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Mike Cosculluela first fell for a 1969 Chevrolet Nova as a paperboy in rural Ohio, drawn in by the sound, the black paint, and the Cragar S/S wheels on a car he passed every day. Forty-plus years later, he owns one just like it — and drives it, rather than displaying it. The House of Muscle’s fourth episode traces that connection, and it’s left more than one viewer surprised by how much it affected them. Watch to see why.
Chevy didn’t build the 2014 Camaro Z/28 to win drag races — it built it to be the fastest Camaro around a road course, even if that meant giving up horsepower to its own ZL1 sibling. Strip away the back seat and most of the sound deadening, and what’s left is a 505-horsepower track weapon. Read on to find out how a car built to be slower in a straight line ended up faster where it actually counted.
By 1980, Chevrolet wasn’t putting big-blocks in the El Camino anymore — so a build like this one wearing a 454 didn’t come off any factory floor. It came out of a garage where somebody decided the rulebook didn’t apply. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make a truck-based platform swallow a genuine big-block Pro Street build.
One careful owner put just 17,000 miles on this 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS before the current owner tracked it down and restored it — and it’s a genuine, factory-built SS, not a badge job. Low-mile survivors like this one are rare precisely because most Novas of this era got driven hard and used up. Read on to find out what makes an original like this one different from anything else on the market.
Convertibles get overlooked in the muscle car world, and this scarce 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 drop-top is proof they shouldn’t be. Pontiac built barely over 11,000 open-air Firebirds that year, and adding the big-inch 400 on top made this combination rare even when it was new. Read on to find out what makes a genuine 400 convertible worth chasing decades later.
A first-gen Camaro convertible rolls up with a push-button ignition and an exhaust note that has nothing to do with 1969 — and everything to do with a build philosophy that swaps factory nostalgia for modern grip and driveability. This pro-touring ’69 keeps the silhouette everyone loves while quietly replacing everything underneath it. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make a 55-year-old convertible drive like new money.
This nearly-finished 1978 Pontiac Trans Am restoration wears the black-and-gold look every Bandit fan recognizes, but its real story is more complicated than the movie fame suggests. From the W72 400 under the hood to the WS6 handling package and the Y82 Special Edition trim, here’s what actually made this car an icon. Read on to find out what set a genuine survivor apart from the thousands of clones that followed.
Earl spent his entire working life saving up for a Lamborghini Miura. He finally bought one, drove it for years, then let it sit untouched in his garage for fifteen years as he grew older. When a determined collector named Jeff finally tracked the car down, he discovered a completely original, unrestored 1969 Miura now valued at $2.5 million. Watch the full story of a barn find fifty years in the making.
Chevrolet built the 1966 Corvette’s 427 big-block for one reason: Shelby’s Cobra was embarrassing American racing, and something had to answer it. Only 5,258 of the 27,720 Corvettes built that year came with the range-topping L72 427/425, a solid-lifter monster that could reportedly outrun its own factory horsepower rating. That scarcity is why numbers-matching L72 cars still command serious money at auction. Few options ever turned a sports car into a legend this fast.
Behind the muscle cars rolling through the South East Moparty Picnic is a Hollywood footnote almost nobody knows — the 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible Don Johnson drove in Nash Bridges wasn’t really a ’71 at all, because Plymouth only ever built eleven or twelve of the real thing. Here’s how three modified 1970 convertibles became one of TV’s most famous muscle cars, and why Mopar loyalists still argue about it today.
Not every SEMA show car is built to be photographed, this 2016 Camaro SS was built to be tested. ScottieDTV’s coverage reveals it served as the actual development mule for GM’s new LT1 engine before Lingenfelter Performance Engineering added a Magnuson supercharger and reshaped its output entirely. The wheels and exhaust came almost as an afterthought. What LPE actually did under the hood is the part worth understanding before you write this one off as just another show floor build.
This Gen V Dodge Viper wears a twin-turbo setup the factory never built, stacking boost on top of an 8.4-liter V10 that already made up to 645 horsepower stock. Dodge built only 2,427 fifth-generation Vipers before regulations and slow sales ended the model in 2017. What does it take to turn America’s last naturally aspirated supercar into a forced-induction street monster? This build has the answer.
No year, no trim, just an orange Barracuda lighting up its rear tires in a parking lot — and that’s enough to send any Mopar fan down a rabbit hole. Plymouth built the Barracuda for just eleven years, peaking with a legendary 1970 lineup that included a 340 six-pack special built purely to go racing. Here’s what made that short run so wild, and why it ended almost as fast as it began.
For the Camaro’s 50th anniversary, Chevrolet didn’t settle for a badge and a paint stripe. The sixth-generation car arrived smaller, sharper-handling, and backed by a lineup running from a 275-horsepower turbo-four up to a 455-horsepower SS V8, with a new ZL1 added specifically for the occasion. Here’s what made the anniversary edition — and the platform underneath it — genuinely worth the celebration.