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Ford gave the compact Falcon real muscle with the Sprint package and its 289 V8, only to watch its own Mustang, built on the same platform, make the Falcon obsolete almost overnight. Just 300 Sprint convertibles and 2,806 Sprint hardtops were sold in the model’s final year. Here is the story of the compact that lost to its own sibling.
A supercharged Corvette photographed on move-out day at a 2012 Chicago muscle car show did something most modified cars can only pull off at full throttle, it broke its own rear tires loose just idling in the parking lot. Surrounded by Dodge Daytonas, Plymouth Superbirds, and COPO Camaros, this flame-painted build still managed to steal the spotlight from cars with far bigger reputations. The sound alone had onlookers stopping mid-conversation. What does it take for one car to out-shout a lot full of legends?
Sherwin M. found his 1970 Ford XL through a classified ad with photos so bad the car was barely recognizable, which is probably why nobody else called first. What he found in person was a sixteen-year-dormant, numbers-matching survivor with its original 429 engine still intact. Read on to find out how a factory-correct rebuild turned this rare full-size Ford into both a daily driver and a genuine 14-second track car.
This 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback wears the GT500 look down to the stripes, but its VIN tells a more complicated story than the badge on the fender does. A 390-cubic-inch FE V8, Edelbrock heads, and a limited-slip 3.73 rear end back up the build, while a push-button C6 transmission has viewers picking sides in the comments. Watch to see the full walkthrough.
This bagged, stock-interior 1963 Chevrolet Impala turned up at Cruisin’ The Coast without a single show trophy to its name – just a clean stance, real wheels, and the honest wear of a car that’s actually been driven. Its SS badge was still an option package that year – the Impala SS wouldn’t become its own series until 1964 – backed by an optional 409 big-block that inspired a Beach Boys song. Read on to find out why a driver like this one outshines the trailer queens parked next to it.
A supercharged Coyote 5.0 sits under the hood of this ’67 Mustang fastback, wearing an Eleanor-inspired stance and running its entire interior through a single iPad instead of a factory gauge cluster. Copper-centered wheels and a custom build free of traditional switches push it well past tribute-car territory into something closer to a rolling art project. Read on to find out why builds like this one split car show crowds right down the middle.
A rear-wheel-drive production car shouldn’t be able to put down 840 horsepower fast enough to hit 1.8 g’s of acceleration — but Dodge’s Challenger SRT Demon does exactly that. Engineering Explained breaks down the actual physics behind the feat, down to the equation governing tire grip, while also unpacking a rollout-measurement detail that makes the Demon’s 2.3-second 0-60 time even more impressive than it looks. Dodge’s own executives confirmed the correction directly to the Detroit News.
Not every SEMA show car is built to be photographed, this 2016 Camaro SS was built to be tested. ScottieDTV’s coverage reveals it served as the actual development mule for GM’s new LT1 engine before Lingenfelter Performance Engineering added a Magnuson supercharger and reshaped its output entirely. The wheels and exhaust came almost as an afterthought. What LPE actually did under the hood is the part worth understanding before you write this one off as just another show floor build.
This 1963 Chevrolet Nova looks like a clean product of the Kennedy era until you notice the LS engine, custom wheels, and aggressive stance underneath, then the comments start arguing about something else entirely. ScottieDTV’s walk-around at the 2017 World of Wheels in Birmingham caught visible cracks in the two-tone paint, sparking a debate over whether it’s a build flaw or trailer transport damage. The interior, though, drew nothing but praise. Which side of the argument would you land on?
John’s widebody Hellcat Challenger cost $83,000, and according to this video, it’s developed damage again — the kind that’s split his comment section between “take it to the dealer immediately” and “that’s just modern Hellcat ownership.” Between an electrical tape debate and a stability control fault viewers are tracing back to the shocks, this is less a build reveal than a real-time look at what owning a heavily modified, six-figure-adjacent Mopar actually involves. Watch to see what breaks next.
A 1956 Buick Special barn find doesn’t usually come with a $900,000 price tag, but this one earned it: twin turbos strapped to a 401 Nailhead V8 push output to roughly 800 horsepower, backed by Ride Tech suspension and a Corvette C6 independent rear end. The Nailhead’s origins as a quiet 236-horsepower luxury engine make the transformation even more remarkable. Here’s what makes this one of the more unexpected restomod builds in the muscle car world.
Dodge’s Demon shipped on genuine drag radial tires straight from the factory, a first for any production street car, but those tires were too wide for the main assembly line to handle. Read on to find out how Dodge solved a manufacturing problem nobody had ever faced before, and why owning one comes with a strange winter-storage rule.
At an RT66 Test N Tune event in 2015, Rich Kent’s E85-fueled 1962 Mercury Comet did something a brand-new 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat never expected: it beat it clean off the line. The video’s own description reveals the Hellcat had run nearly three seconds quicker just a week earlier, turning a simple grudge race into a years-long argument about driving versus horsepower. Watch to see the run that started the controversy.
Ford built the Shelby GT350’s Voodoo V8 to rev to 8,250 rpm with zero turbochargers anywhere near it. A shop in Martinsville, Indiana had other plans, bolting on twin turbos for staged packages up to 1,400 horsepower. Read on to find out what it takes to nearly triple a purist engine’s output without losing what makes it distinct.
The Ranchero occupied a strange spot in Ford’s lineup — part car, part truck, and rarely taken seriously by muscle car buyers chasing a Mustang or Torino instead. This 1969 GT changes that calculation entirely by packing a 428 Cobra Jet under the hood. Read on to find out how a car-truck hybrid ended up with one of the most feared engines of the entire muscle car era.