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A hidden Oregon warehouse holds one of the largest private muscle car collections on Earth — more than 350 vehicles, including a one-of-two 1969 Camaro ZL1 and the prototype that convinced Carroll Shelby to supercharge the GT350. The owners have never revealed their names, and the doors open only a few days a year.
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske spent a decade calling the Ford Shelby GT350 the greatest Mustang ever built before finally buying one. The 2018 model he found had a seized flat-plane-crank V8 and metal shavings throughout its oiling system. Here’s why he bought it anyway — and what the Voodoo engine’s quirks reveal about this car’s cult following.
Oldsmobile officially rated its 1970 442 W-30 at 370 horsepower — a figure many enthusiasts believe underrated the real output by roughly 30 horsepower. Raiti’s Rides walks through the car’s cold-air hood, upgraded rear axle, and factory performance package, making the case for one of GM’s most overlooked muscle cars. Watch to see what the numbers on paper never fully told you.
Before waking a GT350 or GT500 up from winter storage, there’s a thirty-second engine step that even experienced Shelby owners admit they’d never heard of. Enthusiasts Garage walks through the full process of getting both cars ready for summer, from storage prep to that first critical start. Watch to see the priming trick that has longtime owners rethinking their own routine.
Carroll Shelby’s 1965 GT350 was a 306-horsepower race car with a license plate, and it earned three straight SCCA B-Production championships to prove it. Fifty years later Ford revived the name on a Mustang with a high-revving flat-plane V8, a manual transmission, and a suspension tuned for the track. Parked side by side, the two cars look nothing alike, but they share one uncompromising mission. Read on to find out whether the new car truly earns the badge.
John Hennessey’s shop strapped a Shelby GT350R to the dyno wearing its new HPE850 supercharger package, running on Shell V-Power 93 octane, and posted a pull that added 311 rear-wheel horsepower and 193 lb-ft of torque over the car’s naturally aspirated baseline. The resulting graph, a dual-scale readout where the horsepower and torque curves cross around 7,400 rpm, briefly confused viewers before the final number sank in. Watch the pull to see what boosting a flat-plane-crank Voodoo V8 actually looks like on the rollers.
Steve Beck bought his 1965 Shelby GT350 for $900 on his eighteenth birthday, hoping it would help him land his first job as a mechanic — it did, on the spot. Hagerty’s Breakdown series traces decades of vintage racing and track days at Willow Springs that followed, plus more than a few speeding tickets along the way. Fifty years later, Beck is still driving it hard. Watch to see why he never let this one go.
Car #180 is one of only 34 Shelby GT350R competition coupes ever built, and under driver Tommy Hamilton it won International Conference championships in 1967 and five west coast titles in 1968 — more than 40 race wins across two seasons. Decades later, a comment from Hamilton’s own son turned this video’s technical debate about horsepower and dyno numbers into something far more personal. Watch to see why this particular Shelby still means so much to the people who remember it racing.
Ford spent months teasing the next Shelby GT500 in camouflage and speculation before confirming it for the 2020 model year. Spy shots revealed a wider front track, massive Brembo brakes, and a supercharged version of the GT350’s 5.2-liter V8, while rumors pointed toward horsepower figures that dwarfed the outgoing GT500’s 662. Read on to find out how close the leaked details actually came to the car Ford eventually built.
TheBayAreaRacing lined up two stock modern muscle cars with a nearly 180-horsepower gap between them – a supercharged Hellcat Challenger against a naturally aspirated Shelby GT350 – and the trap speeds came back closer than the spec sheet would suggest. One viewer’s verdict had nothing to do with the numbers at all: nothing sounds better than these Mustangs. Watch to see how a flat-plane-crank V8 held its own against a supercharger.