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A routine nitrous pass off Mexico Racing League’s camera turns into a real-time lesson in why a 100-shot kit needs its own dedicated fuel system to survive. What starts as a hard, loud launch ends with something under the hood giving way in an instant, and a comment section full of tuners explaining exactly why. The failure has nothing to do with the car being cheap and everything to do with basic nitrous fueling math. See what actually went wrong.
There is a very specific sound that still turns heads on quiet streets more than sixty years after Detroit built the cars that made it, and an entire American car culture grew up around chasing that exact reaction. From the quarter-mile drag strip to Woodward Avenue’s nightly cruising ritual, the appeal was never really about spec sheets alone. Read on to find out how insurance surcharges, oil shortages, and shifting regulations nearly ended the era entirely, and why it came roaring back anyway.
A genuine 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible — metallic green, 383 V8, 4-speed manual — headed to no-reserve auction as part of the Rietz Mopar Collection sale in Mansfield, South Dakota. Convertible Road Runners were rare even when new, and survivors this complete rarely surface. No reserve means it sells to whoever bids highest, no matter the number. Watch to see what a car this scarce actually brings under the gavel.
This 1988 AMC Eagle Wagon rolled off the line during the final months the AMC name existed at all, built with genuine full-time four-wheel drive years before crossovers had a name. Only 2,306 were built that final year, and this one still carries its original 258-cubic-inch six. Read on to find out why a wagon nobody remembers might be more significant than it looks.
Decades before muscle cars ruled American roads, Cleveland engine builder Alexander Winton set out in 1897 to prove a car could survive an 800-mile trip from Ohio to New York City, and did it in nine days over roads barely fit for a horse and buggy. His stubborn pursuit of reliability didn’t stop there, eventually paving the way for the first successful cross-country automobile drive in 1903. Here’s the story of the record-setting trip that helped convince America cars were here to stay.
This 1966-titled Cobra isn’t an original — it’s a Factory Five build, and one commenter’s assumption that it carried a seven-figure original price tag says everything about how thoroughly this replica nails the look. Underneath sits a built, supercharged 302 making roughly 450 horsepower, plus a detail original Cobras never had: power steering. The full walkaround reveals what separates a good kit build from a great one.
This 1967 Camaro convertible trades its long-gone factory small-block for a 383 stroker, backed by a TH350 automatic, Hugger Orange paint, and enough chassis work to put real power down. Convertibles were already the rarer first-gen Camaro body style before anyone touched the drivetrain. Read on to find out what it takes to build a driver-focused first-gen right.
A 1956 Buick Special barn find doesn’t usually come with a $900,000 price tag, but this one earned it: twin turbos strapped to a 401 Nailhead V8 push output to roughly 800 horsepower, backed by Ride Tech suspension and a Corvette C6 independent rear end. The Nailhead’s origins as a quiet 236-horsepower luxury engine make the transformation even more remarkable. Here’s what makes this one of the more unexpected restomod builds in the muscle car world.
A Ford Shelby GT350 built by Cordes Performance Racing runs an F1A Procharger, ARH long tube headers, and E85 fuel to a claimed 923 horsepower at the wheels — on a completely stock bottom end. At Shifts3ctor’s California Airstrip Attack in Coalinga, it lines up against a Chevrolet C7 Corvette Z06 kept close to factory spec. The horsepower gap looks enormous on paper. Watch to see whether launch and traction close it at all.
This black-on-black 1964 Impala SS pairs Chevrolet’s balanced 327 small-block with a factory four-speed manual, a combination enthusiasts still single out as the sweet spot of that model year’s engine lineup. Straight, unrestored survivors wearing their original color combination this cleanly are getting harder to find every year. Read on to find out what made the 327 4-speed the one to chase.
David Cach’s TorRed 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat beat out a field of nominees to win Hellcat of the Month on the SRT Hellcat Facebook page, no small feat among a community full of 707-horsepower Challengers. Behind that community vote sits genuine engineering history, the first factory-supercharged HEMI Dodge ever built. Read on to find out what actually made the Hellcat program possible.
A 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner packing a 440-cubic-inch big block (rated 280 horsepower under 1972’s stricter net rating system) lines up against a 2002 Corvette Z06 and its 405-horsepower LS6 V8 at Estonia’s 2015 ABCS drag event in Haapsalu. On paper it looks lopsided, but big-block torque and modern chassis engineering rarely settle their arguments on paper. The pass pits fifty years of engine philosophy against each other in one quarter-mile. Watch to see which era of Detroit muscle actually wins the light.
Roadster Shop took a 1967 Chevelle that looks period-correct from fifteen feet away and hid a 680-horsepower supercharged LS, a custom Fast Track chassis, and a six-speed manual underneath it. The build keeps its original-style interior and chrome trim intact, proving a genuine pro touring monster does not have to look like one. Read on to find out what’s really under that Onyx Black paint.
Two finished Chevelle SS builds, one wearing deep red and the other cool blue, parked side by side is the kind of photo that starts an argument before anyone finishes looking at it. Chevelle owners are famously particular about color, engine choice, and build philosophy, and this pairing puts two completely different interpretations of the same nameplate on full display. Read on to find out which build philosophy each car represents.
Pony car purists have a firm opinion about rear-wheel-drive muscle cars in the snow: it doesn’t go well. The team at The Fast Lane Car put the all-wheel-drive Challenger GT up against a Mustang and Camaro on the same snowy pavement to settle whether Dodge’s unusual drivetrain choice actually held up. Watch the full comparison to see which pony car kept moving when the others couldn’t.