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For years, Detroit street racers only knew the Black Ghost by reputation, a black 1970 Challenger R/T SE with a 426 Hemi that beat them and vanished before anyone learned who was driving. Gregory Qualls knows exactly who, because it was his father, an off-duty Detroit police officer. After decades in storage, the car resurfaced, earned a spot on the National Historic Vehicle Register, and inspired a full documentary. Hear the son tell the story only he can tell.
Roland Cassidy assumed the pitch was too good to be true: a numbers-matching 426 Hemi Superbird with 10,000 original miles, one owner, and a complete paper trail back to a Maine dealership in 1971. It had been sitting untouched in a Massachusetts barn since 1990. Read on to find out what he had to throw in to close the deal.
A freshly rebuilt big-block Chevy, a Muncie M21 four-speed, and 4.10 gears meet a light 1969 Camaro built in the spirit of Don Yenko’s legendary COPO cars — and the tires lose the argument almost immediately. Viewers can’t stop talking about the sound, and one small dashboard gesture at the end says everything about what this build means to its owner. Watch to see the first real pull.
Ford revived the Boss 302 name for just two model years, 2012 and 2013, building a Mustang with a carbon-fiber-plate limited-slip differential, shock absorbers adjustable with a flathead screwdriver, and an aero package borrowed directly from the Boss 302R race car. The rarer Laguna Seca edition added Recaro seats and its own suspension tuning. Read on to find out what separates the two model years at a glance.
WeBe Autos walks through a sprawling Pennsylvania inventory of classic and muscle-era cars, from a $250 parts-only 1966 Mustang to a $16,000 1958 Ford retractable hardtop. Between the price tags sits a real lesson in what makes a barn find worth chasing versus worth parting out, and how dealers who specialize in scattered private collections actually price decades of outdoor storage. Watch to see what survives, what doesn’t, and what it’s all actually worth.
In 1959, Chevrolet finally gave the Impala its own model line instead of treating it as a Bel Air option package, and backed it up with a lowered, widened body sharing sheet metal with Buick and Oldsmobile, horizontal tailfins, and an engine range topping out at 315 horsepower. A year later, Chevrolet toned almost all of it down. Read on to find out what changed, and why some Impalas from this era were hand-built in Australia.
A 1969 428 Cobra Jet Mustang Mach 1 sat untouched in a basement for 28 years, emerging with just 41,525 original miles, its factory tires still in the trunk, and a sealed bag of unused headlight adapters Tommy Higgins has already turned down $2,500 for. Documentation includes the original bill of sale, build sheet, and a confirming Marti Report. Read on to find out what else survived nearly three decades of dust.
At an RT66 Test N Tune event in 2015, Rich Kent’s E85-fueled 1962 Mercury Comet did something a brand-new 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat never expected: it beat it clean off the line. The video’s own description reveals the Hellcat had run nearly three seconds quicker just a week earlier, turning a simple grudge race into a years-long argument about driving versus horsepower. Watch to see the run that started the controversy.
Chevrolet’s 1957 Bel Air offered buyers a fuel-injected 283 rated at 283 horsepower, a four-speed manual that helped the car win roughly 21 NASCAR races, and, improbably, an electric razor you could bolt to the dashboard. Underneath the tailfins and chrome sat one of the widest engine and options ranges Chevrolet ever offered in a single model year. Read on to find out which combination collectors chase hardest today.
Very few 1970 Dodge Challengers left the factory with both the 426 Hemi and the upscale RT/SE Special Edition package — and this one has been fully restored by a specialist shop in Iowa. Restorer Tim Wilhelm walks through exactly what makes the car unique ahead of a Mecum Auction preview. Watch to find out what one sharp-eyed viewer says is the only thing this Hemi Challenger is still missing.
Filmed at Quebec’s Sanair Dragway in October 2007, this quarter-mile pass sends a rare 1971 Ford Boss 351 Mustang, powered by the high-revving 351 Cleveland, against a modern 505-horsepower Corvette Z06. Commenters dig into why the Cleveland’s canted-valve heads made this one of Detroit’s most underrated factory drag engines. Watch to see whether decades-old engineering can still claw back a win against modern horsepower.
Dodge built just 628 convertible versions of its 1967 Coronet R/T, and owner Glen Kellmann says that in more than twenty years of attending car shows, he has never once come across another one. See his factory 440-powered survivor and hear the story of a car that, as far as its own owner can tell, has no twin.
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner dealer commercial, built for the drive-in and packed with 440 Six Pack, pistol-grip shifter, and Air Grabber hood details, has been quietly making grown adults tear up in the comments more than fifty years after it first aired. One owner has kept his original example running for thirty-seven years. Another still remembers exactly who lost a street race to one in 1972. Watch to see why a two-minute car ad refuses to be forgotten.