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A 1970 Chevelle and a 1969 Camaro have been arguing over GM muscle car supremacy for more than fifty years, and neither side has ever fully won. One brings 454 cubic inches and up to 450 factory horsepower; the other brings the most coveted body style of the first-generation Camaro and a lighter chassis to match. Read on to find out why General Motors basically built this rivalry on purpose — and why it still hasn’t been settled.
Dodge invented the Super Bee by taking everything expensive out of a Coronet and leaving everything fast, then spent 1969 escalating the engine list until a 426 Hemi was sitting on the order form. Buried inside that model year was a package aimed at drag racers that Dodge barely advertised. This Gateway Classic Cars gallery captures the result. Read on for the option code that separates a good Super Bee from a great one.
Ford built the 1936 half-ton to haul feed and lumber, and gave it a rounded grille and skirted fenders purely to make it look more like a car. Eighty years later that decision is why builders keep reaching for this exact body to hang wild paint, hydraulics, and a tilting front clip on. The truck that started as a tool became one of the most reworked shapes in American customizing. Read on for how a work truck became a canvas.
A nitrous-fed C6 Corvette and a built-motor Subaru WRX STi put two thousand dollars on the line, and the spec sheets suggested it should not have been close. One car had displacement and a bottle. The other had all-wheel drive and a driver who knew how to use it. The result came down to a few dozen feet of pavement that no horsepower figure can account for. Read on to find out why this matchup keeps producing arguments.
Every muscle car generation left behind small design tells — headlight count, taillight shape, hood scoop placement — that let enthusiasts nail down an exact model year at a glance. This entry tests those instincts with a car built during one of Chrysler’s most dramatic redesigns, when a shorter, wider E-body platform replaced the previous generation almost overnight. Single headlights, a divided grille, and three vertically stacked taillights are among the giveaways. Take your best guess before reading the clues below.
A brand-new Dodge Demon owner takes the car to the drag strip for the first time, running detuned on pump gas and drag radials against a Trackhawk, a manual Hellcat, and a modified supercharged Camaro SS. The unscripted, multi-angle footage has pulled in over a million views by capturing exactly the kind of unpredictable outcome a sanctioned drag test never quite delivers. Watch to see which matchup surprised viewers most.
Chevrolet built only about 80 examples of the race-bred RPO L88 Corvette in 1968, stripping out the radio and heater in favor of aluminum heads, a solid-lifter cam, and brakes borrowed from the competition parts bin. This coupe from the Brothers Collection is one of the rarest, most authenticated survivors of that run, and V8TV’s cameras get an up-close look at exactly what made it different from every other 427 Corvette that year.
This 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe carries Ford’s biggest V-8, the 460-cubic-inch big block, in its final year of availability before it was discontinued. Despite the muscle under the hood, the Town Coupe was built to float, not sprint — and it lost the sales war to Cadillac’s Coupe de Ville by a wide margin that year. Read on to find out why buyers chose the underdog anyway.
Scott Zeller’s father owned three Mercury Cougars before Scott bought this 1969 XR7 in black paint with a 351 V8, and that family history is central to why this particular car keeps drawing a crowd at Chicago-area car shows. Filmed at the Monday Night Car Shows in Skokie, Illinois, the video captures a nameplate that history has quietly underrated next to its Mustang sibling. Watch to hear the engine and the story behind it.
The line gets quoted at every car show, usually as a joke about human nature. Henry Ford was not joking. He was describing something that happened to him personally, in an era when a race was often the only way to prove a car worked at all. Read on to find out how that instinct traveled from the 1890s to the fender badges on a 1967 Mustang.
A Ford Falcon GT and a Lamborghini Gallardo line up for a street race that should not have been close, and more than a million viewers keep coming back to watch what happened next. Commenters point to a 351 Cleveland V8 under the Falcon’s hood as the sleeper’s secret weapon, part of the same homegrown horsepower war that once pitted Ford Australia against Holden at Bathurst. Watch to see whether the exotic actually pulls away.
Ford built 7,014 Boss 302 Mustangs in 1970, more than four times the previous year’s run, and yet a genuinely numbers-matching example still stops people in their tracks. The car exists because of a rulebook rather than a showroom wish list: Ford needed a homologated 302 to chase the Camaro Z/28 around Trans-Am road courses. Then it handed the styling to a designer who had never done a full production car. Read on for what he came up with.
Gateway Classic Cars has become the country’s largest classic car sales operation since 1999, with around 15 showrooms, more than 90,000 customers, and a website drawing over 8 million views a month. Sellers pay nothing up front, but they sign a 90-day exclusive contract and pay a commission at sale, while buyers often commit based on photos alone. Read on to find out how the consignment process really works and which side of the deal comes out ahead.
Chrysler built the GTX to be a gentleman’s muscle car in 1967, and it worked — for about two years. Then the company’s own Road Runner undercut it on price and style, and the GTX spent the rest of its production run fighting a rival built in-house. Read on to find out how a cheaper stablemate nearly killed one of Mopar’s most underrated performance cars, and why collectors are finally catching on to what made it special.
Only one automaker ever sold a factory street car wearing two different tire sizes front to rear, and it was not a styling decision. Plymouth needed 2,724 examples built in a five-week sprint to satisfy a racing rulebook, and Dan Gurney’s fingerprints are all over the result. This Alpine White AAR ‘Cuda carries a 340 topped with three two-barrel carburetors and a fiberglass hood. Read on for the rulebook that shaped every strange choice on it.