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Filmed at a car meet in Kotka, Finland, this video captures a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and its 440-cubic-inch V8 doing nothing more than idling and revving for a crowd, yet it has racked up hundreds of thousands of views. Uploader Jamboolio lets the exhaust note do the talking, and international commenters from Germany to Australia all agree on what they are hearing. Watch to find out why this specific Charger has become a small internet sensation an ocean away from Detroit.
This 1966 Chevelle convertible skips the trailer-queen treatment in favor of being a genuinely great driver, and it’s got the pedigree to back it up. The original ’66 redesign gave Chevelle its iconic coke-bottle shape and spawned the SS 396, of which only 5,429 convertibles were ever built. This particular car swaps in a supercharged LSX for modern muscle, wrapped in a custom interior and a stance that nails the look.
At the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom in Scottsdale, Lou Costabile talks with Showroom Sales Associate Mike Hoye about a 1972 Chevrolet Camaro SS finished in an uncommon Gulf Green paint over a 350 V8. 1972 marked one of the final years for the original SS badge before it disappeared from the Camaro lineup for a decade. See what makes this color and condition combination stand out.
General Motors capped the Camaro’s engine displacement in a way that put it at a disadvantage against rivals — until one Pennsylvania dealer decided the rulebook didn’t apply to him. Don Yenko’s dealer-built engine swaps eventually became a factory-documented option, and decades later the same name resurfaced on a supercharged Camaro built specifically to answer the Dodge Demon. Here’s how a workaround became one of Chevrolet’s most enduring performance names.
This 1969 Dodge Charger isn’t a restoration – it’s a transplant, with the classic fastback body dropped directly onto the chassis of a 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat. That donor brought along a 707-horsepower supercharged HEMI, modern suspension, and a thoroughly contemporary interior, all wrapped in unmistakable late-1960s sheet metal. The build sits at the center of a growing restomod trend that trades numbers-matching purity for something that can actually keep up with modern traffic.
This 1977 Pontiac Firebird Esprit in Buckskin Gold carries a direct link to The Rockford Files, the car James Garner’s character made famous on TV. But its history runs deeper than a screen connection – a mid-1977 factory supply shortage quietly swapped the engine spec partway through the model year. Add the redesigned square-headlight front end and rare option packages like Skybird, and this Esprit turns out to be more complicated than its laid-back reputation suggests.
AMC wasn’t supposed to be a player in the pony car wars at all — until Roger Penske and driver Mark Donohue took over an ailing Javelin program and built a race car from scratch in barely six months. By 1971, that Javelin was winning races by five-lap margins and had taken the manufacturer’s championship right out from under Ford and Chevrolet. Read on to find out how the smallest of Detroit’s automakers became Trans-Am’s biggest underdog story.
A memory made at a Denver-area drag strip in 1998 turned into an almost two-decade quest for one Camaro enthusiast. When he finally found the exact black 1991 Z28 that had stuck with him since high school, he was also picking up the final model year before Chevrolet redesigned the Camaro entirely. See how patience, engine choices, and a five-speed gearbox all came together in one featured car.
Mistaken for his teammate’s identical car and later disguised as a Road Runner and then a Dodge Charger, this Plymouth Superbird spent decades with its true history erased, until a collector’s detective work and Richard Petty’s own crew proved The King really had driven it. A full restoration at Petty’s shop brought one of NASCAR’s genuinely lost cars back into the light.
Ford built 3,939 Torino GT convertibles for 1970, and the body style survived only one more model year before disappearing. Most got the mild 351 two-barrel, with 1,289 of those paired to an FMX automatic. At the top of the range sat roughly 64 convertibles with the 429 Cobra Jet, split about 37 automatics to 27-32 four-speeds. Read on to find out what to check before deciding what this yellow droptop is really worth.
The ‘Unicorn C5’ twin-turbo Corvette already put down 980 horsepower on the dyno once, then spent three months getting torn apart, rebuilt, and delayed by broken parts before the team at 1320video could chase the number again. Tucking a pair of turbochargers into a C5’s notoriously tight engine bay is never simple, and this build proves it. The team found a few more horsepower along the way and plans to push it further still.
The Buick Riviera GS looked like a country-club cruiser, but hiding under its sculpted hood was a 430-cubic-inch V8 making 360 horsepower — enough muscle to embarrass cars that looked far more aggressive. Only about one in ten Rivieras built in 1969 left the factory with the GS handling package, making genuine survivors a rare find today. Between hidden headlights, retractable wipers, and a drivetrain most buyers never even asked about, this personal-luxury coupe hid a genuine sleeper’s heart.
Steve Brody’s 1964 Pontiac GTO convertible scored 997 out of 1,000 points at judging – fitting for the car most historians credit with starting the entire muscle car era. Pontiac’s team built it around a GM displacement loophole, and sales managers were so unsure of demand they capped the first run before realizing they’d underestimated buyers by a wide margin. Here’s the real story behind the car that started it all.
Not every muscle car story needs a famous name attached – this small-block Chevy V8 build is built around something simpler: a dad, his son, and a car that’s more about bringing a crew together than chasing horsepower records. Here’s why builds like this one still matter as much as the six-figure survivors.
By 1972, Oldsmobile’s 4-4-2 had been quietly demoted from its own model to an option code, built on its final A-body convertible platform before a full redesign eliminated the body style. Only a small fraction of that year’s 4-4-2-optioned Cutlasses were convertibles, and fewer still carried the top W-30 455 engine package. Here’s how rare the combination actually turned out to be.