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General Motors spent the late 1960s capping its intermediates at 400 cubic inches. When that rule disappeared for 1970, Oldsmobile answered with a 455-powered 4-4-2 whose advertised horsepower figure was almost certainly a deliberate lie. This Gateway Classic Cars example wears the badge quietly, but the W-30 story behind it involves fiberglass hoods, red plastic fenders, and an insurance industry that was watching very closely. Read on for what Lansing was really hiding.
When Studebaker abandoned the car business in 1966, two of its own dealers refused to let the Avanti name go with it. This 1978 Avanti II pairs a 350-cid V8 with a four-speed automatic, one of the hand-assembled grand tourers built years after Detroit had already moved on, with every example built to order. Here’s what made this leftover from a canceled company an unlikely survivor for nearly two decades.
The 2017 Grand National Roadster Show filled the Pomona Fairplex with more than a thousand entries competing for the sport’s oldest indoor trophy, and the Mopar contingent that January refused to play by anyone’s rules. A green 1965 Dodge Dart from Alabama showed up carrying an engine that would not exist for another four decades. Here is what the Mopar side of the 68th GNRS actually looked like, and why one compact stole the show.
The 1974 Plymouth ‘Cuda was the last of the E-bodies, built in a year when the biggest engine on the order form made 245 net horsepower. This one no longer carries what the factory installed: the 360 has been bored and stroked to 408 cubic inches and fitted with three two-barrel carburetors. Read on for what Plymouth actually offered that final year and why builders keep reaching for this combination.
This showroom shot of a polished orange muscle car taps into one of Detroit biggest marketing gambles: the early-1970s high-impact color wars. Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, and Grabber Orange all trace back to the same era of factory one-upmanship. Here is the story behind the shade that still turns heads decades later.
Deep in an Oregon junkyard, sixty-year-old Mustangs, Camaros, and Chevelles sit exactly where they were left — picked over, rusting, and quietly disappearing under moss and rain. The person filming admits he takes a strange delight in documenting the decay, and the footage explains why: this is American muscle car history dying in slow motion, one panel at a time. Watch to see exactly what the Pacific Northwest weather has done to these forgotten cars.
This meme captures a scene every manual-transmission owner has lived: trying to explain a simple part to someone who has never driven anything but an automatic. It is a small joke, but it points at a bigger shift in car culture. Here is why rowing your own gears became such a point of pride.
A numbers-matching 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona doesn’t change hands without scrutiny — not when fakes and clones have circulated in the market for decades. A Michigan-based certified appraiser spent hours verifying this R4 Red example’s engine block, transmission tag, and core support before pronouncing it the real thing. Then he drove it. Watch the full inspection to see exactly what separates a genuine Daytona from an expensive guess.
Only 5,718 Riviera Gran Sports were built for 1966, a personal luxury coupe hiding a 425-cubic-inch Nailhead V8 rated at 340 horsepower, with an optional twin-carburetor setup pushing it to 360. Buick marketed the GS around ride and handling rather than what was under the hood. Values have historically trailed flashier muscle cars despite genuinely rare production numbers. Read on to find out why the overlooked Riviera GS may be the best value in sixties Buick performance.
By 1966, Ford wanted the mid-size Fairlane to hang with cars twice its reputation, and dropping in a 390-cubic-inch big-block was how they did it. The GT and GTA badges marked which transmission got the job of putting that power down. Here is what made this often-overlooked Fairlane one of the sharper performance buys of its era.
The Ford-Chevy rivalry is old enough to have outlived several generations of both companies engineers, yet it still shows up in a fresh meme every week. This one pokes fun at Ford with a classic stunt-photo gag, the kind of ribbing that has been a staple of garage culture for decades. Where did this century-long feud actually start, and why does it still land?
A wheelie wagon and a beat-up Nova lined up for a Wheels Up exhibition run, continuing a tradition that traces back to Bill Golden’s 1965 Little Red Wagon. This piece traces the wheelstander format from its Hemi-powered origins through the Novas that later joined the craze, and explains why the format still draws a crowd more than half a century after it began.
A Mustang, a Camaro, and a Challenger lined up together is not just a photo, it is the same argument muscle car fans have been having since the 1960s. Ford started the pony car category almost by accident in 1964, Chevy and Dodge spent decades answering back, and the rivalry between all three is still what pushes each brand to build better cars. Here is the short history behind a fight that has never actually been settled.
The idea that any muscle car is a guaranteed investment has been repeated for two decades, and it is not so much wrong as badly out of date. Median auction prices have slipped to their lowest point since 2020 even while specific models keep climbing hard. The gap between those two facts is where buyers get hurt. Read on for what the numbers actually show and which attributes still hold value.
This Mustang was deep into a 150mph dyno pull when a tire let go, turning a routine test into one of 1320video’s most-watched clips. Viewers point out the irony immediately: a dyno is supposed to be the one place a car can hit that speed with zero risk, and this one still found a way to go wrong. Watch to see exactly how violent a tire failure looks at triple-digit speed.