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A single stretch of muscle car headlines captured just how wide the hobby’s range really is: a collector-car auction billing itself as the world’s largest, a long-overdue disc brake upgrade for classic GM cars, and a 526-horsepower Ford Shelby GT350 built around a flat-plane crank V8. Read on to see how a record auction, a cheap brake fix, and one seriously fast new Mustang all connect.
Owner Jeffrey Filz grew up two blocks from the Kenosha plant that built this 1970 AMC Javelin SST Mark Donohue Signature Edition, and the comments below Lou Costabile’s video turn up an even wilder story: a commenter’s father, a former Spitfire pilot, briefly owned one himself. Watch the full walkaround and engine start.
Street Car Video brings out what it calls the fastest V3 Cadillac CTS-V in the country to face a Kenne Bell-supercharged Shelby GT500 and two Hellcats pushing past 800 horsepower each. A luxury sedan against dedicated muscle car hardware sounds like a mismatch on paper. Watch the full lineup to see whether the CTS-V’s supercharged LT4 can actually keep up.
A Hemi-powered Mopar, a boosted Buick, and a naturally aspirated Corvette line up for a rolling-start grudge match in this F.A.S.T. Racing matchup — three completely different performance philosophies going head to head with nothing but a green light to settle the score. Turbo lag, big-inch torque, and high-revving small-block power all bring something different to the table. Watch to see which approach comes out on top.
Steve McQueen did much of his own driving in the Bullitt chase scene — a 1968 Ford Mustang GT pursuing a Dodge Charger through San Francisco with no CGI and famously little music. Decades later, fans are still finding new details: a recurring green VW Bug, impossible geography between shots, and a scene that Mopar owners and Mustang fans both claim as their own. Watch the chase that’s still the benchmark everyone else gets measured against.
Long before Tallahassee had a legal place to race, drivers settled things on remote Leon County roads like Mission Road, with spectators in leather and denim watching from the shoulders. The community’s answer was a sanctioned strip on west Highway 20, built in the mid-1960s as drag racing nationwide moved out of the shadows. Read on for what the strip offered, why the outlaw scene never fully went away, and what became of tracks like this one.
At Heartland Park Topeka, one driver has built a reputation for treeing the field, out-reacting seasoned competitors off the line, in a nitrous-fed K5 Blazer nicknamed Open Container. He runs the truck with hand controls, and the comment section keeps circling back to one word: respect. See the runs that have fans asking if there is anyone he cannot beat off the line.
Andre Gordon’s blue 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger runs a genuine 340-cubic-inch V8 with a four-speed manual and Hurst pistol-grip shifter — a far cry from the Fiat-based compact Dodge revived decades later, or the Pro Stock Dart five-time champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. campaigns at the NHRA’s top level. Read on to see how one nameplate ended up telling three completely different stories.