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Behind the muscle cars rolling through the South East Moparty Picnic is a Hollywood footnote almost nobody knows — the 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible Don Johnson drove in Nash Bridges wasn’t really a ’71 at all, because Plymouth only ever built eleven or twelve of the real thing. Here’s how three modified 1970 convertibles became one of TV’s most famous muscle cars, and why Mopar loyalists still argue about it today.
Not every SEMA show car is built to be photographed, this 2016 Camaro SS was built to be tested. ScottieDTV’s coverage reveals it served as the actual development mule for GM’s new LT1 engine before Lingenfelter Performance Engineering added a Magnuson supercharger and reshaped its output entirely. The wheels and exhaust came almost as an afterthought. What LPE actually did under the hood is the part worth understanding before you write this one off as just another show floor build.
This Gen V Dodge Viper wears a twin-turbo setup the factory never built, stacking boost on top of an 8.4-liter V10 that already made up to 645 horsepower stock. Dodge built only 2,427 fifth-generation Vipers before regulations and slow sales ended the model in 2017. What does it take to turn America’s last naturally aspirated supercar into a forced-induction street monster? This build has the answer.
No year, no trim, just an orange Barracuda lighting up its rear tires in a parking lot — and that’s enough to send any Mopar fan down a rabbit hole. Plymouth built the Barracuda for just eleven years, peaking with a legendary 1970 lineup that included a 340 six-pack special built purely to go racing. Here’s what made that short run so wild, and why it ended almost as fast as it began.
A 740-horsepower supercharged LS3 Corvette lines up against a 770-horsepower supercharged Coyote Mustang, and the extra 30 horsepower isnt the whole story. RedmaroProductions captures a tight, hard-fought pass where shift timing and driver execution end up mattering as much as the numbers on paper. Comments erupted over which side needed the driver mod more, keeping the decades-old GM-versus-Ford rivalry alive at the strip. Who actually crossed the stripe first?
Pontiac built just 759 GTOs with the Ram Air IV package in 1969, and only 59 of those were convertibles, making this four-speed example one of the rarest combinations Pontiac ever offered. The Ram Air IV wasn’t a badge-only upgrade either, it packed round-port heads and an aluminum intake good for 370 horsepower. Here’s what made this engine option worth chasing then, and worth a small fortune now.
Omni Rider breaks teenage drivers into five familiar types — the texter, the show-off, the secretly fast one, the overly cautious rookie, and the speed-chaser — and the comments immediately pile on with archetypes the video missed entirely, from the parking-lot curb-checker to the mythical Crown Victoria owner every school seems to have had. See which type you were, or still are.
Muscle cars are supposed to be big, right? Not always. From the pint-sized Dodge Dart to the compact-turned-icon Ford Falcon, some of the era’s hardest-hitting machines came in surprisingly small packages. Here’s why going small was sometimes the smartest move Detroit ever made.
For the Camaro’s 50th anniversary, Chevrolet didn’t settle for a badge and a paint stripe. The sixth-generation car arrived smaller, sharper-handling, and backed by a lineup running from a 275-horsepower turbo-four up to a 455-horsepower SS V8, with a new ZL1 added specifically for the occasion. Here’s what made the anniversary edition — and the platform underneath it — genuinely worth the celebration.
This 1965 Fastback did not just carry Addison Lee down the road, it helped point him toward a racing career. Ford built this shape specifically for drivers who wanted more than a cruiser, and every Shelby GT350 that followed started from the same 2+2 platform. Find out what makes the 1965 Fastback such a rare and formative find, and why so few of them exist compared to the hardtop.
Everyone knows the 428 Cobra Jet ’69 Mach 1. Almost nobody talks about the FE big-block that sat quietly next to it on the order sheet — a 320-horse 390 that got skipped by nearly every performance buyer chasing the bigger name. This Gateway Classic Cars example carries that overlooked engine paired with a four-speed, and its rarity might actually surprise you more than the car everyone remembers.
This 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback rolls out with its rare factory red pony interior intact, a concours-style restoration, and a long list of original options most surviving 1965 cars lost decades ago. The team at MyRod walks through exactly what makes this fastback a reference-quality example rather than just another restored classic. Watch the full test drive to see what is actually loaded onto this car.
“Amazing V8 Sound” doesn’t specify which engine is making the noise, and with a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, that’s a real question worth asking. Every R/T came standard with a 375-horsepower 440 Magnum, but buyers could step up to the legendary 426 Street Hemi rated at 425 horsepower. Dodge built about 20,100 Charger R/Ts that year, each one wrapped in a body that barely needed to change from 1968.
Hertz rented these Shelby Mustangs by the day back in 1966, and this Candy Apple Red GT350H is proof the “Rent-a-Racer” program wasn’t just a black-and-gold gimmick. Under the hood sits a Shelby-modified Cobra 289 making 306 horsepower, numbers no rental car company had any business handing over to weekend customers. What started as a marketing experiment between Hertz and Carroll Shelby became one of the most legendary programs in muscle car history.
EngineLabs handed two teams an identical $9,999 budget and one instruction: build the strongest engine possible, Ford’s Coyote for one, GM’s LS3 for the other. The result is less a definitive winner and more a clinic in budget-build tradeoffs, big pushrod displacement against high-revving overhead cams, cheap aftermarket parts against premium modular components. Even the comments split along brand lines, with one self-described “Ford guy” breaking ranks to praise the LS3 outright. Watch the full build to see which philosophy actually made more power for the money, and decide for yourself which side of this rivalry your own garage falls on.