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A 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback built in the image of Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds should be judged on its widebody kit and hood pins. Instead, nearly every comment on this Mainly Musclecars build is about one thing, the paint. Watch to see the color that convinced longtime Mustang fans, and at least one skeptical spouse, that this Eleanor tribute finally got it right.
The 1966 Ford Galaxie is one of the most underrated classics of the era, and the engine list explains why: it ran from a 150-horsepower inline six all the way to a 425-horsepower 427, with the brand-new 428 and the one-year-only 7-Litre model sitting in between. Underneath was a coil-sprung rear suspension most competitors did not offer. Read on for what separated the mild versions from the genuinely fast ones.
This 1951 Ford coupe hides a 368 cubic-inch Y-block V8 pulled from a mid-1950s Lincoln, an engine that had no factory business anywhere near a Shoebox. The car left the line with a 226 inline six or a 239 flathead V8, neither of which could keep up with the shape. Here is why builders have raided Lincoln’s parts bin for decades, what separates the Lincoln Y-block from the small Ford engine sharing its name, and which details are hardest to execute.
The 25th Raleigh Classic Car Auction filled two exhibition halls at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds with decades of automotive history, from unrestored survivors to numbers-matching classics. What began as a modest sale has grown into a twice-yearly tradition for collectors chasing originality over modification. Indoors, under controlled lighting, cars that rarely surface elsewhere finally cross the block. See what drew bidders back for a milestone 25th event.
Car and Driver rides shotgun in the new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at Willow Springs International Raceway, a demanding high-speed circuit known as “The Fastest Road in the West.” The track’s unforgiving sweepers are exactly the kind of test that separates real aerodynamic grip from marketing claims. Watch to see how GM’s most track-focused Corvette handles it.
This 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 sat dormant for decades under a barn tarp before its rare four-speed manual and 428 FE big block finally roared back to life. Full-size Fords like this one quietly offered serious performance alongside the more famous Mustangs and Torinos of the era. Watch the careful, methodical process behind waking up a big block that hadn’t run in a generation.
Two Dodge Challengers, a 1971 and a 1973, line up on a public street in Lebanon for a race that surprised viewers who never expected E-body Mopars outside Europe. A lime-green car’s Brazilian flag hides a personal family story, and the uploader has strong words for anyone who underestimates American muscle. What actually happens when these two launch?
The Bugatti Chiron’s speedometer reads to 310 mph, but the car is electronically limited to 261, and the reason is not the engine. It is the tires, which are asked to survive forces that required a test facility originally built for space shuttle rubber. Read on for what actually happens to a tire at those speeds, why the limiter exists, and what happened when Bugatti finally took it off.
A supercharged LSX-swapped Chevelle lines up against a supercharged WS6 Trans Am at a BAR Shootout event, pitting a modernized classic against GM’s own factory-performance answer from the LS1 era. TheBayAreaRacing caught the pass, and the matchup says a lot about how two very different approaches to Chevrolet performance stack up on the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which philosophy wins.
A crowd surrounds a car in St. Louis traffic on June 9, 2017, yelling and blocking its path forward. What happens in the next few seconds turned this clip into a years-long argument about self-defense, momentum, and who really had the right of way. The comments have their own verdict already. Watch to see if you agree with it.
This Chrysler 300C SRT8 looks like an ordinary full-size sedan and hides a stroked 404-cubic-inch Hemi backed by twin 67mm turbochargers. 1320video caught it running at the Texas Streets, an event built around exactly this kind of mismatch between looks and power. Watch to see it hang with — and upset — cars that looked a lot faster on paper.
Ford has spent six decades building genuinely different kinds of muscle cars, from the original 1964 Mustang that sold 400,000 units in its first year to Shelby’s race-bred GT350 and GT500, all the way to the homologation-only Boss 302 and Boss 429. Take the quiz and the real question isn’t which car is fastest – it’s which era of Ford’s muscle car identity actually matches how you’d drive. Here’s the history behind every option on the list.
About 1,500 muscle cars, hot rods, and customs rolled through Galesburg, Illinois on a Tuesday morning in June 2017 as HOT ROD Power Tour passed through on the leg from Davenport to Champaign, briefly bringing the town’s old cruising strip back to life. A railroad city known for Carl Sandburg and Knox College, and not a Route 66 town despite common assumptions, got a morning of Detroit iron instead. Read on to find out why the moment meant so much to the people on the curb.
Pontiac’s 1956 Star Chief is best known today for its Silver Streak trim and flagship status, but buried mid-year was a rare 285-horsepower dual-four-barrel engine option most buyers never ordered. The standard V8 already delivered 216 to 227 horsepower depending on transmission, good for a 0-to-60 run under 12 seconds. Pontiac still built over 127,000 Star Chiefs that year despite its premium positioning. Here’s the full engine story behind these images.
This short documentary traces the sixty-year rivalry between Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge, from the Mustang’s accidental creation of the pony car segment in 1964 through the Camaro’s 1967 response and the Challenger’s late arrival in 1970. It’s less about specs and more about how three companies turned a straight-line horsepower race into an entire cultural identity. Watch to see how the story connects to the muscle cars still being built today.