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Ford Torino 1971

Ford retired both the Fairlane and Falcon nameplates for 1971, folding everything into a fourteen-model Torino lineup that ranged from a plain two-door sedan to the four-speed, 285-hp Torino Cobra. EPA-mandated compression cuts quietly trimmed horsepower across nearly every engine that year, even as Ford kept offering genuine performance touches like the Ram Air shaker hood and Hurst-shifted four-speeds. Read on to find out what a magazine-tuned Cobra 429 could still do at the drag strip in 1971.

Classic silver convertible car with a red interior, showcased indoors.

Oldsmobile Cutlass 1964 images

by Ross Mills

Oldsmobile’s 4-4-2 package debuted quietly in mid-1964, and only 2,999 examples sold that first year despite genuinely serious hardware: a 4-barrel carburetor, 4-speed manual, dual exhaust, and a 310-horsepower 330-cubic-inch V8. It shared its platform with the new Chevelle. Here’s why this overlooked debut mattered more than its sales numbers suggested.

A Ford Fleet Facts book and various Ford vehicle brochures spread on a table.

How Well Do You Know Your Muscle Car?

by Kiril

From where the Oldsmobile 442 name actually came from to which comedian ended up with one of Carroll Shelby’s rarest supercharged Cobras, muscle car history is full of details that have nothing to do with horsepower. Some of the strangest trivia predates the term ‘muscle car’ entirely. Here’s what separates casual fans from people who really know the era.

Classic white Ford Mustang parked outdoors during sunset.

The Badge That Meant Business: 1966 Mustang K-Code 289

by Kiril

By its second model year the Mustang was the fastest-selling new nameplate in American automotive history, and tucked into the order form was a small fender badge most buyers walked right past. Ford hand-selected the blocks for this engine and rejected any with the slightest flaw, a level of quality control almost nobody bothered with on a volume car. Only 5,469 were built for 1966. Read on for the badge that still means something six decades later.

Classic green pickup truck with a sleek, lowered stance in a showroom.

1948 Ford F1 For Sale

by Wes

This 1948 Ford F1 — the truck that launched Ford’s F-Series line — keeps its original leaf-spring suspension and solid front axle, but everything else has been quietly modernized: a 5.0-liter fuel-injected V8, a C6 automatic, air shocks, and a leather interior with a flip-down console. Vanguard Motor Sales calls it freeway-friendly. Given what’s under the hood, that’s not an exaggeration.

Classic 1960s muscle car with red racing stripes parked outside a wooden building.

1970 Mustang: The Quiet Last Act Before the Muscle Car Cooldown

by Kiril

This 1970 Ford Mustang wears a bold white-and-red color combination from the final year of the pony car’s smaller, tighter-bodied generation — the last stand before Ford scaled the whole lineup up for 1971. Behind the stripes sits the returning Mach 1 package and a 351-cubic-inch V8 available in two distinct states of tune. Read on to find out why this particular model year marked the quiet end of an era.

Classic orange 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle in pristine condition.

1969 Chevrolet Chevelle For Sale

by Wes

This 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle wears a Yenko-inspired build — trimmed bucket seats, console, staple shifter — around a 427 cubic inch big block created by pairing a 454 block with a 396 crank. Fed by a 750 CFM Holley four-barrel and backed by a posi rear end, power steering, and power brakes, it’s built to be driven, not just displayed. Vanguard Motor Sales has the full spec sheet, and it’s worth the read.

A restored 1970 Plymouth Cuda Custom Restored car in bright orange.

805 HP 1970 Plymouth Cuda Custom Restomod & Engine Sound

by Wes

Jeff Schwartz of Schwartz Performance Inc. spent two years turning a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda into something far more than a restoration: a Pearl Orange Metallic restomod packing 805 horsepower from a 426 Hemi, built on a modern chassis and engineered to handle like a road-ready race car. The shape is instantly familiar. Almost everything underneath it isn’t.

Street Test: 2200 hp Red Victor One Goes 0-60 in 1 Second. Fastest Car?

by Pat C

Red Victor doesn’t look like much — a modest Vauxhall Victor body hiding a turbocharged setup pushing roughly 2200 horsepower to the pavement. In this clip, that power translates into a genuine 0-60 time measured in a single second, a number that’s kept viewers arguing about the car’s legitimacy for years. The comment section reads like a decade-long debate about what ‘street legal’ should really mean. Watch the run and decide for yourself.

Red Dodge Challenger with aftermarket wheels parked outdoors.

Dodge Challenger 2016 Hellcat Burnout & 0-60 MPH & MPG Review

by Kiril

Dodge’s 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat paired a 707-horsepower supercharged V8 with an 11.2-second quarter mile and a factory fuel economy rating nobody expected it to hold onto. This is the story of what that power actually cost owners day to day, from tire wear to insurance premiums, and why the Hellcat era changed how every manufacturer building a pony car thought about horsepower. Read on to see how the numbers held up once the burnout ended.

A 2018 Mustang with a surprising modification on the rear side.

HOW FAST A stock 2018 MUSTANG GT RUNS THE 1/4 MILE!!!

by Wes

A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.

Classic purple muscle car parked at a car show.

Plymouth ‘Cuda 1971 440 Six Pack

by Kiril

A Plum Crazy 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda with a Shaker hood, billboard stripes, and three two-barrel carburetors feeding a 440 is about as loud as Mopar ever got. Plymouth quoted 385 horsepower, a figure even people close to the factory considered conservative. What is genuinely surprising is how few buyers ordered it that year: just 254 cars. Read on to find out what happened to make one of Plymouth’s best engines disappear almost overnight.

El Camino Last Generation-1979 until 1987

by Ross Mills

Chevrolet’s fifth-generation El Camino, built from 1979 through 1987, had to survive an energy crisis that punished anything with a big V8, and it did so with a shrinking body, a maze of trim names, and even a diesel V8 option that saved fuel but earned a reputation for expensive repairs. Read on to find out how a car-truck hybrid balanced performance and economy through one of the toughest decades for American muscle.

A classic red muscle car parked on a street.

Plymouth ‘Cuda 1971

by Kiril

This 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda carries the model’s only four-headlight styling and arrived in the final season Plymouth offered the 426 Hemi — a combination that made fewer than 120 Hemi ‘Cudas among the rarest muscle cars Plymouth ever built. Read on to find out what was happening in the market that made Plymouth’s most powerful car also its rarest.

Dodge Challenger 1970 V8 440

by Kiril

This 1970 Dodge Challenger wears Panther Pink, a genuine factory paint option that took real nerve to order on a muscle car. Underneath it sits a 440, and Dodge offered that engine two very different ways that year. One had a single four-barrel and 375 horsepower; the other stacked three two-barrels on the same block and turned it into something close to a factory drag car. Read on to find out which 440 was actually the one to have.

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