Posts Tagged: Classic Muscle Cars
Car News TV’s silent, subtitle-only countdown of the highest-horsepower classic muscle cars includes a 1969 Camaro ZL1, a big-block Chevelle that left one viewer speechless, and a Trans Am, AMX, and Shelby Cobra whose stated numbers didn’t survive contact with the comment section. Viewers caught a Hemi badge attached to what looks like a 440, and a Cobra horsepower figure understated by more than a hundred. Watch the countdown, then see what the audience corrected.
A modern-day Hyundai fender bender nearly finished off a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T that a 426 Hemi option couldn’t outsell. Its owner Rick rebuilt it instead, and the car now carries a fitting new name: Mayhem. See what the factory 440 Magnum and a set of line locks can still do almost six decades later.
Buick Built Only 7,850 of These 1964 Wildcat Convertibles – And Hid a 360-HP Nailhead Under the Hood
Buick’s full-size 1964 Wildcat looked like a country-club cruiser, but the option sheet hid a 360-horsepower dual-quad 425 and a four-speed stick behind that formal grille. Only 7,850 convertibles were built that year, and a rare survivor with the full performance package still turns heads six decades later.
A 1964 Mercury Marauder with the factory-rare dual-quad 427 — one of just 42 built that year — turned up at a Detroit car show still owned by the same man for two decades. Nick Zakarian’s fastback-roofed big Mercury hides one of the rarest engine options Ford Motor Company ever sold. Here’s the NASCAR-bred history behind the nameplate most muscle car fans have forgotten.
A blue 1967 Shelby GT500 crossing the block at Mecum’s Indianapolis auction reignited a debate collectors have argued for fifty years — whether cars built before Ford shifted Shelby production to Michigan in 1968 deserve a different level of respect than everything that came after. Powered by a 428 Police Interceptor V8 wearing a 427 badge, and built during the final year Shelby American assembled cars at its own Los Angeles shop, the 1967 GT500 sits at the center of an authenticity argument that still shapes what collectors are willing to pay today.
No trailers allowed means exactly what it says: every car racing in this 405 street event drove itself there and will drive itself home, which rules out trailer queens and modern Fox-body Mustangs alike. A stripped-down ’65 F-100 steals scenes from the muscle cars, and the finale nobody called becomes the night’s real talking point. Watch to see old-school drag-and-drive racing run the way it was in the 1960s.
NR Classics fires up a numbers-matching 1967 Shelby GT500 Fastback, but the engine growling under that fiberglass hood is not the one Shelby’s own sales brochure promised buyers that year. The real story behind the missing Le Mans-bred 427 explains why every production GT500 got a different engine instead — and why nobody who owns one seems to mind.