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Schwartz Performance took a dented California 1969 Mustang fastback, spent roughly 1,400 hours on it, and handed the finished car away to a stranger at a Las Vegas trade show. Under the Boss-inspired paint sits a 444-horsepower Coyote Boss 302 crate engine, a fabricated G-Machine chassis, and a GT500-spec brake package. Read on to find out how a brake company ended up building one of the more serious restomods of the SEMA era.

Oldsmobile’s W45 Rallye 350 package turned a Cutlass into a rolling highlighter: body-color urethane bumpers, yellow Super Stock II wheels, and a 310-horse Rocket 350 breathing through a fiberglass Force-Air hood. Just 3,547 were built across a single model year, and only 160 of those wore the Sports Coupe body. Here is why the cheapest honest way into an Oldsmobile muscle car is also the one you will almost never see in person.

By 1973 the Oldsmobile 442 had been reduced to an option code on a Cutlass, mostly stripes, emblems, and a stiffer suspension bolted under a body made heavier by federal bumper rules. Jeff Schwartz of Schwartz Performance took that exact car and gave it the performance Oldsmobile was no longer allowed to build, fabricating custom front bodywork while deliberately keeping the outside looking factory. The restraint is the entire point. Read on for what makes it work.

Ford did not simply facelift the Mustang for 1969. The company renamed the fastback body style entirely, stretched the car nearly four inches, gave it a one-year-only quad-headlight face, and launched four new models in a single season. Buyers could order anything from a mild six-cylinder commuter to a 428 Cobra Jet. Read on to find out what made the 1969 SportsRoof a genuine turning point rather than a running change.

The 2016 Ridler Award went to a 1939 Oldsmobile convertible called Olds Cool, built for a Texas couple by a small shop that spent years on a car most builders would never have chosen. The Model 60 was Oldsmobile’s entry-level six that year, not a glamour car, and complete examples are close to unfindable today. Here is what the Ridler actually demands, why the donor car made the build harder, and what separates a Great 8 finalist from the one that wins.

In 1968, an Oldsmobile engineer asked the Hurst team to help build something that should not have existed: a 442 with the Toronado’s front-wheel-drive powertrain packed into its nose. Exactly one was completed, and it survived in one owner’s hands for 42 years before Fred Mandrick acquired it in 2012. Read on to find out why Oldsmobile bothered building a front-drive muscle car nobody was ever supposed to buy.

This twin-turbo Coyote Mustang rolled onto the dyno at Dynoedge running a modified Hellion turbo kit, reworked specifically to shorten intercooler piping and cut turbo lag, and posted a run that pushed toward nearly 1,400 horsepower at 26 psi of boost. Commenters zeroed in on the exhaust note as much as the numbers, calling it one of the best-sounding Coyotes they’d heard on a dyno. Watch the full pull to see exactly what a shortened-piping Hellion setup can do to a factory 5.0.

At the 2015 SEMA show the Ringbrothers unveiled a 1965 Mustang fastback whose only original panels were the floors. Everything else was carbon fiber built in-house, widened four inches, and finished in a color-shifting Spy Green that earned the car its name: Espionage. Under the hood sat a supercharged 427-cubic-inch LS7 making a reported 959 horsepower, a General Motors engine in a Ford body, which was rather the point. Read on to find out why the bodywork mattered more than the horsepower figure.

Chevrolet’s first personal luxury car could be ordered with the same 454 big-block it was selling to Chevelle buyers, rated at 360 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque. Just 3,823 people checked the box in 1970, and the badges were small enough that almost nobody noticed. Here is why the Monte Carlo SS 454 remains the most convincing sleeper Chevrolet ever built on purpose.

CBoysTV took the supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi out of their own Challenger Hellcat and built it into a last-generation Chevy El Camino — 707 horsepower in a car whose factory V8 made around 150. Three million people have now watched it drift, smoke tires, and line up against real muscle cars. The most repeated comment under the video: it looks like Chevrolet built it that way.


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