August 2019

Hemmings Muscle Machines

The Ultimate All American Performance Car Magazine.

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The Phantom Stash
I was in a friend’s garage the other day where he was showing me an extensive stash of parts for cars and trucks he doesn’t actually own. The items weren’t random—they were specific bits for certain vehicles, and he hadn’t happened upon them by chanc
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Jim Menneto, President Jonathan Shaw, Director of Product Terry McGean, Editor-in-Chief Richard Lentinello, Executive Editor Kurt Ernst, Editor, Hemmings Daily Mike McNessor, Editor, Hemmings Motor News J. Daniel Beaudry, Managing Editor Catheri
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Muscleaneous
Now in its 37th year, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is a 10-day extravaganza of motorsports and classic cars, offering something of interest for nearly all. The 2019 PVGP, which runs from July 11 to 21, will honor Shelby as its featured marque, p
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Production Line
On April 26 (aka “4/26,” or “Hemi Day”), Mopar Performance announced that it was taking orders for the Hellephant crate engine. Now, if you missed it at SEMA last year, the Hellephant is a supercharged 1,000-hp, 950-lb-ft V-8 that costs almost $30K.
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Backfire
I read your “Ghost Muscle” article in HMM #191 about a ’70 Road Runner convertible. You were correct in saying they aren’t all gone. I have a ’70 Road Runner convertible in Jamaican Blue. I have owned it since 1981, and it’s never been out of Minneso
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Optioned Right
WHEN DODGE INTRODUCED the Challenger to take on the Mustang and Camaro in 1970, it offered a slew of trim levels, from base to near-luxury SE to high-performance R/T to competition-spec T/A. Engine options in the brochure ranged from a couple of Slan
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Letter of the Month: All-Purpose Malibu
My story seems typical of many I read in your magazine: young soldier in Vietnam dreaming of buying a muscle car upon returning stateside, saving money ($135 a month in my case), using the car as a regular daily driver in all weather, trading it in f
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Double-barrel Goat
OWNING AND PRESERVING ANY VEHICLE for 52 years is a highly commendable endeavor. Paul Meyer, a retired high school business and marketing teacher from Dayton, Ohio, has held the title to this 1967 GTO convertible since its odometer read “00009.” But
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Dad, Dub Money, And The Eater Tiger
IN 1966, BILL LESTER might have been the luckiest high-school grad in Phoenix. He was given, as a graduation present, a slightly used 1965 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 four-speed. Not one like the one seen here, but this very 4-4-2. Now, lots of kids were given
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Owner’s View
“Some guys like their cars,” says Bill, “and they may go through a hundred different ones over their lifetime. Others, like me, love their cars, and are very happy with keeping the same one (or two)…. “I wanted it all: great handling, stopping, acc
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Surgery Without Scars
IN THE MARCH ISSUE (HMM #187) we did an installment in our series of Chevelle project stories covering the new exhaust system to complement the new 427 crate engine. The system was a kit from Pypes Performance Exhaust, and one of the features it incl
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1970 Ford Mustang Convertible First-gen For The Next Gen!
TEN YEARS AGO, Adam Scheps was scrolling through the internet looking at Ford performance cars for sale. A resident of Orange, Connecticut, Adam’s search had stemmed from a desire to bond with his son, Sam, in a hobby they could both enjoy. Adam had
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21 St -century Cobra Jet
AFTER A HUMBLE launch in the 1958 Edsel, Ford’s FE engine family — “FE” stood for Ford Edsel — became the company’s stalwart big-block platform for the Sixties, including the 406- and 427-cubic-inch powerhouses that drove Ford’s early Super Stock eff
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Flogging A Thoroughbred
IF EVER A CAR DIDN’T NEED advertising, it would be the Mustang. Word of mouth about the little coupe (and convertible) was rampant, and if the cover of Time didn’t suggest it, the stampedes in the streets and the fat dealer profits told Ford that it
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1962-’70 Total Performance
THE YEARS 1958 TO 1961 were bleak ones for those who liked fast cars, but preferred to purchase speed rather than build it in the garage. While 1957 had seen the new OHV V-8s taken to their pinnacle — Ford alone had both dual quads and a supercharger
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Enjoy The Performance ford Made Power Available To The Masses In The Thirties And Hasn’t Looked Back
FORD DEMOCRATIZED automotive performance with the original Flathead V-8 — in a land of popularly-priced Sixes, the V-8’s very existence was the high-performance variant. Launched for the ’32 model year, the 221-cubic-inch Flathead started at 65 horse
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro Iroc-z
EDDIE MURPHY RAW is still the highest grossing stand-up comedy concert film of all time, more than three decades after its 1987 debut. Wrapped in a veneer of purple leather, Eddie stalked the stage at Madison Square Garden, hurling F-bombs at topics
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The Company-Issue 4-4-2
c/o tmcgean@hemmings.com Jed Rapoport has been a car guy, literally all his life. Jed says, “I had no choice. I went to my first car show, Fall Hershey, at the age of three weeks in the back seat of my parent’s 1937 Cadillac convertible sedan.” His
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Ask Ray
Q: I have a 1994 Z28 with 33,000 miles that had a failed original OptiSpark distributor (non-vented). I replaced it with a Dynaspark and followed all the instructions, especially the vacuum-line routing. I did not notice the miss with the old distrib
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Swap Meet
Q: I’m an avid reader ofHMMandHemmings Classic Car, and I own many GM cars from the ‘60s. I’d like to buy some GM-logo heater hose, and a number of retailers I have called all say the same thing: They buy it pre-cut. Can you find out who can sell it
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Family Circle
YOU KNOW ALL OF US CAR people talk about the autos we once had and wish we still did… or ones that “got away.” I’ve got one for you. Back in the late ’70s, my dad and I were looking for a father-son project as I approached high school and my driver’s
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Gear
SUMMIT RACING • 800-230-3030 • WWW.SUMMITRACING.COM$19.99 (MEDIUM-XL); $21.99 (2XL-3XL) One of the most famous venues of the golden era of drag racing was Southern California’s Lions Drag Strip. This Long Beach institution, which got its name from th
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The Goods
EDELBROCK • 800-416-8628 • WWW.EDELBROCK.COM • $368.17-$606.85 New high-performance carburetors that deliver EFI-like smoothness are now available from Edelbrock. The AVS2 series uses the Qwik-Tune Secondary Air Valve to provide unlimited calibratio
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Product Test: Pedal Commander
PEDAL COMMANDER • 805-465-7677 • WWW.PEDALCOMMANDER.COM • $299 Does your modern vehicle’s factory throttle response lack the get-up-and-go that you desire? To improve it, you might expect some sort of computer reflash or other reprogramming. Instea
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Russo And Steele
IF YOU’VE NEVER BEEN, Scottsdale, Arizona’s, mid-January collector car auction week is expansive, with multiple sales sprinkled throughout the desert valley city and neighboring northern Phoenix. Among them is Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Au
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Auction News
At its most recent event, held April 12 and 13 at the Branson Convention Center in southern Missouri, The Branson Auction found new homes for 128 of 181 lots, for a sell-through rate of 71 percent. Total sales of vehicles tallied $2.66 million, inclu
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Flexible Stock-ness
jmcgowan@hemmings.com Ever since the mid-’80s, I have been extoling the virtues of stock muscle cars, as opposed to modified “street machines.” Back in the day, it was almost considered a sacrilege to take an original car and change any of the fact

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