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A tip from a stranger led a well-known barn-find hunter to a rural Kansas shop, where a 1965 Chevelle Z16 — one of only 200 ever built — had sat untouched for roughly 48 years. The car’s owner, a local racing legend named Cliff, reportedly received it directly from Chevrolet decades ago, and it still carries the specific factory details that separate a real Z16 from an ordinary 396 Chevelle. Watch to see what half a century of stillness actually looks like.
One Florida collector ran out of garage space and solved it in the most literal way possible — by buying an entire former Walmart in Punta Gorda and turning it into a private car storage building. Locals driving by on US 41 can catch a glimpse of a baby blue 1964 Impala parked behind the fence, but that is only a fraction of what is reportedly inside. Watch to see just how much car a big-box building can actually hold.
James sold his 1970 AAR ‘Cuda for five hundred dollars decades ago — a genuine SCCA Trans-Am homologation special that Plymouth built only 2,724 of. Under the hood sat a 340 Six Pack officially rated at 290 horsepower but widely believed to make considerably more. Read on to find out what the car is worth today, and why that sale still stings.
Car and Driver spent the 1960s testing everything from factory Corvettes to a road-going Ford GT40, all reduced to the same simple number: 0-60 mph. Two Shelby Cobras claimed the top two spots, one of them clocked at a scarcely believable 4.3 seconds, while a small-block Mustang GT snuck onto the list ahead of genuine big-block muscle. Read on to see how all twelve cars stacked up — and why the testing methods behind these numbers deserve an asterisk.
A 548-cubic-inch billet-block V8 with twin 88mm turbos, built to campaign a 1969 Camaro through the 2008 NMCA season, gets strapped to a dyno and makes a number most viewers assumed was a typo: 2,200 horsepower. The camera’s own microphone couldn’t handle what happened next. Watch to see why fans still call this the best clip the channel has ever posted.
This 1967 Dodge Charger was not built for a dealer lot — it was assembled for Dodge’s stand at the International Auto Show, loaded with options and powered by the 426 Hemi most buyers could only special-order and hope for. Now preserved in The Brothers Collection, the car still carries its factory show-car details, right down to a four-bucket-seat interior fans call one of Chrysler’s best. Watch to see what almost sixty years of careful preservation looks like up close.
Those towering tailfins and bullet taillights leave no doubt about what this black convertible is — a 1959 Cadillac, built during the single most dramatic model year of Detroit’s entire fin era. Read on to find out whether this one is the volume Series 62 or the flagship Eldorado Biarritz, and why 1959 still gets the last word in collector circles.
This yellow Chevy C10 wears a badge with nearly three decades of Chevrolet truck history behind it, spanning three distinct generations from 1960 through 1987. Depending on the year, it could be running anything from a modest inline-six to a genuine big-block V8, and that range is a big part of why the trucks have such a devoted following. Read on to find out what separates a good C10 from a great one, and why these former work trucks keep climbing in value.
A plain red 1967 Mustang doesn’t look like it’s hiding much, until you check under the hood and find Ford’s FE-series S-code 390, the big-block that finally gave the pony car a genuine performance option. Read on to find out why this overlooked engine option still counts as one of the smarter buys in the classic Mustang market.
A rumor claiming Ford is bringing back the Torino with 435 horsepower and rear-wheel drive has circulated across enthusiast forums, but there’s no official statement from Ford anywhere backing it up. The real story is better than the rumor: the original Torino Cobra packed a 428 Cobra Jet V8 and a genuine NASCAR pedigree. Read on to find out where this rumor actually came from.
Oldsmobile’s 1966 Toronado paired a 425 cubic-inch V8 with front-wheel drive at a time when that combination was nearly unheard of in America. Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard heads to the Lingenfelter Collection to walk through exactly what separates a well-sorted example from a expensive mistake, and makes the case for why this overlooked personal luxury coupe deserves real collector attention. Watch for the full checklist.
A supercharged Corvette photographed on move-out day at a 2012 Chicago muscle car show did something most modified cars can only pull off at full throttle, it broke its own rear tires loose just idling in the parking lot. Surrounded by Dodge Daytonas, Plymouth Superbirds, and COPO Camaros, this flame-painted build still managed to steal the spotlight from cars with far bigger reputations. The sound alone had onlookers stopping mid-conversation. What does it take for one car to out-shout a lot full of legends?
Don Yenko found three different ways around GM’s rule capping Camaro engines at 400 cubic inches, hand-swapping in 427s for 1967 and 1968 before finally getting Chevrolet to build the combination on the factory line for 1969. With production numbers as low as 54 cars in the first year, these remain some of the rarest true muscle cars ever built. Read on for the year-by-year breakdown of exactly how each version came together.
One owner, two generations of the same nameplate: this Autofocus.ca segment pairs a genuine early Dodge Challenger with a modern successor, both owned by the same person. Rather than settling for a manufacturer-style verdict, the comparison digs into what actually changed — and what didn’t — across nearly fifty years of the same badge. Watch to hear the case made by someone who never had to choose between them.
A Mustang clocked at 140 mph on a Texas highway should have ended in handcuffs. Instead, the officer who pulls the car over delivers one of the most quoted police encounters in street-racing history, captured for 1320video’s “Texas Streets: THE HUNT” DVD series. What he says about his own reasoning has turned an anonymous patrolman into a minor legend in the comments section. Watch to hear the line that made this clip impossible to forget.