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A barn-find 1970 Ford Mustang convertible sitting in the Netherlands hides a genuinely strange secret: factory all-wheel drive, engineered by the same British company that later built the world’s first production AWD car, the Jensen FF. Missing its engine and front drive unit after decades of neglect, it may be the only convertible Mustang ever converted this way. Read on for how a tractor company ended up building AWD Mustangs for Ford.
This 1960 Pontiac Bonneville pairs a loaded, comfort-focused interior with a 389 Tri-Power V8 whose engineering roots trace back to Pontiac’s NASCAR program that same year. Three two-barrel carburetors delivered 425 lb-ft of torque through a 4-speed Hydra-Matic, a setup that stayed in Pontiac’s lineup through 1962. Here is how a family cruiser ended up with a genuinely competition-bred engine under its hood.
Five American muscle cars, one European showroom: a ’71 ‘Cuda, a ’68 and a ’69 Charger R/T side by side, a ’69 Super Bee, and a ’69 Mustang Mach 1, all curated by a German dealer for a collector market thousands of miles from Detroit. Viewers in the comments wasted no time picking a favorite — and it wasn’t unanimous. Watch the full lineup and decide which of these five actually deserves the title.
Bolting GT badges onto a base Mustang takes ten minutes. Telling a genuine factory GT from a well-executed clone takes a good deal longer, and the tells are not where most buyers look. A VIN digit, a stamped reinforcement plate, a gas cap and a rear valance will settle the argument faster than any emblem. Here is what to check, in what order, before the money changes hands.
Dodge built exactly 503 Charger Daytonas in 1969, the bare minimum NASCAR homologation required, and 433 of them carried the 440 Magnum making 375 horsepower and 480 lb-ft. The 23-inch wing and pointed nose cone existed for aerodynamics, not showrooms, and dealers struggled to sell them. In March 1970 a Daytona became the first car to officially lap a closed course at over 200 mph. Read on to find out how a rulebook produced the strangest shape Detroit ever sold.
A 1965 Corvette running the hydraulic-lifter L79 327 takes on a 1970 Camaro Z28 and its solid-lifter LT1 350 in a straight quarter-mile shootout from Road Test TV. Five years apart, these two small blocks represent very different approaches to making power, and viewers are split on which one deserves more respect. Watch to see which Chevy legend crosses the line first.
The 1971 Plymouth Duster 340 was the cheapest genuine muscle car Mopar sold, hiding a 275-horsepower small block in a body built on the same compact A-body as the economy Valiant. Only 12,886 were built as true 340 cars that year, the lowest production of the run and the last before compression ratios fell. Roughly 1,200 got the one-year-only V24 blackout hood. Read on to find out why the plainest car in the lineup has the best story.
Not every 1965 Mustang 289 is the legendary K-code HiPo everyone talks about. This car’s 3-speed automatic points to one of the milder two-barrel or four-barrel versions Ford sold to everyday buyers, not the 271-horsepower screamer built for the strip. Here is how the three versions of the 289 differed, and why the rare HiPo represents less than one percent of all first-generation Mustangs built.
One collector’s storage facility in rural Indiana holds 53 muscle cars, starting from a single 1968 Plymouth GTX Hemi that grew into a lineup spanning a Superbird, a Shelby GT500, and a 1969 Indy 500 pace car. The rarest find is a Dodge Viper GTS-R 1:33 edition, one of only 33 ever built. Here is what’s parked inside Joey’s Garage and how a modest collection turned into something closer to a private museum.
V8TV dug through 1970’s own magazine road tests to rank the ten quickest muscle cars of the year, using the era’s published numbers rather than modern dyno figures. The order does not always favor the biggest engine, and gearing plays a bigger role than most viewers expect. One commenter’s memory of his father’s 1970 Chevelle SS 396 shows just how personal these numbers still are. Watch to see which cars made the cut.
An eleven-second quarter mile used to require a roll cage, slick tires, and a trailer to get home. The Challenger SRT Hellcat did it with power windows, a back seat, and a factory warranty. The supercharged HEMI that made it possible set off a horsepower war among all three American pony cars. Read on for the numbers, the arms race that followed, and where it all ended up.
Park a fifty-year-old muscle car beside its modern descendant and the old one somehow does not look dated. It makes the new one look like it is trying too hard. The modern car is faster, safer, and better in every measurable way, which makes the reaction genuinely strange until you understand what changed in between. Read on for the specific reasons the proportions stopped working, none of which are nostalgia.
This Hemi Cuda’s quarter-mile pass has racked up nearly half a million views for one simple reason: it launches hard enough to lift the front wheels, and the driver still brings it home with a manual transmission at a serious quarter-mile time. Viewers have called it everything from a masterpiece to the king of all muscle cars. Watch to see just how close this stick-shift launch comes to going wrong before it goes right.
Team-built and nitrous-fed, this Junior Class Camaro has done something few no-prep racers manage: back-to-back CHITOWN KOTS titles without a mark on its paint. Built to run bare, unprepped asphalt against a field of dedicated racers, it launches clean enough to look showroom-fresh between rounds. The 1320video crew has followed this build for two seasons, and a third title run is already on the horizon. Watch to see what makes this Camaro different from the cars it keeps beating.
Tom Lembeck’s 1970 Plymouth Cuda Convertible has been part of his Chicago-area Mopar collection since 2007, wrapped in a Lemon Twist yellow finish and hiding a rare 440 Six Barrel engine under the hood. It is one of the harder combinations to find today: a numbers-matching convertible with the drivetrain enthusiasts specifically chase. Lou Costabile sat down with Tom to hear the full story behind the car. Watch to find out what makes this particular Cuda stand out even in a collection full of Mopar muscle.