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A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner up for sale hides one of Detroit’s strangest factory options: a vacuum-actuated Air Grabber hood scoop that pops open with a cabin switch. This one pairs it with a 440-cubic-inch V8, a four-speed stick, and a Sure-Grip differential — the combination most real buyers actually chose over the flashier Hemi. Here’s what still makes it worth a second look.

When GM wanted to revive the GTO nameplate in 2004, it didn’t design a new car, it imported one, rebadging the Australian-built Holden Monaro after board member Bob Lutz read a single magazine article that convinced him. The resulting car packed a Corvette-sourced LS1 V8, then a 400-horsepower LS2 in 2005, but a currency-inflated price tag and understated styling kept American buyers cold. Read on to find out how a business trip to Australia became one of GM’s most divisive muscle car revivals.

The third-generation Viper grew its V10 to 8.3 liters and 500 horsepower with zero traction control to soften the experience. Here’s what changed under the SRT-10’s skin, and why its uncompromising, driver-only formula still defines the car’s reputation today.

Plymouth built the Superbird to win NASCAR homologation rules, not showroom popularity contests — and dealers struggled to move them when they launched in 1970. USClassicMuscleCars caught up with a raw, uniquely restored example at the MuscleCars and Corvette Nationals in Chicago, and its road back from unsellable oddity to seven-figure icon is worth understanding before you watch the interview.

Built in 1956 as one of the first true drag strips in the country, Cordova Dragway just pulled a crowd big enough to stop longtime regulars in their tracks. The 2026 World Series of Drag Racing brought six-figure vintage muscle cars and a 30-year-old match-racing club back to the same Illinois quarter-mile, and the numbers in the stands tell their own story.

Dodge could have sold the Hellcat on horsepower numbers alone. Instead it hired the star of the biggest car franchise in movie history, scored three commercials to a track built for tension rather than a jingle, and closed each one with a line that reads more like a recruitment pitch than an ad. The Brotherhood of Muscle campaign told buyers almost nothing about the cars. Here is why that was exactly the point, and why it worked.

Master mechanic and racer Paul Annunziata built his 1975 Plymouth Duster around a supercharged 426 Hemi — an engine combination the factory never offered, in a car nobody expected to carry that kind of power. Before he passed away, Paul wanted the car to go somewhere it would actually be driven. Jay Leno took on that responsibility personally. Watch the full story, including a comment from Paul’s own cousin that puts the whole build in perspective.

A numbers-matching 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 squared off against a Buick GSX Stage 1, a Pontiac Trans Am SD-455, and a Hemi Road Runner in a strict Pure Stock Drags shootout. Only Chevrolet’s chronically underrated L88 Corvette could put it away. Here’s how the torque-heavy 455 stacked up against three of Detroit’s most famous engines – and why it still gets called one of the most underrated muscle cars ever built.

Three Swedish friends took a 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air to Budapest for a downtown burnout, then shipped it to the United States to attempt Drag Week, an event requiring five strip passes at five tracks with hundreds of highway miles driven in between. The Bel Air was Chevrolet’s mid-tier family car, built more than 236,000 times that year. Read on to find out why that made it the right choice.


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