Muscle Cars

The Ford Mustang has built a reputation as one of the nation's most popular sports cars. Since the car's introduction in 1964, enthusiasts have flocked to dealerships as new models hit the...

America has long had a fascination with its fast and furious muscle cars. Muscle cars hark back to the classic Ford Mustang, Pontiac GTO, Chevy Camaro, Plymouth Roadrunner and other models of the...

Classic Mustangs are quite possibly the most recognizable automobile from the 1960s and early 1970s. These cars have steadily appreciated in value as the number of classic Mustangs in good...

Bowtie and Vortec (trademarks of GM) cylinder heads are produced by GM's Chevrolet Division. Both have found favor in high-performance applications such as stock car or drag racing and in...

Ford's Boss 302 small-block engine was designed specifically for racing and is extremely valuable and rare, due in part because the Boss 302 was only produced for the 1969 and 1970 model years. By...

The Plymouth Road Runner is viewed as one of the classic American muscle cars. Today, the car is popular with collectors and car enthusiasts, though when it was first released in 1968, the car was...

The Pontiac GTO is one of the more highly collectible and sought after muscle cars. The car was produced for over a decade before Pontiac pulled the plug, but a newer version was released,...

From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, American muscle cars were all the craze among automobile enthusiasts. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo was introduced in 1970 at the height of the muscle car era....

The purpose of the muffler is to reduce the noise that your car's exhaust system creates. You know when your car's muffler is damaged because it can be heard down the block and around the corner....

The Plymouth Barracuda, which became known as the 'Cuda in later years, was one of the original muscle cars, the high-performance, large-engine American vehicles that rose to prominence in the...

The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most iconic of American-made muscle cars. In 1967, the Camaro was considered General Motor's answer to the Ford Mustang. As the Camaro developed though the...

The racing pedigree of the Corvette is an enviable thing, so it's understandable that you'd like to become a part of it. If you own a Z06 in particular, you've basically bought yourself a...

The Ford Mustang is one of the most popular and recognizable vehicles ever produced by an American automobile manufacturer. First introduced in 1964, the Mustang was a relatively inexpensive...

Since its introduction in 1964, with the distinct "1964-1/2" model year, the Ford Mustang has been an iconic American muscle car. It became increasingly beefy and powerful before sinking in the...

Historically, the Ford Mustang has been an American favorite. Although there are differences between the V-6 and the GT (V-8), either model will give you years of driving pleasure. The GT Mustang...

The C-6 transmission is a heavy-duty three-speed automatic transmission manufactured by Ford Motor Company. The C6 was almost exclusively used for high performance vehicles and trucks. The C6 is...

The legendary Dodge Charger was produced by the Chrysler Corporation from 1966 to 1978, leading the automaker into the muscle car wars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Charger was conceived...

The Chevrolet El Camino was produced by General Motors from 1959 to 1960, and again from 1964 to 1987. Over its 30-year run, GM offered the El Camino with a wide variety of engines and...

Chevrolet was a major player in muscle car war waged in the mid and late 1960s between Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge and Plymouth. While Chrysler is credited with igniting the muscle car era with its...

The abbreviation "GT" has a close association with performance among Ford enthusiasts, something the car maker encourages and continues to foster through several models.

The Ford Mustang was first unveiled on April 17, 1964, to an audience of thousands at the World Fair in New York City. Originally developed in the early 1960s as a two-seater, the Mustang was...

The Chevrolet Chevelle was the Detroit automaker's mid-size offering intended to rival the Ford Fairlane and bring back some of the excitement generated by the 1955 to 1957 Chevy Bel Air models....

The muscle car is not only a staple of car culture, but of American culture as a whole. These powerful machines made an impact from the moment the first American car was fitted with a...

The term "muscle car" refers to a type of car that was produced by American automobile companies during the 1960s and 70s, a time often referred to by the automobile enthusiast as "The Muscle Car...

The perfection of the hemispherical engine by Chrysler in the early 1950s recast how American automakers manufactured and marketed engines for their cars. Since the debut of the "Hemi," automakers...

