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Plymouth built the Superbird to win NASCAR homologation rules, not showroom popularity contests — and dealers struggled to move them when they launched in 1970. USClassicMuscleCars caught up with a raw, uniquely restored example at the MuscleCars and Corvette Nationals in Chicago, and its road back from unsellable oddity to seven-figure icon is worth understanding before you watch the interview.
Master mechanic and racer Paul Annunziata built his 1975 Plymouth Duster around a supercharged 426 Hemi — an engine combination the factory never offered, in a car nobody expected to carry that kind of power. Before he passed away, Paul wanted the car to go somewhere it would actually be driven. Jay Leno took on that responsibility personally. Watch the full story, including a comment from Paul’s own cousin that puts the whole build in perspective.
This 1969 Chevelle SS had already been through a full restoration before the V8 Speed & Resto Shop crew tackled its next upgrade: a Tremec TKO 600 five-speed overdrive conversion behind its 454 big-block, rated to handle 600 pound-feet of torque. The install keeps the shifter in its factory location and drops highway RPM dramatically, a detail one viewer calculated out to roughly 1,750 rpm at 60 mph. Watch the full install to see what it takes to give a numbers-matching muscle car an overdrive gear Detroit never offered.
Redline Reviews takes an unusually honest look at a 2018 Corvette Grand Sport, calling out a cabin rattle most reviewers would gloss over while still framing it as the best-handling C7 built to date. A folding infotainment screen, real automatic-transmission feedback, and a subtle silver paint job round out a walkaround that’s aged better than most Corvette content from the same era.
A Northern California storage yard owner called MustangConnection1 to talk through what to do with four forgotten Mustangs, including a numbers matching 1969 Mach 1 with the factory 428 Super Cobra Jet and Drag Pack. Two more fastbacks and a loaded convertible round out the find. Watch to see exactly what has been sitting there, and why Mustang collectors online cannot stop talking about it.
Before Mopar’s High-Impact color names became legend, a handful of green paint codes only existed for a single model year, vivid enough to earn nicknames like Sublime and Sassy Grass. This piece traces where those shades came from, why some vanished within twelve months, and how a traffic-light-inspired green ended up on some of the boldest muscle cars of 1969 and 1970.
Pro driver Randy Pobst put the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE through a hot lap at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as part of Motor Trend’s 2017 Best Driver’s Car competition — a field normally dominated by six-figure exotics. Built with track-tuned suspension and aerodynamics beyond the standard ZL1, the 1LE was Chevrolet’s answer to anyone who doubted a Camaro belonged on the same list as genuine supercars.
This 1965 Mercury Comet wears the sponsor decals and drag-strip stance of a car built to race — and it’s channeling a genuinely wild piece of history. Roughly two dozen factory Comet Cyclones once terrorized NHRA’s A/FX class with dual-quad 427s under the hood, arguably helping invent the Funny Car along the way.
Manual transmission drivers have argued for decades about whether engine braking secretly wears out a clutch, and Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained finally settles it with real mechanical reasoning instead of garage folklore. The answer involves rev matching, brake pad life, and fuel cutoff systems most drivers never think about. Nearly three million views later, the comment section is still arguing anyway.
A Plymouth Superbird and a Ford Mustang went head-to-head in the Search For Speed league, but the real story wasn’t horsepower — it was a launch gone wrong. Viewers, including at least one Superbird owner himself, pinned the loss squarely on tire spin rather than the car, while others argued the whole matchup was unfair to begin with since the Superbird was built for Daytona’s high banks, not the quarter-mile.
Plum Crazy Purple with a white vinyl roof and a 440 Six Pack under the hood — this 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee is the kind of factory combination that still stops traffic at a car show fifty years later. Restorer Mark Klopack walks through the build at Chicago’s World of Wheels. Watch to hear that pistol-grip four-speed and 440 come alive.
FarmTruck, Street Outlaws famously rough-looking Chevy C10, lines up against Azn’s all-wheel-drive, supercharged Jeeper Sleeper in the daily driver class at a Street Outlaws Live event in North Carolina. The footage does not stop at one race, following the same Jeep to a second event in South Carolina before closing with a completely separate grudge match between FarmTruck and Azn’s other build, the Dung Beetle. Fans in the comments are already asking for a rematch against a different car entirely. Watch to see if the sleeper lives up to its name.
This 1964 Dodge Polara isn’t numbers-matching — and one commenter says that hasn’t stopped it from being “worth every penny” of its roughly $39,000 asking price. Under the hood is a full crossram 426 Max Wedge with dual four-barrels and fender-exit headers, backed by a four-speed and a 4.11-geared Dana 60 built purely for launching hard. A full-size sleeper with a well-preserved original interior, it’s the kind of Mopar that collectors chase for substance over paperwork. Watch the walkaround and hear it run.
CHP Captain Matt Guthrie and former Commissioner Spike Helmick join Jay Leno’s Garage to walk through five pursuit-rated cars spanning four decades of California Highway Patrol history, plus the department’s then-new Ford Explorer. Beyond nostalgia, the conversation digs into what actually separates a genuine pursuit vehicle from a civilian model with a light bar. It’s a rare, firsthand look at police fleet engineering most drivers never get to see up close.
A routine motorcycle pursuit turns into a rollover crash after the rider rams the pursuing cruiser, leaving the officer’s K9 partner knocked out in the wreckage. The chase captures exactly the kind of split-second escalation that turns a traffic stop into a felony case. Watch to see how a single decision changes everything for both the rider and the officer.