1970 SS396 special, and why the “396” badge doesn’t quite mean what it says.
This race-prepped Camaro isn’t just for sale, it’s a rolling piece of the pony car war Chevrolet started on purpose. When reporters asked what ‘Camaro’ meant, Chevy’s famous answer was ‘a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs,’ and the rivalry that followed pushed both brands into a genuine horsepower arms race. Decades later, this car still runs like it has something to prove.
In This Is Us, Jack Pearson sells his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle to help buy the family house, a moment that stings more once you know what he gave up. 1970 was the peak year for the SS Chevelle, when the big block grew to a true 402 cubic inches behind the familiar 396 badge and the LS6 454 topped the range. Read on to find out why the show’s choice of car says more about Jack than any line of dialogue.
A 650-horsepower Camaro isn’t supposed to out-lap a Ferrari 488 GTB, a McLaren MP4-12C, and a Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring, but that’s exactly what the 2018 ZL1 1LE did, running a 7:16.04 with an ALMS driver behind the wheel. Multimatic’s adjustable DSSV dampers and a genuinely track-tuned aero package back up the number. At ,995, it embarrasses cars costing three times as much.
Dodge’s Domestic. Not Domesticated. campaign sent a Challenger up an ice-covered Alaskan mountain road and dared the snow belt to keep parking its muscle cars every winter. The star of the 30-second spot is the 2017 Challenger GT, the first all-wheel-drive muscle coupe sold in America, with a 305-horsepower Pentastar V6 and a front-axle disconnect that keeps it rear-drive until the roads turn slick. The ad’s Russia joke gets the laugh, but the engineering underneath is what makes the claim hold up. Read on to see how it works.
The five-figure muscle car market has cooled at the top, but the real action right now is happening under $10,000 — a corner of the hobby where second-tier icons like fourth-gen Dodge Chargers, Mercury Cougars, and even AMC Matadors are quietly building a following. We look at which overlooked classics are still genuinely affordable, and why a growing appetite for vintage trucks and SUVs is reshaping where collector money goes next.
Thirty years after Saleen’s race team swept four championships in a single 1987 season, the Championship Commemorative Edition Mustang arrived with a 3.2-liter liquid-cooled supercharger on its 5.0-liter V8, 730 horsepower on the street, 750 in track trim, and a production run capped at just 30 cars starting around $87,000. General Tire came back as a partner and Racecraft suspension returned. Read on to find out what made that season worth honoring.
NHRA’s 50 Greatest Drivers list wasn’t slapped together as clickbait – it came out of a genuine blue-ribbon panel debate for the sanctioning body’s 50th anniversary, weighing everything from national event wins to the sport’s technological history. Don Garlits sits at number one, with John Force, Don Prudhomme, Bob Glidden, and Shirley Muldowney rounding out a top five that basically built modern drag racing. Decades later, NHRA even expanded it into a Top 75 list for its 75th anniversary. So who’s your pick for the top spot?