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Robert Lamb’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat just became the first of its kind to run a 9-second quarter mile on pump gas — no race fuel, no built engine, just a smart bolt-on parts list and a dialed-in tune. His 9.993-second pass at 137.89 mph came from a car he drives every day, not a dedicated race build. Read on to find out exactly what it took to break a barrier Hellcat owners have been chasing for years.
Chevrolet’s 1957 Bel Air offered buyers a fuel-injected 283 rated at 283 horsepower, a four-speed manual that helped the car win roughly 21 NASCAR races, and, improbably, an electric razor you could bolt to the dashboard. Underneath the tailfins and chrome sat one of the widest engine and options ranges Chevrolet ever offered in a single model year. Read on to find out which combination collectors chase hardest today.
Long before muscle cars ruled the streets, coachbuilders were taking mainstream Fords and turning them into something stranger — like this 1940 Ford Deluxe flower car, built to carry funeral flowers on a stretched chassis powered by Ford’s humble 239 cubic inch flathead V8. Independent shops such as Eureka Manufacturing built these conversions in tiny numbers, which makes a surviving example this complete a genuine rarity for collectors who look beyond the usual muscle car playbook.
Stacy Walters Rossi says she fell for Corvettes at age seven, when one winked at her from the street. Decades later, she owns a rare 1954 model, one of the earliest Corvettes ever built, and talks about it less like a collector and more like someone who never stopped chasing that first moment.
This 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 looks stock from every angle until you notice its engine bay is empty, because the drivetrain has been relocated behind the driver entirely. The build borrows its ambition from Ford’s own mid-engine GT supercar and applies it to a car never designed for the layout. Read on to find out what it took to make a Cleveland-powered classic work as a mid-engine machine.
Very few 1970 Dodge Challengers left the factory with both the 426 Hemi and the upscale RT/SE Special Edition package — and this one has been fully restored by a specialist shop in Iowa. Restorer Tim Wilhelm walks through exactly what makes the car unique ahead of a Mecum Auction preview. Watch to find out what one sharp-eyed viewer says is the only thing this Hemi Challenger is still missing.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang refresh did more than reshuffle the sheet metal in response to a sharpened new Camaro. The GT quietly inherited a twin-disc clutch, suspension hardware, and Magnetic Ride Control straight off the Shelby GT350’s parts shelf, turning what looked like a mid-cycle facelift into a genuinely better driver’s car. Read on to see exactly what Ford borrowed from its own halo model.
Filmed at Quebec’s Sanair Dragway in October 2007, this quarter-mile pass sends a rare 1971 Ford Boss 351 Mustang, powered by the high-revving 351 Cleveland, against a modern 505-horsepower Corvette Z06. Commenters dig into why the Cleveland’s canted-valve heads made this one of Detroit’s most underrated factory drag engines. Watch to see whether decades-old engineering can still claw back a win against modern horsepower.
Most Camaro buyers care about straight-line speed, but the ZL1 1LE was engineered for something different — carving corners on a road course, using suspension technology borrowed from actual race cars. Reviewer Brian Makse takes it through a full test with input from the Multimatic engineer behind its spool valve dampers. Watch to find out whether GM’s most track-focused Camaro trim lives up to the hardware underneath it.
Chevrolet quietly found five extra horsepower out of the 1971 Chevelle SS 454, even as compression dropped and the fearsome LS6 got pulled before it ever reached a dealer lot. Only 9,502 of that year’s SS Chevelles left the factory with the big-block, making today’s survivors a genuine rarity. Read on to find out how Chevy pulled off the gain.
A 1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible and a 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible represent two totally different paths to muscle car stardom, one built on volume and options, the other on scarcity so extreme most Mopar dealers never saw one. The production numbers behind each tell a story that still shapes their value today. Read on to find out just how far apart those numbers really are.
Before a single Demon rolled off the line, FCA Powertrain engineers set themselves an internal goal that sounded impossible in 2015: a 9-second quarter mile with the front wheels lifting off the ground. Dodge revived a forgotten badge last used on a 1970s compact to carry that mission, and eventually delivered on every part of the promise. Read on to find out how close the finished Demon actually came to that original engineering target.
1954 was the final model year for Chevrolet’s Advance-Design trucks before an all-new generation took over in 1955, and Chevy spent that last year finally fixing the split windshield and dated grille that had barely changed since 1947. This 3800 panel delivery represents the most refined version of a design that spent seven years hauling America’s small businesses. Here’s what made 1954 the year Chevrolet got it right, just before moving on.
1974 marked the last year Dodge would let you order a Charger with a 440-cubic-inch V8 under the hood, and hardly anyone did. Insurance surcharges and tightening emissions rules had already scared most buyers toward smaller engines, leaving this big-block holdout as one of the final true muscle Chargers built before the nameplate went soft. Backed by a three-speed TorqueFlite automatic, it’s a genuine end-of-an-era survivor for anyone who understands what 1974 really meant for Mopar performance.
Aston Martin built the DB11 around two things it had never used before: a new aluminum platform and a twin-turbocharged V12, hidden inside one of the most classically shaped grand tourers the brand had made in years. The results were numbers no naturally aspirated Aston V12 had ever hit, including 600 horsepower and a 3.6-second sprint to 60. Here’s how Aston Martin’s biggest technical gamble in decades still ended up feeling completely true to form.