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A silver 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 parked outdoors.

1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 – The Best Z28?

The 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 ditched the screaming, race-homologated 302 V8 that defined its first two years for something radically different: a torquier, street-tuned LT-1 350. Some fans call it the best Z28 Chevrolet ever built; others say it lost the racing soul that made the nameplate special in the first place. Decades later, original owners are still driving these cars daily, and the argument over which engine, and which era, got it right hasn’t cooled off one bit. Watch to see the case for 1970.

Plymouth ‘Cuda 1970 – 340 Convertible

by Kiril

Plymouth built somewhere around 550 ‘Cuda convertibles for 1970, and only 262 of them carried the 340 four-barrel. Narrow that by transmission and paint code and the surviving population gets very small very quickly. This EB5 Blue Fire Metallic car sits at the intersection of all of it — and the engine that made it rare at the time is the one enthusiasts now argue was the best choice in the catalog.

Classic red Thunderbird convertible car parked near a lake under cloudy skies.

Great Cars: THUNDERBIRD

by Wes

King Rose Archives’ vintage newsreel-style profile of the Ford Thunderbird traces the car from its 1955 two-seat debut through the decades when Ford kept redefining what a “Thunderbird” even was. The comments underneath it read like their own oral history — a 427-powered 1962 bought as a $2,000 wedding present, a 1966 428 Q-code picked up for $600 from a woman who called it ugly, and a Sammy Davis Jr. sighting from decades ago. Watch the original piece, then read what four generations of T-Bird owners had to add.

Classic blue and white muscle car on display at a car show.

Dodge Challenger and HEMI Dart – LOUD Mopars!

by Kiril

A 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1968 Hemi Dart share an engine family and almost nothing else. One was Dodge’s upmarket answer to the pony car wars, sold at dealerships nationwide with everything from a slant six to a 426 Hemi. The other was built off-site by Hurst because Chrysler refused to sanction it, in a run of just 80 cars. Read on for how both came to exist, and why they sound nothing alike.

Chevrolet Camaro RS vs Supercharged 1000 hp Corvette

by Kiril

A Camaro RS met a supercharged, 1,000-horsepower Corvette in a roll race, and the one-word title says how it went. This piece breaks down why the horsepower math almost never favors the RS in matchups like this, what it actually costs to push a Corvette to four-digit power, and why grudge races like this one have become such a fixture of car meet culture.

Red Dodge Challenger performing a burnout with smoke around it.

Dodge offers 840 horsepower Challenger Demon, Ford extends availability of Shelby Mustangs

by Kiril

Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon with a supercharged Hemi V8 rated at 840 horsepower, factory-fitted wide-body fender flares, and a production run capped at just 3,300 units total. The reveal landed alongside news that Ford was extending availability of its own Shelby Mustangs, giving performance buyers two big storylines at once. Both moves capped a mid-2010s horsepower race that pushed Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet to repeatedly one-up each other. Read on to find out which of these limited-run factory monsters will matter more to collectors decades from now.

Classic blue vintage car with sleek design and chrome details.

Rarest Muscle Car is a Hemi Configuration 1966-1971

by Pat C

Chrysler built roughly 9,137 street Hemi cars between 1966 and 1971, and only a sliver of them left the factory as convertibles. The 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi convertible is widely considered the rarest of the bunch at just two built, with Hagerty pegging a top example near $1.3 million. A numbers-matching 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible brought $3.5 million at Mecum in 2014. Read on for why the drop-tops are so scarce and what separates a real one from a clone.

Chevrolet Camaro SS 1969 images

by Ross Mills

1969 marked the last year of the original Camaro body style, and Chevrolet used it to hide some of its rarest performance options in plain sight. Behind identical SS and RS badges sat everything from a mild 350 small-block to a barely-advertised 427 built for the drag strip. Only a handful of buyers knew enough to ask for the right code on the order form. These photos, courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, capture one of the last true first-generation Camaros before the redesign.

Illegal street race with spectators on roadside, a yellow car leading.

Street Race Gone Wrong…Trans Am Gets LOOSE And GOES Towards The CROWD!

by Wes

A Camaro and a Trans Am face off on a New Orleans street in this OUTCHEA RACING upload, but the real story starts before the race even begins — a nearly ten-minute line-up that one viewer says led directly to a spin-out. Comments celebrate something bigger than the result: a community that shows up to help, regardless of who’s driving what. Watch to see how it plays out.

Ford Mustang 1970 – Shelby GT500

by Kiril

The 1970 Shelby GT500 is the rarest single model year in the nameplate’s history, and the reason is one of the strangest stories in Ford’s performance past: there was never really a 1970 production run at all. Just 286 GT500s wore 1970 VINs, and they were applied to leftover 1969 cars under federal supervision. Here is how it happened, how to spot a genuine one, and why Carroll Shelby had already walked away by then.

Classic green muscle car parked indoors with polished chrome wheels.

Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 – 1972 images

by Ross Mills

By 1972, the Oldsmobile 442 wasn’t even its own model anymore, just a $29 option box on the Cutlass order form. But the engines hiding behind that modest price tag, especially the W-30 455, could still turn in a sub-15-second quarter mile. Here’s what was actually left of the 442 as the muscle car era wound down.

Two sporty Dodge Chargers parked side by side outdoors under clear skies.

Dodge Charger Hellcat vs Dodge Charger Daytona Edition

by Kiril

On paper this matchup is over before either Charger leaves the line: one carries a supercharged 707-horsepower V8, the other a naturally aspirated 5.7 making roughly half that. But the Daytona name on the underdog was borrowed from the first car in NASCAR history to lap a closed circuit at 200 mph, courtesy of Buddy Baker at Talladega in 1970. The 2013 Daytona Edition never claimed to be a straight-line fighter. Read on for what it actually was.

Lincoln Continental Mark IV 1959 images

by Ross Mills

This 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV represents Lincoln at its most luxurious, and its most cautious, after toning down a wild 1958 redesign just one year later. Only 2,195 convertibles like this one were built, powered by a 430 V8 making 350 hp. Here’s the story behind one of the rarest personal luxury cars of its era.

A car gear shift replaced with a hand grenade, labeled as the best car security system.

Is it?

by Kiril

A hand grenade where the shift knob should be sounds like a joke, because it is one, but it’s also part of a long tradition of muscle car owners using novelty parts to make a statement. This viral image plays on the idea that the best security system is simply looking dangerous. Here’s why gag mods like this keep circulating.

Classic silver convertible car with red interior on display indoors.

Are These Cars The Embodiment Of The 1960s Classic Muscle Car Culture?

by Kiril

Five cars defined 1960s muscle car culture, but two of them have wilder backstories than most people realize: a GTO that exploited a GM loophole to become a 32,450-unit phenomenon, and a Barracuda so rare its Hemi convertible now sells for millions. Here’s what made these five cars the icons they became.

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