Code named "Allegro," the 'Stang, as it is known by many Mustang sports-car enthusiasts, is an American icon of 20th-century transportation technology. Nearly meeting its demise in 1979, it was...

This article will describe the first steps in a muscle car restoration, in this article we'll go through the evaluation, and tear down processes.

Superchargers and turbochargers are both performance-enhancing add ons that essentially do the same thing with slight differences. Both perform what's known as forced induction--and both have...

The Dodge Challenger is one of America's great muscle cars. Although it was only produced from 1970 to 1974, it left quite a mark on the classic car hobby. The first two years of production were...

The high-performance Ford Mustang SVT Cobra and the Cobra R are limited production vehicles manufactured by Ford to serve as a step up from the Mustang GT in performance packaging. With the...

The Mustang GT is almost always equipped with a rear spoiler, unless it's a convertible model. Other Mustang models may or may not be equipped with a rear spoiler. Many owners remove the spoiler...

Throughout its long history, the Chevrolet Corvette has consistently recorded progressively higher top speeds with each passing decade. While not known during its early years for its agile...

The 1970 through 1974 Dodge Challenger was a late-comer to the muscle car wars of the early 1970s, serving as an answer to Ford's Cougar, a luxury-type muscle car. But it more than made up for its...

The Chevrolet El Camino filled the niche by offering a pickup truck in a passenger car body. The El Camino was mounted on a station wagon platform, giving the owner the feel of a passenger car but...

The Ford Mustang--who doesn't love this classic car? The first of its kind, the Ford Mustang has somehow become one of the most popular sports cars ever. But no one thought it would achieve cult...

General Motors produced the Chevrolet Camaro from 1967-2009 with the exception of the 2003-08 model years. Five generations of the Camaro were manufactured with the second and third generations...

No one person can lay claim to the design of the Pontiac GTO, America's first true high-performance muscle car, but the concept of stuffing a 389-cubic-inch V-8 engine into the existing Pontiac...

The Dodge Charger joined the high-performance car boom of the mid and late 1960s and eventually became one of the most popular muscle cars on the American market. Its initial boxy straight...

Muscle cars have been around since the first horseless carriages began racing on dirt roads. But it wasn't until the 1960s, when Detroit automakers Ford, Chrysler and General Motors produced...

The engineering of the Hemi internal combustion engine, through its bowl-shaped or "hemispherical" combustion chamber, creates a more powerful engine by providing greater airflow for a better fuel...

The Shelby Mustang is a specially modified Ford Mustang named after designer Carroll Shelby. He worked with Ford to make the cars from 1967 to 1970. The Shelby Mustang is considered one the...

Chevrolet's Corvette is the quintessential American sports car. It represents the American automotive industry with its sleek frame, high performance and immediately recognizable shape. During the...

Some of the things that were lacking in a 40 year old muscle car is the ability to rapidly come to a stop. Although most people tend to focus on acceleration. Deceleration is also important. A...

The Mopar 383 "big block" is the one of the most famous racing engines to come out of the 1960s muscle car era. Generally, building a big block is a more expensive task than building a small...

Use these easy, quick tips to pick up 5 tenths at the dragstrip in your 5.0 mustang. Without breaking the bank.

Watching a muscle car generate enough torque to lift its front wheels off the ground can be exhilarating. With a little ingenuity and some modifications, you can learn to do a wheelie in your own car.

Everyday you drive on the highway while commuting to and from work, you always see the unfortunate man or woman who was caught during the stampede. Many of us don't sympathize, until that poor...

The Mopar Nationals are held every year at the National Trail Raceway in Columbus, Ohio. The race weekend is full of heart-racing battles between high powered cars. More than 50,000 fans visit the...

Classic Australian muscle cars are popular among collectors Down Under, taking their place alongside American and British counterparts as a dream item. Known more commonly as the Aussie muscle...

In 1964 that designers at Pontiac decided to drop a big block V-8 into a mid-size Tempest chassis and call it the GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato) Package. The light-bodied, big-engined street-fighter...