Cars
The first time I drove “The Luse,” I was probably fifteen years old and absolutely should not have been behind the wheel of a 383 Magnum. It was a 1968…
Muscle Cars
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Nobody daily drives a muscle car because it’s practical. They do it because they’ve decided something about what practicality is actually worth.
Muscle Cars
There’s a moment that happens to almost everyone who spends serious time around these cars. You’re standing in a parking lot, or a show field, or maybe just a driveway, and someone fires up a big-block. Not a modern LS…
Muscle Cars
There’s a certain kind of legend that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t growl at you from a showroom floor or dare you to look away. It earns its place quietly, through purpose and precision, through doing exactly what it was…
Muscle Cars
There are cars that arrived at exactly the right moment, and cars that arrived one moment too late. The 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi sits squarely in that second category, and somehow that makes it more compelling, not less. It…
Muscle Cars
There’s a version of the Camaro story that gets told a lot, and it usually involves drag strips, big blocks, and the kind of horsepower numbers that make insurance actuaries reach for the antacids. That story is true. We’ve already…
Muscle Cars
There’s a version of this story most people know. The ZL1. The all-aluminum big block Camaro that Don Yenko wrestled out of GM’s corporate machinery one careful phone call at a time. We covered that car in Part 14, and…
Muscle Cars
If you read Part 13 on the L88 Corvette and thought, “okay, that’s probably the most insane thing Chevrolet ever stuffed into a fiberglass sports car,” I understand why. The L88 was brutal, barely streetable, and deliberately misrepresented on paper…
Muscle Cars
Something unusual happened when Chevrolet released the L88 option for the 1967 Corvette. They didn’t want you to buy it. They actively discouraged it. The order form warned buyers that the engine was “not recommended for highway use.” The heater…
Muscle Cars
There are cars that win races. There are cars that win hearts. And then, on rare occasions, there are cars that do something more uncomfortable and more lasting than either of those things. They win arguments. The 1970 Ford Mustang…