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Car Craft brought a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 hardtop to Irwindale dragstrip in November 1967 expecting the 375-horsepower L78 to dominate the timeslip. Writer John Raffa came away frustrated instead, and said so in print in the February 1968 issue. That contradiction, a genuinely fast car that still disappointed the man driving it, says more about muscle car era expectations than any dyno figure. Read on to find out what quarter-mile testing actually measured.
Fifty years of muscle car culture have never agreed on what makes a car ‘hot’ – raw factory horsepower, a numbers-matching restoration, or a modern resto-mod build. This deep red machine parked outside a garage door raises that same debate all over again. Is it the stance, the sound, or the story behind it that decides the verdict? See where this one lands and decide for yourself.
A 1969 Boss 429 sat in a North Dakota building for nearly forty years waiting on a do-it-yourself restoration that never happened. When it finally reached a professional shop in Wisconsin, the first job was not paint or panels. It was a careful, almost archaeological disassembly to work out what four decades of storage had done underneath. Read on to find out why the undercarriage decides whether a car like this is worth saving.
A first-generation Camaro that spent twenty years buried in a barn gets a second chance in this resurrection story, one rooted in a friendship that traces back to a 1979 magazine assignment in Escondido, California. What it takes to bring a car back from two decades of decay says as much about stubbornness as it does about mechanical skill. Read on to find out what actually happened when the engine turned over again.
Jeff Lutz has built three 1957 Chevy race cars, and this one is the culmination of everything the first two taught him plus what he learned campaigning a Pro Mod 1969 Camaro. The new car returns to steel roof and quarter panels, satisfying both class rules and the standards set on Street Outlaws. Lutz was the first Drag Week competitor to average in the six-second range. Read on for what makes the third attempt different.