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Fifteen minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip sits a private circuit with no speed limits, no traffic, and a garage full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Corvettes. It opened in 2016 and later merged with Exotics Racing, an operation that has been running guided supercar drives since 2009. Here is how the experience actually works, what separates it from a rental, and whether it teaches you anything about driving.
DailyElectrician’s channel turns up two Corvettes in one barn — a 1962, the last year of the original C1 body, and a 1974, deep into the C3’s most transitional stretch. One commenter called them two of the least desirable model years Corvette ever built; several others disagreed on the spot. Sharp-eyed viewers even spotted a factory alarm keyhole that helps date one of the cars.
In 1971, Ford stopped playing it safe with the Mustang and built the biggest, widest Mach 1 yet — three inches wider just to fit the monstrous 429 big block under that twin-scooped hood. Buyers had their pick of a 302 Windsor, three flavors of 351 Cleveland, or the top-shelf 429 Cobra Jet, and nearly a quarter of all ’71 Mustang buyers wanted the Mach 1’s attitude. It’s the last truly big, truly intimidating Mustang Ford built before the muscle car era ran out of road.
Pontiac built just 697 Firebird Trans Ams for 1969, including only eight convertibles, and the nameplate nearly disappeared before it had a chance to catch on. Two Ram Air engines were offered, but the Ram Air IV went into only 55 cars, all of them coupes. Here is what separated those cars from the rest, and why a legendary third engine never actually reached a customer.
This 1970 Plymouth Road Runner carries a genuine, factory N96 Air Grabber hood, a numbers-matching four-speed, and a VIN buyers can independently trace back through Chrysler’s own build documentation. Vanguard Motor Sales lays out exactly what’s original and what isn’t, down to the date-correct 383 V8 that isn’t numbers-matching, in a listing built for buyers who’ve learned to ask hard questions about classic car sales online. See what a fully documented, one-year-only Road Runner actually looks like up close.
A bright red 1971 Dodge Challenger is easy to admire and surprisingly hard to read, because 1971 was the year Dodge quietly began dismantling the option sheet that made the car famous. It was the final season for the 426 Hemi, the final season for the R/T badge, and the final season for the convertible. Fewer than a hundred buyers took the biggest engine on offer. Read on for what made this the Challenger’s last complete year.
The 1971 Chevrolet Camaro is the model year enthusiasts skip on their way back to 1969, and the horsepower figures are the reason why. But the Z28’s LT-1 didn’t lose nearly as much as the window sticker suggested, because a compression cut and a brand-new way of measuring power landed on the same order sheet in the same twelve months. With only 4,862 Z28s built, it may also be the most overlooked second-generation Camaro there is. Read on to find out what actually changed.
Adding the 426 Hemi to a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T meant an extra $892 on an already expensive car, and only around 71 buyers agreed to it. No convertibles were built. It was the last model year Dodge would sell a street Hemi at all, which makes the survivors among the scarcest cars wearing a Mopar badge. Read on for what that option really bought and why the 1971 cars close out an era.
Buick rarely comes up first in muscle car conversations, which is exactly what made the 1966 Skylark Gran Sport so effective. Its 401-cubic-inch Wildcat 445 nailhead put 445 lb-ft of torque underneath a body wearing fake hood scoops and a luxury badge, and the mid-year 340-horsepower version ran with GTOs and 4-4-2s. Buick built only 13,816 of them, and most people never noticed.
Every August, one stretch of Pennsylvania drag strip pavement hosts what has grown into the World’s Largest One-Day Mustang Show, drawing more than 1,400 cars and thousands of spectators for a single day of racing, showing, and charity fundraising. Six decades of Mustang history share the same show field. Read on to find out what it takes to pull off a gathering this size without it collapsing into gridlock.
This 1966 Shelby GT350H was born from an unlikely deal between Hertz and Shelby American — rent a genuine race-bred Mustang for $17 a day, then return it with a roll bar welded in if you were one of the many weekend racers who couldn’t resist. Read on to find out how a rental-counter experiment became one of Shelby’s most collectible cars.
The number 67 runs through Rick Zipperian’s life: his high school graduation year, his age when this truck debuted, and the model year of the Chevy C10 pickups he has always loved. Instead of a numbers-matching muscle car, he built a 1967 C10 with a muscle car’s heart and unveiled it beside his son’s 1967 Chevelle at the Cavalcade of Customs in Cincinnati. Read on to find out why a work truck turned out to be the perfect way to honor a milestone year.
Ford has built a full-size, rear-wheel-drive Falcon continuously in Australia since 1960, and most American muscle car fans have never seen one. It played Mad Max’s own car on screen, runs down speeders as an Australian police interceptor, and in 2014 offered a turbocharged six-cylinder quick enough to embarrass plenty of V8 rivals. Read on to find out why this nameplate’s long run was already nearing its end.
1972 marked the final year of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo’s first generation, and though the SS badge had already been retired, the lineup still ranged from a mild 165-horsepower 350 V8 to a genuine 270-horsepower 454 big block. A new Cadillac-style grille and standard variable-ratio power steering rounded out the last update before a full redesign. More than 180,000 buyers still chose one that year. Read on to find out why this quiet swan song became one of Chevrolet’s best-selling coupes.
Pontiac’s chief engineer reportedly named this option package after a punchline from a 1960s comedy show, and it became one of the most collectible names in muscle car history almost overnight. This particular 1969 GTO Judge wears a documented Verdoro Green paint job backed by PHS paperwork confirming its factory drivetrain. Read on to see what set the Judge’s debut year apart from everything that followed.