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7 Things to Inspect Before Buying a Restored 1970 Ford Torino GT Cobra Jet

by Jack Harmon

Picture this: you find a listing for a 1970 Ford Torino GT Super Cobra Jet, one of just 241 ever built with the factory drag-pack setup, fully restored and gleaming in period-correct blue. The price seems almost reasonable for a car this rare. What the listing doesn’t tell you is that this exact survivorship story is exactly the scenario where buyers get burned. A car that once had every body panel damaged can look flawless today and still be hiding structural compromises underneath. Before you fall for the shine, you need to know what a real restoration actually involved, and how to verify the shop that did the work got it right.

Comparison of two cars with green themes and different styles.

Muscle Car Memes: Go green…

by Kiril

Before Mopar’s High-Impact color names became legend, a handful of green paint codes only existed for a single model year, vivid enough to earn nicknames like Sublime and Sassy Grass. This piece traces where those shades came from, why some vanished within twelve months, and how a traffic-light-inspired green ended up on some of the boldest muscle cars of 1969 and 1970.

Buying a 1970 Boss 302? The Wiring and Bodywork Are What Bite — Not the Engine

by Jack Harmon

You find the ad at 11 p.m., and it looks like the one you’ve been chasing for years: a 1970 Boss 302 in Grabber Blue, numbers-matching, fresh paint gleaming under the seller’s shop lights. What you don’t see in the photos is the 55 years of history hiding under that paint — the fender that was cut and welded back on after a collision, the wiring harness some previous owner spliced into with electrical tape and hope, the seat belt hardware that Ford itself twice recalled. The engine bay might be immaculate and the car could still bite you somewhere you never thought to look. That’s the real lesson buried in one of the most-watched Boss 302 build videos on YouTube right now, and it’s worth understanding before you wire a deposit to anyone.

A blue drag racing car performing a burnout on the track.

Plymouth Superbird Vs Ford Mustang

by Wes

A Plymouth Superbird and a Ford Mustang went head-to-head in the Search For Speed league, but the real story wasn’t horsepower — it was a launch gone wrong. Viewers, including at least one Superbird owner himself, pinned the loss squarely on tire spin rather than the car, while others argued the whole matchup was unfair to begin with since the Superbird was built for Daytona’s high banks, not the quarter-mile.

How to Restore a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner: Key Issues and Where to Start

by Jack Harmon

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.

Dodge Super Bee 1969 images

by Ross Mills

Dodge built the 1969 Super Bee to be the cheap muscle car — stripped trim, no chrome flourishes, and a sticker price built to undercut the competition. But buried in the order form was an engine option serious enough to worry cars costing thousands more, one that only 1,907 buyers ever found. From the base 383 Magnum to the ultra-rare Hemi, the Super Bee proved a bargain car could still hide a genuinely dangerous engine bay. Read on to see what separated the budget Super Bees from the legends.

Plymouth RoadRunner 1970 – “440 Six Pack” Cruisin’ The Coast 2015

by Kiril

The 440 Six Barrel gave the 1970 Road Runner three two-barrel carburetors, 390 horsepower, 490 lb-ft of torque, and a Dana 60 rear axle — the same hardware the mid-1969 A12 package introduced with its pinned-down fiberglass hood and hubcap-less steel wheels. Just 1,815 were built for 1970, and it ran the quarter mile in the low thirteens. Read on for why it was the smarter buy than a Hemi.

Row of classic muscle cars in a museum exhibit.

426 Hemi Cuda Challenger Convertibles Display

by Kiril

Twenty-seven genuine 426 Hemi ‘Cuda and Challenger convertibles rolled onto one Chicago show field in 2015, shattering a record nobody had broken in decades. With only 41 of these cars ever built across two model years, gathering even a handful in one place was once considered remarkable. See how a single weekend brought together a meaningful slice of an entire production run, and why the math behind that rarity is more brutal than most enthusiasts realize.

Classic orange muscle car parked near a lake on a sunny day.

Car Collector Looking for an AMC AMX

by Pat C

AMC built the AMX as a two-seat halo car meant to prove a budget-focused company could build a real sports car, and it worked almost too well: total production across three model years landed at just over 19,000 units. Its 390-cid V8 made 315 horsepower on a chassis shortened from the Javelin until the wheelbase actually beat the Corvette’s. That rarity is exactly why a wanted ad like this one still shows up decades later. Here’s what makes the AMX worth the hunt.

How to Restore a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang: Key Issues and Where to Start

by Jack Harmon

A Grabber Blue 1970 Boss 302 Mustang, sold in 1975 to pay for college and tracked by its original owner for thirty-six years before he bought it back — that’s the story behind this Legendary Motorcar restoration. Under the hood is one of Ford’s most serious race-bred engines, complete with canted-valve Cleveland-style heads, a 780-cfm Holley, and a high-riser aluminum manifold built to beat Camaros on a road course. Watch to see how close the shop gets it back to 1975.

The 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda Buyer’s Guide: What Every Enthusiast Should Know

by Jack Harmon

Buying a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda without doing your homework is one of the fastest ways to turn a dream car into an expensive mistake. Hemmings breaks down the E-body platform, the full engine lineup from the 340 up to the 426 Hemi, and the specific trouble spots and options that separate a great example from an overpriced tribute car. With E-body prices climbing fast, the stakes for getting it right have never been higher. Watch the full buyer’s guide before you write a check.

How to Restore a 1970 Chevelle SS: Key Issues and Where to Start

by Jack Harmon

This 1970 Chevelle 396 Super Sport spent thirty years sitting untouched before Backyard Barn Finds got the call to bring it back to life. Between flat-spotted tires, a fuel system full of decades-old gas, and an engine nobody has heard run since the Carter administration, there’s no guarantee this big-block survived its long sleep intact. What starts as a routine barn find turns into a genuine test of patience and mechanical nerve. Watch to see whether three decades of silence finally comes to an end.

Stacked rice cakes with a package of rice cakes in the background.

Muscle Car Memes: Rice Cakes…

by Kiril

This meme is riffing on a rivalry that goes back to the 1970s fuel crisis, when import fuel economy started chipping away at muscle car dominance and a dismissive slang term was born in response. The joke still works because the regional divide it pokes fun at never really closed. Heres where the insult actually came from and why its still debated today.

Pontiac Trans Am 1970 to 1975

by Ross Mills

Pontiac’s second-generation Trans Am was supposed to launch with the rest of the 1970 lineup, but tooling delays pushed it to a February 26 debut — creating a “1969 1/2” nickname collectors still use today. From the Ram Air III and IV through the emissions-fighting SD-455 and the shrinking engine lineup of the mid-1970s, the Trans Am’s first six years tell the story of muscle car performance colliding head-on with new safety and emissions law. Read on to see how the numbers changed year by year.

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