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By 1973 the American luxury convertible market had narrowed to exactly one survivor, and the Cadillac Eldorado was it. Lincoln had walked away in 1967 and Chrysler’s Imperial followed a year later, leaving Cadillac alone with a 500-cubic-inch V8, front-wheel drive and no competition to undercut it. Then one of them paced the Indianapolis 500. Read on for what it was really like to own the last of a dying breed.
An 84mm turbo poking through the grille tells experienced drag racers everything they need to know before the engine fires. This Mustang carries an LS swap and runs in the eight second bracket, which requires roughly four-figure horsepower and a chassis certified to match. Read on for why the boost curve matters more than the peak number, and why consistency is harder to achieve than speed.
A single photo captioned ‘Hit speedbump…’ next to a lowered muscle car needs no explanation for anyone who has owned one. Dropping a car’s ride height creates a stunning stance, but it comes with a ground-clearance tax that catches out even experienced owners. Read on to find out what’s really happening underneath the car in that moment.
Shelby never officially built a 1967 GT500 convertible — except, according to owner and Shelby historian Brian Styles, this one. Backed by his own research group dedicated to documenting that exact model year, Styles walks through the paper trail behind a car that reportedly sold for $775,000 at auction, stunning a room that expected far less. Watch to see the evidence for one of the more compelling ownership stories in Shelby history.
Nearly every car built has air conditioning to keep the people inside comfortable. Dodge found a way to steal that system and point it at the engine instead. The SRT Power Chiller on the Challenger SRT Demon redirected the cabin’s refrigerant to cool the air charge before a run down the strip, a factory-production first that Dodge teased ahead of the 2017 New York Auto Show. Read on to find out how it worked and what it made possible.
Lebanon Ford Performance is selling a purpose-built Mustang capable of mid-10-second quarter miles for $59,995, straight off the dealer lot. The comments split between buyers doing supercharger math and one self-described Mopar loyalist grudgingly admitting the car earns its reputation — sleeper looks, no fender flares, and a question about the warranty that nobody quite answers.
A 1970 Ford F-100 Ranger XLT was built to be the comfortable one, the half ton pickup for buyers who wanted brightwork and better seats on top of hauling capability. So a 428 Cobra Jet badge on the fender raises an immediate question, because Ford never offered that engine in a truck. Here is why the swap works so cleanly, what the Cobra Jet actually produced, and why this generation of F-Series became such fertile ground for sleeper builds.
A factory-built 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst Convertible with no sibling cars anywhere in the world sits at the center of this one – and according to one commenter, it may have once served as Hurst’s own display car for glamour mascot Linda Vaughn. Owner Trev Dellinger shares the full story at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch to hear exactly what makes this Chrysler one of one.
Leaf springs gave classic Mopars their character and their single most frustrating flaw: axle hop that turns a hard launch into wasted motion. Swapping to a triangulated four-link ends it for good, but the install demands a welder, a quarter-inch of thread measured exactly right, and a decision about whether you are willing to modify a car permanently. Here is what the conversion actually involves, what it changes on the street as well as the strip, and which Mopars should keep their leaf springs.
A single photo of a car buried in its own tire smoke, paired with a short line about love and power, captures why people get into the muscle car hobby in the first place. That kind of caption culture has become its own genre across car forums and pages. Read on to find out why a smoke-filled photo still hits harder than a full spec sheet.
Only two examples of this coachbuilt Bentley were ever built, and their paths diverged almost immediately, one preserved in a factory museum, the other sold into a private American collection. Design No. CT150 stands as one of the last projects James Young of Bromley completed before its coachbuilding era ended for good. Read on to find out why this rare Bentley debuted at the Geneva Motor Show before its first owner ever saw it.
Keeping a decades-old muscle car or hot rod on the road depends on a fragile supply chain of reproduction parts, machine shops, and specialty suppliers that has swung wildly in quality and availability over the decades. When that industry gets it right, restorations get easier and more cars end up back on the road. Read on to find out what’s actually changed, and why enthusiasts are paying attention.
A clean red pickup on wide whitewalls can turn heads just as fast as any big-block coupe, and prices for well-restored classic trucks have been climbing as collectors chase the same nostalgia that’s long driven muscle car values. The debate over whether pickups deserve a seat at the muscle car table keeps getting louder. Read on to find out what separates a genuinely hot restoration from an average one.
A turbocharged Fox Body Mustang making a claimed 1,200 horsepower walked into a Street Car Takeover event and beat a twin turbo Coyote swapped Mustang that ran an 8.21 second quarter mile in the same final. That is a car from the Reagan administration outrunning modern factory engineering on modern tires. The Fox platform keeps producing results like this for reasons that have very little to do with luck, and a great deal to do with weight, architecture, and thirty years of aftermarket development.
Dodge built just 740 Coronets with the 426 Hemi for 1966, roughly half of them in range-topping Coronet 500 trim, out of only 2,714 Street Hemi cars built across the entire industry that year. The engine existed for one reason: NASCAR homologation demanded Dodge sell a street version of its race motor. This documented low-mileage example is one that survived being used the way most of them were. Read on for how rare a Coronet 500 Hemi actually is.