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Plymouth built the Road Runner across three closely related seasons before its first major redesign, and the differences between 1968, 1969, and 1970 come down to details easy to miss at a glance – taillight placement, grille bars, even brake hardware. Nailing down the right year matters, too: a 1969 440 Six-Barrel car is one of Plymouth’s rarest factory muscle car packages, with only 1,412 ever built. Can you spot which year this one is?
Chevrolet sold nearly 705,000 Impala-series cars in 1962, but this silver convertible represents just one of half a dozen body styles competing for the same buyers that year. Photographed here courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, this example highlights the engineering that went into a genuine folding top – very different from the styling trick Chevrolet used to make its hardtop coupes merely look convertible-inspired. Click through the gallery for a closer look.
OldCarMemories.com built a compelling case with their 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 428 CJ/SCJ video, and their thesis — that this car is ridiculously underrated — holds up under scrutiny in a way that becomes […]
A 383 stroker swap turns a Corvette’s stock 190-horsepower small-block into something that can push past 500 horsepower, all without changing the engine’s outward dimensions. This dark blue 1981 C3 – built during the brief window when Corvettes came from two factories at once – has clearly been transformed from its factory-carbureted origins. Upgraded suspension, transmission, and cooling round out a build meant to handle all that added power.
By 1973, Cadillac’s Eldorado convertible had the entire American luxury convertible market to itself, with Lincoln and Chrysler both long gone from the segment. Powering it was one of the largest V8s ever fitted to a production car – 500 cubic inches, built for effortless torque rather than speed. Only 9,315 were built that year, each one carrying features like an inward-folding top and self-adjusting power steering.
The MyMopar.com channel preserved a piece of Chrysler corporate history when they uploaded this dealer training film from the Chrysler Master Technician Service Conference series — original factory footage created to teach Plymouth salesmen how […]
Cleveland Power and Performance built a 1969 Dodge Charger with a Hellcat engine swap and named it Reverence, and that name tells you everything about how seriously they approached the project. The 1969 Charger is […]
In 1968, Ford revved up the Mustang GT/CS, a California dream on wheels. They planned for 5,000, but 4,118 hit the road, with 251 going rogue in Colorado as “High Country Special ’68.” The GT/CS, a Mustang with a beach vibe, featured fog lamps, hood pins, and stripes in a palette of primary colors. Lee Gray, Ford’s SoCal sales guru, crafted this beauty to combat the Camaro and Cougar. And the name? Could stand for “California Special,” but some say it’s a nod to Carroll Shelby’s magic touch.
A Beach Boys B-side turned Chevrolet’s 409 into a household name, and sales followed – from 142 Impala SS 409s in 1961 to over 15,000 the very next year. This black 1962 Impala SS could be running either of the two 409 variants Chevrolet offered that year, one rated at 380 horsepower and the fully-dressed dual-quad version at 409. Few engines have ever owed this much of their legend to a hit song.
Regular Car Reviews approaches the Mustang question with the kind of deliberately absurdist framing that makes their channel compelling, but underneath the comedy there is a genuine argument about what the Mustang means across its […]
When Jeff Lutz Sr and Jeff Lutz Jr showed up at Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2014 in a pair of 1957 Chevrolets running twin 88mm turbo setups on 692 cubic inch engines, they weren’t […]
The Chrysler 426 Hemi is the engine that professional historians and casual enthusiasts alike tend to treat as the apex of American performance engineering — the unit that made the most powerful production muscle cars […]
An 84mm turbo and an LS swap under a Mustang’s hood usually means one thing: a car built to run eight-second quarter miles and leave the front wheels off the ground doing it. Builds like this lean on the LS platform’s strength and aftermarket support to handle boost levels a stock Ford small-block was never designed for. The result is as much a test of chassis engineering as raw horsepower.
Ford built the Boss 302 to answer one problem: beating the Camaro Z/28 in Trans-Am racing, and the solution meant borrowing cylinder heads from an entirely different Ford engine family. Designer Larry Shinoda gave it a purposeful look with a front spoiler, rear wing, and deleted scoops, while production nearly quadrupled between 1969 and 1970. What looked like a narrow homologation special turned into one of Ford’s most collectible Mustangs.
Order the R-code option on a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XL and buyers got far more than a bigger engine – Ford rewired the entire car around a 425-horsepower dual-quad 427, complete with a four-speed-only mandate, reinforced suspension, and station wagon brakes. Marketed as ‘Velvet Brut,’ this combination proved a full-size family car could hide genuine drag-strip menace under its chrome. Few buyers realized just how much engineering went into making that possible.