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This hugger-orange 1971 Chevelle SS wears a Baldwin-Motion badge — proof it passed through one of the strangest, most aggressive dealer-tuner partnerships of the muscle car era. Built around a 350 small-block and a Muncie four-speed rather than a big-block, it tells a different story than the factory spec sheet ever could. Read on to find out why that badge matters.
This Plymouth Gran Fury spent its factory life as a police interceptor, running a durable 440 big-block built for pursuit duty rather than bragging rights. A tunnel-ram intake punching through the hood has since turned that quiet workhorse into a full-blown street machine. Read on to find out what made the factory engine special in the first place.
This 1970 Chevelle SS454 isn’t just numbers-matching — it’s optioned with the range-topping 450-horsepower LS6, finished in special-order Hugger Orange, and believed by its owner to be one of the very first LS6 Chevelles built. Commenters are already calling it the greatest American muscle car ever produced. It’s easy to see why: the engine, the color, and the production story all point toward the same rare car. Watch the full walkaround to see the documentation behind the claim.
This 1966 Ford Mustang 289 convertible looks like every other first-generation droptop until you read the fifth character of its VIN. Ford offered the 289 three completely different ways that year, from a mild 200-horsepower two-barrel to the solid-lifter 271-horsepower K-code, and the cars are visually identical from the curb. Only 72,119 convertibles were built out of 607,568 Mustangs. Read on to find out what separates a cruiser from a genuine performance car.
A turquoise 1967 Nova wagon isn’t supposed to be the fastest thing at Drag Week, but a 540 cubic-inch twin-turbo big-block turned this family hauler into a seven-second wheelie machine. It even kept its air conditioning running for the long highway stints between tracks, unlike most dedicated race cars. Read on to see how the build actually pulled it off day after day.
The 1969 Dodge Charger and Super Bee shared Chrysler’s B-body bones but chased two completely different buyers — one wanted a boulevard cruiser, the other wanted the cheapest ticket to a 13-second quarter mile. A mid-year option turned the budget car into the one that actually embarrassed its fancier sibling at the strip. Read on to see how the math worked out.
Red on red isn’t a subtle color combination, and neither was Ford’s 1967 decision to finally give the Mustang a genuine big-block option. The GT390 changed the whole equation, turning a good-looking pony car into a real muscle car overnight. Read on to find out what made the S-code cars rare, and why this exact color combination still turns heads more than half a century later.
Mercury built the Cougar Eliminator to answer a question nobody asked out loud: could the plush, buttoned-down Cougar throw a punch like a Boss Mustang? With engine options running from a workable 351 to a 428 Cobra Jet, and production numbers this thin, finding one today is harder than most people think. Read on to find out what actually made this muscle cat rare.
Pikes Peak doesn’t just test a car’s speed — it tests brakes, cooling systems, driver nerve, and the thinning mountain air itself. This 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda took on more than twelve miles of switchbacks during the 90th running of one of the oldest motorsport events in America. Read on to find out what it actually takes for a street-bred muscle car to survive a mountain built to break machinery.
Plymouth’s Lemon Twist paint code paired with a 426 Hemi and a four-speed manual makes for one of the rarest combinations in the entire muscle car world — a car so scarce that most Mopar fans will never see one in person. Read on to find out just how few of these actually left the factory, and why that number keeps shrinking the more you dig.
Gabriel Henaut grew up the son of a mechanic in France, cutting his teeth on Mk1 Volkswagen Golfs before deciding an American V8 was worth chasing down despite feeling like pure fantasy. Petrolicious follows his search across the Atlantic and the 1973 Chevrolet Camaro that ended up living permanently in the French countryside. Watch the full story to see why more than one viewer said it brought them to tears.
Mike Cosculluela first fell for a 1969 Chevrolet Nova as a paperboy in rural Ohio, drawn in by the sound, the black paint, and the Cragar S/S wheels on a car he passed every day. Forty-plus years later, he owns one just like it — and drives it, rather than displaying it. The House of Muscle’s fourth episode traces that connection, and it’s left more than one viewer surprised by how much it affected them. Watch to see why.
Chevy didn’t build the 2014 Camaro Z/28 to win drag races — it built it to be the fastest Camaro around a road course, even if that meant giving up horsepower to its own ZL1 sibling. Strip away the back seat and most of the sound deadening, and what’s left is a 505-horsepower track weapon. Read on to find out how a car built to be slower in a straight line ended up faster where it actually counted.
By 1980, Chevrolet wasn’t putting big-blocks in the El Camino anymore — so a build like this one wearing a 454 didn’t come off any factory floor. It came out of a garage where somebody decided the rulebook didn’t apply. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make a truck-based platform swallow a genuine big-block Pro Street build.
One careful owner put just 17,000 miles on this 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS before the current owner tracked it down and restored it — and it’s a genuine, factory-built SS, not a badge job. Low-mile survivors like this one are rare precisely because most Novas of this era got driven hard and used up. Read on to find out what makes an original like this one different from anything else on the market.