This C6 Corvette runs a 549 cubic-inch V6 fed by two 98-millimeter turbochargers, the product of roughly seven years of development. Building a six by deleting two cylinders from a big-block V8 is not vandalism, it is a real drag racing practice that trades cylinder count for a shorter, narrower engine with enormous per-cylinder displacement. Here is why the math works, what the C6’s rear transaxle brings to it, and why the seven-year timeline is the real story.
A rare 1971 Mustang Mach 1 surfaced in Fairbanks, Alaska, packing Ford’s thunderous 429 Cobra Jet, a factory 4-speed, and power windows — a combination almost nobody ordered. Here’s why this barn find has Mustang collectors paying attention.
Three of the fiercest machines Detroit and Shelby ever built: a twin-supercharged Cobra with 800 horsepower, an all-aluminum big-block Camaro so rare only 69 left the factory, and a 426 Hemi Cuda built almost entirely for the drag strip. Here is why each one earned its dangerous reputation.
This 1938 Bugatti tribute wears the horseshoe grille and spoked wheels of one of the most famous race cars ever built, but its 1600cc four-cylinder engine gives away a secret most tribute builds share. With real Type 35s worth seven figures and fewer than 350 ever made, replicas like this one are usually built on far humbler underpinnings. Here’s what’s really hiding beneath the bodywork.
Chevrolet needed 1,000 Z/28 Camaros to legally race it in 1967 and built only 602. See how a paperwork loophole — and a disputed DZ-302 clone at a 2026 Carlisle auction — kept the legend alive.
Jay Leno owns hundreds of cars, but few tell a story as understated as his 1966 Dodge Coronet, a boxy family coupe hiding one of the most feared engines Detroit ever sold to the public. That small “426 Hemi” fender badge marks the first model year Chrysler offered the Hemi as a genuine street engine rather than a race-only exotic, sold in just three B-body nameplates. Read on to find out why a car this plain-looking still commands serious respect from collectors like Leno.
Oldsmobile built the 1970 442 W-30 convertible with a four-speed manual for buyers who still wanted to shift their own gears. Auction records show only 96 of them exist — here’s the 455 Rocket V8 package that made this rare build worth chasing.
The 1977 Pontiac Can Am packed a 400-cubic-inch V8 into a mid-size LeMans body as Pontiac’s unofficial answer to a GTO-shaped hole in its lineup. Pontiac planned to build roughly 5,000. A single broken piece of spoiler tooling ended the program at around 1,377 cars, making it one of the rarest factory muscle cars of the entire decade.
Six clean dyno pulls, then a seventh that ends in a bang, a flinch, and a very memorable shot of the shop floor. This stroked “Boss 557” build — a heavily reworked Ford Boss 429 — had already made 850 horsepower before a rushed decision to run a stock flywheel instead of a billet one caught up with it. The internets verdict is split between sympathy for the expensive loss and jokes about the cameramans reflexes. Watch to see exactly what a flywheel failure looks like up close.
We researched 3 top garage storage and wall organization options on Amazon — here are the ones worth buying for your muscle car, ranked by ratings and real buyer feedback.
The Pontiac Firebird Survived Two Gas Crises and a Hollywood Bandit — So Why Did GM Kill It in 2002?
Pontiac rebuilt the Firebird four separate times in 35 years, surviving two gas crises and a movie-fueled sales boom that forced GM to delay an entire redesign. This retrospective traces every generation, from the 325-hp 1967 Ram Air 400 to the record-setting late-90s WS6 Trans Ams, right up to the federal safety rule that finally ended the run in 2002.
The 2026 Ford Mustang GT Convertible still runs a naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V8 while nearly every rival has turbocharged or gone electric. One UK reviewer put it against a Porsche 911 on price alone — and came away recommending the Ford.
Two 1968 Hemi package cars ran down the same quarter-mile to the exact same thousandth of a second in the 2026 Sox and Martin Hemi Challenge final. One driver still walked away empty-handed — here’s how a .013-second red light decided a 25-year-old Indy tradition.
A Cameo White 1965 Pontiac Catalina looks like nothing more than a family sedan — until you learn it left the factory with a 421 Tri-Power V8, a 4-speed manual, and finned 8-lug wheels built to cool its brakes at speed. Here’s the story behind one of Pontiac’s best-kept sleeper secrets.