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Classic 1969-1970 Plymouth Fury in shiny red with distinctive rear design.

Uniquely Elegant 1969-1973 Plymouth Fury

Plymouths fuselage-era Fury, produced from 1969 through 1973, gets its own spotlight here, and the comment section has turned into something like a family reunion. Viewers trade specific memories of mothers Autumn Copper Sport Furys, grandmothers 440-powered two-doors, and drivers ed cars with back seats “like a limousine.” Its proof that not every beloved Mopar had to be built for the dragstrip. Watch the full styling breakdown and see which detail — including that famous hidden headlamp option — sparks your own memory.

Rusty old car abandoned in a dense forest overgrown with vegetation.

Dodge Challengers buried deep in the Woods

by Wes

A chance tip from a friend on the Hot Rod Power Tour led to this overgrown Gulf Coast yard full of forgotten Dodge Challengers, slowly disappearing into the undergrowth after years of neglect. Some parts have already gone on to support other Mopar restorations, while the rest keep decaying where they sit. See what’s left of this hidden E-body stash before nature reclaims it completely.

Classic white muscle car with racing modifications on display.

Farm-Find Rescue! Plymouth Duster Big-Block Swap

by Wes

David Freiburger genuinely forgot he owned this 1970 Plymouth Duster until it turned up buried in dirt on a California grape farm belonging to Engine Masters editor Steve Dulcich. What followed was a five-day sprint to stuff a salvaged 440 big-block into the car, complete with hammered-on headers and a trunk painted before the engine even ran. Longtime fans still call it the best episode Roadkill ever made. Watch the full build and burnout below.

Red 2015 Mustang undergoing drag race final testing on a dynamometer.

Drag Race Start Fail You Don’t Want To Happen To Anyone

by Wes

A brand-new 5.0 Mustang, a slick no-prep drag strip, and stock street tires proved to be a costly combination at this Armageddon No-Prep event. The crash that followed happens in about six seconds flat, and the driver walked away within minutes thanks to modern safety equipment. One commenter, who says they faced the same situation two weeks earlier, offers a blunt breakdown of exactly where the launch went wrong. Watch the full clip and the reaction its still generating years later.

A large outdoor car show with numerous classic and vintage cars on display.

Event Happening: The Goodguys/Speedway Day In The Hay

by Kiril

On Saturday, June 17, the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association brings its third annual Day in the Hay to Lincoln, Nebraska’s North Haymarket district with Speedway Motors, expecting more than 1,000 hot rods, customs, and muscle cars built through 1972 if last year is any guide. The organization behind it began with about 650 cars in a Pleasanton, California fairground in 1983 and now stages 15 national shows for more than 70,000 members. Read on for how a single parking-lot show grew into a downtown Lincoln institution.

Front view of a classic Ford Mustang GT500 muscle car with a promotional sign.

Beginning of the end for muscle cars-The USA enacts The Motor Vehicle Pollution and Control Act in 1965.

by Ross Mills

A single law passed by Congress in 1965, with almost no public debate, set the clock running on the muscle car era’s biggest engines. It didn’t ban horsepower outright — it required something automakers had never had to build before, and gave them until 1968 to figure it out. Here’s how a bill introduced by Senator Edmund Muskie ended up reshaping what Detroit could sell under the hood.

A row of classic muscle cars in a covered parking area.

1969 Shelby GT500 “Survivor”

by Kiril

This 1969 Shelby GT500 crossed the block at Auctions America’s Fall Collector Car Weekend in Auburn, Indiana, as a genuinely all-original example — factory paint, an untouched interior, and a Cobra Jet V8 that’s never been pulled for a rebuild. Cars this honest rarely surface at auction anymore, and this one raises the age-old restore-or-preserve question. Watch to see what nearly fifty years of originality actually looks like.

