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This 1967 Chevelle skips a factory-correct restoration in favor of an old-school street machine build, complete with a big-block or LS swap, reinforced suspension, and deep-dish wheels. The choices made under the hood and underneath the body reveal a builder chasing a specific look and driving feel rather than numbers-matching authenticity. Read on for what actually separates a good street machine build from a great one.
This 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 has earned the nickname ‘Christine’ at car shows, but the story behind it has nothing to do with Stephen King. Buried in that year’s order sheet was an $83 option most buyers never checked — one that turned a comfortable family sedan into one of Detroit’s quickest full-size cars. Read on to find out what made it tick.
This 1969 Dodge Charger tribute recreates the General Lee’s most famous stunt, a jump over a muddy creek that echoes what The Dukes of Hazzard did to hundreds of real Chargers during its original run. The show almost used a different car entirely before a stunt coordinator changed course. Read on to find out why the Charger got the call instead.
Only about 39 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas were built with a factory 426 Hemi, and owner Tom Lembeck handed his keys to a first-time driver anyway. What follows is a stalled burnout attempt, two nervous laughs, and a reminder of exactly why NASCAR’s wing-car era got regulated out of existence. Watch to see what happens when someone drives a piece of Mopar history for the very first time.
Before 1966, Chevrolet’s big-block Chevelle existed only as a tiny, mid-year experiment built in roughly 200 units. Then Chevy turned the SS 396 into a full series with three distinct engine options, and buyers snapped up around 70,000 of them at a base price under $2,800. Read on to find out which engine option collectors chase hardest today, and how a car that cost less than $3,000 new now commands six figures at auction.
This 1970 Dodge Charger wears Sublime, a High Impact paint color Dodge offered for a single model year before dropping it, paired with the legendary 426 Hemi under the hood. The combination of rare paint and an already scarce engine option makes this a genuine unicorn in the Mopar world. Read on to find out why one-year-only colors like this now command such a premium.
Park a 1968 and a 1969 Camaro side by side and most people call them twins. They aren’t. In twelve months, Chevrolet reworked the grille, the hood, the fenders, the taillights, and even the gauge cluster on America’s answer to the Mustang, changing the car’s entire visual identity without touching its basic proportions. If you can’t immediately tell the two years apart, you’re not alone. Read on to find out the six details that separate them for good.
Ford’s Mustang sold over 400,000 units in its first year and practically invented a category by accident. Chevrolet answered with the Camaro in 1967, and Dodge joined the fight in 1970 with the Challenger, setting up a three-way rivalry that played out on showroom floors and Trans-Am tracks alike. Here’s how one company’s runaway hit turned into the most famous three-way fight in American muscle car history.
Hagerty’s 2017 list of the best classic cars to buy leaned hard on 1980s models, and even early-2000s cars, as smart future investments, a call backed by real appreciation data rather than nostalgia. The same year, a $70 million Australian museum opened, the History Channel greenlit a series on a 57-year-old car museum, and a 650-horsepower Camaro ZL1 squared off against a Hellcat. Read on to find out what all of it says about where classic car values were headed.
Car #180 is one of only 34 Shelby GT350R competition coupes ever built, and under driver Tommy Hamilton it won International Conference championships in 1967 and five west coast titles in 1968 — more than 40 race wins across two seasons. Decades later, a comment from Hamilton’s own son turned this video’s technical debate about horsepower and dyno numbers into something far more personal. Watch to see why this particular Shelby still means so much to the people who remember it racing.
When the 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE lapped the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife in 7:16.04, more than 13 seconds quicker than the standard automatic ZL1, it was only part of the story. Seven of the ten quickest American cars ever to tackle that track wear a GM badge. Read on for how aerodynamics beat horsepower, why the manual gearbox was the right call, and why the depth of that list matters more than any single lap.
By 1976, most of Detroit had already abandoned genuine big-block muscle to insurance surcharges and tightening emissions rules. Pontiac’s Firebird Trans Am quietly kept selling a real 455 cubic inches that year anyway, paired exclusively to a four-speed manual and hidden inside a black-and-gold special edition few buyers ever noticed. Only 110 examples combined the 455 with factory Hurst T-tops. Read on to find out why this stubborn holdout has become one of the most collectible late-70s Trans Ams on the market.
The 1961 Chevrolet Impala’s razor-thin C-pillar and vast curved rear glass made it the purest version of GM’s bubbletop roofline, built for a single, unrepeated model year before Chevrolet redesigned the car for 1962. It also happened to be the first year for both the Impala Super Sport package and the legendary 409 cubic inch big block, a combination that makes a documented SS 409 bubbletop one of the most sought-after Impalas of the entire era. Read on to find out what made 1961 the only year Chevrolet built it quite like this.
Robert Lamb’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat just became the first of its kind to run a 9-second quarter mile on pump gas — no race fuel, no built engine, just a smart bolt-on parts list and a dialed-in tune. His 9.993-second pass at 137.89 mph came from a car he drives every day, not a dedicated race build. Read on to find out exactly what it took to break a barrier Hellcat owners have been chasing for years.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang refresh did more than reshuffle the sheet metal in response to a sharpened new Camaro. The GT quietly inherited a twin-disc clutch, suspension hardware, and Magnetic Ride Control straight off the Shelby GT350’s parts shelf, turning what looked like a mid-cycle facelift into a genuinely better driver’s car. Read on to see exactly what Ford borrowed from its own halo model.