Cross-marque stories

Hurst put its name on an Oldsmobile, an AMC, and a shifter in almost everything else — three different kinds of collaboration that get told as one.

Belvedere, Road Runner, Charger, and the Daytona: what Chrysler actually let a 1969 buyer order, and where the catalogue stops supporting the legend.

Six manufacturers, one model year, and a showroom argument in which the badge on the fender told a buyer far less than the option code did.

The peak year, read across twelve sources: what six manufacturers advertised in 1970 and how little of it can be compared directly.

The year one factory page carried gross and net ratings for the same engines, and every horsepower argument since has been conducted in two languages at once.

A Buick that outran the Corvette, a 5.0 that outsold everything, and a model year where the badge on the fender finally stopped telling you what you had.

Eighteen sources, no agreed shape: a Mustang ending its Dearborn run, a GTO shipped from Australia, and a Marauder nobody quite knew how to sell.

Three letters, one Holden Monaro, and a reintroduction that asked American buyers to accept a shape they had not been arguing about for thirty years.

The last Mustang model year built at Dearborn, and what the plant's closure actually did and did not mean for the car.

One Brampton assembly recipe produced a Challenger, a Charger, and a 300 that argue three different cases from the same components.

A sketch became the first Mopar-branded production special, which makes it a useful test of where a brand ends and a vehicle configuration begins.

Camaro, Challenger, and Mustang in showrooms at the same time again — and an engineering argument that had moved on while everyone was remembering 1970.

Chevrolet gave a rear-drive V8 sedan a clutch pedal almost nobody asked for, in the year that decision stopped being commercially explicable.

Flat Rock builds a Mustang for markets that had never officially had one, and independent rear suspension stops being the argument it had been for decades.

Two keys, two power levels, one supercharged Hemi — a factory deciding how much of a car a driver gets to use.

Brampton's final shift closed the Challenger, the Charger, and the 300 together, ending three different arguments with one assembly line.

A helicopter lowered the Demon 170 into Las Vegas, which tells you most of what you need to know about how the era chose to end.

Flat Rock hands the Mustang from S550 to S650 — the only one of the three still standing, and the handoff that proves it.