Chevrolet Camaro 1968 – Life with Lucy

by Kiril

Lucy is a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro with a big block under the hood and an empty plate in the dash where the radio should be, and that combination says everything about how she was originally ordered. 1968 was the year Chevrolet finally filled the gap in its 396 lineup, cured the wheel hop that plagued the first-year cars, and sold 235,147 Camaros in the process. Read on for what separates a genuine big-block car from one wearing the badges.

El Camino Fourth Generation 1973-1977

by Ross Mills

The 1973 El Camino was the biggest one Chevrolet had ever built, and it arrived carrying federally mandated bumpers that nobody had designed the styling around. Underneath sat a raft of genuinely thoughtful engineering: a wider track with deliberately mismatched camber for crowned roads, computer-designed coil springs matched to each vehicle, standard front discs, and a 22-gallon tank. Read on for what the fourth generation got right in the worst possible decade for performance.

Vintage 1968 muscle car showcased on a rooftop.

VINTAGE: Muscle Car Commercials from 1968

by Wes

This reel of vintage 1968 television commercials puts Ford’s Shelby Mustang GT and Pontiac’s Firebird side by side, capturing exactly how Detroit sold raw horsepower to television audiences before lifestyle marketing took over. Jingles, drag strip footage, and confident announcers do all the selling. Watch to see how differently automakers pitched performance more than half a century ago.

Jay Leno and guest discuss cars inside a vehicle on 'Jay Leno's Garage.'

Jay Leno helps you celebrate the 4th of July with America’s cars

by Kiril

Jay Lenos Burbank garage holds an estimated 180 cars and 160 motorcycles, but a handful of American muscle cars keep coming up whenever he talks about the ones he loves most. A 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T and a 1969 Camaro Z28 sit alongside oddballs like the front-wheel-drive 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Here is what his favorites say about what makes a muscle car worth keeping.

1968 Pontiac Firebird in a showroom with classic cars.

Pontiac Firebird 1968 Original

by Kiril

Pontiac spent 1968 quietly fixing the Firebird’s first-year problems, dropping the vent windows for Astro Ventilation, replacing single-leaf rear springs with multi-leaf units, and adding staggered shocks. The new 350, which actually displaced 354 cubic inches, came as a 265-horsepower two-barrel or a 320-horsepower HO. Pontiac built 107,112 Firebirds that year. This one still wears its factory engine and interior. Read on for what originality really requires.

A man opens the door of a white sports car indoors.

Ride in a 2005 Ford GT the Greatest Ford Design Ever ? Why Not!

by Kiril

Randy Smalley has owned his white-and-blue 2005 Ford GT since it was new, a Le Mans-inspired supercar he still drives through the Phoenix suburbs rather than storing away. Viewers have called its value trajectory ‘appreciating faster than it could even drive,’ a fitting line for a car built to answer Ford’s own GT40 legacy. Nearly twenty years later, the debate over whether the original supercharged V8 beats the modern turbocharged GT is still going strong. See what makes this one worth the ride.

Your tires do NOT need nitrogen!

by Ross Mills

Nitrogen tire fills promise longer-lasting pressure and better mileage, but independent testing from Consumer Reports and NHTSA found the real-world gains on everyday cars are far smaller than the marketing suggests. Ordinary air is already about 78 percent nitrogen, and mixing the two does no harm at all. Read on for what nitrogen actually changes, where it makes sense, and why it will never replace a monthly pressure check.

A classic purple muscle car parked outdoors under a partly cloudy sky.

Plymouth Cuda 1970 AAR in Moulin Rouge Paint

by Kiril

Plymouth built 2,724 AAR ‘Cudas inside a five-week window in spring 1970, purely to homologate the Trans-Am cars Dan Gurney’s team was campaigning. Each got a 340 Six Barrel with three Holley two-barrels, a functional fiberglass hood, side-exit exhaust ahead of the rear wheels, and staggered tire sizes that were an American production first. This one wears the high-impact Moulin Rouge paint. Read on for why it only lasted one year.

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