The Ford F-100 spent thirty-five years quietly rewriting what a half-ton truck could do, from its 1953 fiftieth-anniversary naming to the bumpside and dentside generations that fill classic truck shows today. Along the way it became the first Ford pickup to offer factory-built four-wheel drive in 1959 and introduced the Twin I-Beam suspension that lasted three decades. Read on to discover the party trick that left Chevrolet and Dodge playing catch-up for years.
A muscle car owner’s guide to choosing between national self-storage chains, dedicated classic car storage specialists, and doing it right at home.
Stock-motor, stock-turbo quarter-mile racing is a surprisingly competitive corner of the Porsche 911 world, where a handful of tenths separates casual bragging rights from an actual record. This twin-turbo 911 leans on nitrous and drag radials rather than internal engine work to chase that record — a very different game than the heavily built cars dominating the outright quarter-mile books.
Chevrolet’s factory SS 427 package turned a handful of full-size Impalas into genuine muscle cars between 1967 and 1969, with roughly 6,350 built across all three years combined (1,778 of those in 1968 alone), rated at either 385 or 425 horsepower. The sleeper pictured here takes that idea further, pairing period-correct Impala sheet metal with a fuel-injected 496-cubic-inch big-block and a modern 4L80E automatic overdrive transmission. The result looks like a family car and drives like anything but, continuing a sleeper reputation the factory only hinted at fifty years ago.
The 1971 Ford Torino Cobra packed a 370-horsepower 429 Cobra Jet V8 and a blacked-out hood meant to intimidate — yet it never earned the household-name status of its GTO and Road Runner rivals. Here’s why this factory big-block muscle car still slips under most collectors’ radar.
A stranger’s dashcam happened to be rolling at exactly the wrong moment for this 1969 Dodge Dart GT, catching a violent rear-end failure loud enough that viewers say they had to rip their headphones off. The comments dug up two competing, detailed theories for what actually broke — and both are worth knowing before modifying your own muscle car’s rear end. Watch to see it happen.
The 1970 Trans Am’s engine lineup stopped at 400 cubic inches — the 455 wouldn’t arrive for another year. Here’s how that one-year gap still trips up collectors restoring survivors today.
Ford’s Mustang beat the Camaro and Challenger for a fifth straight month in March 2017, extending a streak to 27 wins in 29 months, but the raw sales totals hid a steep year-over-year decline. This piece unpacks the numbers behind that streak, why Camaro and Challenger were actually closing the gap underneath it, and what a winning streak built on a shrinking base actually signals.
A decades-old 1966 Mustang sat untouched until one buyer purchased it sight unseen and bet everything on a 300-mile drive home. A single overlooked part turned out to be the reason the gamble paid off.
In 1965, Chevrolet sold more than one million Impalas in a single year — an all-time industry record that has never been broken. Over the next five years the car would get outshined by its own spinoff, borrow styling cues from the Corvette, and quietly absorb a wave of new federal safety mandates. Read on to find out how a record-setting best-seller ended up playing second fiddle to the model it created.
We found 15 1968 Dodge Charger listings across ClassicCars.com, Autotrader Classics, and Gateway Classic Cars — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
Before the 1969 Dodge Charger became a movie legend, Dodge sold it on TV with comedian Stu Gilliam and actress Joan Parker as part of “The Dodge Boys” campaign. This thirty-second pitch is over fifty years old and still working on viewers today. See how Detroit built an entire personality around a muscle car before social media ever existed.
A 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle built by a shop called Backyard Specialties runs a supercharged Kong Performance LSX rated anywhere from 750 to 900 horsepower — nearly double the factory LS6’s 450. The build rides on a Speedtech Performance chassis engineered decades after the body ever left Chevrolet’s factory.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX has stayed in one family since a soldier bought it new coming home from Vietnam. Here’s why Plymouth’s 375-hp ‘gentleman’s muscle car’ only wore this body for a single model year — and why that makes a survivor like this one worth chasing.