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A weekend freeway cruise turns tense fast when a Hennessey-tuned C7 Corvette Stingray, pushing roughly 600 horsepower through an ECS supercharger, spots a patrol car mid-pull at triple-digit speed. The comment section has turned into a swap meet of near-miss stories from viewers who’ve had their own close calls at similar speeds. Watch to see how close this particular encounter came to going a very different way.
There’s a version of the Corvette ZR1 story that ends with the car parked safely on a trailer, too special to actually race. This isn’t that story. Read on to find out what happened when RaceProvenMotorsports lined up a 2010 ZR1 against a 2019 ZR1 at Cecil County Raceway, and whether nine years of engineering actually showed up in the numbers.
The second-generation AMC Javelin looked like nothing else in 1971, with flared fenders, a molded grille and an asymmetrical dashboard wrapped around the driver. It also won the Trans-Am championship, went to work as a police car, and could be ordered with a 401 V8 built to survive 8,000 rpm. AMC’s smallest-budget muscle car may have been its most audacious. Read on for the full story.
One engineer’s mid-1950s design decision still echoes through Chevrolet engines built today. From the original 265-cubic-inch Turbo-Fire V8 through the 283, 327, and 350, Ed Cole’s small-block architecture became the corporate standard across nearly every GM division. Read on to trace how a single engine family shaped more than 60 years of Chevrolet performance.
A 1976 Dodge Aspen R/T doesn’t look like a factory Super Bee — because in the U.S., that car never existed. Chrysler kept the nameplate alive four extra years exclusively for Mexico, grafting a Dodge front end to a Plymouth’s tail and fitting an engine American buyers couldn’t get. One grandfather-grandson build project set out to recreate it from scratch, one badge and taillight at a time.