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Ford has built a full-size, rear-wheel-drive Falcon continuously in Australia since 1960, and most American muscle car fans have never seen one. It played Mad Max’s own car on screen, runs down speeders as an Australian police interceptor, and in 2014 offered a turbocharged six-cylinder quick enough to embarrass plenty of V8 rivals. Read on to find out why this nameplate’s long run was already nearing its end.
Chevrolet’s fender badge said ‘396’ on every 1970 SS Chevelle, but the actual engine under the hood measured 402 cubic inches — a quiet update the automaker never bothered to advertise. Buyers chose between a 350-horsepower street engine and a 375-horsepower solid-lifter race motor, wrapped in a convertible body built in far smaller numbers than the hardtop. Clean examples now average around $105,000 at auction. Read on to find out why a mislabeled engine became one of the most valuable badges in muscle car history.
Raw POV footage puts you inside a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner as it rips off a 12.9-second pass at a grassroots event called Hills Race, complete with a scream from whoever’s riding along and shift work clean enough that commenters are still praising it years later. One longtime Mopar owner even chimed in with his own pistol-grip-shifter memories. It’s the kind of unfiltered footage professional broadcasts never capture. Watch the run that’s still turning heads.
1972 marked the final year of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo’s first generation, and though the SS badge had already been retired, the lineup still ranged from a mild 165-horsepower 350 V8 to a genuine 270-horsepower 454 big block. A new Cadillac-style grille and standard variable-ratio power steering rounded out the last update before a full redesign. More than 180,000 buyers still chose one that year. Read on to find out why this quiet swan song became one of Chevrolet’s best-selling coupes.
A forgotten 1979 border-town action film produced one unforgettable stunt sequence: a 1972 Chrysler New Yorker chasing a 1966 Ford Ranchero, with a 1959 Dodge Mayfair also caught in the mix, all captured in a single real-world take decades before CGI made this kind of scene easy. Preserved by an archive channel dedicated to rescuing lost car-chase footage, the clip has drawn comparisons to Tarantino’s stunt work. Watch three generations of Detroit iron collide with movie history.
A car show burnout in South Carolina turned into a four-second chain-reaction crash when a supercharged Shelby GT500 lost traction, slammed into a brand-new Ram 1500, and kept sliding into a New Edge Mustang GT parked nearby. Nobody was hurt, but two other cars and a lot of expensive sheet metal took the hit. The footage has racked up over 456,000 views since 2015, and the comment section still can’t decide whether to laugh or wince. See exactly how fast it all went wrong.
The 1967 Shelby GT350 rode on Ford’s newly widened Mustang body and added a real back seat, trading some of its earlier ferocity for genuine daily-driver comfort. It would also be the last GT350 built under Carroll Shelby’s direct personal oversight before Ford’s own team took over the line. Read on to see why fewer than 1,200 of these cars were ever built.
A 3.91 at the eighth-mile stripe on a drag radial that looks almost too small for the job isn’t something a stock small-block Mustang was ever meant to produce, but that’s exactly what Josh Klugger’s Fox Body delivered in qualifying. Behind that number sits a 526 cubic inch stroker short block, twin 102mm turbochargers, and a FuelTech FT500 engine management system working together to survive cylinder pressures the factory 302 was never designed for. Read on to find out what it actually takes to build a small block that can run numbers like that.
A first-generation Camaro that spent twenty years buried in a barn gets a second chance in this resurrection story, one rooted in a friendship that traces back to a 1979 magazine assignment in Escondido, California. What it takes to bring a car back from two decades of decay says as much about stubbornness as it does about mechanical skill. Read on to find out what actually happened when the engine turned over again.
This 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback started life with the mildest 289 V8 Ford offered, then got rebuilt with Trick Flow heads, an Edelbrock intake, and a fresh cam to make 330 horsepower on the dyno, more than even the rare factory HiPo version ever produced. The exotic European-inspired Fastback shape hides a genuinely modern small-block underneath. Read on to see how a basic A-code engine got transformed into something the factory never built.
On paper the 2016 Shelby GT350R had 21 more horsepower than the 2015 Camaro Z/28, which should have settled the argument before either car turned a wheel. The dyno told a different story: down low, the Chevrolet made almost a hundred more pound-feet of torque. Motor Trend took both to Chuckwalla Valley Raceway with Randy Pobst driving to find out which philosophy actually worked. Read on to find out which one walked away with the title.
This 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air looks like an anonymous fleet special, but buyers could order it with the RPO L35 396 Turbo-Jet V8 — rated 325 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque — the same engine family turning heads in the Impala SS and Corvette that year. Skip the badges and bright trim, and a Bel Air with a 396 and four-speed became one of the fastest sleepers on the street. Read on to find out why so few dealers ever built one this way.
This all-original 1967 Shelby Cobra is a Street Car variant, nicknamed the Gentleman’s Cobra by enthusiasts, built with a smoother 428 big block instead of the legendary 427 side-oiler that powered its track-focused siblings. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week breaks down what separates it from the side-piped, roll-barred Competition Cobras most fans picture, while commenters debate its value, its rarity, and whether it even counts as a muscle car at all. Watch the full breakdown.
Volvo’s S90 R-Design earned an unlikely muscle car nickname from reviewers, not because of raw power but because of a level of visual aggression rare for the brand – blacked-out trim, sport seats, and a genuinely provocative reworked front end. Underneath, the numbers stay modest: up to 232 horsepower and a 0-60 time around 6.7 seconds. Here’s why a Swedish sedan earned a nickname usually reserved for big-block Americana.
In 1969 Chevrolet built exactly two Corvettes with the all-aluminum ZL1 427, an engine so far ahead of its time that almost nobody could buy it. Everyone else chose from a lineup running from a 300-horsepower 350 small-block up through a stack of 427 big-blocks, on a car that had just reclaimed the Stingray name. Read on to find out why 1969 was the C3 generation’s real turning point.