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The 2017 Ford Torino Surpasses The Ford Mustang?

by Kiril

The Ford Torino name gets tossed around a lot when someone dreams up a modern revival, but the original earned its stripes the hard way. In 1970, wearing a Cobra badge and packing a 429 Super Cobra Jet under the hood, it beat the field to take home Motor Trend’s Car of the Year – while quietly running mid-13-second quarter miles that surprised drag strip regulars. NASCAR success, a snake on the fender, and an engine option most buyers never even ordered: that’s the real story behind the badge. Any 2017 revival had a lot to live up to.

Nash Metropolitan 1953 to 1961

by Ross Mills

This turquoise-and-white Nash Metropolitan carries a spare tire mounted like a compact ship’s wheel on its trunk lid, chrome hood ornament and whitewalls gleaming in the sun. Built entirely in England by Austin for an American company that couldn’t afford its own tooling, fewer than 95,000 ever landed stateside across eight years. Read on for how a car with four different badges became one of the more affordable classics a collector can still buy today.

A red Dodge Charger drifting with tire smoke and a loud engine roar.

The General Lee Trying Drifting – Dodge Charger R/T Drift & SOUND!!

by Wes

Italian drifter Federico Sceriffo takes a General Lee-liveried Dodge Charger R/T sideways in his first video with a new camcorder — no modern drift setup, just a heavy, decades-old muscle car chassis and a driver willing to find its limits. Commenters call it more exciting than watching an import do the same maneuver with more precision. Watch the full drift and hear that big-block V8 under load.

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.

Alpha Romeo 1972 Montreal

by Ross Mills

Alfa Romeo built a car named after Montreal, unveiled it at Expo 67 in Montreal, and then never legally sold a single new example in Canada or anywhere else in North America. Fewer than 4,000 were built, and the word Montreal appears on the car exactly once, hidden on the ashtray cover. Under the hood sits a detuned racing V8 from a sports prototype. Read on for how one of Bertone’s most striking shapes became a car almost nobody on this continent could buy.

Ferrari California Special—A Short History

by Ross Mills

A Ferrari 250 California Special once owned by actor James Coburn sold for $11 million in 2008, a staggering jump from its status as a low-volume, hand-built specialty model when it debuted in 1961. Every 250-series Ferrari shared the same race-bred V12 and a weight advantage that let it out-corner faster, heavier rivals like Jaguar on the track. Read on to find out how the California Special’s siblings, the 250S, 250MM, and Monza, each carved out their own piece of Ferrari’s early competition history.

Black sports car with red racing stripes parked on pavement.

2017 Ford Torino: A Larger Muscle Car than the Mustang

by Kiril

Renderings of a modern Ford Torino keep circulating online, and the reason has less to do with the artwork than with the original car’s unfinished story. Ford’s intermediate muscle car won a Car of the Year award, rewrote NASCAR aerodynamics, and then vanished into a badge nobody remembers. Read on for what the real Torino was, why it disappeared, and why no production revival has ever been confirmed.

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