Nostalgia is turning affordable muscle into expensive collector cars.

Few all-original fuel-injected 5.0-liter V-8 Mustangs survive today, making this no-reserve Mecum lot all the more fantastic.

It was late 1978, and the new 1979 Ford Mustang had me mesmerized. It was modern and sleek and didn’t ape all the Mustangs before it. No horse in the grille, no silly C-shaped scallop along its flanks ...

The 1980s were a strange and pivotal time for American muscle cars. After a dismal mid-1970s slump, the decade began with underpowered V8s struggling to make 150 horsepower. But technology was ...