Pontiac built a plain-looking 1962 Catalina that hid a race-bred 421 V8 and an aluminum front end under its ordinary sheet metal. Here’s how this “sleeper” quietly outran Chevy’s famous 409 — and why so few of them survive today.
The legends that defined an era. These are the most iconic American muscle cars ever built — raw power, unmistakable style, and a legacy that endures to this day. We’ve rounded up the definitive list: […]
David Freiburger spends this episode of Roadkill Extra doing something Roadkill rarely does: teaching, not wrecking. Compression ratio sounds like a spec sheet footnote until he breaks down exactly how bore, stroke, chamber volume, and camshaft timing all feed into the number that decides how much power an engine can make before it starts destroying itself. It’s the kind of explanation builders bookmark and come back to before their next build. Find out what the calculator actually needs to get right.
A Maryland teenager lost his license street racing a 1969 Camaro Z/28, then sold it to keep his girlfriend happy. Decades later, now a self-made millionaire, Glenn Stearns tracked the exact car down at auction and paid a small fortune to drive it off the lot one more time.
The 1967 Plymouth GTX swapped stripped-down race-car bravado for bucket seats, a console tach, and chrome trim — then backed it up with a 440 big-block as the standard engine and the 426 Hemi on the option sheet. Here’s the story behind the Mopar built to out-class the GTO without looking like it was trying.
RamblinAround tracks down one of only 503 original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas ever built, still running its factory 440 V8 and finished in correct T5 Copper paint. The Daytona’s nose cone and rear wing were built to break NASCAR speed records, and did, forcing the sport to change its rules. Watch to see the winged Mopar that inspired decades of dream-car regret in the comments.
Buick’s 1970 GSX Stage 1 carried a horsepower rating that barely budged from the base engine, a number built for insurance adjusters, not drag strips. Decades later, owners and historians are still fighting over whether it really deserved the Hemi Killer nickname, or whether a mismatched magazine test built a legend that never quite held up.
By 2014, the Dodge Charger SRT8 packed a 470-horsepower V8 and genuine track-ready braking into a car still priced around $30,000 — less than half what comparable European performance sedans cost at the time. Getting there took three model years of shared engineering with the Chrysler 300, a redesigned face, and an engine lineup that kept growing without ever changing the car’s basic bones. Read on to find out how this generation closed out with a genuine value argument, not just an attitude.
Plymouth never engineered the Barracuda for a big-block — until a mid-1969 fix changed that. Only a few hundred 440 ‘Cudas were ever built, and this Limelight Metallic survivor is one of just 19 left in the A-body M-Code registry, with under 7,000 believed-original miles.
Only around 80 of these Hurst-built Hemi Darts ever left the Hamtramck factory in 1968, stripped to the bone for one job: winning NHRA Super Stock races. One surviving example just turned up at a South Dakota drag strip running a 9.20 at 146 mph — except its owner pulled the rare original 426 Hemi for something even bigger. Here’s why that was actually the right call.
A gutted, rust-eaten 1970 Chevelle bought for $11,000 just got a $30,000 crate big block dropped in during a Texas Airbnb build. The decades-old Turbo 400 almost couldn’t handle it — and the drive home wasn’t pretty. The video hit 2.2 million views in a single day.
The Challenger SRT 392 skips the Hellcat’s supercharger and still makes 485 horsepower from a 6.4-liter HEMI. Real owners in the comments aren’t apologizing for it — they’re bragging about finding one.
The Ford Torino spent nine years as one of Detroit’s most versatile nameplates — a 375-horsepower street racer, a NASCAR championship winner, and eventually the red-and-white Gran Torino that made Starsky & Hutch famous. Here’s how one car pulled off all three.
A 1972 Plymouth Duster sat untouched in its original owner’s driveway for more than 30 years. Most of its kind never got respect from the muscle car crowd to begin with — so why did this one survive long enough to be worth saving?