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As muscle car performance faded under new emissions rules, Buick’s Gran Sport line shrank right along with the rest of the industry — but this 1972 GS 350 somehow survived with its factory paint, original interior, and numbers-matching drivetrain intact. Buick built fewer than 8,600 GS hardtops and convertibles that year, and true unmolested survivors are increasingly rare. See what an original ’72 GS looks like below.
The late-seventies Pontiac Trans Am looked like it could outrun a jet, then broke your heart the moment you drove it. This 1979 example, found at Steve Holcomb’s Pro Auto Custom Interiors, sets out to fix that with a 7.0-liter swap replacing the original underpowered 6.6, plus custom paint and interior work. ScottieDTV has a personal stake, since a ’79 Trans Am was his own first car. Watch to see the Bandit-era icon finally given the muscle its styling always promised.
This 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona in Hemi Orange was never really built for the street. It was Chrysler’s aerodynamic weapon for NASCAR’s superspeedways, so effective it was eventually banned, and this one carries the legendary 426 Hemi under its hood. Filmed at the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom in Scottsdale, the walkaround covers the details that separate a genuine winged car from a tribute and lets that Hemi announce itself. Watch to hear why collectors go quiet around cars like this.
A “sweetest moment” waits at the end of the video, but the real story is under the hood. This 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator carries the 320-horsepower 390 big block, a rarer choice than most Eliminator buyers made that year — only 260 of 2,250 total Eliminators got this engine. Built as Mercury’s answer to the Boss Mustang, it traded outright drag strip focus for genuine street presence.
The 1958 Thunderbird was the car that turned Ford’s two-seat personal car into a four-seat sales phenomenon — and this particular Square Bird has been modernized well beyond its factory 352 V8. A Coyote engine swap and a two-tone gloss white and satin grey paint job give it a driver-focused build that still respects the original’s clean lines. See the full custom interior and engine bay in the photos below.
Every year, classic car and motorcycle owners bring their rides to a stretch of historic Route 66 in Tulsa for PatriotFest, a car show built around community and patriotism as much as horsepower. For owners like Dudley and Vicky Jones, the preparation reportedly started years before a single Saturday morning show ever began. Blending live entertainment, food trucks, and a laid-back car culture that welcomes everything from detailed restorations to daily drivers, the event ties classic car appreciation to support for local veterans.
The Ford Mustang was one of the best-selling sports cars in the world when Australia’s ANCAP crash test authority handed it a rare and damaging result: just 2 out of 5 stars. Weak airbag performance, a door that opened in the pole test, and a near-total absence of modern driver aids all factored into the score. Here’s what the testing found, and how Ford eventually responded.
Chevrolet didn’t touch the Camaro ZL1’s 650-horsepower engine when building its most track-focused variant — instead, engineers rebuilt everything around it. The ZL1 1LE package adds Multimatic dampers, aggressive aero, and lightweight wheels developed through testing at the Nürburgring and Virginia International Raceway. The result is a Camaro that laps circuits most sports cars can’t touch. See what makes the 1LE package different below.
This 1971 Chevrolet C10 arrived during Chevy’s best-ever year for truck sales, when demand for a well-built, good-looking pickup was at an all-time high. Under its Cheyenne trim and fresh egg-crate grille sits a truck built with front disc brakes and coil-spring independent front suspension — real upgrades for the era. Finding one this original, more than five decades later, is increasingly rare.
Steve McQueen’s 1968 Mustang fastback from Bullitt is the most famous movie car in Hollywood history, and it’s inspired countless tribute builds ever since. This one takes the formula somewhere unexpected, trading city-street chase scenes for desert terrain. Here’s a look at the original Bullitt Mustang’s specs and what it typically takes to turn a classic fastback into something built for sand instead of asphalt.
Full-size Fords rarely get invited into the muscle car conversation, but the 1965 Galaxie 500XL had a secret weapon buried on its order form. A 427-cubic-inch big-block option turned Ford’s plushest hardtop into a legitimate quarter-mile threat, capable of a 14.6-second run. Here’s why this luxury-trimmed full-size Ford deserves a second look from performance car fans today.
The original 1963 Corvette Grand Sport was built to hunt Shelby Cobras before GM’s corporate ban on factory racing killed the program after just five cars. This continuation, built by Superformance under official license from General Motors, uses molds derived from the original factory tooling and a tube chassis matching the originals. This particular example pairs that pedigree with a Lingenfelter LS7, four-wheel vented Wilwood brakes, and enough creature comforts – A/C, power windows – to make it as livable as it is fast.
Kye Kelley’s nitrous-powered Shocker Camaro built its reputation the hard way: hand-tuned in a small New Orleans garage, known for razor-sharp reaction times and launches that looked closer to a rocket sled than a street car. This clip captures it squaring off against a twin-turbo rival in one of Street Outlaws’ classic nitrous-versus-boost showdowns. The Shocker would later be destroyed in a testing crash and rebuilt from the ground up, but moments like this are why the rivalry never really ended.
This 1971 Ford Ranchero GT carries two kinds of rarity: a 429 Super Cobra Jet V8 rated at 375 horsepower, and a family story that turned it into an heirloom. Ford built just 3,632 GT-trim Rancheros that year out of nearly 25,000 total, and a properly sorted 429 example could run the quarter mile in the high 13s – competitive with a Chevelle SS 454 or a Buick GS 455. For one family, though, its real value was never about the timeslip.
The 1969 Camaro SS wore a body style used for exactly one model year, and its 396-cubic-inch V8 came in three distinct horsepower ratings depending on how the order form was checked. The range-topping L78, rated at 375 horsepower, transformed the car from a quick street cruiser into a genuine drag strip contender. Decades later, that one-year-only combination remains among the most valuable first-generation Camaros at collector auctions. What made the L78 option worth chasing over its milder siblings?