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A 1965 Impala’s shape alone turned heads before a single option box got checked, but underneath that hardtop roofline sits a change Chevrolet made mid-year that quietly rewrote the car’s whole personality. Here’s what to look for to spot an early ’65 from a late one, and why one rare engine option makes some examples far scarcer.
Ford knew something 1973 Mustang buyers didn’t: this would be the last convertible Mustang for an entire decade. That single piece of information changed how buyers viewed the car, and convertible sales spiked as a result. Here’s why a seemingly ordinary blue ragtop like this one turned out to be quietly significant.
The Dodge Dart started life as a full-size family car and ended the decade as one of the most effective performance platforms Chrysler ever produced — a compact that could carry big-block hardware and outrun much larger, more expensive machinery in the quarter mile. Bill Melville’s American Icon series examines the Dart’s place in muscle car history, tracing how a practical economy car became a drag racing legend with a devoted following that has never gone away. Watch to understand why this one still matters.
In 2005, Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet each put their best American performance car on the market at the same time, and Edmunds had the foresight to test all three back to back before history assigned them their collector status. The Viper, the GT, and the Corvette represent three completely different philosophies about what an American sports car should be, and the comparison that resulted remains one of the most revealing pieces of automotive journalism from the era. Watch to see which one came out on top.
Ford’s 4.6-liter 4V Cobra engine ended up in more vehicles than most people realize, and a few of those vehicles can be had for under ten thousand dollars with the full capability of the SVT program sitting quietly under the hood. Mr Random Reviews tracked down four of them and made the case for why the used market has been underpricing them. If the idea of Cobra-engine performance without the Mustang price tag appeals to you, this video was made for you. Watch to see which four cars made the list.
This gold-and-black coupe hides a story most casual fans miss: an engine built specifically to beat Chevrolet’s Z/28 on a road course, not a drag strip. Ford built barely two years’ worth of these before shutting the program down — right after it won the championship it was designed for. Here’s what gives it away.
Only a handful of 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T buyers skipped the standard 440 for something far more serious: the 426 Hemi. Production numbers for Hemi-equipped Coronets that year are so low that surviving cars are treated as rolling artifacts rather than used muscle cars. Here’s what made the combination so rare.
The muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s did more than go fast — they introduced technologies that shaped the automotive industry for decades to come. CNET’s automotive team selected five classics specifically for what they contributed to the engineering conversation, and the analysis is more surprising than a straight horsepower ranking. Some of the most important innovations of the era came wrapped in sheetmetal most people remember purely for how it looked. Watch to find out which five made the list.
A 1968 Camaro convertible pushing 800 horsepower shouldn’t exist — Chevrolet capped Camaro engines at 400 cubic inches that year, leaving big-inch dreams to a few renegade dealers willing to break the rules. Here’s how cars like this one got their extra muscle, and why the loophole still fascinates collectors today.
The 1958 Ford Ranchero carried over its coupe utility formula from its 1957 debut but wore a fresh four-headlamp face borrowed from Ford’s flashier full-size and Thunderbird styling that year. Buyers who upgraded past the base 272 cubic inch V8 could order this car’s 292, a Y-block engine making 205 horsepower that traced its roots back to 1954. That Y-block family stuck around in Ford trucks until 1964, well after passenger cars had moved on to newer designs. Clean survivors like this one remain an accessible way into early Ranchero ownership.
Dennis Szarzynski bought his 1970 Dodge Super Bee in Top Banana Yellow in 1979, borrowed the money from his aunt to do it, and has been its sole owner ever since. The 440 Six Pack is original, the paint still commands attention, and the story is exactly what Lou Costabile built My Car Story to document. Single-owner muscle at its most genuine. Watch to hear the 440 run and meet the man who has kept it going for over four decades.
Muscle cars and sports cars might both rev your engine, but they’re as different as a young Schwarzenegger and Brad Pitt. Muscle cars roar with V8 power, bulging curves, and a torque that makes you feel alive, while sports cars glide with sleek lines, nimble handling, and engines that purr thanks to turbo boosts. Whether you crave the raw power of a muscle car or the agile elegance of a sports car, both are sure to turn heads and spark conversations among car enthusiasts.
A 1970 Chevelle and a 1969 Camaro on a back road — no track preparation, no timing lights, just two of GM’s most celebrated muscle cars doing what they were built to do. Over 815,000 people have watched the upyersbuddy footage, and the count keeps climbing because this matchup hits a nerve that more polished productions rarely manage. Classic iron, open road, full throttle. Watch to see how it ended.
Dodge nearly quadrupled Super Bee production for 1969, climbing to 27,800 units as the mid-size muscle car added a three-carburetor 440 Six Pack and the 425-horsepower 426 Hemi to its lineup partway through the model year. Buried within that run sat the A12 package — just 1,907 cars built with a flat black scooped hood and a heavy-duty Dana 60 axle that Dodge barely promoted. Base pricing started around $3,075, a bargain next to what these cars command among collectors today. The Six Pack and Hemi variants remain the ones enthusiasts chase hardest.
The 1936 Ford half-ton pickup arrived with a rounder grille, skirted fenders, and a one-piece steel cab that made it look closer to a passenger car than a work truck — a shape that’s kept custom builders coming back for nearly a century. Power originally came from Henry Ford’s 221 cubic inch flathead V8, good for a modest 85 horsepower. Decades later, that same smooth factory canvas supports builds like this one, complete with a tilting bed, a tilting front end, and paint loud enough to match. Few early Ford trucks translate this well into a rolling custom showpiece.