SlashGear This '70s Honda Was Still Factory-Fresh After Almost Five Decades In A Crate For every bargain classic, there's another old-school motorcycle that has a surprisingly high resale value. Brand, condition, and rarity all play a part in determining that value,…
HIGHLAND, Ill. (First Alert 4) - A 1973 Mustang built by Extreme Muscle Cars in Highland is competing in the Battle of the Builders event at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The car is called the Shot Caller. Some call the SEMA Show…
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Every classic was a new car once. The split-window Sting Ray was a showroom special in 1963, and the dual-quad 1956 Corvette we found hiding in a Massachusetts collection was just another Corvette order before time and survival made it rare. Collectors…
The car is part of the David Neuman Collection, offered by Wisconsin auction house Sell It Now in partnership with Hagerty Marketplace. According to the listing, Neuman was an avid Ford collector from West Allis, Wisconsin, an active member of…
“Back in 2000, we did eClassics auctions where we used to tie television, we did a half-hour TV show, and then we sold cars. And what we ran into back then was technology,” Barrett-Jackson’s chairman and C.E.O., Craig Jackson,…
Five years on, Ford's questionably-named pony car is proving itself in the long haul, just like the "real" one. Drives and handles better than almost every other EV, looks good, easy to live with, well-pricedpossibly the best-built Ford product Slightly…
That is the thesis of this deep dive. The Stag is a car collectors price according to what has been proved about its engine, and the spread between a documented example and a mystery one is the story. Production ran…
A 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 will be among the highlights at SEMA 2026. Built by Classic Recreations, the GT500CR is described as the world’s only production, officially licensed carbon-fibre-bodied example. The car recently made its debut at the Concours at Wynn Las Vegas…
Ringbrothers has built some extraordinary American muscle cars over the years, but its latest creation might be one of its most elegant. Beneath the deep blue paint and polished chrome sits a Pontiac that's been extensively reengineered without losing its…
The muscle car is America's great automotive contribution to the art of excess: take an ordinary mid-size body, drop in the biggest V8 the engine bay will swallow and sell it to young buyers at a price they can almost afford. The results were loud, fast in a straight line, occasionally terrifying in a corner and utterly beloved. This page follows that breed, the classic originals and their modern descendants, and the arguments that still rage about both.
The golden age was brief and blazing. Pontiac's 1964 GTO is widely credited with starting the craze, the Ford Mustang created the smaller pony car the same year, and soon Chevrolet's Chevelle SS and Camaro, Plymouth's Road Runner and Barracuda, and Dodge's Charger and Challenger were battling for stoplight supremacy with engines such as the 426 Hemi. Insurance surcharges, emissions rules and the 1973 oil crisis ended the party in the early 1970s, leaving a generation of survivors that now cross auction blocks for staggering sums.
The revival came in the 2000s, when retro-styled Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers brought back the formula with modern brakes and supercharged horsepower that would have seemed like science fiction in 1970. Dodge's Hellcat models made 700-plus horsepower a showroom item. That era is closing: the Camaro and the V8 Challenger and Charger bowed out, leaving the Mustang as the last traditional pony car, while Dodge's new Charger arrived with electric and six-cylinder power to mixed reactions from the faithful.
Coverage here follows classic muscle restorations and auction results, history and trivia, Mopar, Ford and Chevrolet performance news and the ongoing debate over what muscle means when the cylinders, or the gasoline, disappear. Expect plenty of passion on every side of that argument. Whatever comes next, the originals are not going anywhere: they still rumble into cruise nights, drag strips and auction halls, reminding everyone why a big engine in a simple car became such an enduring part of American identity.
GTOs, Hemis, Hellcats and Mustangs: America's loud, proud muscle cars, from 1960s legends to the electric and six-cylinder era now upending them.
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