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The 1957 Plymouth Fury’s dual-quad 318 was Plymouth’s only true factory high-performance A-block engine, offered for just two model years before vanishing from the lineup. Sold in a single body style and a single factory color, Sand Dune White, the Fury was instantly recognizable and genuinely rare from the day it left the showroom. Here’s the engineering and marketing story behind a car distinctive enough that one family shipped theirs across the Atlantic.
1957 was the year the Corvette stopped being just a pretty face, and this Polo White Roadster carries the 283-cubic-inch engine option that made the case. Bill Kotzum of Corvette Mike Midwest walks through why the rare, temperamental fuel-injected version briefly made this America’s quickest production car. Ford had an answer of its own that same year. See how the two rivals compared.
In 1976, a heavily built 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S with a 383 big block got its doors blown off on Gratiot Avenue — by a full-size Pontiac most street racers wouldn’t have recognized. The culprit was a rare 1966 Pontiac 2+2 running a 421 tri-power engine rated at 376 horsepower, a model Pontiac once marketed as the GTO’s big brother. Read on to see how one of the rarest Pontiacs of the 1960s humbled a genuinely fast Mopar.
Hurst planned to build fifty R-Code Mustangs and finished sixteen. That shortfall alone makes this Oxford White and Hurst Gold car one of the rarest modern muscle cars carrying a legendary name, but the Kenne Bell supercharger bolted to its Coyote V8 is the part that separates it from anything a Ford dealer ever sold. A claimed 750 horsepower against a factory rating of 435 is not a tune. It is a different car wearing the same sheet metal.