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Classic white vintage pickup truck parked indoors.

Ford F100 1959 Short Bed Pickup

1959 marked a quiet milestone for Ford’s truck line — the first year the company built its own 4×4 pickups in-house instead of shipping them out for conversion. This short-bed keeps things simple with the original straight-six and three-speed manual, riding on a freshly redesigned grille that replaced 1958’s busier quad-headlight face. Ford built roughly 96,600 F-100s that model year, making it one of the stronger truck seasons of the decade. Survivors with their original drivetrain intact are getting harder to find every year.

Classic black car displayed at an outdoor car show with other vehicles and spectators.

2016 Street Machine Of The Year Parade GoodGuy’s PPG Nationals

by Kiril

Eighteen finalists paraded through the Ohio Expo Center that Friday, each vying for one of the most coveted titles in the street machine world. Goodguys’ PPG Nationals is the organization’s largest annual event, and the walk from outdoor display to indoor judging is where Street Machine of the Year contenders make their final case. Recent winners have ranged from a twin-turbocharged Buick Grand National to a meticulously restored ’67 Mustang, showing just how wide the caliber of competition has become. Only one build from this parade would leave with the trophy.

Chevrolet Camaro 1969 – Supercharged ZR1 LS9 “Jackass” Track Video

by Kiril

Builders chasing the ultimate first-gen Camaro have increasingly turned to an unlikely donor: the supercharged LS9 V8 built for the Corvette ZR1. Factory rated at 638 horsepower, some swapped examples have been pushed past 700 with upgraded superchargers and forged internals. Getting there means more than a bolt-in engine swap — modified subframes, mini-tubbed rear ends, and carbon-ceramic brakes all come along for the ride. The result is a fifty-year-old body hiding a genuine modern supercar heart.

Sleek black muscle car showcased from front and rear angles.

Chevrolet Camaro 2017 vs. 1969 Chevelle

by Kiril

This side-by-side pairs a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 — home to one of Chevrolet’s rarest options, the 425-horsepower L72 427 built in barely 300 examples — against a 2017 Camaro ZL1 packing a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4. One car earned its reputation with a carburetor and a stick shift; the other does it with a 10-speed automatic and modern electronics. Both share a black-on-black stance that makes the fifty-year gap between them almost disappear. The real question is which era actually built the better street brawler.

Classic red convertible car with whitewall tires in a showroom.

Ford Fairlane 500 1958 images

by Ross Mills

This 1958 Fairlane 500 rode on the very first year of Ford’s FE V8 family, an engine architecture that would go on to power NASCAR winners and the legendary 427 SOHC Cammer a decade later. Buyers could step up from a 205-horsepower base V8 all the way to a 300-horsepower Interceptor 352 backed by Ford’s new three-speed Cruise-O-Matic automatic. As Ford’s top full-size trim that year, the Fairlane 500 wrapped that new engine in extra chrome and comfort features most rivals couldn’t match. It’s easy to overlook just how much automotive history started under this hood.

A sleek dark gray Ford Mustang parked outdoors near a wooden building.

Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger Outsell Chevy Camaro In February 2017

by Kiril

February 2017 delivered a scoreboard nobody in Detroit predicted: Ford’s Mustang led the pony car war as usual, but Dodge’s Challenger comfortably beat Chevrolet’s Camaro for the month, up nearly 19 percent year-over-year. Chevy’s newest, most track-capable Camaro in a generation still couldn’t out-draw a design pushing a decade old. The year-to-date totals showed it wasn’t a one-month blip either. Sometimes the best-reviewed car isn’t the one buyers actually choose.

Plymouth Belvedere RH2 1966 images

by Ross Mills

Beneath the plain sheetmetal of this mid-size Plymouth sat one of the rarest engines Chrysler ever sold to the public: the 425-horsepower Street Hemi, built for NHRA stock classes and barely civilized for the street. Only 677 Belvederes were built with it in 1966, a year before the GTX name even existed to advertise what was under the hood. Buyers got forged internals, dual four-barrel carburetion, and a torque curve that demanded a reinforced rear axle. It’s the missing chapter most muscle car fans skip straight past.

Classic black-and-white police car parked on a street.

