The opus of the muscle car, where it all began … almost everyone is in agreement that it was with the advent of Pontiac’s GTO that the muscle car movement came to be. Before it there were no factory manufactured hot rods to which young Americans could aspire. In a GM-centric view of automotive history,…
The jury was still out when Chevrolet’s 1954 Corvette showed up in dealer showrooms across the U.S. Did it fullfill the pent up demand for a two-seater sports car in the American landscape? There is no doubt the ’54 model made some improvements over the first-year 1953 Corvettes. It had a revised grille, new exterior…
Every custom car collector’s dream is to own a legendary show car. After years of custom fabrication and endless hours of wet sanding and polishing to perfection, a show quality custom will impress show goers so much that it will live in their memories for a lifetime. But it seldom happens that a top show…
426 Hemi Mopar muscle cars are the ones all others are judged by. If you want to give respect to an engine you compare it with the Elephantine Hemi. Just mentioning the word “Hemi” in a crowded room will make you the center of attention. You can probably feel the ground shake as we…
Carroll Shelby must have been mystified when everyone wanted his rare little Cobras and Mustang Shelby muscle cars. Probably the worst part was that everybody was making money off his name … everybody except him. So he began marketing some of his own replicas under his Continuation series. One of the rarest of these was…
Before Carroll Shelby’s Cobras and Jim Hall’s Chaparrals there was an American racer and car builder named Bob Carnes who built amazing race cars out of his shop in Colorado. They called them Bocars, and racing history will rate them as the “scurge of the Scarabs.” The rarest of these cars were known as Stilettos…
We think of classic Camaro 427’s as iconic cars to be cherished today. But back in the day, they were born to race and get beat up at the dragstrips. Finding one with low miles and all its original sheet metal would be amazing. This week a private party seller from Ohio posted his…
Is there any car more popular in the American collector car market than a ’57 Chevy Convertible? This should not offend anyone but the car most collectors would chose over a ’57 Chevy is the venerable and harder-to-find 1958 Chevrolet Impala Convertible. And just this week, we noticed that a Rio Red 1958 Chevrolet Impala…
A few cars in automotive history have achieved a folk lure level of notariety that you might call legendary. The 1970 Plymouth Hemi Superbird is one of those cars. It was what brought Richard Petty back to Plymouth for the 1970 NASCAR season. Those high banked super speedways such as Talladega and Daytona were made…
When an everyday muscle car met up with this 1970 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV at the track it would leave them in its exhaust. You could put a “Bye, Bye!” sign in the back window and know it would be well read. The Ram Air IV GTO was a breed of its own. With…