A 1970 Ranchero GT with a Drag Pack 429 Super Cobra Jet is a truck almost nobody ordered: fewer than 5% of Ranchero GTs got any 429 at all, and Ford rated this one at 375 horsepower it plainly made more of. Muscle Car Of The Week walks around an untouched Dark Ivy Green survivor, factory inspection stamps and all.
Only about 7,273 of the 680,968 Mustangs Ford built in 1965 left the factory with the K-Code 289 Hi-Po V8 — and buying one meant giving up an automatic, power steering, and air conditioning. It’s also the engine that convinced Carroll Shelby the Mustang was worth racing.
A 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS could leave the factory with a 295-horsepower 350 or a 375-horsepower 396, and the difference between them matters far more than anything the badges on the fenders suggest. The SS package brought genuine hardware, including upgraded suspension and cooling alongside the higher-output V8, rather than just the bumblebee stripe. Read on for what each engine actually ran, how to tell an RS from an SS, and why documentation matters more than the model year.
A factory 1970 Chevelle wagon came with a modest 327 small-block — Chevrolet never let this body style near the 454 or the SS badge. Decades later, a European dealer gave it the big block GM’s own rulebook said it couldn’t have.
We found 12 1971-72 Dodge Charger listings across ClassicCars.com, Classics on Autotrader, and Exotic Car Trader — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
Pontiac deleted the GTO’s hidden headlights for 1970, added a rear sway bar, and quietly offered an ultra-rare exhaust option that only 233 cars ever received. A year later, the Judge was gone entirely. Read on to see how the GTO’s final two model years handled the industry’s shift away from raw horsepower.
Inside a Nebraska shop that restores other people’s cars but refuses to touch its own best find: a Super Duty-powered Pontiac wearing fifty-year-old factory paint, worth more exactly as it sits. One rare color and a decades-old labor strike explain why.
Ford’s 1966 Fairlane GT looked like an ordinary mid-size cruiser, but a handful of them hid a NASCAR-bred 427 nobody could just special-order. Here’s how a tiny homologation run ended up winning the 1967 Daytona 500.
Coyote Classics in Greene, Iowa has built a genuinely engaged following around its rotating inventory of Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, and GTOs — including a blue Dodge Super Bee that commenters are practically begging the shop not to modify. See what’s currently on the lot, and why regulars keep coming back to argue about it in the comments.
A Phoenix shop ripped the V8 out of a Ferrari F430, bolted it between the fenders of a chopped 1968 Mustang fastback, and strapped on twin turbochargers for an estimated 700 horsepower. Here is the story behind one of SEMA’s most argued-over builds.
Ford built two completely different 1969 Mustang Mach 1s that looked identical parked side by side, and most buyers had no idea which one they were driving home. Same badge, same stripe, same scooped hood, same displacement on the fender. The difference came down to a single character in the VIN. This Acapulco Blue fastback settles the question the moment its hood comes up, and the answer explains a lot about how Ford sold the Mach 1.
A Pennsylvania teenager bought a 1967 Camaro that Yenko’s shop hadn’t even converted yet — then repainted it before it had 7,000 miles on the clock. Decades later, restorers spent 14 months undoing his paint job and uncovered one of the most original Yenko Camaros left standing.
A rare Warwick Blue 1969 GTO Judge, one of roughly a dozen known survivors in that color, still runs its factory four-wheel drum brakes and numbers-matching Ram Air III V8. Owner Frank Szymkowski Sr. sold his first Judge to get married back in 1978 — and this one just won Goodguys’ 2024 Muscle Car of the Year.
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XL convertible with the R-code 427 was one of the strangest performance cars Ford ever sold: a two-ton, four-seat drop-top carrying a dual-quad big block that the factory refused to pair with an automatic transmission. Checking that single order-sheet letter changed the suspension, the driveshaft, and the brakes before the car ever reached a dealer. Read on to find out why so few of these survived the decade they were built in.