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A 1970 Chevelle running a 383-cubic-inch small block crate engine lined up against a 2009 Mustang GT running little more than a cold air intake and a tune — and the Chevelle’s front end came off the ground before either car had gone ten feet. The comments turned into a full small-block-vs-big-block debate. Watch to see how the race actually finished.
Ford expected to sell 100,000 Mustangs in the first year and passed that figure in about three months. Roughly 318,000 people bought one in the first model year, and a million had been sold inside eighteen months. The rush left its marks: cars leaving the line without headlight wiring harnesses, horn rings stamped Ford Falcon hiding under Mustang trim. Read on for why those mistakes are worth money now.
A wet road in Grand Prairie, Texas turned into a cautionary tale when a Mustang driver challenged a GTO to an impromptu race – and the GTO driver said no. What happened next, caught entirely on dashcam, has racked up nearly 600,000 views and sparked a running debate over what the Mustang driver should have done differently. The GTO driver, meanwhile, earned respect for staying out of it and stepping in afterward. See how quickly a bad decision on slick pavement can unravel.
Ford reshaped its mid-size muscle car for 1973 to meet new federal bumper rules, and the redesign paid off with a 52 percent jump in production over 1971. Buyers could choose between a humble inline-six and a deeper bench of V8 options than you’d guess, with the sportiest Gran Torino Sport reserved for V8 power only. The changes pushed the Torino ahead of its longtime rival, the Chevrolet Chevelle, in Fords ongoing battle for intermediate muscle car sales.
Ford built the Boss 351 for a single model year in 1971, and Hot Rod Magazine later dyno-tested it at 383 horsepower, enough to outmuscle plenty of genuine big-blocks from the era. At the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago, V8TV’s cameras caught up with one of these overlooked one-year wonders on display among the country’s rarest Mustangs and Corvettes. One commenter once found a genuine example rotting in a salvage yard for $2,650. See why this small-block still divides opinion.
In late 1966, three brand-new Mustangs sat finished in Shelby American’s Los Angeles shop, all painted Candyapple Red: a coupe, a fastback, and a convertible. Two became the template for a production run. The third never did, because Ford shelved the convertible GT500 for a year, leaving exactly one 1967 example in existence — and Carroll Shelby kept it for himself. Read on to find out what happened to serial number 0139.
Hollywood built eleven Mustangs to play Eleanor in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, and only three of them could actually be driven. None was a real Shelby GT500. A quarter century later the replica business built around that car is still going, now offering twin-turbocharged and Coyote-powered versions the film cars never had, and a federal appeals court has finally settled the long-running fight over who is allowed to build them. Read on to find out how a movie prop became one of the most copied Mustangs ever made.
A Cummins-powered diesel truck runs a legitimate 9.18 seconds at 147.46 mph at a Pinks All Out event at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, numbers that would embarrass plenty of sports cars. The uploader even had to clarify it was a full quarter-mile pass after skeptical commenters assumed it was the shorter eighth-mile. Viewers in the comments cannot decide whether to be impressed or defensive about a truck running these numbers. Watch the launch and see why fifteen to twenty psi of boost changes everything.
Michelle Bongiovanni’s classmates at Penn State did not believe her, and it is hard to blame them. She spends weekends running eight-second quarter miles in a Mustang that Ford builds specifically so it cannot be registered for the road. The Cobra Jet is one of the strangest things a manufacturer sells: a factory-built drag car with no VIN for street use and no pretense of being anything else. Read on to find out how a Mustang ends up like this.
A stock street Mustang meets its match against a 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner GTX built and sponsored by Intellitec College, packing a methanol-burning, supercharged 440 good for 1,100 horsepower and a 9.20-second quarter mile at 150 mph. Viewers have spent over a decade arguing in the comments about whether it even counts as a fair race. It does not, and that is exactly the point. Watch the numbers do the talking once the tree drops.
When Ford pulled the covers off the 2018 Mustang convertible, the biggest news was not what got added. It was what quietly disappeared from the order sheet after decades of being the default choice for droptop buyers. What replaced it split the lineup into two extremes with nothing in the middle, and gave the convertible a dashboard that had no business being in a pony car. Read on for what changed.
The 1969 Camaro SS’s official order sheet topped out at a 375-horsepower 396, but a separate, little-known path let buyers get a factory 427 anyway — through Chevrolet’s COPO ordering system or through tuner dealers like Yenko and Baldwin-Motion. The rarest of those, the aluminum-block COPO ZL1, was built in tiny numbers and now ranks among the most valuable Camaros in existence. It’s proof the fastest ’69 SS wasn’t always the one on the brochure.
Chevrolet spent years developing the Camaro under a code name that had nothing to do with cats and everything to do with secrecy, then refused to explain what the production name actually meant. The answer a company spokesman finally gave the press has been quoted ever since. Across thirty-five years and four generations the car went from a 427 big block to a four-cylinder to an all-aluminum 305-horsepower LS1. Read on for how it got there.
When Muscle Car Fan’s following crossed half a million, the site marked it with a short trailer instead of a victory lap, a quiet nod to years of owner interviews and feature stories rather than one viral moment. Reaching that scale in a niche this specific says something about how far muscle car nostalgia actually reaches beyond the collector crowd. The bigger story is not the number itself, it is what kept that many people showing up. Watch the trailer and see how it is framed.
A 1967 Shelby GT350 sat still for three decades before somebody finally turned the key and let it idle back to life. The ’67 was the year Shelby’s Mustang grew up, gained weight, and split its own fan base right down the middle. Between a factory Paxton option, a fiberglass nose nobody expected, and a production run small enough to matter today, there is more to this car than the dust on it suggests. Read on to find out why the ’67 still divides people.