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By 1977, the Dodge Charger nameplate barely resembled the fastback muscle car that made it famous a decade earlier — and the R/T badge on this particular car raises a question most muscle car reviews skip entirely: was it still earning that name, or just borrowing it? AutoMastersHQ digs into the specs, the styling, and the restoration realities of a Charger most collectors overlook. Watch to find out what got lost, and what actually survived, in the decade between 1968 and 1977.
Gas Gears and Glory’s short documentary “The Complete History of American Muscle Cars” traces the genre from its 1960s birth through the decades that nearly killed it and the modern era that brought it roaring back. It’s the kind of overview that names names — Mustang, Camaro, Challenger — while asking what actually made these cars matter beyond their horsepower figures. Watch to see how the story gets told this time around.
This fully restored 1970 Ford F100 pickup, featured on Built VS Bought, blends vintage American muscle with a modern touch — sleek body lines, a redone interior, and the kind of attention to detail that has viewers calling it one of the most tastefully done F100 builds they’ve seen. It isn’t a patina show piece or a garage-queen trailer find. It’s a truck built to be driven, admired, and argued about in the comments. Watch to see what “Built, Not Bought” really means in practice.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.
A Friday night cruise through downtown Muskogee doesn’t require a trailer or a six-figure restoration, just show up and, in the club president’s words, ‘jump right in.’ Here’s the story behind the 25-plus-year-old Cruis’n Angels Car Club, its Broadway cruise nights, and the community-focused car show that’s outlasted plenty of flashier events.
A camouflaged Mustang mule caught testing on public roads turned out to be hiding a supercharged version of Ford’s 5.2 litre Voodoo V8. Three years later the production Shelby GT500 landed with 760 horsepower, no manual gearbox, no convertible and no sunroof. Here is what the spy shots were actually pointing at, and why Ford made every one of those decisions on purpose.
In 2017 the rumor mill had a specific target: a 2019 Dodge Barracuda that would replace the aging Challenger with something smaller, lighter and built on Alfa Romeo underpinnings. It never happened. What Dodge actually did with the Challenger over the following six years turned out to be far stranger than the rumor, and the Barracuda name is still sitting unused. Here is where the story came from and how it really ended.
Helsinki’s car cruising tradition dates back to 1983, but the newer Malmi Airport pre-party — first held in 2014 — has become an event in its own right, drawing muscle cars, hot rods, and classics hours before the main cruise into the city. The May 2016 gathering was reportedly the biggest pre-party yet. See what packed the runway that night.
Pontiac rated the 1973 Super Duty 455 at 290 net horsepower, a figure most experts believe was deliberately conservative by around 85 horsepower. The engine used a reinforced block, four-bolt mains, forged rods and pistons, and a nitrided crankshaft. Only 252 SD-455 Trans Ams were built that year out of 4,802 total, split 72 manual and 180 automatic. Read on to find out how one engineering team built a genuine muscle car in the year everyone else quit.
Every car on this list has one thing in common: buyers keep paying a premium regardless of what else is happening in the market. Rarity, documented history, and a wave of nostalgia driven demand, especially from younger collectors introduced to these cars through film and pop culture, keep pushing prices for even once affordable muscle cars steadily upward. It is a reminder that horsepower alone was never the whole story.
Buying a muscle car is rarely as simple as signing the paperwork — insurance, storage, resale value, and repair costs all factor into whether the purchase makes sense long-term. Some models appreciate with proper care; others lose value the moment you drive them home. Read on for the questions worth answering before you commit to a purchase you can’t easily walk back.
The idea that any muscle car is a guaranteed investment has been repeated for two decades, and it is not so much wrong as badly out of date. Median auction prices have slipped to their lowest point since 2020 even while specific models keep climbing hard. The gap between those two facts is where buyers get hurt. Read on for what the numbers actually show and which attributes still hold value.
V8TV dug through 1970’s own magazine road tests to rank the ten quickest muscle cars of the year, using the era’s published numbers rather than modern dyno figures. The order does not always favor the biggest engine, and gearing plays a bigger role than most viewers expect. One commenter’s memory of his father’s 1970 Chevelle SS 396 shows just how personal these numbers still are. Watch to see which cars made the cut.
Dodge ran a teaser campaign for the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon that released one detail at a time for months, and the finished car turned out to be stranger than the speculation. The interesting engineering is not the horsepower figure but the systems built around it, from an air conditioner repurposed as an intercooler chiller to a TransBrake borrowed from bracket racing. Read on for what was really under that hood scoop.
Jay Leno’s roughly 180-car collection includes American muscle he actually drives and maintains himself, while Ralph Lauren takes the opposite approach with a smaller collection reportedly worth hundreds of millions. Paul Walker owned more than 30 cars before his death, and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons turned his obsession into a published book. Read on for why collectors who could own literally anything else keep coming back to American muscle.