American Classic & Muscle Car News

StangNet, one of the most popular Ford Mustang portals on the web has taken on a very ambitious Mustang project in partnership with Ford Racing dubbed ‘Built to Cruise’.  StangNet’s ’Built to Cruise’ project  involves an 1989 LX 5.0 Mustang notchback that will receive a new 2011 Mustang 5.0-liter V-8 engine.  StangNet will be the first to transplant a 2011 5.0 [...]

Barrett-Jackson and Shelby American are teaming up again to sell another piece of history.  This time they will auction off a 2011 Shelby GT350 with serial #350 at the Palm Beach BJ event in April.  Following a successful unveiling of the supercharged 2011 Shelby GT350 at the BJ event in January Shelby American will auction a very signifigant [...]

Demand for the 2011 Ford Mustang is heating up even though no models have been produced yet.  Since the order banks opened on January 18th customers have placed 11,000 orders for the 2011 Mustang GT, V-6 and Shelby GT500 models.  Production on the 2011 Mustang is slated for some time in April with models arriving [...]

Well it’s been a bit of a wait since we saw the intitial concept drawings of Classic Recreations new offering in partnership with Carroll Shelby, but now they have finally unveiled a prototype model that looks badass! checkout the pics after the jump.
The new models take some of the Eleanor stylings but also attempts to [...]

The 2011 DUB Edition Mustang GT is a specially prepared one-off custom car built by DUB Magazine for Grammy Award winning hip-hop artist Nelly.  The customized 2011 Mustang GT was built for Nelly to use for his next albums cover art which should come out sometime this spring.  So far all we have seen are [...]

Our friends at Fastlane, Inc’ of Houston, Texas posted a new video of their twin turbo Shelby GT500 which cranks out 884 rear wheel horse power and 876 rear wheel foot pounds of torque, insane! Check out the video below for the intensity’

Following a first-year sell out of 100 factory-built program vehicles in 2009, Mopar announced its 2010 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak program’ For 2010, the non-street legal V-8 powered, rear-wheel drive Dodge Challenger is available with the 6′1 liter HEMI® that may be set up with a 5-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmission’

According to MotorTrend , the next generation Chevrolet Camaro which is due in 2014, will get the new “Alpha” rear suspension platform found on the Cadillac CTS, ditching it’s current “Zeta” rear wheel drive platform which is heavier and more expensive to produce’ GM ditched the Alpha platform from the current generation Camaro because it [...]

CORSA Performance Exhausts, a TMG Performance Products company, has developed a premium performance exhaust system engineered specifically for the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO 3′5L EcoBoost V6′ The new CORSA Taurus SHO cat-back exhaust system (part number 14315) features a dual rear-exit design with Single 4-inch Pro-Series tips’ The exhaust system – which bolts directly to [...]

The 2011 Shelby GT350 will be the official pace car of the 2010 Shelby American Sprint Cup NASCAR race held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  This will be the first time the public will get to see the new supercharged Shelby GT350 in action and it will be the first time a Shelby GT350 [...]

Adding modifications to your Ford Mustang can be time consuming depending on your level of mechanical expertise with even the simpliest appearance items giving you trouble.  For those who have never touched a wrench and want to dress up their S197 Mustang GT Motorz TV has put together an episode for you.  Motorz TV  Season 3 [...]

Former U’S’ Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody is now in possession of his 10th Chevy Corvette, but instead of driving the 2010 Torch Red Grand Sport Convertible off a dealership lot, he recently picked it up at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky’

Mopar is bringing a truck-load of performance parts and accessories to Dodge Challenger’s 40th birthday party’ “Dodge Challenger is one of our most accessorized vehicles,” said Pietro Gorlier, President and Chief Executive Officer – Mopar Service, Parts and Customer Care, Chrysler Group LLC’ “Unlike any other automotive aftermarket company, Mopar parts and accessories are specifically [...]

@digg@ New video of the 2011 Shelby GT500 equipped with Ford’s SVT Package has hit the intarweb’ The kit includes 19×9′5 inch wheels in the front with 20×10 in th eback, GT500 spoiler, 3:73 axle ratio, aluminum engine block for the 5′4 resulting in an additional 10 horsepower, and more’ Check out the video below’

Well just about every Eleanor fan knows of or has seen pictures of Richard’s one-of-a-kind Super Snake Eleanor and last year I reported about how it was up for sale. Well now Richard has taken the next step and placed it on Ebay.
For those who don’t know Richard’s car has generated so much interest on [...]

Automotive gear head, Stacey David, recently gave MOTORZ TV a shout out in a recent commercial for his new season of Gearz, which took us by surprise’ Thanks Stacey! You can check out the premiere trailer over here ‘

As early as 2009, before the regulations of the new GT Championship came into force, Matech Concepts started developing a new Ford GT1 based on the prototype fielded in the previous season’ On the way to the Portuguese circuit at Portimão, Matech Competition stopped in Spain at the Ascari circuit to perform the roll-out of [...]

Two of the wildest and rarest 2010 Dodge Challenger models will soon be available to Dodge fans and collectors to commemorate 40 years of Dodge Challenger performance; the 2010 Dodge Challenger R/T Classic and Challenger SRT8® Furious Fuchsia editions’ With its Furious Fuchsia Pearl Coat exterior paint and all-new Pearl White leather performance seats, these [...]

Richard Petty will once again lead the Daytona 500 field but this time it will be from the specially prepared 2011 Mustang GT Daytona 500 pace car.  The Race Red 2011 Mustang GT pace car with the all-new 5.0-liter V-8 will be the first Ford product to pace the field of The Great American Race [...]

Do you find yourself wanting more after going through all the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 details and photos.  Well Ford Motor Company has released two video clips of the 2011 Shelby GT500 with the all-new aluminum-block supercharged 5.4-liter engine doing most of the talking.  The two videos include a coupe and convertible model running around a [...]