The 1971 Ford Torino Cobra packed a 370-horsepower 429 Cobra Jet V8 and a blacked-out hood meant to intimidate — yet it never earned the household-name status of its GTO and Road Runner rivals. Here’s why this factory big-block muscle car still slips under most collectors’ radar.
A stranger’s dashcam happened to be rolling at exactly the wrong moment for this 1969 Dodge Dart GT, catching a violent rear-end failure loud enough that viewers say they had to rip their headphones off. The comments dug up two competing, detailed theories for what actually broke — and both are worth knowing before modifying your own muscle car’s rear end. Watch to see it happen.
The 1970 Trans Am’s engine lineup stopped at 400 cubic inches — the 455 wouldn’t arrive for another year. Here’s how that one-year gap still trips up collectors restoring survivors today.
Ford’s Mustang beat the Camaro and Challenger for a fifth straight month in March 2017, extending a streak to 27 wins in 29 months, but the raw sales totals hid a steep year-over-year decline. This piece unpacks the numbers behind that streak, why Camaro and Challenger were actually closing the gap underneath it, and what a winning streak built on a shrinking base actually signals.
A decades-old 1966 Mustang sat untouched until one buyer purchased it sight unseen and bet everything on a 300-mile drive home. A single overlooked part turned out to be the reason the gamble paid off.
In 1965, Chevrolet sold more than one million Impalas in a single year — an all-time industry record that has never been broken. Over the next five years the car would get outshined by its own spinoff, borrow styling cues from the Corvette, and quietly absorb a wave of new federal safety mandates. Read on to find out how a record-setting best-seller ended up playing second fiddle to the model it created.
We found 15 1968 Dodge Charger listings across ClassicCars.com, Autotrader Classics, and Gateway Classic Cars — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
Before the 1969 Dodge Charger became a movie legend, Dodge sold it on TV with comedian Stu Gilliam and actress Joan Parker as part of “The Dodge Boys” campaign. This thirty-second pitch is over fifty years old and still working on viewers today. See how Detroit built an entire personality around a muscle car before social media ever existed.
A 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle built by a shop called Backyard Specialties runs a supercharged Kong Performance LSX rated anywhere from 750 to 900 horsepower — nearly double the factory LS6’s 450. The build rides on a Speedtech Performance chassis engineered decades after the body ever left Chevrolet’s factory.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX has stayed in one family since a soldier bought it new coming home from Vietnam. Here’s why Plymouth’s 375-hp ‘gentleman’s muscle car’ only wore this body for a single model year — and why that makes a survivor like this one worth chasing.
This 1964 Dodge Polara isn’t numbers-matching — and one commenter says that hasn’t stopped it from being “worth every penny” of its roughly $39,000 asking price. Under the hood is a full crossram 426 Max Wedge with dual four-barrels and fender-exit headers, backed by a four-speed and a 4.11-geared Dana 60 built purely for launching hard. A full-size sleeper with a well-preserved original interior, it’s the kind of Mopar that collectors chase for substance over paperwork. Watch the walkaround and hear it run.
A barn-rotted 1968 Dodge Charger gets cut apart, repainted candy apple red, and dropped on air ride — a restomod build that trades a six-figure originality premium for a stance Dodge never put on an R/T.
This 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible isn’t just rare — it’s the very first of only fourteen ever built, wearing Rallye Red paint, a black top, and the Shaker hood scoop that came standard on every Hemi ‘Cuda. Underneath sits the legendary 426 Hemi V8, rated at 425 horsepower and fed by dual four-barrel carburetors. Decades later, it remains one of the most sought-after Mopars in existence. See what makes serial number one worth more than the other thirteen.
Pontiac’s Trans Am hit its best sales year ever in 1979, kept winning comparison tests into 2002, and still got cancelled. The Firebird’s rise and fall is stranger than most muscle car endings.