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An ordinary commute turned into an extraordinary sighting when this creator passed a warehouse full of exotic and muscle cars being seized by the DEA and U.S. Marshals — combined value pushing toward four million dollars. From a Diablo Roadster to a heavily modified American muscle car, see what was inside before it scattered to auction forever.
A fan rendering imagines the Shelby GT350R wearing police livery, and the fantasy holds up better than most once you look at the real car underneath. The GT350R’s 5.2-liter Voodoo V8 revs to 8,250 rpm and makes 526 horsepower, the highest-revving naturally aspirated V8 any American automaker has built. Read on for why the powerband suits pursuit duty, why Mustangs have worn the badge before, and why this one would still never survive a fleet manager’s review.
A stock 1969 Charger, an authentic Charger Daytona, and a modern Hellcat go through identical wind-tunnel testing to answer a question most muscle car fans get wrong: the Daytona’s towering wing wasn’t primarily about cutting drag, it was about solving a dangerous rear-lift problem at superspeedway speeds. Watch to see smoke trails and pressure data confirm exactly what Chrysler’s engineers were fighting in 1969 — and how differently Dodge’s modern Hellcat was ever meant to be used.
Air Flow Research built V8BUILDS to answer a question every gearhead has quietly asked at a static car show: how would these things actually run? The autocross-and-show hybrid started small at Willow Springs International Raceway before outgrowing itself, and its next stop lands at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Classic muscle, resto-mods, pro touring builds, and V8-swapped imports are all welcome on the cone course — because at V8BUILDS, the only membership requirement is a V8 doing real work under the hood.
Legendary Motorcar’s Dream Car Garage tracked down a pristine 1969 Plymouth Road Runner for a segment that still draws comments from people who owned one the first time around. The story behind the car runs deeper than its cartoon-licensed horn: a no-frills muscle car built to undercut its own siblings on price, and the rare A12 “Six Barrel” package that made it one of the most feared cars at any stoplight. Watch to see why the Road Runner still commands this kind of loyalty decades later.
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.
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: the classic fastback body dropped directly onto the chassis of a 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat. The donor brought a 707-horsepower supercharged HEMI, independent front suspension, modern brakes, and an entirely contemporary cabin beneath unmistakable Coke-bottle sheet metal. Read on to find out why builders keep choosing this approach, and whether a muscle car’s soul lives in its body or its bones.
A memory made at a Denver-area drag strip in 1998 turned into an almost two-decade quest for one Camaro enthusiast. When Brandon Pursley finally found the exact black 1991 Z28 that had stuck with him since high school, he was also buying the first year the Z28 name returned after the IROC-Z era. Read on for the story behind this Camaro of the Month and what makes the late third-generation cars worth the wait.
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.
Butch Clayton’s 1978 Jeep CJ5 stood on two wheels at a quarterly Ladson car show, tires and frame on full display, but the stunt was the least remarkable thing about it. His father bought the Jeep, and Butch and his son William restored it together during a hard year, turning an AMC-era off-roader into three generations of family history. From the 304 V8 it shares with AMC’s muscle cars to why a one-family CJ matters more than a rare one, read on to find out what makes this Lowcountry Jeep worth a second look.
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.