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Car and Driver’s own testing crowned the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 the quickest car of the 1960s at 4.3 seconds to sixty, edging out legends like the Hemi Charger and Corvette 427 further down the list. Period testing standards were far looser than today’s, with factory-tuned engines and sticky rubber skewing plenty of these numbers. Still, this list captures exactly how far a handful of cars pushed acceleration in a decade that had no rulebook for it yet.
A Mustang crossing into a barricaded construction zone, a driver who may have hit both pedals at once, and a comment section that has spent years trying to figure out exactly what happened — this brief dashcam clip punches well above its modest view count. One recurring theory blames pedal confusion; another blames the tires entirely. Watch the few seconds of footage and decide for yourself which explanation holds up.
This white Mustang sparks the usual guess-the-year debate, but the answer matters more than the trivia. Ford built 190,727 Mustangs for 1970 and offered the deepest performance lineup in the nameplate’s history, from the 290-horsepower Boss 302 to just 499 Boss 429s rated at 375 horsepower. Within three model years, emissions rules, insurance surcharges and a fuel crisis had ended all of it. Read on to find out what made 1970 the high-water mark.
This 1966 Ford Mustang 289 convertible looks like every other first-generation droptop until you read the fifth character of its VIN. Ford offered the 289 three completely different ways that year, from a mild 200-horsepower two-barrel to the solid-lifter 271-horsepower K-code, and the cars are visually identical from the curb. Only 72,119 convertibles were built out of 607,568 Mustangs. Read on to find out what separates a cruiser from a genuine performance car.
This 1967 Ford Mustang GTA convertible isn’t just another K-code — Marti Report data confirms it’s one of the last 289 High-Performance convertibles built at Ford’s San Jose plant, and one of only 16 built with an automatic transmission. Finished in a rare Lime Gold over a white top, it packs 271 horsepower, factory disc brakes, and the same high-rpm hardware Ford gave cars built to be raced. V8TV walks through why this Brothers Collection Mustang matters to K-code collectors. Watch to see what made it one of just 50.
A Mustang barely survived the EF5 tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 2013, left with no roof, no doors, and barely a drivetrain to its name. Rather than scrapping it, the owner turned the wreckage into a stripped-down street machine and drove it through his devastated town, putting smiles on faces that badly needed one. It happens to be a base V6, a detail that had Ford fans laughing in the comments. Whats left of this car says more about resilience than any spec sheet ever could.
A 740-horsepower supercharged LS3 Corvette lines up against a 770-horsepower supercharged Coyote Mustang, and the extra 30 horsepower isnt the whole story. RedmaroProductions captures a tight, hard-fought pass where shift timing and driver execution end up mattering as much as the numbers on paper. Comments erupted over which side needed the driver mod more, keeping the decades-old GM-versus-Ford rivalry alive at the strip. Who actually crossed the stripe first?
This 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback rolls out with its rare factory red pony interior intact, a concours-style restoration, and a long list of original options most surviving 1965 cars lost decades ago. The team at MyRod walks through exactly what makes this fastback a reference-quality example rather than just another restored classic. Watch the full test drive to see what is actually loaded onto this car.
KFLY67’s tour of a sprawling Oregon junkyard has racked up nearly half a million views, and the comments do more identifying than the video’s own description ever attempts — a red Chevelle worth real money, a misidentified California Special Mustang, and a four-speed ’66 Chevelle buried among roughly 600 other cars. Watch to see what regional enthusiasts have already spotted for themselves.
Ford Performance and Roush Performance don’t put their names on aftermarket power numbers lightly, which is what makes this dealer-installed supercharger kit for the 2018 Mustang GT and F-150 worth paying attention to. The kit pushes the Mustang to 700 horsepower and the F-150 to 640, all while keeping the factory warranty fully intact. See exactly what Ford is backing and why it still matters for Coyote-powered owners.
Ford gave the Mustang II one final send-off in 1978, borrowing styling straight from its biggest rival to create the rarest trim of the whole generation. The King Cobra combined Trans Am-inspired graphics with a genuine 302 V8, a factory air dam unique to the model, and a fully-equipped price that pushed past $6,000. Read on to find out how one six-Mustang-II collector still had to go hunting for the one trim missing from his garage.
There is a very specific sound that still turns heads on quiet streets more than sixty years after Detroit built the cars that made it, and an entire American car culture grew up around chasing that exact reaction. From the quarter-mile drag strip to Woodward Avenue’s nightly cruising ritual, the appeal was never really about spec sheets alone. Read on to find out how insurance surcharges, oil shortages, and shifting regulations nearly ended the era entirely, and why it came roaring back anyway.
A vintage 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T commercial has quietly become a cult favorite for reasons that have little to do with horsepower: a blustering, law-enforcement bit built around a Southern sheriff that viewers now recognize as an eerie preview of Buford T. Justice, seven years before Smokey and the Bandit made the archetype famous. Behind the joke sits a genuinely serious muscle car, available with everything from a 383 Magnum up to the 426 Hemi. Watch the full spot to see where the joke started.
Ford quietly developed the 428 Cobra Jet under a program called “Cougar-Mustang Performance Car” starting in late 1966, and when it finally hit dealer lots in April 1968 it turned an already popular pony car into a genuine drag strip weapon almost overnight. Only 1,299 Mustangs got the option that year out of roughly 317,000 built. Read on to find out how a mid-year engine swap changed the Mustang’s reputation forever.