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Lincoln-Mercury stuffed a 360-hp, 480 lb-ft 429 into a 4,500-pound fastback with hidden headlights and fender skirts, then sold fewer than 8,300 of them across 1969 and 1970. A Rare Cars documentary explains why the Marauder X-100 flopped in showrooms and why it may be the most overlooked big-block bargain from the muscle era.
The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine put 340 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of 390 V8 torque into a mid-size body for ,475, ran a 14.4-second quarter mile, and wore a hood scoop with the tachometer mounted inside it. AMC built 2,326 and never made another. Here is why the smallest automaker in Detroit’s boldest muscle car vanished after one year.
1963 was the year Pontiac officially pulled its factory teams from racing and leaned into styling and comfort instead, yet the Bonneville still offered a 313-horsepower tri-power 389 for buyers who wanted it. Here’s how more than 100,000 buyers found their way into one of four very different Bonneville body styles that year.
Ford squeezed 662 horsepower from a supercharged V8 into the last Mustang built with a solid rear axle, a combination that made the 2013 Shelby GT500 both wildly fast and genuinely difficult to drive. A decade later, owners are still talking about the sound, the manual gearbox, and just how much respect this car demands. Here’s why the 2013-2014 GT500 remains one of the most talked-about modern Shelbys.
1971 was the year Chevrolet pulled the 396 big-block out of the Nova SS lineup entirely, leaving buyers with a single 270-horsepower 350 and nothing else to choose from. Production cratered as a result — from nearly 20,000 SS Novas the year before down to just 7,015 built in 1971 alone. That scarcity, combined with a fresh Rally stripe package and color-keyed mirrors, makes this an oddly overlooked one-year-only combination for collectors. Here’s why the last-of-its-kind ’71 Nova SS deserves a serious second look.
We found nine 1968 Chevelle SS396 listings across ClassicCars.com and Dyler.com — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like after a month where almost everything else already sold.
Somewhere out there is a 1970 Road Runner that looks like a steal – low price, “runs when parked,” a seller who swears it just needs a battery and a little elbow grease. What that ad rarely mentions is what four or five decades of sitting actually does to a Mopar: a seized engine, a carburetor gummed solid, brake cylinders welded shut with rust, and a frame that may have taken a hit long before it ever went into storage. One shop’s rebuild of a Road Runner wrecked back in 1977 and parked ever since shows exactly what that repair bill looks like in real time – and what to check before you fall for the same “it just needs a little work” pitch.
A decade-old walkaround of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat keeps racking up views for one reason: the supercharger note when it fires up. Here’s why Dodge’s 707-horsepower factory monster still stops scrollers cold, and what it actually cost to drive one home.
A muscle-car-specific breakdown of how enclosed auto transport actually works and how to pick a carrier that treats your car like it matters.
The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda abandoned its compact roots entirely for the new E-body platform, a wider and lower chassis designed from the start to swallow big-block engines. Nine engines were offered, from a 145-horsepower slant six to the 426 Street Hemi, and production jumped more than 70 percent. Yet fewer than a thousand buyers checked the box for the engine that made the car legendary. Read on for the numbers behind one of Detroit’s sharpest designs.
A 425-horsepower Hemi Super Bee went wheel to wheel with a Corvette packing a secretly underrated L88 427, and somehow came out ahead at the stripe. The Corvette turned the higher trap speed. The Dodge turned the better reaction time. This is how a factory-legal Mopar built to the edge of its rulebook nearly took down one of GM’s rarest big-blocks.
A stranger bought this 1965 Plymouth Barracuda without ever seeing it, betting on a car that had sat untouched for roughly two decades. It’s the same model that beat the Mustang to dealerships by sixteen days and wore the largest single piece of glass ever installed on a production car. Here’s the real story behind Plymouth’s original pony car, and what it actually takes to wake one back up.
The fourth-generation Cadillac Series 62 arrived for 1954 with wraparound glass, reverse gull-wing bumpers and a dual exhaust routed straight through the rear bumper, then spent three years breaking its own sales records. Along the way it went from a 17.3-second run to 60 mph to a flat 12 seconds. Here is how to tell a 1954 from a 1955 from a 1956, and what the differences actually mean.
A YouTuber dropped a supercharged Hellcat V8 into his 1968 Dodge Charger chasing 1,500 horsepower, and the swap didn’t go quietly — the torque twisted the chassis off the line and blew the supercharger’s intake apart before the video even wrapped. Here’s the story behind ‘Tater,’ one of the wilder modern Mopar engine swaps making the rounds this year.
Dodge’s 707-horsepower supercharged Hellcat engine was never built with winter traction in mind — it exists to turn tires into smoke on dry pavement, not tiptoe around ice. Watching a supercharged Hemi V8 fight for grip in a snow-covered parking lot reveals more about this engine’s absurd power than any quarter-mile time could. Dodge even built a second, lower-output key specifically to keep 707 horsepower away from unprepared drivers. Read on to find out why these clips keep circulating.