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Buick’s full-size 1964 Wildcat looked like a country-club cruiser, but the option sheet hid a 360-horsepower dual-quad 425 and a four-speed stick behind that formal grille. Only 7,850 convertibles were built that year, and a rare survivor with the full performance package still turns heads six decades later.
A numbers-matching 1979 Pontiac Trans Am Special Edition, the black-and-gold Bandit car everyone remembers from the movies, just got the full walkaround treatment. Turns out the actual Smokey and the Bandit stunt cars werent real 1977 models at all, and depending on which V8 landed under this ones shaker scoop, it might not even be the strongest Trans Am Pontiac built that year.
A patina-caked 1969 Chevrolet Nova with a 383 stroker under the hood has racked up nearly 400,000 views without a single line of fresh paint. Its owner chose rust over a respray, turning a fifty-year-old beater into one of the internet’s favorite sleepers. Here’s the story behind the build, and why the untouched look might be worth more than a show-quality finish.
Only 2,743 buyers ordered the R/T package on a 1971 Dodge Charger, and just 63 of those left the factory with a 426 Hemi under a mandatory RamCharger hood. Steve Dulcich’s own ‘Golden Boy’ is one of the survivors still doing exactly what Dodge built it to do — getting driven, hard, on the open road.
A 1970 Chevelle SS built by NR Classics trades its factory big block for a 468 stroker that Chevrolet never offered from the showroom floor. Air suspension, Wilwood brakes, and a Holley Sniper EFI system replace nearly everything else underneath the blacked-out body. It keeps the shape people fell for in 1970 and rethinks almost everything that made it hard to live with.
A crew called B is for Build stripped a 2019 Mustang GT down to its chassis and wrapped it in reproduction 1967 Fastback panels, racing a two-week deadline to debut it at SEMA as a Shelby GT500 tribute. The real 1967 GT500 was already rare — Ford built only 2,048. This one borrows its look, not its lineage, and viewers can’t stop asking how the crew pulled it off in time.
A 1964 Mercury Marauder with the factory-rare dual-quad 427 — one of just 42 built that year — turned up at a Detroit car show still owned by the same man for two decades. Nick Zakarian’s fastback-roofed big Mercury hides one of the rarest engine options Ford Motor Company ever sold. Here’s the NASCAR-bred history behind the nameplate most muscle car fans have forgotten.
You’ve found it: a numbers-matching 1967 Corvette Sting Ray, big-block 427 under the hood, sitting in a barn find listing or a classifieds ad with a price that seems almost too good. Before you hand over a deposit, understand what you’re actually buying. The C2 Sting Ray’s fiberglass body can hide decades of hidden rust in the steel frame and birdcage structure underneath it, and a “numbers-matching” claim is only as good as the paperwork and stampings behind it. One restoration featured by Car and Driver — of a 427 roadster owned by the magazine’s own technical director — shows exactly how deep those problems can run, and how rewarding it is to dig them out properly. This guide walks through what that restoration revealed, what NHTSA has on record for the Corvette of this era, and what you need to check before you buy.
A single stretch of muscle car headlines captured just how wide the hobby’s range really is: a collector-car auction billing itself as the world’s largest, a long-overdue disc brake upgrade for classic GM cars, and a 526-horsepower Ford Shelby GT350 built around a flat-plane crank V8. Read on to see how a record auction, a cheap brake fix, and one seriously fast new Mustang all connect.
A Cleveland engine shop is turning genuine 797-horsepower Hellcat Redeye HEMIs into complete, pre-wired units that ship on a pallet and bolt into nearly any Challenger. The clip proves the concept about as literally as possible, firing the motor with nothing else attached. Here’s what’s actually inside the swap, and why Dodge never sold this powertrain as a standalone option.