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Joe Pieroni has owned his 1964 Chrysler Imperial Crown Coupe since 1989 — and in thirty-five years, he says he has seen exactly one other one. The two-door Crown Coupe was always the rarer choice within Chrysler’s already low-volume luxury division, and survivors from this era are scarcer still. Commenters call it the most beautiful car they’ve ever seen. Watch the full walkthrough to see why this Imperial has stayed in one owner’s hands for over three decades.
Richard Schmidt’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible sat untouched for forty years after he and his late wife Kitty stopped using it as their everyday cruiser. His kids brought it back — not for the horsepower, but in her memory. Hagerty named the finished restoration its 2016 Classic of the Year, beating eleven other finalist stories. Watch the full story and see why one viewer called it ‘how to make a car guy cry 101.’
Tom Lembeck’s 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T packs a numbers-matching 426 Hemi, a factory Pistol Grip 4-speed, and fewer than 12,000 original miles, plus an interior option, a factory Dictaphone, that most Mopar fans have never actually seen in person. Lou Costabile sat down with Tom to walk through what makes this all-original survivor so rare. Watch to see the details that left even viewers stunned.
Rust doesn’t ask permission before it eats through a Mustang’s rear quarter panel, and fixing it properly is slower and more exacting than most people assume. This video follows Greg cutting and welding a patch panel into a 1967 Mustang coupe, doing the kind of careful sheet metal work that separates a repair that lasts decades from one that fails in five years. Watch the process and see why commenters call this a dying craft.
Buying a muscle car is rarely as simple as signing the paperwork — insurance, storage, resale value, and repair costs all factor into whether the purchase makes sense long-term. Some models appreciate with proper care; others lose value the moment you drive them home. Read on for the questions worth answering before you commit to a purchase you can’t easily walk back.
This vintage road test of a well-optioned 1971 Dodge Charger SE 440 comes from an era when television, not YouTube, brought muscle cars to audiences. Viewers in the comments identified the tester as the late Gordon Bud Lindemann, a hall-of-fame figure in automotive broadcasting. The footage doubles as both a car review and a piece of television history. Watch to see the Charger and the man who tested it.
This showroom shot of a polished orange muscle car taps into one of Detroit biggest marketing gambles: the early-1970s high-impact color wars. Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, and Grabber Orange all trace back to the same era of factory one-upmanship. Here is the story behind the shade that still turns heads decades later.
Deep in an Oregon junkyard, sixty-year-old Mustangs, Camaros, and Chevelles sit exactly where they were left — picked over, rusting, and quietly disappearing under moss and rain. The person filming admits he takes a strange delight in documenting the decay, and the footage explains why: this is American muscle car history dying in slow motion, one panel at a time. Watch to see exactly what the Pacific Northwest weather has done to these forgotten cars.
A numbers-matching 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona doesn’t change hands without scrutiny — not when fakes and clones have circulated in the market for decades. A Michigan-based certified appraiser spent hours verifying this R4 Red example’s engine block, transmission tag, and core support before pronouncing it the real thing. Then he drove it. Watch the full inspection to see exactly what separates a genuine Daytona from an expensive guess.
A Camaro sits untouched in a barn for twenty-one years, someone finally drags it into daylight, checks the fluids, turns the key, and the engine catches. Stories like this have become their own genre of muscle car folklore, and the reason they keep happening comes down to how forgiving an old carbureted V8 really is. Read on for what two decades of storage actually does to a car, and what it takes to undo.
The Ford-Chevy rivalry is old enough to have outlived several generations of both companies engineers, yet it still shows up in a fresh meme every week. This one pokes fun at Ford with a classic stunt-photo gag, the kind of ribbing that has been a staple of garage culture for decades. Where did this century-long feud actually start, and why does it still land?
A Mustang, a Camaro, and a Challenger lined up together is not just a photo, it is the same argument muscle car fans have been having since the 1960s. Ford started the pony car category almost by accident in 1964, Chevy and Dodge spent decades answering back, and the rivalry between all three is still what pushes each brand to build better cars. Here is the short history behind a fight that has never actually been settled.
This Mustang was deep into a 150mph dyno pull when a tire let go, turning a routine test into one of 1320video’s most-watched clips. Viewers point out the irony immediately: a dyno is supposed to be the one place a car can hit that speed with zero risk, and this one still found a way to go wrong. Watch to see exactly how violent a tire failure looks at triple-digit speed.
A 1965 Corvette running the hydraulic-lifter L79 327 takes on a 1970 Camaro Z28 and its solid-lifter LT1 350 in a straight quarter-mile shootout from Road Test TV. Five years apart, these two small blocks represent very different approaches to making power, and viewers are split on which one deserves more respect. Watch to see which Chevy legend crosses the line first.