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This 1985 El Camino wears the Cowboy Cadillac nickname proudly, running a Goodwrench 350 crate engine and original bench seating. What most owners do not realize is that by this point in the fifth generation, these were being built south of the border in Mexico. Here is the strange, stop-start history behind Chevrolet’s most divisive nameplate.
Most turbo builds hide the hardware under the hood – this Nova runs its turbos straight through the grille, and builds like Kirk Marburger’s twin-turbo ’66 Nova prove the formula works, running 8.80 seconds at over 157 mph on the street. See what it actually takes to push a decades-old small block Nova into 8-second territory without losing its street car status, and why this platform keeps showing up at turbo and radial events.
Carroll Shelby built barely 528 examples of the 289-powered Cobra between 1963 and 1965, a production run smaller than a single muscle car factory shift. This particular roadster just came out of restoration wearing a new color entirely. Here is how a dying British roadster and an American small block V8 became one of the most feared shapes in racing history.
A summer cruise night in Vantaa, Finland brings together muscle cars, custom hot rods, and enough tire smoke to rival any American car meet. This June 2017 compilation from Vantaa Cruising proves American V8 culture has never respected borders. The crowd energy, the burnouts, the sheer volume, none of it reads any differently thousands of miles from Detroit. Watch to see just how far this culture has traveled.
This gold 1969 Corvette pairs a freshly rebuilt 454 big block with chrome side pipes that make the whole car sound as good as it looks. A completely new front suspension and brake system back up the claim that this is a driver, not a trailer queen, while a velour 1970s-style interior keeps the cabin true to its era. One click of the key tells you everything. Watch the full walkaround and test drive to hear it for yourself.
Dodge built the 1969 Charger Daytona to break 200 mph on NASCAR’s biggest ovals, and every strange curve on its body — the towering rear wing, the 18-inch nose cone — existed purely to cheat the wind. Only 503 were built to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules, and just 70 of those got the fearsome 426 Hemi. It remains one of the rarest, wildest-looking muscle cars Detroit ever legalized for the street.
1966 was the year Pontiac finally let the GTO stand on its own, and buyers responded by making it the best-selling muscle car in America. This PHS-documented convertible traces back to a Florida dealership and still wears its factory 389 and air conditioning. Only 12,798 ragtops were built that year. Here is what makes a real one worth chasing.
Phil Martin sold his 1965 GTO once and spent years regretting it — so in 1995, he found this 1966 model in charcoal blue and made sure he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice. Lou Costabile catches up with Phil at Chicago’s World of Wheels, where restorer Mark Klopak explains what it takes to bring a GTO like this back to full glory. The 389 V8 still runs strong under the hood. Watch to hear the full story behind a car bought to fix an old regret.
1968 was the only year Shelby offered the GT350 as a true factory convertible, and Ford built just 404 of them — the rarest body style in the entire lineup that year. It also marked the last model year Carroll Shelby himself was directly involved in the GT Mustang program, and the debut of a new 302 small-block under the hood. Rare, historically significant, and genuinely pleasant to drive — that’s a hard combination to find in a ’60s muscle car.
Chevrolet refused to put anything bigger than 400 cubic inches in a factory Camaro, so Don Yenko built the car GM would not. This 1969 Yenko Camaro packs a genuine 427 big-block under the hood, officially rated at 425 horsepower but widely believed to make closer to 450. Wearing rare Olympic Gold paint, it is one of roughly 201 ever built, and one of the rarest colors among them.
A plain four-door 1970 Plymouth Satellite doesn’t look like a threat — until you notice the 440 Super Commando big block under the hood. Rated at 375 horsepower and 480 lb-ft of torque, it was the same engine family that powered the Road Runner and GTX, just wearing a much more forgettable body. That combination is exactly why this unassuming sedan reportedly humbled a BMW at a stoplight, and why sleepers remain one of the best stories in muscle car history.
This ’69 Nova pairs a Detroit Speed chassis and Wilwood brakes with paint deep enough to get lost in, but the platform underneath has always punched above its weight class. From the factory-built Yenko 427, of which only 37 were made, to this modern pro-touring build, find out why the second-generation Nova keeps drawing builders who want more than a trailer queen.
Peggy Szarzynski did not buy her red 1970 Chrysler 300 Convertible herself — her husband Dennis gave it to her as a birthday present. Spotted at the 34th Annual Show & Swap Meet in Elmhurst, Illinois, the car carries the weight of Chrysler letter-series performance heritage in one of its rarer convertible body styles. It is the kind of gift that only someone who truly knows cars could pull off. Watch to hear Peggy tell the story herself.
Plymouth built the Road Runner to be a stripped-down bargain – until you optioned in the 426 Hemi and turned it into the rarest muscle car math in Detroit. Only 169 hardtops left the factory with that engine in 1968. Here is what it actually cost to order one, and why those same cars now change hands for six figures.