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Most Batman fans never knew George Barris built a Batmobile purely for drag racing, powered by a blueprinted Holman & Moody 427 side-oiler and driven by ‘Wild Bill’ Shrewsberry. It ran the quarter-mile in about 12 seconds at nearly 117 mph while touring dragstrips across North America from 1966 to 1968. Here’s the real racing story behind Batman’s other car.
This 1970 Mustang Mach 1 wears its classic sheetmetal proudly, but under the surface it has reportedly been reworked into a mid-engine platform – a dramatic departure from the factory’s 250 to 300 horsepower 351 Cleveland setup. It is the kind of build that splits opinion at every car show: heresy to purists, genius to anyone chasing a completely different kind of performance.
Six months of restoration work, compressed into a few minutes and built from roughly 10,000 individual photographs — that’s what it took to bring this 1967 Mustang convertible back from a rough starting point. Julius Bencko’s Mustangs4you.com shop documented the entire transformation frame by frame. Watch the whole build unfold in a fraction of the time it actually took.
A motor without a home found one in this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, when Quality Custom Rides took on a V12 LS build that had been sitting without a project car attached to it. The result debuted quietly, missed by most fans at SEMA before finally surfacing at the 2017 NSRA Street Rod Nationals. Its owner had held onto the Camaro since he was nineteen, waiting for the right build to come along. Watch to see what finally made it happen.
Gregg Hamilton flew to Alabama to buy this Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sight-unseen off eBay, then spent years reshaping it using tricks learned building World Rally Championship cars for Toyota Team Europe and Ken Block’s team. The result is a widened, re-engineered coupe he says is “about as quick as a Z06 Corvette” — and a tribute to the Smokey and the Bandit obsession that brought him to America in the first place. Watch to see what happens when a rally engineer builds his dream car instead of just buying one.
An Army aircraft mechanic stationed overseas bought this rust-free 1971 Dodge Charger sight-unseen, with plans to drop in a 572-cubic-inch Hemi built for over 800 horsepower. Before the media blasting and undercoating are even finished, one question remains unresolved: stick with factory-correct yellow, or go full restomod with flat black and bold stripes? The build taps into a growing wave of big-block Charger restomods that trade numbers-matching originality for modern muscle and serious street presence.
From ten feet away it is a coveted 1970 Plymouth Cuda in Pearl Orange Metallic; lean closer and almost nothing beneath the skin is factory. Built over two years by Jeff Schwartz and his team, it hides a 426 Hemi making 805 horsepower on a modern Schwartz chassis — a road-ready race car that keeps every ounce of 1970 attitude. It is the restomod argument made at full volume. See what two years of work produced.
This 1964 Chevrolet Corvair pickup looks like a survivor from Detroit’s strangest experiment — original paint, original body, and the walk-through Rampside styling that made it an oddball when new. But its air-cooled flat-six is long gone, replaced by a 350 Chevy small block and an automatic that make it genuinely drivable today. It is for sale by the owner who built it. Watch to see how it runs.
For sixty-five years the Corvette kept its engine up front, and Chevrolet swore that layout was sacred. The rumored mid-engine C8, reportedly crowned by a Zora ZR1, threatens to rewrite that rule and challenge exotics costing three times as much. Yet longtime fans are strangely uneasy about the change that could finally beat Europe. This preview breaks down the specs, the timeline, and the controversy. Watch to see why the next Corvette matters.