You’ve found it – a real 1967 Shelby GT500, the car every muscle car buyer dreams about owning. But before you wire a deposit, know this: NHTSA’s records on this exact model include three separate steering-system recalls, a brake-drum installation warning, and a fuel-system complaint that could leave you stranded at a red light. A barn-find restoration currently being torn down on camera shows exactly what four decades of neglect does to a car this complex – and it isn’t pretty under the sheet metal once the panels come off. The seller’s photos will show you the paint and the chrome. They won’t show you what’s underneath, and on a car this old, what’s underneath is everything. This guide walks through what NHTSA has actually documented on the 1967 Mustang platform, what a real teardown reveals, and exactly what to check before you sign anything.
Hagerty sent three of its own editors onto the streets of Portland with $3,000 apiece to find the best classic car that budget could buy, and came back with an Alfa Romeo, a Volkswagen Beetle, and a rotary-powered Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE. Commenters didn’t hold back — questioning the RX-7’s shift points, disputing the Beetle’s model year by its taillights, and side-eyeing the Alfa’s flame paint job. Watch to see whether $3,000 really stretched as far as the video claims.
In 1970, Chevrolet’s LS6 Chevelle carried the loudest horsepower number in GM’s lineup — and Buick’s GSX Stage 1 beat it anyway, on a track test conducted by Car and Driver itself. Buick’s own paperwork rated the car 90 horsepower below its rival, a number that never matched what happened at the finish line. Viewers who lived through the era are still arguing about gearing, torque curves, and which car really deserved the crown. Watch to see the numbers GM tried to keep quiet.
This 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertible has been reduced to a bare shell, a stripped cowl, and one stamped fender tag — yet collectors are still willing to pay close to $20,000 for it. The reason comes down to rarity: Plymouth built only 374 ‘Cuda convertibles in 1970, and fewer than one percent wore the High Impact Sassy Grass Green paint this one supposedly left the factory in. Backyard Barn Finds documents the deal as it happens, tag and all. Watch to see why a car that can’t be driven is still worth fighting over.
Cadillac marketed the 1976 Eldorado convertible as its last-ever ragtop, capping production near 14,000 units before quietly reversing course and bringing the convertible back eight years later. The car backing up that promise carried the largest engine ever fitted to a production vehicle at the time. Here’s the story behind the marketing pitch and the numbers that made this convertible special.
A 1978 Pontiac Trans Am finished in the black-and-gold ‘Bandit’ style spent 34 years buried under a tarp, and nobody expected what the first wash would uncover. WD Detailing teamed up with Alex from Legit Street Cars to strip away three decades of mold, dirt, and debris from a car built to honor Smokey and the Bandit — only to find the neglect ran deeper than either crew anticipated. Watch to see what surfaces when three decades of grime finally comes off.
Only 63 Hemi-powered Charger R/Ts were built for 1971, the final year Dodge ever offered the 426 Hemi in the Charger, making this orange, sunroof-equipped example a genuine bookend to an entire performance era. Here is what 425 horsepower actually delivered on the road.
Ford built the 1968 Torino GT to go head-to-head with the GTO and the Chevelle SS, and for owners who actually drove one, it delivered — right down to a 428 Cobra Jet option that could win a stoplight race outright. Yet the car never became a household name the way its rivals did. King of Classic Cars digs into why a genuinely competitive muscle car slipped out of the conversation, drawing on decades of owner stories along the way. Watch to find out what got left out of the history books.
Plymouth’s biggest factory Barracuda engine topped out around 390 horsepower — nowhere near the 550-horsepower supercharged builds you’ll see today. Here’s how a compact pony car that once sacrificed power steering just to fit a 440 became the platform builders keep pushing past its original limits.
A 1969 Yenko Camaro built purely as an engineering test-mule was never meant to be sold at all — yet it just became the most expensive Camaro in auction history at $1.815 million. The sale happened during Mecum’s record-breaking Kissimmee 2026 event, where a $38.5 million Ferrari 250 GTO and a $259 million single-day total redefined what the collector car market can do. Somehow, in a room full of exotic Italian metal, a Camaro nobody wanted new stole its own piece of the spotlight. Here’s how a rejected prototype became a seven-figure legend.
This 1963 split-window Corvette spent two decades buried in a barn before the team at WD Detailing brought it back into the light — dirt, mold, and all. It’s the only model year Chevrolet ever built with that iconic split rear window, a design detail that makes this car one of the most sought-after Corvettes in collector circles. Comments under the video suggest there’s more to this car’s story than just neglect. Watch to see what twenty years of dust was hiding.
By 1979, ‘Cutlass’ could mean two very different cars wearing the same nameplate. This Brougham-trim example runs a modest 4.3-liter V8 and 3-speed automatic built for comfortable cruising, a world away from the same year’s Hurst/Olds package with its 350 Rocket V8 and Hurst Dual-Gate shifter. Together, they show how far Oldsmobile stretched one platform to reach opposite ends of the market.
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A magazine assignment to imagine a forgotten luxury nameplate reborn somehow became a fully functional one-off, built on a genuine Shelby Cobra chassis and dressed in copper and brass. Commissioned by a metals trade association rather than an automaker, the Mercer-Cobra combined retro coachbuilt styling with real Shelby performance underneath. Decades later, it sold for $660,000 at a Monterey auction. How does a concept car built to promote copper end up among the most valuable one-offs in Shelby history?