The heat is on, and so is the horsepower! The August 2026 Issue of RPM Magazine storms in with a killer trio of American muscle as a Firebird, Camaro, and Mustang dominate the pages of this scorching summer edition.
Packed with Wild High Horsepower, Extreme Street Machines, and Exclusive Drag Race Action, this issue is loaded from cover to cover with the kind of no-holds-barred performance that’s made RPM Magazine the leader in high-horsepower motorsports.
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4 EYES ON THE PRIZE – BRIAN BLAKE
BLU SS – PAUL MANCUSO
Sometimes the cars we build don’t start with a detailed blueprint….Sometimes they start with family. For Paul Mancuso of Missouri, the spark came from watching his twin brother Adam transform a stock 14-second 1998 Pontiac Trans Am—better known as the “Blu Bird Bandit”—into a bottom nine- second street bruiser. Watching that evolution lit the fire, and before long Paul found himself…
BIG TIME MUSCLE – CHEVY KRUCK
At just 18 years old, Kruck pilots the turbocharged, big-block-powered F-body that has clocked a best 1/8-mile elapsed time of 4.38 seconds at 177 mph. Just as his father started in drag racing early, Kruck started racing junior dragsters at six years of age at Prescott Raceway in Prescott, Arkansas. He dabbled in go karts for about a year, but by the time he was 15, he had moved into driving his father’s Trans Am.
UNBRANDED – RICHARD KINNISON
The Dodge community includes some of the most purist of purists, and why not – after all, they have every right to praise the Hemi, small and big block Mopar platforms…Richard Kinnison may not be a hardcore purist who decided to have a secret affair involving another brand, but there’s no doubt he likes to step outside the norm and be different. Coming from the import community…
