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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.
Oldsmobile built just 10,255 Cutlass Supreme convertibles for 1971, and buyers could option them anywhere from a mild 145-horsepower six-cylinder up to a genuine 455 big-block. Mistaken for a Chevelle or GTO at a glance, this drop-top actually shares real hardware with the 442. Read on to find out why collectors still chase these B-O-P convertibles today.
GM capped intermediate cars at 400 cubic inches in 1968 — so Hurst and an independent Michigan dealer built this Cutlass-based coupe outside the factory line to get around it, stuffing a 455 under the hood. This vintage road test captures the resulting Hurst/Olds exactly as period journalists first experienced it. Watch to see the loophole car in action.
Plymouth called this color Sassy Grass Green, part of a deliberately loud High Impact palette designed to make its muscle cars impossible to ignore. Wrapped around a factory 440-powered 1971 ‘Cuda restored by owner Tom Benson’s own restoration company, it drew comments calling the front end “the best of any muscle car” from the era. Filmed at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, this is a restoration built to hold up under serious scrutiny. Watch the full walkaround and hear the 440 run.
It started as trash talk at a Wednesday night cruise-in outside a Sonic in Omaha. It ended with a nitrous-fed, 500-horsepower Fox body lined up against a Yamaha R1, a Kawasaki ZX-10R, and a Suzuki GSXR600 on a public street. The ‘beater bomb’ name undersells exactly how serious this build actually is.
Sherwin M. found his 1970 Ford XL through a classified ad with photos so bad the car was barely recognizable, which is probably why nobody else called first. What he found in person was a sixteen-year-dormant, numbers-matching survivor with its original 429 engine still intact. Read on to find out how a factory-correct rebuild turned this rare full-size Ford into both a daily driver and a genuine 14-second track car.
Italian drifter Federico Sceriffo takes a General Lee-liveried Dodge Charger R/T sideways in his first video with a new camcorder — no modern drift setup, just a heavy, decades-old muscle car chassis and a driver willing to find its limits. Commenters call it more exciting than watching an import do the same maneuver with more precision. Watch the full drift and hear that big-block V8 under load.
This 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback wears the GT500 look down to the stripes, but its VIN tells a more complicated story than the badge on the fender does. A 390-cubic-inch FE V8, Edelbrock heads, and a limited-slip 3.73 rear end back up the build, while a push-button C6 transmission has viewers picking sides in the comments. Watch to see the full walkthrough.
For the show’s 200th episode, V8TV sat down with three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser next to the exact 1969 Ford Torino he drove to victory at Pikes Peak — a car built by Bill Stroppe, Holman & Moody, and powered by a Smokey Yunick-built Boss 429. Unser hadn’t seen it since 1969. Watch to hear him tell the story of a car, and a win, he clearly hasn’t forgotten.
In Queens, one owner has spent decades keeping his 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass alive, running, and racing through exactly the kind of environment that kills most classic cars: rock salt, potholes, and a driving culture built on aggression. MotorTrend’s House of Muscle profiles Eddie and the car locals call “AY OOH,” a nickname earned through years of street racing rather than a paint shop decal. Watch to see how a car this old survives New York City.