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The 2019 Corvette ZR1 brought 755 horsepower to a fight the 2010 ZR1 started with 638 — but horsepower on paper and horsepower at the drag strip are two different conversations. RaceProvenMotorsports took both cars to Cecil County Raceway to find out exactly how much nine years of engineering progress was worth in the quarter mile. This is the kind of head-to-head you rarely get to see done properly. Watch to find out which ZR1 came out on top.
Every muscle car generation left behind small design tells — headlight count, taillight shape, hood scoop placement — that let enthusiasts nail down an exact model year at a glance. This entry tests those instincts with a car built during one of Chrysler’s most dramatic redesigns, when a shorter, wider E-body platform replaced the previous generation almost overnight. Single headlights, a divided grille, and three vertically stacked taillights are among the giveaways. Take your best guess before reading the clues below.
The 1968 Dodge Hemi Dart was a factory fever dream — just 80 cars built with a raw 426 race Hemi and no warranty, capable of quarter-mile times in the 10-11 second range. This tribute Dart takes that same defiant spirit into Pro Street territory, a build style popularized in the 1980s that mimics a Pro Stock drag car while staying street legal. Tubbed rear ends, narrowed axles, and wheelie bars separate a true Pro Street car from an ordinary hot rod. Under this one’s hood sits a 605 cubic inch Hemi big block that dwarfs even the original Hurst-built cars.
The 2018 Dodge Demon arrived with a factory specification sheet that read like fiction and a reservation list that sold out before most people had time to confirm the numbers were real: 840 horsepower on […]
The 1968 Corvette L88 427 is one of the rarest and most consequential factory options in American automotive history, a package that Chevrolet offered publicly while doing everything possible to discourage ordinary buyers from ordering […]
The 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe offered Ford’s largest available engine that year, a 460 cubic inch V8 making 210 horsepower — the last model year Lincoln offered it before dropping the option for 1979. Despite weighing over 4,600 pounds and costing nearly $10,000 new, the Town Coupe was outsold roughly five to one by Cadillac’s Coupe de Ville. A leisurely 11.6-second run to 60 mph made clear this was a cruiser built for comfort, not stoplight bragging rights. Surviving examples with the big-block intact are increasingly rare finds today.
The Mercury Cougar XR7 is one of the most underappreciated names in the muscle and pony car landscape, a car that consistently delivered refinement, style, and genuine performance without generating the legendary status its platform […]
Henry Ford’s famous line about the first car race happening minutes after the second car existed wasn’t just a joke — it described his own early racing career, which predates Ford Motor Company itself. That competitive instinct traces a line from 1890s reliability trials through Prohibition-era bootleggers building fast cars to outrun police, all the way to the factory-backed muscle cars of the 1960s. Every homologation special and big-block option shares the same DNA as those first backyard races. This polished 1967 Mustang is a reminder of just how far that rivalry traveled.
Australia produced its own breed of muscle car in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Ford Falcon GT is the centerpiece of that story — a car built with the specific understanding that Australian roads, […]
The L89 is one of those factory options that the serious Corvette collector knows by heart and the casual enthusiast has probably never heard of, which is precisely the dynamic that makes the V8TV Muscle […]
Ford built the 1970 Boss 302 Mustang strictly to satisfy Trans-Am homologation rules, hiring designer Larry Shinoda to give it a front spoiler, rear wing, and matte black hood unlike anything else in the Ford lineup that year. Production jumped to 7,014 units — over four times the 1969 total — powered by a 302 cubic inch V8 making 290 horsepower through big-port heads borrowed from the upcoming 351 Cleveland. New hockey-stick stripes and inboard headlights set the 1970 model apart at a glance. Numbers-matching survivors like this grabber-hood example remain some of the most sought-after Mustangs of the era.
Gateway Classic Cars has grown into the country’s largest classic and exotic car sales company since 1999, now spanning 16 indoor showrooms and more than 90,000 completed sales. Selling on consignment means a 90-day exclusive contract, a professional photo and video package, and zero upfront fees — but also a penalty if you back out early. Buyers, meanwhile, get access to a rotating national inventory advertised to millions of monthly visitors. Here’s what actually happens once you sign on the dotted line.
The Plymouth Belvedere GTX from 1967 to 1974 was the muscle car that put on a tuxedo and hit the road. Starting as a gentleman’s luxury car with the heart of a beast, it featured a V8 engine powerful enough to wake the neighbors. In 1968, it got a makeover, swapping styles like a celebrity on a red carpet. By 1970, it faced an identity crisis, looking too much like its budget-friendly cousin, the Roadrunner. Despite a 1971 redesign, emissions and insurance rates hit harder than a speeding ticket, leading to its retirement in 1974.
The 1970 Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda was Plymouth’s answer to a racing rulebook, built in a five-week window at the Hamtramck plant to homologate a Trans-Am contender for Dan Gurney’s All American Racers team. Only 2,724 were made, each fitted with a 340 cubic inch V8 breathing through three two-barrel carburetors and rolling on mismatched front and rear tire sizes — a first for an American production car. Distinctive strobe stripes, a fiberglass shaker-style hood, and side-exit exhaust set it apart from any ordinary Barracuda.
A tip in Indiana led to a Dodge Super Bee that had sat behind a closed garage door for forty years, ever since its original engine let go and the owner simply chose to store it rather than restore or part it out. Only a small fraction of 1970 Super Bees carried this six-barrel big-block setup. Here’s how rare this survivor really is.