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The 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 paired aggressive styling with the legendary 428 Cobra Jet or Super Cobra Jet V8, undercutting rival big-block muscle cars on price while matching or beating their performance. It remains one of the more underrated variants in the first-generation Mustang lineup. Watch to see exactly what made this combination such a giant-killer in 1969.
By 1973 the American luxury convertible market had narrowed to exactly one survivor, and the Cadillac Eldorado was it. Lincoln had walked away in 1967 and Chrysler’s Imperial followed a year later, leaving Cadillac alone with a 500-cubic-inch V8, front-wheel drive and no competition to undercut it. Then one of them paced the Indianapolis 500. Read on for what it was really like to own the last of a dying breed.
A 1969 Dodge Charger gets a modern supercharged Hellcat V8 transplant in this build, appropriately named ‘Reverence,’ from the specialists at Cleveland Power & Performance. The test drive captures how a decades-old muscle car icon behaves with more than 700 horsepower now sitting under the hood. Watch to hear exactly what a Hellcat swap sounds like packed into a classic Charger this size.
Built almost exclusively for California dealers and inspired by a secretive Shelby prototype, the 1968 Mustang GT/CS combined fog lamps, a rear spoiler, and exclusive striping into a distinct model Ford never planned as a mainstream offering. Production fell short of its 5,000-unit target, and the car’s own name is still debated by historians decades later. Read on to find out how one regional sales manager talked Dearborn into building it.
Regular Car Reviews asks Mustang owners at a car show one simple question: why is your Mustang the best Mustang? The answers range from a bowl of oranges balanced on an intake to an actual P-51 fighter plane crashing the party, with a scene-stealing Thunderbird cameo along the way. Watch to see which answer the comments still can’t stop quoting.
Two father-and-son 1957 Chevys, twin-turbocharged and pushing over 6,000 combined horsepower, went head to head across all five brutal days of Drag Week 2014. The newer, lighter build known as ‘The Evil Twin’ edged out its heavier stablemate ‘The Beast’ despite similar power. Watch to see exactly how much an 800-pound difference mattered.
A multi-part build series following a Chrysler 426 Hemi from bare block to running engine turned its comment section into a genuine history debate, with viewers tracing the Hemi’s roots back through the 1956 Chrysler 300B and, according to one claim, all the way to a WWII-era aircraft engine. Between the technical assembly detail and the borderline-religious reverence in the comments, this build says as much about Hemi mythology as the engine itself. Watch the full build.
An 84mm turbo poking through the grille tells experienced drag racers everything they need to know before the engine fires. This Mustang carries an LS swap and runs in the eight second bracket, which requires roughly four-figure horsepower and a chassis certified to match. Read on for why the boost curve matters more than the peak number, and why consistency is harder to achieve than speed.
The 1970 Boss 302 exists for one reason: Ford needed to beat the Camaro Z/28 in Trans-Am racing, and the rules said it had to sell street versions to do it. The engine that resulted borrowed cylinder head technology from an entirely different Ford engine family to solve a breathing problem, and production more than quadrupled between the first and second model years. Read on to find out what changed, and why the 1970 car is the one enthusiasts chase.
The 1967 Pontiac GTO got a modest styling refresh, but the real story was a single option buried on the order form: the L67 Ram Air 400, installed in just 56 convertibles out of more than 81,000 GTOs built that year. Higher-revving power, a Rochester Quadrajet carburetor, and a mid-year cylinder head change made it one of the most collectible GTOs ever built. Read on to find out what actually separated a genuine Ram Air car from an ordinary 1967 GTO.
Ray Brownfield’s red 1966 Mustang convertible looks like a straightforward restoration until you ask which 289 is under the hood. Ford sold three completely different versions of that engine in 1966 behind identical fender badges, and the spread ran from 200 horsepower to 271. Brownfield has owned the car since 2005 and turned the restoration around in five months. Read on to find out why that single engine question changes what the car is worth and how it drives.
Ford never built a 1970 Mustang with a T56 six-speed, which makes this Gateway Classic Cars example a tribute rather than a survivor. That is not a criticism. The 1970 Boss 302 was a homologation special built to win Trans-Am races, and recreating one properly means understanding what Ford actually did to that engine and why. Read on for what separates a serious Boss tribute from a stripe kit.
A row of dealer photos says almost nothing about this 1931 Ford 5-window coupe beyond a single caption: 350 V8, 3-speed automatic. The factory Model A never came close to that kind of output. Read on to find out just how much of the original car survived a swap this dramatic.
Ford’s FE V8 powered nearly every brand in the lineup for eighteen years, from Fairlanes and Mustangs to the AC Cobra and the purpose-built Thunderbolt drag car, while NASCAR homologation rules forced Ford to keep pace on the street. A side-oiler fix born on the race track, industrial and marine applications, and a still-thriving aftermarket kept the engine relevant decades after Ford stopped building it. Read on to find out what actually separates an FE from its heavy-duty FT cousin.
The 2017 Camaro 1LE was not one package but two, and the cheaper version turned out to be the surprise. A $4,500 box on the V6 coupe bought suspension hardware pulled from the SS, a limited-slip differential, and skidpad numbers that embarrassed cars costing twice as much. The V8 version went further still. Here is exactly what each one included, what the two setups did differently, and why the 1LE became a cult badge almost immediately.