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A rare 429-powered 1970 Ford Torino Cobra rolled into a vintage NMCA drag event on nothing but factory-width rubber — and dipped into the 12s anyway. Ford built barely two thousand of these with the big engine, and far fewer with the gearing to make a pass like this possible. Here’s the math behind one of the toughest quarter-miles in muscle car history.
A factory Hemi Road Runner is rare enough on its own, but this 1970 hardtop belongs to an even smaller club: cars built with Chrysler’s TorqueFlite automatic instead of the four-speed most Hemi buyers demanded. MotoManTV takes it for a drive during a 2015 Classic Car Week special, digging into why Plymouth’s rarest drivetrain pairing almost never got ordered at all.
The 1967 Shelby GT500 known as Eleanor is one of the most recognizable movie cars ever built, and almost none of what people believe about it survives contact with the facts. Eleven cars wore the bodywork for the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, and only three of them could move under their own power. Steve Stanford and Chip Foose drew the silhouette. Read on to find out how far it really sits from a genuine Shelby.
A rust-eaten 1967 Pontiac LeMans sat forgotten until a build crew stripped it to bare metal and started over. What came out the other side wasn’t a GTO clone — it was proof that Pontiac’s overlooked mid-size coupe never needed the badge to turn heads.
Ford built the Boss 351 for exactly one model year, and Jeff Ball’s grabber lime 1971 example draws out some serious quarter-mile debate in the comments — including the claim that it actually beat a 429 Cobra Jet Mustang in a straight line. Lou Costabile gets the full story at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont.
A 1968 Pontiac GTO that had sat gutted since its rescue a year earlier got one shot at redemption: a fresh engine, brakes, wheels, cooling and fuel systems, or nothing. The Build Season crew gave themselves three days and a drive home to prove it could still run. Here’s how close the goat came to missing its own deadline.
We researched 3 top Socket Sets & Mechanic Tool Kits options on Amazon — here are the ones worth buying for your muscle car, ranked by ratings and real buyer feedback.
1959 brought Oldsmobile’s Dynamic 88 a complete top-to-bottom restyle GM called the Linear Look, and a Rocket V8 lineup serious enough to carry Lee Petty to victory at Daytona by a single fender length. It also happened to be Oldsmobile’s last win at Daytona and its final big-horsepower push before the real muscle car era began — a genuinely overlooked turning point hiding behind some very clean sheetmetal.
At the 58th Gulf Western Oil Winternationals, one qualifying run rewrote the record book before the finals even started. Here’s what an 11,000-horsepower weekend at Willowbank Raceway actually looked like, and who walked away with the trophies.
The 1970 Buick GSX and Hemi ‘Cuda came out of opposite corners of Detroit’s muscle car playbook: one built for country-club buyers, the other stripped down for the strip. A rediscovered Muscle Car of the Week rivalry video puts their numbers side by side, and the torque column says more than either brand ever advertised.
Schwartz Performance took a dented California 1969 Mustang fastback, spent roughly 1,400 hours on it, and handed the finished car away to a stranger at a Las Vegas trade show. Under the Boss-inspired paint sits a 444-horsepower Coyote Boss 302 crate engine, a fabricated G-Machine chassis, and a GT500-spec brake package. Read on to find out how a brake company ended up building one of the more serious restomods of the SEMA era.
Oldsmobile’s W45 Rallye 350 package turned a Cutlass into a rolling highlighter: body-color urethane bumpers, yellow Super Stock II wheels, and a 310-horse Rocket 350 breathing through a fiberglass Force-Air hood. Just 3,547 were built across a single model year, and only 160 of those wore the Sports Coupe body. Here is why the cheapest honest way into an Oldsmobile muscle car is also the one you will almost never see in person.
A car show that has survived a fire that leveled its original venue, multiple relocations, and more than sixty years of changing tastes has to be doing something right. The Chicago World of Wheels traces back to a 1962 gathering at Navy Pier and now fills the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center every March with everything from restored muscle cars to elaborate customs.
This 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS runs a performance-built 396 with Edelbrock aluminum heads behind a four-speed manual, and RamblinAround caught it cold-starting, driving, and doing a proper burnout at Fast Lane Classic Cars. Viewers as far away as Argentina and Australia flooded the comments with specific memories of owning one just like it. One detail keeps coming up: the nostalgic squeak of a well-worn clutch pedal. Watch to hear what a real, driven 396 Nova sounds like fifty-plus years on.
RJ Gottlieb’s Big Red Camaro is best known for supercharged top-speed runs, but Pikes Peak called for the opposite approach. Trading a blown 598-cube big-block for a naturally aspirated 555 called The Beast, the team made its 2017 debut on the 12.42-mile Race to the Clouds. Their fourth-place finish in the Open class shows why displacement can still out-duel boost at altitude.