Posts Tagged: fans
Every car on the road in the 1980s seemed to share the same flat panels and hard right angles — and within a decade, that geometry was gone. Vox traces the real reasons Detroit abandoned the boxy look for the swooping curves of the 1990s, from wind tunnel data to a design tool that didn’t exist a decade earlier. The full story explains why nearly every car since has followed the same curved template.
Fifty years after breaking Ferrari six-year stranglehold on Le Mans, Ford is putting that victory back on the road with a heritage-liveried GT. This gloss red, red-stitched special edition ties back to one of the greatest underdog wins in racing history. See how Ford turned a decades-old Le Mans triumph into a modern tribute.
Muscle car or pony car — the two get treated as interchangeable, and most of the time nobody notices the difference. Car Throttle breaks down where the terms actually came from, why a mid-size Chevelle and a compact Mustang aren’t technically the same species, and how a handful of big-block pony cars blurred the line for good. It’s the kind of debate that gets people talking at every cruise night. Watch to see which side of the argument you land on.
There’s an old assumption that a life spent around European sports cars ruins your ability to build a proper American muscle car. This Roadster Shop-built 1967 Chevelle, packing a 680-horsepower Whipple-supercharged LS3 and a custom Fast Track chassis, exists to dismantle that idea completely. Here’s what’s actually under the arrow-straight black paint — and why the build’s restraint matters as much as its horsepower.
Decades before muscle car road tests meant polished YouTube reviews, Bud Lindemann was putting cars through full-throttle runs and hard braking tests that period magazines never dared attempt. Here he turns that treatment on a 1969 Dodge Charger 500 — Dodge’s flush-nosed answer to NASCAR aerodynamics — powered by the legendary 426 Hemi. The footage is grainy, the driving is not gentle, and the result says more about the car than any spec sheet could.
Every December, the biggest names in no-prep racing save their reveals for the Performance Racing Industry trade show in Indianapolis, and this year it was The Reaper’s turn. Street Outlaws fans know exactly what that name carries on the no-prep circuit, and the new Procharged Camaro unveiled at PRI raised expectations before it ever made a single pass. What does a switch to forced induction mean for the season ahead? Watch the reveal and see for yourself.
Most drag strip wheelies last a heartbeat before the front end drops back down. Frank Soldridge’s didn’t, holding the nose up deep into a run that topped 196 miles per hour at the No Mercy 7 radial-tire drag event, one of the sport’s toughest traction tests. See how far a wheelstand can go before something has to give.
Car News Central counts down six of the biggest engines General Motors ever built, spanning the big-block muscle car era all the way through modern truck and diesel powerplants that quietly outdisplace their more famous ancestors. Some entries are legends every gearhead already knows; others are industrial workhorses that never got the spotlight. Watch to see which engine actually claims the top spot.
American V8 muscle and turbocharged import tuners meet on the same quarter mile at a Street Wars grudge night at Englishtown’s Raceway Park, each camp bringing cars built specifically to embarrass the other. Recorded in March 2016, this footage captures exactly the kind of unpredictable, anything-goes racing that’s kept the muscle-versus-import debate alive for decades. Watch to see who actually wins the argument that night.
Revology Cars builds brand-new reproductions of 1967 to 1970 Mustangs and Shelby GTs from the ground up, powered by Ford’s modern 5.0-liter Coyote V8 making up to 600 horsepower. Founded by Tom Scarpello, who ran Ford’s Special Vehicle Team and raced Mustangs since 1982, Revology was the first company Ford ever licensed to build reproduction Mustangs, and remains one of only four companies authorized to build licensed Shelby GTs today.
