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SpeedKore’s Full Carbon Muscle Cars Stun At SEMA

A small Wisconsin shop turned heads at SEMA by building classic Mopars with body panels made almost entirely of carbon fiber — hoods, fenders, even fender flares, shaving roughly 600 pounds off cars already packing supercharged Hemi power. SpeedKore’s builds have since gone from show-floor curiosities to Kevin Hart’s personal fleet, a Fast & Furious movie car, and an actual Dodge parts catalog. Here’s how a carbon-fiber gimmick became one of the most respected names in modern muscle car building.

Chevrolet Impala 1961-1964 Third generation

by Ross Mills

The third-generation Impala arrived in 1961 looking like nothing Chevrolet had built before, and it produced two body styles that collectors now hunt specifically because almost nobody wanted them when they were new. It also produced a 409 that got its own hit song, a dashboard where the temperature gauge was replaced by a warning light, and a 1964 engine option good for 425 horsepower. Read on for what separates the good years from the great ones.

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Chevrolet Monte Carlo 1973 – 25K Mile Original Survivor!

by Kiril

A 25,444-mile odometer reading sounds impossible for a car built in 1973, but this single-family-owned Monte Carlo backs it up with genuine, untouched originality. Chevrolet’s award-winning personal luxury coupe set sales records that year, and this example shows exactly what one looked like before five decades of wear ever had a chance to happen. Read on to find out what makes a true survivor different from a great restoration.

Chevrolet Impala 1965-1970 Fourth Generation

by Ross Mills

In 1965, Chevrolet sold more than one million Impalas in a single year — an all-time industry record that has never been broken. Over the next five years the car would get outshined by its own spinoff, borrow styling cues from the Corvette, and quietly absorb a wave of new federal safety mandates. Read on to find out how a record-setting best-seller ended up playing second fiddle to the model it created.

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LS Upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

by Wes

A 6.0-liter LS truck engine doesn’t become a 6.2 with a few bolt-on parts, and this hands-on build video from Myvintageiron7512 shows exactly why, bore work, machine shop tolerances, and the same architecture GM used to build the LS3 that powers C6 Corvettes and fifth-gen Camaros. One viewer summed up the appeal simply: this is someone who clearly knows the platform inside and out. See what it actually takes to bridge the gap between a budget truck engine and genuine LS3-spec displacement.

Chevy II to Chevrolet Nova—The Third Generation 1968-1970

by Ross Mills

This 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS runs a performance-built 396 with Edelbrock aluminum heads behind a four-speed manual, and RamblinAround caught it cold-starting, driving, and doing a proper burnout at Fast Lane Classic Cars. Viewers as far away as Argentina and Australia flooded the comments with specific memories of owning one just like it. One detail keeps coming up: the nostalgic squeak of a well-worn clutch pedal. Watch to hear what a real, driven 396 Nova sounds like fifty-plus years on.

White Chevrolet Tahoe SUV parked on a gravel surface.

The 2018 Tahoe RST is the muscle car of Chevy SUVs

by Kiril

The 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe RST pairs a 420-horsepower, 460-lb-ft 6.2-liter V8 with a 10-speed automatic shared with the Camaro ZL1, hitting 60 mph in a claimed 5.7 seconds while still towing up to 8,300 pounds. Choosing that engine also unlocks Magnetic Ride Control, plus optional Borla exhaust and Brembo brakes. It’s proof Chevy is willing to loan its performance parts bin to the family truck.

Rear-side view of a red sports car with black rims indoors.

How I Ruined All My Cars

by Kiril

Every classic muscle car owner has a story about the mistake that cost them an engine, a transmission, or a rear end — and the stories keep repeating because these cars share a handful of very specific weak points. From carburetor floods that can hydro-lock a cylinder to reproduction tires that shock-load a differential, here are the ownership mistakes that quietly ruin more muscle cars than any track day ever could.

Classic black Pontiac Trans Am in a showroom.

Little Known Facts about American Muscle Cars: You Will Love Number 3

by Kiril

Everyone knows the Corvette skipped a model year and the Daytona’s wing was built for speed — but fewer people know that wing height was also a trunk-lid compromise, or that a handful of Dodge dealers once built the only production car to wear factory Cragar wheels. This rundown digs past the four facts every muscle car list repeats to the trivia that actually surprises collectors. Read on to find out which 1970 Super Bee variant was rarer than the Six Pack.

Classic white pickup truck with custom wheels parked outside a garage.

Chevrolet C/10 1967 Street Truck

by Kiril

This 1967 Chevrolet C/10 Fleetside sits low, looks purposeful, and represents the very first year of the generation that turned the pickup into something worth driving for its own sake. GM’s Action Line redesign gave builders a coil-sprung chassis, clean slab sides, and a roomy cab that took to lowering and power swaps like nothing before it. But the 1967 order sheet holds a surprise that trips up plenty of buyers shopping a truck like this one. Read on to find out what it is.

Oldsmobile F-85 & Cutlass—1960 to 1963 G1

by Ross Mills

In 1962, two decades before turbocharging went mainstream, Oldsmobile put a turbo on a production Cutlass and sold it to ordinary buyers. It didn’t go smoothly. Read on to find out why the Jetfire’s brilliant idea turned into one of Detroit’s most overlooked cautionary tales.

1950s classic blue Pontiac Grand Prix car on display.

Great Cars Review and History: GTO

by Wes

Before the Pontiac GTO existed, corporate policy at General Motors made it impossible: no mid-size car could carry an engine over 330 cubic inches, period. John DeLorean and a small team of engineers built one anyway, testing it in nighttime street races before their bosses even knew it existed. This archival documentary traces how that quiet act of rule-breaking, plus a name borrowed from Ferrari, turned into the car that saved Pontiac and launched an entire era of American muscle. Watch to find out how close it came to never happening at all.

Classic blue muscle car parked indoors with an open trunk.

1968 Plymouth GTX in B5 Blue Paint

by Kiril

A 1968 Plymouth GTX in B5 Blue with the rare 440+6 Six Pack setup would be notable on its own, but owner Kevin Plummer’s reason for buying it is what turns heads. He spent years chasing down the exact car his father owned when he was a boy, and he’s owned it since 2015. The comment section fills with strangers telling nearly identical stories about their own fathers.

A red BMW M3 E92 driving on a winding road.

The Perfect IROC? – /BIG MUSCLE

by Wes

The third-generation Camaro does not get much respect, dismissed as the awkward middle child of Chevrolet’s muscle car lineage. One owner spent years proving that reputation wrong, building an IROC-Z so subtly refined it looks nearly stock at a glance, no loud stripes, no attention-seeking mods, just years of careful work reserved for how the car actually drives. The Drive tracked it down for a proper test drive. Watch to see whether it lives up to the title.

Chevrolet El Camino third generation 1968 to 1972

by Ross Mills

This red 1970 El Camino SS wears its black stripe and vinyl top the way Chevrolet intended: parked among the muscle cars it was built to run with, not tucked away in a garage. Underneath the truck bed is a full Chevelle SS drivetrain, and across five model years Chevrolet pushed it from a 325-horsepower newcomer to the 450-horsepower LS6 454 before emissions rules caught up with it. Read on to see how the numbers changed year by year — and why the VIN tag matters more than the badge.

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