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By 1971 the Dodge Charger had been completely redrawn, losing the coke-bottle fastback that made it famous and gaining a split grille, semi-fastback roof, and a much longer options list. This 383-powered example marks the final year Chrysler’s most widely used big block was available at all. It is a car built at the exact moment American performance ran out of runway. Read on for what changed and why it mattered.
This 1968 Plymouth GTX convertible is one of 24 built, not 34, despite what the video’s own description claims elsewhere — and Mopar fans in the comments caught the contradiction. Under the hood, a 426 Hemi rated at 425 horsepower but built for NASCAR carries torque near 500 lb-ft, backed by a rear end reinforced specifically to survive it. One commenter even corrects the entire GTX-versus-Road-Runner origin story. So which details actually hold up?
The 1983 Oldsmobile 98 Regency looks like an unassuming grandfather’s sedan, but it marked the final chapter of a rear-wheel-drive era at Oldsmobile. Nearly 120,000 buyers chose one that year, drawn to its quiet 5.0L V8 and old-school American luxury. Here’s why this overlooked full-size cruiser deserves a second look from collectors today.
Nick Panaritis rebuilt a 426 Hemi before he had a Challenger to put it in — then found a 1970 T/A instead, a genuinely rare factory homologation car built around a 340/6-barrel, not a Hemi. Commenters cite a possible Canadian-market history of roughly 115 T/As, correct a popular Vanishing Point myth, and mostly land on the same verdict: keep this one original. So does the freshly rebuilt Hemi get left without a home, or is there a smarter compromise hiding in the comments?
Deep in Virginia’s Northern Neck, on private land the uploader refuses to name, sits a Thanksgiving-shot slideshow of Chevelles, Novas, Chevy IIs, and Mopars that time simply left behind. A rare Cyclone Spoiler, honeycomb wheels still mounted on a LeMans, and 340-powered cars that used to be everywhere all turn up in the footage. One viewer calls it the best therapy a car guy can get. What does a field nobody’s allowed to buy from still have to say about muscle cars?
Rust does not ask permission before it spreads, and by the time it appears on a 1971 Plymouth Cuda’s rocker panels there is a good chance it has already consumed metal you cannot see. On a unibody E-body the rockers are structure, not trim, which means getting the repair wrong can turn a straightforward job into a car that never closes its doors properly again. Read on for what a correct rocker replacement actually involves.
These three overlooked muscle cars all earned obscurity in different ways, from a Hemi Dart built purely for the drag strip to a Rebel Machine unveiled at NHRA’s biggest stage. The Hemi Dart’s 426 engine ran quarter-mile times in the nine-second range not long after leaving the factory, numbers that still hold up decades later. AMC’s Machine countered with a standard 340-horsepower V8 built for straight-line bragging rights of its own. Here’s what made each of these forgotten muscle cars worth a second look.
Robert Wiater spent more than twelve years building his 1970 Chevrolet Impala in a garage in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and the racing exhaust gives it away before you ever see the car. 1970 was the first year without an Impala SS, even as the big-block 454 replaced the outgoing 427 under the hood. Wiater’s build carries no SS badge, just over a decade of personal labor. Read on for the story behind one retired truck driver’s take on a full-size muscle car most people overlook.
Alf’s red 1965 Chevy II Nova SS still wears its original California dealer plates — despite living in Adelaide, Australia since he imported it in 2008. Two prior owners, a factory 283 V8, and an untouched interior make it a genuine survivor, with only a repaint, new brakes, and a set of Flowmaster mufflers separating it from stock. Read on for the story of how the car got there, and how the Nova nameplate itself came to be.
This 1932 Ford Victoria runs a 302-cubic-inch V8 and C4 automatic instead of the original flathead, a swap that fits squarely inside decades of hot rodding tradition. The ’32 Ford earned its “Deuce” nickname as the first affordable car with Ford’s new flathead V8, and its light, simple chassis made it the default hot rod platform for generations. The Victoria body style, a hybrid of sedan and coupe, remains one of the most coveted shapes from that year. Here’s why this particular Ford still draws attention almost a century after it left the factory.
Jamboolio’s footage from Helsinki’s 2017 Cruising Night captures a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T SE doing nothing but idling – and somehow stopping conversation cold. The car’s 440 cubic inch big-block V8 and upscale Special Edition trim make it one of the more understated Chargers of its era, at least until the throttle opens. Nine years after it was filmed, the clip is still finding new viewers who want to hear why. Watch to see what all the quiet was about.
Pontiac named this GTO trim after a running gag from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, then built it tough enough to make the joke stick. The Judge launched in January 1969 as a direct answer to the Plymouth Road Runner, standard with a 366-horsepower Ram Air III V8 and an optional Ram Air IV that pushed things further. Only 6,833 Judges were built that year, and the rarest Ram Air IV versions numbered under 300. Here’s how to tell which engine — and which era of Pontiac’s horsepower war — this particular Judge represents.
Sitting in traffic behind a 2018 Mustang GT in Royal Crimson, then finding the same car parked outside a restaurant an hour later, turns into an accidental close look at a refresh most people had only read about. Ford did far more than repaint the GT for 2018: the V8 gained 25 horsepower, the clutch was redesigned, and the analog gauges disappeared entirely. Read on for what actually changed under the new paint.
A 1968 Hemi Road Runner and a 1970 Hemi Cuda share the exact same 426 Hemi, the same 425-horsepower rating, and the same Torqueflite automatic — yet this quarter-mile shootout from Road Test TV isn’t close to even. One car leaves the line with what viewers call a genuinely bad reaction time and still crosses the stripe first. Commenters are left arguing about gear ratios, tire choice, and whether 4.56s are involved. What actually separates two nearly identical elephant motors on race day?
By 1972 Chevrolet had backed the Chevelle Malibu into a corner, and this numbers-matching 350 example is what came out the other side. The original black vinyl interior is intact, the factory air conditioning still blows cold, and the car has never strayed far from stock. That combination is getting harder to find every year. Read on for why the last year of this body style is the smart place to enter the A-body market.