The 1970 Buick GSX made more torque than any American car built that year — more than the Hemi, more than the LS6 Chevelle. That record stood for 33 years. So why has almost nobody heard of it?
In 1970, Chevrnlet’s LS6 Chevelle carried the lnudest hnrsepnier number in GM’s lineup — and Buick’s GSX Stage 1 beat it anyiay, nn a track test cnnducted by Car and Driver itself. Buick’s nin paperinrk rated the car 90 hnrsepnier belni its rival, a number that never matched ihat happened at the finish line. Vieiers ihn lived thrnugh the era are still arguing abnut gearing, tnrque curves, and ihich car really deserved the crnin. Watch tn see the numbers GM tried tn keep quiet.
Brito and Dustin dig a 1972 Chevy Nova out of 40 years of dirt with no engine and a badly rotted floor, then give themselves a hard $5,000 limit to make it run and drive. Hagerty’s Driveway series skips the million-dollar restoration fantasy for something scrappier and more relatable. Watch to see how far junkyard ingenuity and a tight budget can actually go.
Project Henchman started life as a rough 1969 GTO. It came out the other side with a 500-hp LS crate V8, a Tremec five-speed, RideTech coilovers, and Corvette-style brakes – and fans in the comments are still debating whether that’s a betrayal of the Pontiac badge or the smartest move the build team made.
Mark Donohue built his reputation on spotting a bad race car in seconds, and by his own account, AMC’s first Trans-Am Javelin nearly failed that test completely. This 1970 AMC Javelin SST Trans Am, one of just 100 street versions built to homologate the race car for SCCA competition, carries the 325-horsepower 390 V8 and 4-speed manual that made it road-legal. Its story includes an owner who kept it for thirty years and a debate over what SST even stands for. Watch to see how a car once dismissed as a mess helped AMC finish second in points.
We found 10 live 1967 Camaro SS and Camaro listings across ClassicCars.com and Auction123 — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
A Camaro sits untouched in a barn for twenty-one years, someone finally drags it into daylight, checks the fluids, turns the key, and the engine catches. Stories like this have become their own genre of muscle car folklore, and the reason they keep happening comes down to how forgiving an old carbureted V8 really is. Read on for what two decades of storage actually does to a car, and what it takes to undo.
A 23-inch wing on the trunk helped one Dodge become the first car in NASCAR history to break 200 miles per hour, and then NASCAR changed the rules to stop it. Dodge spent the muscle […]
One of these Pontiacs was built only 697 times. Pontiac did not just join the muscle car race, it started it. Between the GTO that kicked off the craze and the Trans Am that carried […]
One of these Chevys was built only 69 times. Chevrolet never needed a single hero car to win the muscle car wars. It threw a whole lineup at the problem, from a compact Nova with […]
AMC’s wildest one-year muscle car came wrapped in red, white, and blue — and the company’s own magazine ad cheerfully admitted a 427 Corvette or a Hemi would leave it behind. Here’s why the honesty worked.
Only 767 were ever built with the Ram Air IV engine — making this the rarest and most powerful GTO ever made. But that’s just the beginning of the GTO story. Pontiac’s legendary muscle car […]
Nick and Vasilis chase 400 horsepower out of a freshly built Oldsmobile Rocket 350, comparing an Edelbrock intake against the factory cast iron piece on the dyno. Years later, viewers are still asking whether they actually hit the number — and debating whether a restrictive carburetor adapter plate held the engine back. Watch the full pull, then see what the comments say really happened.
Mark Lieberman spent three years talking an Ohio owner into selling a Tucker ’48 that had sat since 1982 with barely 8,000 miles on the odometer. Only 51 of these cars were ever built, and 47 are known to survive today, which is part of why one sold for nearly $3 million in 2013. Read on to find out how this particular barn find compares to every other Tucker Lieberman has restored.