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This 1964 Corvette Pro Street build does not hide its engine – it lets a supercharged big block rise clear above the roofline for anyone to see. Pro Street builds have always favored theater alongside speed, and a claimed 2,600 horsepower would put this car among the most extreme examples of the genre. Compared to other well-documented Pro Street Corvette builds pushing 1,200 to 1,750 horsepower, this one is aiming considerably higher.
This 1966 Mustang GT wears its ‘Stylin’ Stang’ name well, hiding a massaged 289 HiPo small block under otherwise factory-correct sheetmetal. A .030-over bore wakes up the engine Ford once refused to sell without a four-speed, backed by a Top Loader-style gearbox and an 8-inch rear running 3.55 gears. It is proof that a tasteful restomod does not need to shout to get the job done.
Chevrolet’s 1967 Impala SS Convertible could run a 15.8-second quarter-mile thanks to the rare Z24 package’s 427 Turbo-Jet big-block, only fitted to 2,124 Super Sports that year. Here’s what made this full-size convertible a genuine sleeper, and why finding a documented ragtop with the real 427 package is harder than most people assume.
A turbocharged 5.3L under a Z/28 hood sounds like heresy until you remember the original Z/28 never offered an automatic transmission either. This one launches on a manual six-speed with two-step control while most of the drag strip around it runs slushboxes. We trace the Z/28 back to its 1967 Trans-Am homologation roots and explain why a modern turbo build still honors that stick-shift-only bloodline.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T in the rare Petty Blue factory color found its stage nearly five thousand miles from Detroit, cruising the streets of Vantaa, Finland. Under the hood sits the 440 cubic inch big-block, and the owner isn’t shy about using it — working in a deliberate powerslide before settling into a room-filling idle. See how American muscle found a following overseas.
This 1969 Ford Ranchero GT hides an R-code 428 Cobra Jet under a body most people write off as “just a truck.” Ford’s meanest big-block, the same one that dominated the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, found its way onto the Ranchero option sheet that year — and almost nobody checked the box. We look at how the Ranchero grew into a genuine muscle car platform, and why this R-code example is rarer than most Mustangs wearing the same engine.
This methanol-fed, 572ci big-block Chevelle looks like a concours show car and hits like a 2,300-horsepower no-prep monster, wearing an F-11 blower the size of a filing cabinet. At a recent Kings of the Streets event, it stomped the unlimited class without picking up a scratch. See how a car this clean survives a class with no rules on power.
This 1966 Ford Fairlane 500XL lists a 428 Cobra Jet under the hood — a genuinely confusing spec, since Ford didn’t build that engine until 1968. The real 1966 R-code Fairlane ran a side-oiler 427 instead, and only 57 were built before exhaust manifold shortages shut the option down. We dig into what actually powered the real R-code cars, and why a well-executed tribute build might be the closest most enthusiasts will ever get to driving one.
Shawn Ellington’s Murder Nova is one of the most recognized cars in street racing, and its latest rebuild takes a surprising direction: a smaller 482ci small-block revving to 9,500 rpm instead of a bigger motor. The turbos stayed the same, but almost everything else about how this car makes power just changed. Find out why smaller might mean faster for the most famous Nova on the street.
Most cars at a drag radial event like Lights Out chase carbon fiber and paint that costs more than the average car payment. Then there is this Mercury Comet, built on a tube chassis with a Ford big block under the hood and a rear wing fabricated from an actual tin barn roof. 1320video tracked it down in the pits at Lights Out 8 in Georgia to find out the story behind it. It might not be the fastest car there — but it might be the most memorable.
A soft yellow paint job and gold cloth interior make this 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II look like grandma’s Sunday driver — until you find the 426 Hemi hiding under the hood. Chrysler built the Street Hemi to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules after banning the race version outright, and only a handful of Belvederes ever left the factory with one. Paired with a 4-speed stick and 425 horsepower, this is about as pure a sleeper as the muscle car era ever produced.
Chip Foose built this 1970 Mustang Fastback for the cameras on Overhaulin’, and the name alone tells you everything about its Vegas-flavored backstory. Under custom Gambler Green paint sits a 514-cube stroker big-block making 625 horsepower — not a mild dress-up job, but a genuine street-and-strip build with Ford Racing internals. It debuted to a stunned crowd at the 2004 SEMA show and has been a fan favorite ever since.
A 1965-spec Shelby Cobra with barely six miles on the clock sounds impossible until you understand the CSX4000 continuation series Carroll Shelby’s own company built between 1997 and 2009. This particular car carries a genuine CSX chassis number and factory paperwork, putting it in a completely different league from the countless kit-car Cobras out there. Under the hood sits a 427 aluminum side-oiler making 550 horsepower at the wheels, good for 0-60 in under four seconds.
A 1960 Ford F1 that traded its factory straight-six for a Coyote V-8 wearing individual-runner stacked injection, the kind of induction setup you’d expect on a vintage race car. Legens Hot Rods built this truck to SEMA-floor standards, from the stance down to a custom interior that actually fits the cab. The result is a driver-quality hot rod hiding a genuinely serious powerplant under old-school Ford sheet metal.
This 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula shows just over 47,000 miles and still wears its factory interior, which is no small thing for a car built during Detroit’s smog-choked malaise era. Formula buyers that year actually had a real decision to make between three different V8s, and this car’s 350 split the difference between the base 305 and the range-topping 400. Backed by a factory 3-speed automatic, it’s a clean survivor from a period most Firebirds didn’t make it out of unscathed.