Guess the year, make and model!

by Kiril

This full-size Mopar spent the late 1960s as the most common sight in American police fleets, chosen by departments from coast to coast over anything Ford or GM offered. Under the skin sat heavy-duty everything: reinforced suspension, semi-metallic brakes, and an electrical system built to run radios and light bars all shift long. Buyers could option as little as a 230-horsepower 318 or as much as a 375-horsepower 440 wedge. See if you can identify the year, make, and model wearing the badge.

Two Tesla cars racing on a drag strip with spectators nearby.

1/2 MILE DRAG RACE: Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Vs Dodge Viper SRT

by Wes

A stock Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a stock Dodge Viper lined up at a Texas airport for the WannaGoFast half-mile — 707 supercharged horses against 8.4 liters of naturally aspirated V10. The trap speeds came back separated by barely a single mile per hour, run after run. Two completely different recipes for speed, arriving at nearly the same place. Watch to see which Dodge flagship edged the other.

A stylized demon head with the word 'DEMON' in red italic font.

2018 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT DEMON: A HELLCAT ON STEROIDS?

by Kiril

Dodge built exactly 3,000 examples of a muscle car so violent that America’s own drag racing sanctioning body wouldn’t let it compete. The Challenger SRT Demon’s supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi made as much as 840 horsepower, enough to become the first production car ever to lift its front wheels off the line. Its quarter-mile time dipped under ten seconds in stock trim — a number no factory car had touched before. Few cars have arrived with more hype and left with more banned records.

Bright green 1970 Plymouth Duster with black racing stripes on display.

1973 Plymouth Hemi Duster For Sale

by Wes

A grandmother in Toledo, Ohio kept this 1973 Plymouth Duster under bed sheets for two decades, surrendering it with just 22,000 original miles. Then a builder dropped in a stroked 426 Hemi, treated it to a rotisserie restoration, and painted it Sublime Green. The result is a magazine-featured Mopar that pairs survivor-grade preservation with genuine brute force. Watch to see one of the baddest Dusters on the planet.

Woman in black dress posing by a classic car outdoors.

340 or this cute Girl? What’s your choice?

by Kiril

Buried in the caption of a classic car-show photo is a number that means something very specific to Mopar people: 340. It’s the displacement, in cubic inches, of one of the most respected small-block V8s Chrysler ever built, one that punched well above its weight class against bigger factory rivals. Here’s what actually made that small-block worth remembering.

1968 Dodge Charger in rough shape rescued and restored.

ABANDONED 1969 Dodge Charger Sitting for 20 Years

by Wes

A 1969 Dodge Charger has sat abandoned and silent for twenty years, and Dylan McCool coaxes it out toward a new home in footage that has drawn over eight million views. Under the grime hides a loaded SE model with power steering, brakes, A/C, and windows, once metallic blue with a black vinyl top. McCool is honest that the engine isn’t numbers-matching, though it’s still a real factory 383 car. Watch to see whether this iconic shape has anything left to give.

1968 blue Shelby Mustang GT500 parked on pavement with a V8 engine.

1968 Shelby Mustang GT500 KR in Acapulco Blue & 428 Engine Sound

by Wes

This 1968 Shelby GT500 KR wears gorgeous, original Acapulco Blue paint, but the 428 Cobra Jet that made it legendary was destroyed years ago being drag raced. On My Car Story, Lou Costabile visits Phoenix builder Tony Arme, who is resurrecting the King of the Road piece by piece with a replacement Cobra Jet. It is a look at what it truly takes to save one of the most desirable Mustangs of the decade. Watch to see this Shelby’s comeback take shape.

Bright orange 1970 Dodge Charger with iconic tail fins at a car show.

Six Strange Muscle Car Facts – Strange & Extreme

by Wes

Every muscle car fan thinks they know the whole story until a piece of trivia rearranges the furniture. Priceman141 digs past the memorized quarter-mile times into the genuinely strange corners of the era, where marketing, racing rules, and insurance loopholes produced Detroit’s oddest machines, from underrated engines to homologation specials like the Boss 429. It is a reminder that these years were as much corporate gamesmanship as raw speed. Watch to see which six facts make even a devoted fan reconsider.

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