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A 25,444-mile odometer reading sounds impossible for a car built in 1973, but this single-family-owned Monte Carlo backs it up with genuine, untouched originality. Chevrolet’s award-winning personal luxury coupe set sales records that year, and this example shows exactly what one looked like before five decades of wear ever had a chance to happen. Read on to find out what makes a true survivor different from a great restoration.
This 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport hid a genuine street brawler under GM’s most conservative badge, running the final year of Buick’s torque-heavy nailhead V8 before the design retired for good. Only a fraction of that year’s Skylark production ever wore the GS badge, making a numbers-matching example a genuine rarity today. Read on to find out why collectors are finally giving Buick’s understated muscle car its due.
Johnny Hawkins spent years chewing through AHRA competition behind the wheel of a 1964 Ford Falcon nobody expected to matter, backed by Drew Ford and powered by nothing more exotic than Ford’s first small-block V8. The Falcon’s humble economy-car reputation made it the perfect sleeper, light enough to out-accelerate cars carrying far more displacement. Read on to find out how a car built to be cheap ended up rewriting Ford’s small-block legacy.
This 1966 Chevy Nova wears an unassuming compact body, but the L79 327 under the hood is the same Corvette-spec engine that turned it into one of the meanest sleepers of the muscle car era. Read on to find out how rare a genuine L79 car really is and why it could still embarrass far more expensive machinery at a stoplight.
Dodge built the 1970 Challenger T/A for one purpose: SCCA Trans-Am homologation, and only 2,399 left the factory before the model vanished for good. This triple black example is one of roughly 50 wearing that scheme, powered by a 340 Six Pack Dodge officially rated at just 290 horsepower. Read on to find out why that number was suspiciously modest.
Dodge’s Extreme Aero Package turned an already record-setting Viper ACR into a genuine downforce machine, adding a massive carbon fiber wing that measures over 1,800 millimeters across. The base ACR already held a Nurburgring lap record for rear-wheel-drive production cars before the Extreme package ever existed. Read on to find out exactly what that extra carbon fiber actually bought.
Only eleven Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles left Chrysler’s factory in 1971, and this is one of just two built with both the 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual. Kevin Oeste and the V8TV crew tracked it down inside a private collection viewers call the “Hemi E-body kings.” One commenter even recalled a rumored 2.2 million dollar sale price, though nobody can confirm it. How does a car this rare end up missing a tachometer?
By 1975, the once-fearsome Dodge Coronet name had been reduced to a comfort-focused Brougham trim — but this particular four-door hides a 360 cubic inch V8 under custom flake paint and a genuinely good-sounding exhaust. Read on to find out how a family sedan built for comfort ended up as a Malaise-era show cruiser with real muscle underneath.
This 1969 Camaro looks like an ordinary used-lot survivor, but it’s actually a genuine ‘Double COPO’ — one of roughly 40 built with both the 427 L72 big-block and the Sports Car Conversion Package, sold through Berger Chevrolet in Grand Rapids. Read on to find out how a fleet-vehicle paperwork loophole created some of the most valuable Camaros on the planet.
This 1969 Chevrolet Nova, built by Germany’s Kult Cars, runs a 383 cubic-inch stroker small block rated at 550 PS, and the video’s entire purpose is letting viewers hear it, exhaust cutouts and all. Some commenters weren’t thrilled about the 50-second music intro before the engine gets a word in, but once the cutouts open, the sound is the whole point. Watch to hear what a European-built stroker small block sounds like at full volume.
Finished with only three days to spare before Cruisin the Coast, this 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS is a near-stock restoration that skips the flashy paint and stretched stance in favor of getting every factory detail right. Read on to find out why 1967 marked the Impala SS’s last real high point before the package faded away.
This 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 pairs a rare four-speed manual with a factory-correct Medium Garnet Red paint job, restored to a standard clean enough for both show judging and a summer cruise. Read on to find out what separated Chevrolet’s three versions of the 396 and why the manual gearbox matters so much to collectors today.
A supercharged 500-horsepower Shelby GT500 and a naturally aspirated Corvette Z06 look like a mismatch on paper — until they actually line up at the drag strip. The Z06’s 700-pound weight advantage turns a 100-plus horsepower deficit into a genuine fight, with both cars trading blows in the 12-second quarter-mile range. Read on to find out which one actually crossed the stripe first.