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Pontiac GTO 1966 Convertible

This 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible carries PHS documentation tracing it back to Moody Pontiac in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and it left the factory with the 389 four-barrel, power steering, power brakes and factory air conditioning. 1966 was the year the GTO stopped being an option package and became a model in its own right, and buyers responded by making it the best-selling muscle car in America. The convertible was always the scarcer half of that story. Read on for what separates a documented survivor from the clones.

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Could Be the Most Original 1971 Plymouth Hemi ’Cuda on the Planet

by Wes

In February 2013, Lars Skroder challenged his brother to find an unrestored 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda with a build sheet, a four-speed, and its original owner still attached. Three weeks later, a YouTube video led him to Greg Peterson, who had owned the Hemi Orange car since he was sixteen. Read on to find out how a graduation gift became one of the most original ‘Cudas on the planet.

A customized vintage car with its hood open at a car show.

Buick Riviera 1965 “Gran Sport”

by Kiril

The 1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport was the first year Buick attached that badge to its personal luxury coupe, and the package hid a genuinely serious performance setup under all that plush trim. Dual four-barrel carburetors, a stiffened chassis and a limited-slip rear turned a two-and-a-half-ton cruiser into something that could embarrass much lighter cars. This particular build adds a custom interior, aftermarket wheels and a lowered stance without losing what made the car special. Read on for what the Gran Sport package really included.

Classic 1968 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500KR showcased in vintage road test video.

1968 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500KR – vintage road test

by Wes

This vintage road test puts Ford’s flagship 1968 Shelby GT500KR — the “King of the Road” — through its paces, complete with a narrator whose catchphrases are still being quoted in the comments decades later. Viewers reacted to a 6.2-second acceleration figure with genuine disbelief, while others noted the era’s characteristic brake fade after repeated hard stops. One commenter even claims The Doors’ Jim Morrison owned one. Watch to hear “happy time” for yourself.

A red Cadillac CTS-V with custom bronze wheels showcased indoors.

FASTEST V3 CTS-V in THE COUNTRY vs Kenne Bell GT500 & two 800+hp Hellcats!!!

by Wes

Street Car Video brings out what it calls the fastest V3 Cadillac CTS-V in the country to face a Kenne Bell-supercharged Shelby GT500 and two Hellcats pushing past 800 horsepower each. A luxury sedan against dedicated muscle car hardware sounds like a mismatch on paper. Watch the full lineup to see whether the CTS-V’s supercharged LT4 can actually keep up.

Cars charging at an electric vehicle charging station on a highway.

Dodge Charger Vs Plymouth Road Runner S4S League

by Wes

A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner faced off in the amateur Search For Speed league, and the fight wasn’t really about horsepower — it was about which Mopar nameplate has earned the right to more respect. Viewers spent as much time debating the Charger’s eligibility as they did praising the Road Runner’s looks, turning a quarter-mile grudge match into a full-blown argument about muscle car authenticity. The burnout told its own story.

A customized silver muscle car with black and red wheels at a car show.

1971 Plymouth Barracuda Street Machine “Medusa”

by Kiril

All Speed Customs skipped the Hemi entirely on this 1971 Plymouth Barracuda, dropping a V-10 and a paddle-shift transmission into a body reworked with custom modifications, silver paint, and red accents. The build, nicknamed Medusa, stopped traffic at the 2017 Detroit Autorama with a back-seat ‘wall of sound’ audio system and a fully custom interior. One viewer said it belonged in the Louvre. See why this Cuda broke every rule a numbers-matching restoration would follow.

Classic blue AMC AMX car with racing stripes in a showroom.

1970 AMC AMX For Sale

by Wes

A two-seat muscle car from the smallest of Detroit’s manufacturers, restored over two decades of weekend ownership and now offered by Vanguard Motor Sales — this 1970 AMC AMX carries a full VIN, a paint-to-brightwork restoration, and a reputation among owners for getting mistaken for anything but what it actually is. One AMX owner in the comments says he used to tell curious strangers his car was simply “experimental.” With only a few thousand built for 1970, is this overlooked oddity actually one of muscle car collecting’s smartest remaining buys?

Two sleek sports cars racing side by side on an open road.

2003 SVT Cobra vs 2016 Corvette C7 Z06

by Wes

A modestly modified 2003 SVT Cobra lines up against a brand-new, completely stock 2016 Corvette Z06 in this DirtySS street pull, and the result has split comment sections for years. Longtime Mustang owners argue the horsepower math doesn’t add up for a bolt-on Terminator to hang with a factory-supercharged Z06, which only fuels the debate over what’s really under that hood. The footage keeps circulating precisely because nobody can fully agree on the answer.

Nighttime scene of cars parked and moving in a dimly lit lot.

Dodge Challenger Hellcat Drag Races Chevrolet Camaro SS, America Wins

by Kiril

On paper, a 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat against a 455-horsepower Camaro SS is not a race at all, it is a 250-horsepower head start. In practice these matchups have gone both ways often enough to deserve an explanation, and the reasons have far less to do with peak power than with 750 pounds of weight, a pair of 275-section tires, and the first sixty feet off the line. Read on for why the spec sheet keeps losing to the stopwatch.

Ford Mustang Shelby GT350: A Carroll Shelby Legacy

by Kiril

The 1965 Shelby GT350 only exists because SCCA rules demanded a minimum run of street cars before Ford could go racing in B Production. What Carroll Shelby handed back had no rear seat, one paint color, side-exit exhaust, and 306 horsepower from 289 cubic inches. Roughly 562 were built that first year before the formula softened. Read on for what made the first-year cars different from everything that followed.

Classic vintage car with hood open at a car show.

AMC Hurst SC/Rambler 1969 – 390 4 Speed

by Kiril

American Motors had no performance reputation, no factory racing program, and no money. So in 1969 it handed a compact Rambler to George Hurst, dropped in a 390, and sold the result for under three thousand dollars. Only 1,512 were built, every single one with a four-speed, and the thing ran quarter miles that embarrassed cars costing twice as much. The SC/Rambler remains the strangest bargain Detroit ever produced.

Buick Grand National 1987 plus “T” type and the GNX

by Ross Mills

Buick spent most of the 1980s making comfortable sedans and then, in its final year, built a turbocharged six-cylinder that ran a 13.2-second quarter and beat V8s that cost far more. The 1987 Grand National and the 547 GNX units that followed it were the last of the line, assembled in part by an outside performance house, and factory rated at a number almost nobody believed. Read on for what separated a WE4 from a GNX, and what a $35 option got you.

A black Dodge Charger RT performing a burnout at a fast and furious event.

Fast And Furious’ 1970 Dodge Charger R/T – Drag Race!

by Wes

One of the actual Dodge Chargers used on screen by Dominic Toretto in the original Fast and the Furious now belongs to an Italian collector — and in 2015, he did something most owners of movie-used muscle cars never risk. He ran it down a real quarter-mile at Rivanazzano’s dragstrip in Italy. The pass has racked up nearly six million views since, mostly from people who can’t believe he actually did it.

Sleek black classic car with polished chrome details and custom rims.

1955 Plymouth Savoy Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop

by Kiril

Bobby at Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop says there are only two engines like this one anywhere in the world, and it lives under the hood of a 1955 Plymouth Savoy that looks almost stock at first glance. Between the Art Morrison chassis, a custom interior from Pro Auto Custom Interiors’ Steve Holcomb, and that over-500-cubic-inch polished aluminum Hemi, this build hides serious ambition behind restrained styling. Watch to see how ScottieDTV’s camera uncovers what makes it so rare.

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