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The AC Cobra Mark III started life as a British roadster body flown to Los Angeles with an empty engine bay, and ended up as the car that forced a national government to invent a speed limit. Along the way it collected a Jaguar differential, an MGB steering rack, a Volkswagen steering column, and a Ford 427 side-oiler that made 425 horsepower. One example later sold for $5.5 million. Read on for how a hurried eleventh-hour decision produced all of it.
Jeff Tittle kept his 1970 Chevrolet Nova looking exactly like the plain granny car it was built as, while quietly stuffing a 355 small block, a Super T-10 four speed, and a 9 inch Ford rear underneath. RamblinAround caught the car at a local show, and the moment it fires up, the sleeper act falls apart fast. Watch to hear just how much noise a car this unassuming can actually make.
Only three Caterham R500 EVOs were ever built, and each one cost 42,000 British pounds — around $69,000 — without a heater or any other comfort you might reasonably expect. One of them went out and left a Ferrari Enzo behind. The Enzo cost roughly ten times as much. Read on to find out how a company that started with a Lotus parts license ended up embarrassing Maranello.
A manual Shelby GT500 built to roughly 650 horsepower squares off against a factory-rated 707-horsepower Hellcat Charger in this drag strip grudge match, and the comments section is split on who actually deserved the win. Between a missed second-gear shift and near-universal praise for the Hellcat’s supercharger whine, this race turned into a real debate about whether raw power or clean execution matters more at the line. Watch the full race and judge each launch for yourself.
Two hundred miles an hour used to be a number reserved for exotics, not something you ordered at a Ford dealership. Then SVT dropped a 5.8-liter supercharged V8 into the 2013 Mustang and produced 662 horsepower — the most powerful production V8 in the world at the time. It came with one transmission choice and a solid rear axle. Read on for how Ford made all of that work.
Ford pulled strangers off the street at Irwindale Speedway in 2017, handed them a new Mustang, and told them to make smoke. The occasion was line lock becoming standard on every 2018 Mustang, four-cylinder EcoBoost models included, not just the V8 GT. Here is exactly what the system does to the brakes, why drag racers have used the trick for decades, and the fifteen-second limit almost nobody mentions.
This 1967 Mustang fastback isn’t a real Shelby GT500 — it’s something arguably more interesting: a meticulously built tribute running a 390 V8, five-speed Tremec, correct Shelby wheels, and a documented Marti Report confirming its original California sale. Every detail, from the subframe connectors to the fiberglass Shelby hood, was chosen to replicate the real thing without the real-thing price tag. One viewer called it a screaming deal even years ago. Watch the full test drive and walkaround to see why.
Carroll Shelby built only 562 examples of the original 1965 GT350, a Mustang so stripped-down and race-focused it barely resembled the more comfortable 1966 version that followed it. Hertz alone would go on to order more GT350s for its rental fleet than Shelby sold at retail. Read on to find out how one VIN code stamped with the letter ‘R’ can separate a genuine early Shelby from a look-alike.
Chevrolet sold more than 1.2 million cars in 1958, and the Bel Air line, now sitting one rung below the brand-new Impala, accounted for nearly half of them. Underneath its redesigned, baby Cadillac styling sat a new frame and an engine lineup that stretched from a mild six-cylinder up to a freshly introduced big-block V8.
Ford never really built the Boss 429 Mustang for customers. It existed to satisfy a NASCAR rulebook, and the engine was so large that Ford had to ship partly built cars to an outside contractor just to get it installed. Only 859 were completed for 1969, wearing almost no badging and none of the spoilers or louvers that marked the other Boss cars. Read on for what Ford was really doing, and why the factory rating was fiction.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon arrived with 840 horsepower, a factory-fitted set of drag radials, and a launch violent enough that the NHRA effectively told owners they could not run it as delivered. Dodge built only 3,300 of them across a single model year, then closed the door for good. Here is what made the Demon different from the Hellcat it was built on, and why one 2.92-foot wheelie changed how everyone talks about factory muscle.
Ford has built a full-size, rear-wheel-drive Falcon continuously in Australia since 1960, and most American muscle car fans have never seen one. It played Mad Max’s own car on screen, runs down speeders as an Australian police interceptor, and in 2014 offered a turbocharged six-cylinder quick enough to embarrass plenty of V8 rivals. Read on to find out why this nameplate’s long run was already nearing its end.
This all-original 1967 Shelby Cobra is a Street Car variant, nicknamed the Gentleman’s Cobra by enthusiasts, built with a smoother 428 big block instead of the legendary 427 side-oiler that powered its track-focused siblings. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week breaks down what separates it from the side-piped, roll-barred Competition Cobras most fans picture, while commenters debate its value, its rarity, and whether it even counts as a muscle car at all. Watch the full breakdown.
The shaker hood scoop on a 1969 Mach 1 was not styling. It bolted straight to the air cleaner and fed cold air into a 428 Cobra Jet rated at 335 horsepower, a number almost nobody believed then and nobody believes now. Car Life strapped test gear to one in March 1969 and recorded a 13.90-second quarter mile. Read on to find out what made this specific combination so feared.
A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.