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In 2017, Ford let fans vote piece by piece to build their own dream prize — a location, a performance vehicle, and a NASCAR driver, all combined into one giveaway. The winning combination paired a Shelby GT350 Mustang with NASCAR driver Danica Patrick at Ford Performance Racing School. The sweepstakes has long since closed, but it’s a good look back at how far Ford went to keep fans voting.
Chevrolet’s postwar Advance-Design trucks hit the market a full year ahead of the competition, and by 1951 the line was refining details that collectors now prize above almost everything else — starting with the five-window cab option. New brakes, revised door windows, and a shorter cargo bed all arrived quietly that year. Here’s what made 1951 one of the more distinctive model years in the Advance-Design run.
The Porsche Boxster Roadster, a two-seater convertible, has been turning heads since 1996 with its boxer engine design. Initially, it featured a 2.5L flat-six engine doing 0-60 mph in 6.9 seconds. By 2000, Porsche upgraded to a 2.7L engine, and even introduced a speedy “S” version with a 3.2L engine, hitting 0-60 in just 5.9 seconds. This model’s charm lies in its quirky evolution—from plastic to glass windows and glove box upgrades, making it the epitome of stylish comfort on wheels.
A classic Chevelle SS lines up against a modern Pontiac G8 in a race that pits fifty years of engineering progress against pure old-school muscle. The Chevelle brings big-cube V8 soul and skinny-tire drama; the G8 hides an LS-family V8 under anonymous four-door bodywork, one of the great sleeper bargains of its era. On paper the modern car should win, but drag racing is never only about paper. Watch to see whether experience or technology takes the win light.
For 1970 Chevrolet replaced the Z28’s high-strung 302 with the LT-1 350, one of the greatest small-blocks the division ever built, and the character of the car changed completely. The old screamer made its power at the redline; the new LT-1 offered muscle you could actually use. Wrapped in the stunning second-generation body, the 1970 Z28 was quicker and easier to drive hard, arriving just before regulations strangled the muscle era. Watch to decide whether this is the best Z28 ever made.
Only around 550 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertibles were built for 1970, and just 262 of those carried the high-revving 340 V8 instead of a big-block. Narrow it down by transmission and paint color, and a car like this one becomes one of the rarer factory combinations Plymouth ever sold. Here’s what made the 340 convertible a sleeper choice next to its big-block siblings.
The 1955 Ford Thunderbird had every ingredient of a sports car, two seats, sleek styling, and real V8 power, yet Ford deliberately refused to build one. That contradiction should have doomed it, but a little over fifty-three thousand sold across three years and the nameplate has lived a dozen lives since. This King Rose Archives feature traces the T-Bird from personal luxury icon to four-seat cruiser to retro-futuristic revival. Watch to understand why one of America’s most durable names refuses to disappear.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1968 Hemi Dart make for one of the loudest pairings in the Mopar world, but their backstories couldn’t be more different. Only 80 Hemi Darts were ever built, farmed out to an outside contractor after Chrysler refused to factory-install the 426 Hemi in a compact car. See what made one of these cars a dealership staple and the other a factory-disowned drag weapon.
A Camaro RS versus a supercharged, four-figure-horsepower Corvette rarely ends in the Camaro’s favor, and the one-word reaction to this matchup makes the outcome pretty clear. These lopsided roll races have become a fixture of car meet culture, where heavily built Corvettes routinely square off against stock or mildly modified rivals. Here’s a look at why the horsepower gap usually decides these races before the lights even go green.
Dodge’s tease about extra horsepower turned out to undersell the real story: the Challenger SRT Demon arrived with 840 horsepower, a supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi, and the first wide-body fender flares ever fitted to a factory muscle car. It ran the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds and 0-60 in 2.3 — numbers few production cars could touch. With only 3,300 built worldwide, it was never meant to be common.
This 1969 Mustang fastback looks like a faithful restoration until you learn what Schwartz Performance actually built underneath it: a 480-horsepower Coyote Boss 302 crate engine, a custom G-Machine chassis, and a full Raybestos brake package. Jeff Schwartz and his team logged around 1,400 hours turning a rusted-out California find into a giveaway car built to be driven hard. Here’s what went into a restomod that toured the country before someone won it outright.
Ryan’s ProCharged Mustang put 930 horsepower to the wheels, which means well over a thousand at the crank, and it was built to do two very different jobs: weekend street blasts and half-mile racing. The crew at Gears and Gasoline has driven plenty of fast cars, but few wear their modifications this well. They describe the power hitting like a ton of butter, smooth and violent at the same time. Watch to hear what a genuine thousand-horsepower street car actually feels like.
Chrysler built roughly 9,137 cars with a factory 426 Hemi between 1966 and 1971 — and only a tiny fraction of those were convertibles. The rarest of them all may be the 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi convertible, of which just two were ever built. See how the math behind Mopar’s rarest muscle cars adds up, and why a numbers-matching Hemi convertible can fetch millions at auction today.
1969 marked the last year of the original Camaro body style, and Chevrolet used it to hide some of its rarest performance options in plain sight. Behind identical SS and RS badges sat everything from a mild 350 small-block to a barely-advertised 427 built for the drag strip. Only a handful of buyers knew enough to ask for the right code on the order form. These photos, courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, capture one of the last true first-generation Camaros before the redesign.
A nitrous-fed pewter SS Camaro from the Savage Habits crew lines up against a Nissan GT-R in a late-night street showdown, and the run is close enough to argue about for weeks. But it is what happens after the finish line, when the flashing lights appear, that turns this clip into something people keep replaying. Traction-limited American muscle versus point-and-shoot Japanese all-wheel drive, with a twist nobody expected. Watch to see who got away.