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Before the Road Runner or GTX existed, Plymouth offered its 425-hp Street Hemi in the understated 1966 Satellite, and only 503 four-speed hardtops were ever built. Owner Randy Cook found one identical to the car he watched race as a kid and traded his own car to get it. Lou Costabile takes a ride in the Forest Green Hemi that makes two grown men laugh the moment the hood goes up.
In 2013, Shelby American took Ford’s already-potent 662-horsepower GT500 and pushed it to 850 horsepower with a supercharger upgrade, forged-brake package, and dedicated cooling system, all backed by an official factory partnership. Only 500 of these Super Snake conversions were built, making a documented example rare even among modified Shelby Mustangs. Read on to find out what it actually cost to own one — and what living with that much power really demands.
You have found the 1969 Pontiac GTO you have been hunting for, the seller swears it is a real one, and the price reflects that claim. Here is the catch: the GTO shared its body with the far more common LeMans and Tempest, and a 1968 and a 1969 look close enough at twenty feet that a mismatched grille, a swapped dash, or a 1968 seat in a 1969 car goes unnoticed by most buyers until the money has changed hands. Knowing exactly which details belong to which year is the first line of defense against overpaying for a car that is not what the ad says it is. This guide walks through the model-year tells, the paperwork that actually proves a GTO is a GTO, and the rust and mechanical trouble spots every A-body buyer should check before signing anything.
One of just 302 four-speed 428 SJs out of 112,486 Grand Prix built in 1969, this survivor sat on jack stands for 27 years with about 13,000 miles before Jay Leno got behind the wheel. Here is why the SJ is the rarest and most rewarding form of Pontiac’s personal luxury muscle car, and what to check before you buy one.
A 1970 Plymouth HEMI Superbird and a 1969 Chevrolet ZL1 Camaro both fought their way into the top ten at Barrett-Jackson’s record-breaking $207.6 million 2024 Scottsdale Auction. Fewer than 150 Superbirds were ever built with the HEMI, and the ZL1’s all-aluminum 427 came from Can-Am racing, not the street. Only one of them claimed the top spot. Watch the full countdown to see which one it was.
Chevrolet’s cheapest full-size car could be ordered with the 425-horsepower L72 427, the strongest engine the brand sold in 1966, and only 1,856 of those engines went into the entire big-car line. Muscle Car Campy drives a factory-correct example and then hands the keys to a 454 resto-mod built on the same plain-sedan formula.
Lincoln-Mercury stuffed a 360-hp, 480 lb-ft 429 into a 4,500-pound fastback with hidden headlights and fender skirts, then sold fewer than 8,300 of them across 1969 and 1970. A Rare Cars documentary explains why the Marauder X-100 flopped in showrooms and why it may be the most overlooked big-block bargain from the muscle era.
A Helsinki parking lot fills with American V8s every month, and this September 2017 clip from the Helsinki Cruising Night at Market Square shows why the scene has become a magnet for enthusiasts an ocean away from Detroit. Viewers zeroed in on a pristine 67 Mustang, a Tesla that got roasted for having no V8 soundtrack, and what one commenter swears is a Nova built to channel Tarantino’s Death Proof. The real story is why Finns fell this hard for American muscle in the first place.
The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine put 340 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of 390 V8 torque into a mid-size body for ,475, ran a 14.4-second quarter mile, and wore a hood scoop with the tachometer mounted inside it. AMC built 2,326 and never made another. Here is why the smallest automaker in Detroit’s boldest muscle car vanished after one year.
A white 1963 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, black top folded, sits inside a showroom floor with its Bonneville script catching the light. The same year Pontiac walked away from factory racing, buyers could still order this car with a tri-power 389 making well over 300 horsepower. Read on to see how a brand backing off performance marketing kept building some of its most potent engines anyway.
Ford squeezed 662 horsepower from a supercharged V8 into the last Mustang built with a solid rear axle, a combination that made the 2013 Shelby GT500 both wildly fast and genuinely difficult to drive. A decade later, owners are still talking about the sound, the manual gearbox, and just how much respect this car demands. Here’s why the 2013-2014 GT500 remains one of the most talked-about modern Shelbys.
This 1971 Chevrolet Nova SS convertible turned up on a dealer’s lot in silver, one of just 7,015 SS models built the year Chevrolet pulled the 396 big-block off the order sheet entirely. The photos show the paint, the engine bay, and the interior of a car built during the single-engine-option year that scared most buyers away. Read on to see what survives, and why so few buyers wanted this exact combination in 1971.
We found nine 1968 Chevelle SS396 listings across ClassicCars.com and Dyler.com — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like after a month where almost everything else already sold.
Somewhere out there is a 1970 Road Runner that looks like a steal – low price, “runs when parked,” a seller who swears it just needs a battery and a little elbow grease. What that ad rarely mentions is what four or five decades of sitting actually does to a Mopar: a seized engine, a carburetor gummed solid, brake cylinders welded shut with rust, and a frame that may have taken a hit long before it ever went into storage. One shop’s rebuild of a Road Runner wrecked back in 1977 and parked ever since shows exactly what that repair bill looks like in real time – and what to check before you fall for the same “it just needs a little work” pitch.
A decade-old walkaround of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat keeps racking up views for one reason: the supercharger note when it fires up. Here’s why Dodge’s 707-horsepower factory monster still stops scrollers cold, and what it actually cost to drive one home.