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Cliff Batson calls himself a Chevy guy — but he’s owned this 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback in an unusual shade of Lime Gold since 1990, and it’s never left his garage. Under the hood is a drivetrain combo collectors still chase decades later, and the body shares its shape with the most famous car chase in movie history. Watch to find out why a self-described Chevy guy never let this Ford go.
This isn’t just another Super Snake — it’s VIN number one, the very first 2017 Shelby Super Snake Mustang built, and Shelby American’s own president is the one showing it off at Barrett-Jackson. Between a 750-horsepower Whipple supercharger and a price tag that climbed nearly 20,000 dollars in two years, this white-and-blue Mustang has more going on than its paint scheme lets on. Watch to see what makes build number one worth chasing.
The Oldsmobile 88’s “Rocket” reputation did not happen by accident. Oldsmobile kept adding real horsepower behind it every model year from 1954 through 1958, from a new Hydra-Matic transmission to the triple-carburetor J2 option that pushed the Golden Rocket 88 to 310 hp. Each year brought a new nickname, a new grille, and a genuinely faster car underneath. Read on to find out how a mid-priced Oldsmobile ended up as one of the defining names of the horsepower race.
Mercury built the 1969 Cougar Eliminator to look like a street brawler, then sold most of them with engines other than the one this car carries. Only 260 buyers out of 2,250 checked the box for the 390 four-barrel FE big block, making it the quiet outlier in an already uncommon package. Here is why the underdog engine deserves a second look.
A 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat should win this one easily — at least that’s what the spec sheet says. But the Ford Super Duty pulling up next to it is running a built, bulletproofed 6.0-liter Powerstroke with its own tuner and transmission, and diesel torque doesn’t play by gas-engine rules off the line. Watch to see which one actually crosses the stripe first.
This 1971 Ford Mustang Sportsroof became Eleanor, the only car in movie history to receive on-screen star billing, thanks to director H.B. Halicki’s dangerously ambitious 1974 chase picture Gone in 60 Seconds. Dozens of cars were destroyed, Halicki broke his own back finishing the shoot, and the result is still studied by stunt coordinators fifty years later. See why this scrappy, low-budget original still outshines its famous modern remake.
This 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS packs the era’s biggest factory option, a 454 cubic-inch big block, from the single year Chevrolet finally lifted its self-imposed size cap on mid-size muscle. samspace81 captures it cold-starting and running the way an owner would show it off, not the way a dealership would sell it. Viewers in the comments are still trading childhood memories of riding in one decades later. Watch to hear what 450 horsepower sounded like before emissions rules changed everything.
A long-rumored sale finally happened when a 1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona from the Wellborn Museum Collection crossed the block at a Mecum auction, and Mopar fans everywhere had opinions before the gavel even fell. Commenters call the winged Daytona the Holy Grail of the breed, a car some of them once passed up for a few hundred dollars back when gas cost 28 cents a gallon. This time, nobody was letting it go cheap. What did the final number turn out to be?
The 1958 Thunderbird was Ford’s biggest gamble with the nameplate: four seats instead of two, eighteen inches longer, and roughly a thousand pounds heavier. It won Motor Trend Car of the Year and nearly doubled sales in a recession. This one carries a modern Coyote V8 under two-tone gloss white and satin grey, and the restraint is the best part.
Regular Car Reviews heads to Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle Events looking for the single best Mopar on the show field — and finds it in the last place anyone would expect. Watch the host talk himself into (and nearly through) buying a car most Mopar fans wouldn’t look at twice.
PatriotFest in Tulsa puts a car and motorcycle show on the real Route 66, near the Historical Route 66 Village, as part of a festival built to promote the city as the most patriotic in the country. Some owners detail all Friday night, others give their trucks a quick rinse, and for Dudley and Vicky Jones the preparation started years earlier. With proceeds going to local veterans and food trucks and live music on the grounds, read on to see what pulls so many different owners onto the Mother Road for one Saturday morning.
The Ford Mustang was one of the best-selling sports cars in the world when Australia’s ANCAP crash test authority handed it a rare and damaging result: just 2 out of 5 stars. Weak airbag performance, a door that opened in the pole test, and a near-total absence of modern driver aids all factored into the score. Here’s what the testing found, and how Ford eventually responded.
A routine wrap-up video at a local car show turned into something no one on the TCcustoms crew expected to film. A big block Shelby Cobra replica, built with far more muscle than its classic lines let on, didn’t make it out of the parking lot the way it rolled in. Nobody was hurt, but the car — described as a genuine monster under that fiberglass body — didn’t survive the encounter intact. See what the cameras caught.
The Bugatti Veyron spent years chasing a very specific title: fastest street-legal car in the world, a claim it fought to defend against a determined rival in 2013. Getting there took Volkswagen more than a decade of failed prototypes, three false starts on engine layout, and a production process so complex that customers waited years between the car’s unveiling and its actual delivery. Read on to find out what it actually costs to keep a W16 hypercar running once you’ve bought one.
The Camaro ZL1 already had 650 supercharged horsepower and a chassis built to embarrass sports cars twice its price. The 1LE package left that engine untouched and rebuilt everything else instead, chasing a sub-7:17 Nurburgring lap through dampers, aero, and lighter wheels. Read on to see how a track-only variant of an already extreme car earned its own legend.