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Anthony Lucarz has owned his 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport for eighteen years, restoring it back to the factory specifications it left the assembly line with — including a real, functioning hood scoop and an 8,000-RPM tachometer most owners never got to use. My Car Story with Lou Costabile caught up with him and the Cobra Jet-powered Torino to hear how it’s held up. Watch to see what nearly 500,000 other viewers came back for.
Car News TV goes looking for the muscle cars everyone forgot, and the list includes a Mustang wagon that left viewers stunned it ever existed, a six-barrel Road Runner that sparked a comments-section correction, and a Studebaker Avanti nobody expected to see. Watch the full rundown and see how many you actually remember.
Ford rated this Mustang’s big block at just 375 horsepower, a figure almost nobody who drove one actually believed. Built to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules and assembled outside the factory by an outside engineering firm, this car packed race-bred internals most buyers never fully understood. Discover why enthusiasts still debate its real output decades later, and how a Hemi-inspired head design ended up under a Ford hood.
This 1969 Ram Air IV GTO convertible looks like a straightforward feature from The Brothers Collection, until the comments reveal Pontiac’s official 370-horsepower rating was likely a deliberate understatement to dodge insurance scrutiny. The real number, according to detailed viewer math, is closer to 420. Watch to see the car behind the controversy.
Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard spent time with a 1963 split-window Corvette to explain what makes the C2 the most collectible generation in the model’s history — and where buyers get burned if they don’t know what to check. It’s a buyers guide built from decades of watching these cars change hands, including one correction Hagerty had to issue after the fact. Watch to find out what even an executive editor got wrong on camera.
The “Eleanor” Hero Car from Gone in 60 Seconds sold for $1 million at Dana Mecum’s 26th Original Spring Classic — a result that stunned auction regulars watching bids climb in real time. See what made this 1967 Mustang worth seven figures, and how it stacks up against the biggest movie car sales in history.
Legendary Motorcar’s Dream Car Garage tracked down a pristine 1969 Plymouth Road Runner for a segment that still draws comments from people who owned one the first time around. The story behind the car runs deeper than its cartoon-licensed horn: a no-frills muscle car built to undercut its own siblings on price, and the rare A12 “Six Barrel” package that made it one of the most feared cars at any stoplight. Watch to see why the Road Runner still commands this kind of loyalty decades later.
RamblinAround tracks down one of only 503 original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas ever built, still running its factory 440 V8 and finished in correct T5 Copper paint. The Daytona’s nose cone and rear wing were built to break NASCAR speed records, and did, forcing the sport to change its rules. Watch to see the winged Mopar that inspired decades of dream-car regret in the comments.
Cars Garage skips the dyno-pull theatrics and shows the entire assembly of a Chevrolet Corvette 6.2L supercharged LS9 — the engine that once made the ZR1 the fastest production car GM had ever built. Every torque spec, every forged component, every step from bare block to finished 638-horsepower engine is on camera. Watch to see what actually separates a factory-grade rebuild from a shortcut.
Tom Lembeck’s 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda 426 Hemi convertible isn’t hiding in a climate-controlled garage — it’s driving Chicago streets, top down, in Winchester Gray. Lou Costabile’s “My Car Story” catches the owner firing up one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built and talking candidly about what it’s like to actually live with a seven-figure Mopar. Watch to hear the Elephant motor come alive.
This Candy Apple Red 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback 2+2 carries an engine that had only been on sale for a few months when it left Dearborn, paired with a GT package that skipped a feature most people assume every GT got. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week caught up with it at The Brothers Collection, and the car makes a case that not every great Mustang needs a big-block name to matter. Watch to see what viewers are still arguing about in the comments.
This 1968 Shelby GT500KR convertible spent roughly forty years buried in storage before Patrick Glenn Nichols uncovered it, a numbers-matching barn find rare enough to land on the cover of HOT ROD Magazine. Convertibles were already the scarcest GT500KR body style, and this one still wears its original, oddball factory hardware. Watch to see just how much is still original underneath the dust.
Car News Central counts down seven of the rarest American cars ever built, from a two-off Duesenberg SSJ capable of 140 mph to a Corvette L88 whose real horsepower figure still sparks arguments in the comments. Along the way: an eight-car Trans Am convertible run split evenly between automatics and four-speeds, and the last Studebaker fast enough to matter. Watch to see the full list.
Myvintageiron7512 lines up a modern LS1 against a classic small block 350 for a straight side-by-side comparison, correcting a bore-and-stroke mix-up right in the video description. The comments turned into a deep dive on why GM’s small block became the most swapped engine in history, from matching bellhousing patterns to 850-horsepower stroker builds. Watch to see the comparison and judge the debate for yourself.
Automotive Territory rounds up ten classic American muscle cars rebuilt with modern engines, transmissions, and brakes — machines its host argues could outperform today’s supercars. Builders like Ring Brothers show up on the list, and the comments have turned into a running debate over whether a restomod still counts as a real muscle car. Watch to see the full ten and decide for yourself.