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Overhaulin’ built its entire premise on secrecy, owners were lured away from their cars under false pretenses while Chip Foose’s crew tore the vehicle down to bare metal and rebuilt it as something unrecognizable. This 1970 Fastback came back wearing a 625-horsepower stroker big-block and a Vegas casino-themed name earned at the 2004 SEMA show. Read on to find out what it actually took to turn a stock Fastback into a high-roller’s garage centerpiece.
This “1965” Shelby AC Cobra carries a genuine CSX chassis number, a 550-horsepower 427 side-oiler, and just 6.1 miles on the odometer — numbers that don’t add up until you understand the continuation series Carroll Shelby’s own company built to keep his legend alive. Read on to find out what actually separates a car like this from the thousands of Cobra replicas on the road today.
Legens Hot Rods took a 1960 Ford pickup and gutted everything a straight-six workhorse used to be, dropping in a 5.0-liter Coyote V8 topped with a stacked, individual-runner injection setup borrowed straight from vintage racing. The build made the SEMA Show floor in 2016, with a custom interior and deep red paint built to match the ambition under the hood. See how a sixty-year-old work truck became a genuinely quick street build.
Yenko’s name has not meant much on a new car in decades, but a modern stroker build on the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport just brought it roaring back. With a supercharged 6.8-liter making roughly 800 horsepower, wrapped in Grand Sport hardware and genuine Yenko styling cues, only fifty of these were ever built. Read on to find out what’s actually under the skin.
This 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula shows just over 47,000 miles and still wears its factory interior, which is no small thing for a car built during Detroit’s smog-choked malaise era. Formula buyers that year actually had a real decision to make between three different V8s, and this car’s 350 split the difference between the base 305 and the range-topping 400. Read on to find out whether that choice was actually the smart one.
A widebody Mustang notchback render from designer Chris Cyrulewski went looking for investors instead of a dealership, landing right in the middle of a niche that’s been building momentum for years. The notchback body style has quietly become a favorite canvas for exactly this kind of aggressive, tuner-inspired transformation. Read on to find out where the widebody look actually comes from, and why concept renders like this one shape real garage builds.
The Camaro was born as Chevy’s rushed answer to the Ford Mustang, rolling off the line months ahead of schedule just to compete. Fifty years, six generations, and more than five million cars later, it has become an American institution in its own right. Here’s how Chevrolet marked the milestone, and how a car built to catch up ended up setting the pace.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang GT reached 0-60 in the high 3-second range using nothing but a naturally aspirated 460-horsepower V8 and a new 10-speed automatic transmission’s Drag Strip mode. That number matched cars costing far more just a few years earlier, without a supercharger or turbocharger anywhere under the hood. Read on to see how the transmission, not just the engine, made the difference.
ScottieDTV’s teaser shows exactly one thing: an 850 horsepower second-gen Camaro backing out of Greening Auto Company, no burnout, no dyno pull, just an engine note loud enough that commenters said it “almost spilt my drink.” A full feature was promised for the following week, and the reaction here proves the wait is already killing fans. Watch the clip to hear what has second-gen Camaro owners this worked up.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT pairs a 475-horsepower 6.4-liter HEMI V8 with an 8,700-pound tow rating, a combination no other three-row SUV in its class attempts. Dodge’s engineers built a family hauler that reaches 60 mph in roughly 4.4 seconds while still handling weekend towing duty without missing a beat. Read on to see how a vehicle built for cargo and carpools ended up outrunning dedicated sports cars.
The 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T could be ordered with four completely different V8s, from a torque-heavy 383 Magnum all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi — and each one sounded nothing like the others. Only a few hundred Hemi and Six Pack cars were ever built. Read on to find out which engine actually made the best case for itself.
The fastback body style gave the first-generation Mustang its most dramatic profile, and pairing it with the GT package in 1966 created one of the most desirable combinations Ford ever offered on the platform. This example carries both. Read on to find out why the fastback GT still commands a premium over its hardtop and convertible siblings nearly six decades later.
Most movie cars end up crushed or locked in a studio vault the second filming wraps. This one didn’t. A flame-spitting 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible, built for a role in XXX: Return of Xander Cage, showed up available to rent through Turo — and underneath the prop flamethrower rig sits a genuine, documented HO-engine GTO from the last year before Tri-Power disappeared. Read on to find out what makes this particular movie car a real piece of muscle car history.
Dodge built a real consequence into the Demon’s production line: sell at MSRP and your customer’s car rolls off early with a coveted low serial number, mark it up and you go to the back of the queue. One Florida dealer tested that system anyway, and the story spread fast. Read on to find out whether Dodge’s serial-number leverage actually worked.
This 1972 Pontiac Trans Am wears Cameo White paint, a saddle interior, and a 455 H.O. under the hood — but the real story is how few cars like it Pontiac managed to build at all. A 174-day strike at the Norwood, Ohio plant gutted that year’s production, and only 458 of the 1,286 Trans Ams built came with this car’s four-speed manual. Read on to find out how a labor dispute turned an ordinary model year into one of the rarest in Trans Am history.