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This award-winning 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air wears a custom Blue Heaven paint job, but the real story is under the hood. Chevrolet’s rare Rochester Ramjet fuel-injected 283 made 283 horsepower in 1957 — good for one horsepower per cubic inch — and only about 1,530 Bel Airs left the factory with it. That same engine got a Chevy sedan banned from NASCAR that year. Whatever’s powering this custom, it’s chasing a one-year-only legend.
1976 was the last year Pontiac dared to build a real big-block muscle car, and this Trans Am is a rare survivor of that final stand. Backed by the numbers-matching 455 V8 and a genuine four-speed manual, it’s the kind of drivetrain combination most buyers skipped in favor of the easier automatic. Add in an untouched original interior and you’ve got a driver-quality time capsule from the twilight of an era.
Long before Yenko Camaros became six-figure auction stars, Don Yenko’s Canonsburg dealership was quietly building something smaller and stranger: a Chevy Nova stretched past GM’s official displacement limits and nicknamed the Deuce. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week catches a sunflower-yellow survivor from The Brothers Collection, the third documented example the show has featured. It is Yenko history for buyers who missed the boat on his more famous builds, and arguably just as interesting.
A rule change in SCCA Trans-Am racing forced Chevrolet to rethink the Z/28’s engine for 1970, swapping in the Corvette-sourced LT1 350 and wrapping it in a completely redesigned second-generation body. With only 8,733 built that model year, the 1970 Z/28 became an instant turning point for the nameplate. Here’s what changed under the hood and why this year still stands out to collectors.
Lowrider culture was born in East Los Angeles, not Brooklyn, but this Oldsmobile 98 clearly never read that history. Oldsmobile built the 98 as its full-size flagship, all long body and chrome, never intended for hydraulics and low-and-slow cruising. Somehow that made it perfect for exactly that. This build is proof lowrider culture has spread from its West Coast roots to just about every corner of the country, one big-body GM sedan at a time.
Only about 41 genuine 426 Hemi convertibles were ever built across the Cuda and Challenger nameplates combined, and no more than 9 had ever been seen together in one place. Then 27 of them showed up at the same 2015 show in Chicago. Here is why that gathering was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Pontiac’s biggest factory engine for the 1967 Firebird was the 400-cube GTO unit at 325 horsepower, full stop. So a droptop wearing a genuine 428 and Edelbrock aluminum heads isn’t a factory car, it’s a builder’s statement piece. Paired with a four-speed and topped with a four-barrel carb, this Firebird convertible was built to outrun anything Pontiac’s actual brochure ever promised. First-gen Firebird convertibles are rare enough on their own; one built like this is rarer still.
This 1964 Chevrolet Corvette isn’t just any convertible — it’s one of just 1,325 fuel-injected Corvettes built that year, powered by the Rochester mechanical injection system that made the fuelie option the one serious buyers actually wanted. Owners Bob Atkins and Fred Haraf have kept this silver-and-black beauty since 2011, and their Corvette collection says everything about why this option still matters to enthusiasts. Here’s what made the fuelie special, and why it’s held its value with collectors for sixty years.
Carroll Shelby only had one job in 1965: make the Mustang fast enough to win. What rolled out of his Venice, California shop became two of the most legendary badges in the muscle car world — the GT350 and the Cobra. From a handful of R-model race cars to the wild rental-fleet GT350H, the story behind these machines is stranger and rarer than most enthusiasts realize. Here’s what actually separates a real Shelby from the thousands of tribute cars wearing its stripes.
This widebody 1973 De Tomaso Pantera hides a real double-take, a genuine Ford GT nose grafted onto an Italian mid-engine body already powered by a Ford 351 Cleveland V8. The Pantera actually sold through American Lincoln-Mercury dealerships back in the day, making this mashup less strange than it first appears. Take a closer look at a build that blends two very different eras of Ford performance.
Thirty-five years, one owner, and a whole lot of trips to the drag strip, Tonys 1969 AMC Javelin SST has earned every bit of its 700-horsepower wheel-standing reputation. AMCs underdog pony car outsold its own base model with the SST that year, but nothing about a factory Javelin prepared it for this. See what it takes to keep this much power planted, or airborne.
Found on the floor of the 2017 Detroit Autorama, this 1963 Ford Falcon street machine trades its economy-car reputation for a modern 5.0 Coyote V8, a custom interior, and the kind of stance and detail work that stops showgoers mid-stride. ScottieDTV walks through a build that proves Falcons deserve more respect in the street machine world. Watch the full walkaround to see what earned it a second look.
This red-and-black 1970 Chevelle SS wears a big block Chevrolet never actually built in period, a modern 572-cube crate engine that dwarfs even the legendary 450-horsepower LS6 454. Wrapped in a straight, stripe-era-correct body with the right wheels and stance, it’s a muscle car that finishes a sentence Chevy’s own engineers never got the technology to write.
Running a Midwest grudge event with an 800-horsepower cap, this gutted and caged Chevrolet C10 pickup shocked the competition with a nitrous-fed small block Chevy — and according to the video, the driver was not even using everything the truck had. Watch how a full-size work truck turned into one of the most feared entries at Slow Car Cash Days without even showing its full hand.