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AMC was the smallest of Detroit’s automakers, yet in 1968 it built a two-seat sports car that undercut the Corvette by over $1,000 and then quietly broke 106 world speed and endurance records with Craig Breedlove behind the wheel. Only 19,134 were ever built across three model years. Here’s the story of the AMC AMX, the muscle car most fans have never heard of.
A black Pontiac Trans Am shared the screen with Burt Reynolds in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, and two years later Pontiac moved 117,108 of them in a single model year. Two decades later, the LS1-powered WS6 Trans Am was faster and better built than ever — and GM killed it anyway. Top Tier Motors traces the cancellation back to four competing forces inside and outside General Motors, none of which had anything to do with the car actually failing to sell.
This barn-find 1970 Chevelle SS396 L78 became what its own uploader calls a national phenomenon — and the comment section proves why. A former GM Van Nuys assembly-line worker shows up to confirm engine codes and casting numbers firsthand, while other commenters trade stories about factory build sheets hidden inside seat cushions. The walkaround is technical by design, built for buyers who need to tell a genuine numbers-matching SS396 from a clone.
A factory-built 808-horsepower Dodge Demon versus a 641-horsepower Porsche 911 Turbo S sounds like a mismatch on paper. But the Porsche’s all-wheel-drive launch has quietly beaten cars with twice its power before, and this quarter-mile showdown puts that reputation to the test. Here’s what’s really deciding the race, and it isn’t horsepower.
For years General Motors capped how much engine its mid-size cars were allowed to carry, and that corporate rule quietly strangled the Chevelle’s potential. The cap disappeared for 1970, and Chevrolet moved immediately, jumping from a 396-badged big block straight to a genuine 454 with up to 450 horsepower. Read on to find out what changed inside GM to make that leap possible and why this single model year is still considered the high point of Chevelle performance.
A Competition Orange 1969 Mercury Cyclone CJ just crossed the Barrett-Jackson block carrying a Marti Report that proves it’s one of just 91 built this way. Powered by Ford’s underrated 428 Cobra Jet, this overlooked Mercury muscle car shows why documented rarity beats a fresh repaint every time.
This piece imagined a future where cars drove themselves and the real money went to companies nobody thinks of as automotive: chipmakers, mapmakers, data brokers. Years later, names like Mobileye, Nvidia, and Waymo prove the theory more right than wrong. Here’s how that unlikely list of winners actually played out.
Pontiac built only 168 convertible GTO Judges for 1970, and a documented sliver of those left the factory with the ferocious Ram Air IV V8 instead of the standard motor. One private collection now owns a four-speed example loaded with nearly every option on the sheet, and believes it may be one of the rarest survivors of its kind. Here’s why pinning down the real production numbers on a car like this is harder than it looks.
Plymouth built only 64 of these 440 Six Barrel Sport Fury GTs for 1970, and this one had not turned over since a minor accident parked it in 1981. Dead Dodge Garage spent months chasing a stubborn carburetor problem before finally coaxing the numbers-matching big-block back to life. What they found under the hood tells a bigger story about how few of these full-size muscle cars are still running today.
A knock on a truck’s passenger window at a red light turned into a national news segment after driver Ricky Thornton pulled a gun on the motorcyclist surrounding him, telling Inside Edition afterward that he felt threatened and wasn’t taking chances. The footage and Thornton’s own explanation split viewers over whether his response was justified self-defense or a dangerous escalation. Watch to see exactly what happened at that red light, and judge the moment for yourself.
A tuned Shelby GT500 chased down Ford’s own speed limiter on an unrestricted stretch of German Autobahn, and the digital speedo kept climbing right past the number Ford insists the car can’t reach. Here’s what a 760-horsepower Predator V8 actually does once nothing is holding it back — and why Ford built that ceiling in the first place.
A triple-turbo Mustang nicknamed “Vicious,” Johan Eriksson’s Viper V10-swapped Dodge Charger, and a roughly 3,000-horsepower build called “Doughboy” headline this roundup of extreme muscle car builds that abandon every factory limit entirely. Commenters loved the raw engineering but split hard over one car’s wheel choice. See which build the comments ultimately crowned the most jaw-dropping of the three.
Chevrolet’s Camaro beat the Ford Mustang for America’s top-selling muscle car crown in September and October — then lost it right back in November, proof that this decades-old sales rivalry can flip in a single month. The same stretch also saw a lifelong Chevelle SS hunt finally pay off, a new Motor Trend show built entirely around muscle car culture, and a 560-horsepower pro-touring Camaro built by Detroit Speed. Read on for what the whole picture says about the state of muscle cars in the mid-2010s.
You’ve found it – a numbers-matching 1967 GTO, straight body lines, a 400 under the hood, and a price that feels almost too good. But pull back the carpet and check underneath, and you might find exactly what one restoration crew found on their own barn-find GTO: a frame that needed straightening before the body could even go back on. Nearly six decades of harsh winters, driveway parking, and questionable quick fixes have left plenty of surviving GTOs with frame rot or old collision damage hiding under fresh paint and a shiny grille. The car in the video below looked like a legitimate project car, until the crew got it up on a rotisserie and saw what was actually holding the body up. Before you hand over a deposit on your dream GTO, here’s what a full frame-off restoration reveals about what’s really lurking beneath the sheet metal, and how to check for it before you’re the one paying to fix it.
Tim Wellborn’s 1971 Dodge Charger R/T is one of just 63 built with the 426 Hemi in the engine’s final year, and it has never been restored, right down to its original tires. See what MCACN’s judges found when they certified it as one of the most untouched survivor Mopars in existence.