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This owner traded a cable bill for a green 1972 Ford Ranchero, a car built the year Ford gave the model its biggest redesign yet — bigger, heavier, and fitted with a jet-intake-style grille. Engine options ran from a 98-horsepower six up to a new 400-cubic-inch V8, with the sporty Ranchero GT trim splitting the difference between truck and muscle car. Here’s why this half-breed classic was worth the trade.
In 2017, persistent rumors claimed Dodge was preparing a 2019 Barracuda — a smaller, Alfa Romeo-based two-door meant to replace the aging Challenger outright. It echoed the original E-body Barracuda and Challenger, which shared a platform back in the 1970s. Fiat Chrysler never confirmed it, and the Challenger kept right on selling instead. Here’s what the rumored car was supposed to be.
The 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air arrived in a year Chevy was technically outsold by Ford, yet it’s the car everyone remembers — thanks to jet-age tailfins, aircraft-inspired trim, and an available 283-horsepower V8 with Corvette-shared fuel injection. Chevrolet built over 700,000 that year, and it’s still one of the most recognizable American cars ever made. Here’s what one looks like on a road trip today.
Helsinki’s car cruising tradition dates back to 1983, but the newer Malmi Airport pre-party — first held in 2014 — has become an event in its own right, drawing muscle cars, hot rods, and classics hours before the main cruise into the city. The May 2016 gathering was reportedly the biggest pre-party yet. See what packed the runway that night.
The 1969 Porsche 912 was the last of its kind — a four-cylinder alternative to the 911 that briefly outsold its six-cylinder sibling before Porsche folded the nameplate away for good. Built on the same stretched wheelbase and flared fenders as that year’s 911, it’s now drawing steady collector interest for being simpler, cheaper to maintain, and increasingly rare. A well-kept example today can bring well into five figures.
Can an electric car be a muscle car? Tesla’s 2013 “S” Sedan says, “Hold my charging cable!” With 416 hp and 443 ft-lb of torque, it zooms from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds. It’s like a speed-dating event for electrons! Starting at $49,900 (after rebates), it’s a steal when you consider the fuel costs are, well, electrifyingly zero. Elon Musk’s brainchild, the Roadster, once set a 311-mile range record in Australia. So, whether in the outback or the suburbs, Tesla is sparking a revolution.
A meme comparing Toyota’s reputation to Honda’s takes a jab familiar to any car community — every enthusiast circle ranks brands by some mix of reliability, performance, and street cred that rarely lines up with actual sales numbers. Muscle car fans have their own decades-old version of the same argument between Ford, Mopar, and GM loyalists. Do you side with the joke, or does it miss the point entirely?
They named it the Fossil from Flint, a 1970 Chevelle SS 454 with the legendary LS6, the 450-horsepower king of the muscle car era, discovered untouched inside a massive Delaware car collection. Not a restoration but a genuine survivor preserved exactly as time left it, significant enough to land in CarCraft and Chevelle Magazine. This is the kind of barn find collectors dream about. Watch to hear the full story of the Fossil from Flint.
Ford’s 2015-2017 Mustang GT looks nearly identical year to year, but small changes in infotainment, suspension tuning, and paint colors separate one model year from the next. SYNC 2 gave way to SYNC 3, struts got re-valved for a smoother ride, and a handful of exclusive colors came and went — clues that can date a Mustang GT even when the sheet metal gives nothing away. Can you tell which year this yellow GT rolled off the line?
This 1967 Plymouth Belvedere carries the 383 cubic inch V8 that powered Plymouth’s mid-size lineup below the range-topping GTX and its 440 or 426 Hemi. Overlooked next to its more famous siblings, a well-preserved 383 Belvedere is becoming one of the more attainable ways into genuine 1967 Mopar muscle. See the details that make this survivor worth a second look.
This story is from one of our Muscle Car Fan Members. His Grandfather Ted Walters was an executive with AMC Motors and worked with the High-Speed Stop Division. Ted spent his career working for Hudson, […]
Hennessey Performance took the already-potent 2017 Camaro ZL1 and its supercharged 650-horsepower LT4 V8, then pushed output to a claimed 1,000 horsepower with a larger blower and supporting modifications. The Exorcist package’s quarter-mile numbers land in supercar territory, and a dozen buyers had already committed before this explainer video went up. See what it takes to build one for yourself.
This 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS carries the 409 in its final and best year, when Chevrolet offered the engine in three tunes topping out at 425 horsepower. Beyond the Beach Boys song that made its name famous, the 409 backed that reputation up with low-13-second quarter miles on the strip. See the rare factory tachometer and details that make this particular Impala SS stand out.
Mustang or Camaro — the pony car debate that’s been running since 1967 shows no signs of slowing down, and this red muscle car’s open hood only adds fuel to the fire. Ford’s two-year head start still shapes the argument on one side, while Chevrolet’s more thoroughly developed chassis anchors the other. Which side of the rivalry are you on?
1970 was the year GM finally let Oldsmobile drop its biggest engine into the Cutlass 442, after years of a corporate ban on big-block mid-size cars. The standard 455 made 365 horsepower, but the W-30 option pushed that to 370 horsepower and a sub-15-second quarter mile. See the seven Cutlass body styles offered that year and the Rocket V8 that finally gave the 442 room to breathe.