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In 1979, during an actual fuel crisis, Dennis Szarzynski borrowed money from his aunt to buy a Top Banana 1970 Dodge Super Bee with a 440 Six Pack under the hood. More than four decades later, he’s still the car’s only owner. Read on to find out what a factory triple-carburetor big-block actually sounds like under full throttle, and why single-owner muscle cars like this one have become increasingly rare in the collector world.
Muscle cars and sports cars get lumped together constantly, but the real dividing line isn’t attitude — it’s a specific set of engineering decisions around displacement, weight, and chassis design made an ocean apart. A 1970 Chevelle SS454 outweighed a period Porsche 911S by more than 1,400 pounds, and that gap explains more than any horsepower figure could. Read on to find out exactly where the line falls, and why it’s gotten blurrier in the decades since.
A tip in Indiana led to a Dodge Super Bee that had sat behind a closed garage door for forty years, ever since its original engine let go and the owner simply chose to store it rather than restore or part it out. Only a small fraction of 1970 Super Bees carried this six-barrel big-block setup. Here’s how rare this survivor really is.
A magazine editor once tucked a tear-off postcard into an article about a modified Mustang and told readers to mail it straight to Ford. Enough of them did that Detroit listened, and one of the most collectible Mustangs of the entire era followed. Read on to find out who Eric Dahlquist was, how he got there, and what his campaign actually produced.
A yellow muscle car and a matching yellow dress, posed together for one photograph – it’s an advertising formula Detroit didn’t invent but perfected, tracing back to bicycle ads from the 1800s. By the muscle car era it had become its own subculture, complete with dealership calendars and parts-store posters. Here’s where the pairing actually came from.
Most concept cars end up crushed or crated. The first 2007 Shelby GT ever built spent years as a working development mule instead, wearing a Whipple supercharger, Baer brakes, and 20-inch wheels while Shelby figured out what customers would eventually be able to order. It showed up at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas as Lot 737 with 9,360 miles on it. Here is why that particular Mustang mattered more than its horsepower number suggests.
A dashcam mounted on a Fayette County road captured a three-car collision that has since been viewed more than 2.75 million times — not for the impact itself, but for what the drivers did in the sixty seconds after. One kept recording. Another crossed traffic to check on the woman who caused the wreck. The internet has spent years arguing about what should have been done differently. Watch to see why so many viewers came away impressed instead of angry.
After seventeen years sitting in a Texas barn, this rare 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais – factory four-speed manual, factory Power Astro-roof – gets a shot at running again from the team at Classic GBody Garage. It’s the first chapter of a build they’ve dubbed ‘Project Ratlass.’ Watch to find out if the engine still turns over.
This 1969 Nova SS left the factory with a 375-horsepower 396 and spent 24 years drag racing across two owners before a pawned-for-a-wedding detour, a full restoration, and a trade for a Harley-Davidson brought it to its current owner, Bob Cole of Odessa, Washington. What followed was a methodical effort to verify and correct every detail back toward period-correct spec. Read on to find out what the teardown revealed.
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.
USA vs AUS!! is the entire debate, and muscle car fans on both sides of the Pacific are certain their country builds the better burnout. One side treats it as spontaneous hooliganism; the other turns it into a judged sport with a stage and a trophy. Read on to find out which country’s approach actually holds up.
The Shaker hood scoop on this Dodge Challenger looks like pure nostalgia, but it is a functional intake mounted directly to a 375-horsepower HEMI, engineered to feed cooler air while visibly shaking independently of the hood around it. Owners in the comments detail everything from built engines to weatherproofing myths to exactly what the factory Shaker package included. Watch to see the feature — and the questions it still generates — explained in full.
Lou Costabile visits the 2016 Burr Ridge Car Show to find a 1970 Chevy Nova in Green Mist paint, kept 80 percent original by owner Don Dames despite running only a six-cylinder engine. The comments fill in the rest: a driver’s ed car from 1977, a family Nova that survived a windshield-shattering explosion and ran past 280,000 miles, and viewers who owned nearly identical cars decades ago. Watch to see why an ordinary six-cylinder Nova is pulling out more personal stories than most muscle cars ever could.
Forty-two years after the original Boss 302 was built to win a Trans-Am race, Ford brought the name back with one very specific goal: beat a BMW M3 around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Around the same time, Chevrolet revived the ZL1 badge — a name that started with one Illinois dealer’s odd request for fifty aluminum-block Camaros — on a supercharged, 550-plus horsepower Camaro built using suspension technology borrowed from the Corvette ZR1. Read on to find out how two of Detroit’s oldest names ended up chasing the same import.
Guy Carpenter was 19 years old in 1967, hanging around Wheeler Chevrolet and saving for a 427 Corvette he never ended up buying. What he got instead may be rarer: a 1969 Camaro Z/28 with roughly 15,000 original miles and genuine Smokey Yunick hardware still bolted under the hood. Yunick’s parts almost never left his Daytona Beach shop on anything he had not built himself. Read on for why an unrestored survivor makes those parts matter so much more.