A few weeks back we told you about a rusty 1970 Dodge Challenger that had been revved up by adding a Six Pack induction system to its replacement 440ci power plant. Installing more carburation is a long-standing formula for adding both eye candy and more oomph where it counts to your favorite muscle ride. Over the years, this Challenger R/T went through a bevy of changes, including parts needed to clone the Special Edition trim and a six-barrel intake setup for the 383ci big-block.Photo: Scott Lachenauer Now here’s another ’70 that underwent the same surgery sometime during its lifespan, but ..read more

According to the blue oval, the Ford Mustang Dark Horse is the most track-capable version of the seventh-generation model to date. After developing the Dark Horse-based GT3 and GT4 Mustang race cars, Ford turned its focus to its newest racetrack dominating machine, the 500-plus horsepower 2024 Mustang Dark Horse R. Powered by an enhanced version of the formidable naturally aspirated Coyote V8, the Ford Mustang Dark Horse R will roll off factory lines as a turn-key race car designed for customers who have a strong desire to dominate during track weekends. The 5.0-liter Coyote engine is paired ..read more

Vintage trucks are hot with collectors, and while 4x4 utilities have made some of the biggest gains in recent years, old favorites from General Motors’ 1950s lineup aren’t being left behind. Sporty trucks were still a novelty when the 1955 Chevrolet Cameo Carrier arrived, decked out in its signature smooth fiberglass bedsides. Not to be outdone, GMC turned on some Professional Grade charm that year with its own sport truck: the Suburban Pickup. In early promotional materials it was called the “Town & Country Runabout,” but the name change was likely an effort to avoid confusion with Chry ..read more

Elegance seems like such a simple term to understand until it comes time to define it, particularly in the automotive sense. Is it purely aesthetics that drive a car's elegance? The curves and the lines that come together and play off each other like the various instruments in an orchestra? Is it presence? A car's imposition on the prosaic and the expected? Maybe its provenance, its technological exceptionalism, its rarity, or just that somebody important vouched for it? The 1948 Kurtis-Omohundro has a little bit of all of the above going for it. But in the restoration of the car, one of two ..read more

In commemoration of the Chevrolet Corvette’s 70th Anniversary, the Petersen Museum is presenting a select collection of legendary Corvette race cars that left a mark in motorsports history. The display, titled “Corvettes in Competition: Racing America’s Sports Car,” takes a deep dive into how the Corvette went from the first mass-produced American sports car to America’s race car. The exhibit will feature legendary Corvette race cars like the original 1953 Chevrolet Corvette NASCAR and a 485-horsepower 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, chassis 004, the most successful in competition out o ..read more

It used to be that to see concept cars back in the day, you’d have to wait what seemed like years. You’d see them in the pages of a magazine, or at the big automotive shows, and if they were good, they’d make you stand back and gawk with wonder. However now, in the 21st century, automotive artist can create stunning automotive concepts in a matter of days utilizing some amazing software. Abimelec Arellano is one of those artists, and with a following of almost 75,000 fans on Instagram, his popularity is growing like wildfire. His conceptual automotive art constantly asks the question, “what ..read more

For more than a century, American automakers have looked outside of their home market for sales income. Sometimes this has meant building plants abroad to assemble vehicles for those markets. Other times, vehicles intended for sale in other countries have been made here and shipped elsewhere. The Chrysler Corporation began exporting U.S.-made cars in the 1930s, and that practice resumed in the postwar period with models like the De Soto Diplomat. The first Chrysler vehicles to be constructed south of the border were built in small numbers, starting circa 1939, by a Mexican-owned company ca ..read more

If you were to ask most any gearhead what element is most crucial in defining a modified car’s character, the most likely response would be that having the proper stance is absolutely essential. We can’t help but concur. Certainly, automotive styles have changed over time, but currently the trend is to reduce the ride height, and that practice is not without several benefits. For instance, a lowered center of gravity will always have a positive effect on your machine’s handling, while improved aerodynamics are also realized as less air can find its way under the car. And, depending on the ..read more

We all know about Dodge’s Last Call car lineup that unleashed the 2023 Dodge Challenger Shakedown, Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger, the Charger Super Bee and Charger King Daytona, the Challenger Black Ghost, and the ground-pounding Challenger Demon 170. Now Mopar is squeezing in two last-minute additions to the final internal combustion V8 Dodge muscle cars before the automaker transitions to electric power. “For the first time, Mopar is producing two matching performance vehicles for the annual factory-vehicle customization program,” Dodge’s performance parts division boasts. The l ..read more

When Todd Stong returned home from Vietnam in December 1968, he found himself ready, willing, and financially able to snatch up a new, hot ride to call his own. “I had saved my money in the military and decided to jump back into the car market. I quickly bought myself a ’68 Mustang GTA from a friend whose wife unexpectedly got pregnant, ” Todd says. However, that pony car didn’t last long in the new owner’s stable, as he soon found out the Mustang didn’t work very well in the snowy winter weather that was typical at his home in Trooper, Pennsylvania. Six months later, Todd was back in the hu ..read more