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In 1963 you could walk into a Plymouth dealer and drive out with something barely street-legal — a car engineered less for the boulevard than for the far end of a quarter mile. This Sport Fury from the Brothers Collection is exactly that machine, and its spec sheet reads like a Super Stock entry form. Muscle Car Of The Week digs into what made it a terror at the strip. The compression ratio alone should raise an eyebrow. Watch to see it.
A magazine assignment to imagine a forgotten luxury nameplate reborn somehow became a fully functional one-off, built on a genuine Shelby Cobra chassis and dressed in copper and brass. Commissioned by a metals trade association rather than an automaker, the Mercer-Cobra combined retro coachbuilt styling with real Shelby performance underneath. Decades later, it sold for $660,000 at a Monterey auction. How does a concept car built to promote copper end up among the most valuable one-offs in Shelby history?
By 1971 the Mustang had grown longer, wider and more muscular, and Ford wasn’t done making a statement. This Mach 1 from the Brothers Collection carries the most serious engine option of them all, the one built for people who wanted the last word at a stoplight. V8TV puts it under the lights for Muscle Car Of The Week. The badge on the fender says 429, but the letters after it are what matter. Watch to see it.
A 1957 Corvette in Polo White looks like it rolled straight out of the Eisenhower era, but this roadster hides a detail that made it one of Chevrolet’s boldest engineering statements of the decade. Filmed at Corvette Mike Midwest for Lou Costabile’s “My Car Story,” this frame-off restoration pairs classic curves with a very specific engine choice. The number stamped on that 283 is the whole point. Watch to hear it run.
The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona looks like something a kid would draw, with a pointed nose cone and a rear wing tall enough to see over the roof. But every wild feature was deadly serious engineering. Muscle Car Of The Week features one from the Brothers Collection, a genuine rarity that is 1 of 502 built and 1 of 294 with the 440. See how a NASCAR weapon ended up in dealer showrooms.
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 looks like the quiet cruiser your grandfather drove to church, and that is exactly what makes this one dangerous. The V8TV crew pulls back the curtain on a no-frills R-code hiding a dual-quad 427 and a four-speed. From The Brothers Collection, it is the original factory sleeper, built to win on the superspeedways. See why looks can be very deceiving.
The best barn finds hide in plain sight, and this 1970 Chevelle SS396 sat quietly near Detroit for decades before Patrick Glenn Nichols tracked it down in 2017. It is not the common coupe but the far scarcer convertible, with roughly 53,000 original miles and a single-region history. Nineteen seventy was the peak of the muscle car era, which makes a drop-top SS396 survivor a genuine grail. See what decades of hiding preserved.
Most project cars start clean. This Dodge Challenger started as a hail-totaled insurance write-off, and Stanley the Dirt Monkey turned it into a Mad Max machine on a bare-bones budget. Think three-inch lift, truck tires, baja LED lighting, underglow, and a bed-liner body coating. It is everything a Challenger is not supposed to be, and that is the point. See how a totaled Mopar became a wasteland warrior.
Every collector car claims to be rare, but this Mustang makes a claim that stops you cold: possibly the rarest in the world, with only two known to exist. When production numbers get that small, the provenance matters as much as the metal, and this one has a story worth digging into. Extreme Mustang rarity almost always traces back to something unusual. See what makes this pony car a two-of-two survivor.
The moment this dark GT500 fastback rolls into frame, every muscle car fan thinks the same thing, and it is a name Ford never printed on a fender. It is an Eleanor-style Shelby tribute, and Jeff of Carsbyjeff takes this show car out for a test drive. With buyers watching from Norway to Australia, the Eleanor mystique is truly global. See whether the movie-star looks are backed by real substance.
Once a year, a stretch of Route 66 in El Reno, Oklahoma gets shut down and turned into a legal drag strip for the Small Town Weekend event. Muscle cars line up on the most famous road in America while a car show, burnout contest, and downtown cruise round out the weekend. It is grassroots racing on hallowed asphalt. See why laying rubber on Route 66 hits different.
A 1968 Chevelle SS rolling away from the 2013 Good Guys Car Show should have been the most routine moment of the day. Instead, it became a clip watched more than a million times, and not for the reasons its owner would have wanted. First-gen Chevelles are getting rarer and more valuable every year, which makes moments like this hard to watch. See how a simple show exit went wrong.
Most self-described Mustang fans can name the car on sight, but can they name the fighter plane it’s named after, or the year its horsepower hit an all-time low? This look at pony car trivia digs into the prototype badges, supercharger conversions, and Hollywood cameos that built the Mustang legend, ahead of a quick IQ test to see how much of it you actually knew.
The most famous Mustang in movie history wasn’t actually a real Shelby GT500 — “Eleanor” from Gone in 60 Seconds was built from ordinary 1967 fastbacks dressed up by designer Chip Foose. Only a handful were built to survive filming, and about half are believed to still exist today. Somehow this tribute car has become more recognizable than most of the genuine GT500s it was styled after.
Eric Yost’s rust-covered single-turbo Camaro looks like it belongs in a scrapyard, but the 1320video crew watched it trap over 170 mph and break a roll racing speed record on its very first pass. With power creeping toward 1400 horsepower and a fresh motor since the last time they crossed paths, this Camaro is the ultimate sleeper. See why the ugliest car at the track was also one of the fastest.