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Ray Brownfield has owned this 1966 Mustang convertible since 1982, restoring it into a Mustang Club of America National Award Winner. Only 72,119 of the 607,568 Mustangs Ford built that year were convertibles, and national-level judging holds them to a standard most owners never attempt. Four decades of patient ownership is written into every detail, the kind of commitment most restorations do not survive.
This 1965 Mercury Comet isn’t just an old drag car — it’s the machine that effectively created the NHRA’s Funny Car division, built when Jack Chrisman solved an impossible brief by moving the engine behind the front axle while keeping the body looking stock. Decades later, Chrisman’s Comet showed up at the Southeast Gassers Association’s 2017 Knoxville event through Barillaro Speed Emporium, still owned by the family. Watch to hear the full story behind the car that started it all.
This 1963 Mercury Comet has covered just 45,000 miles since a Tyler, Texas dealership sold it new – driven by one owner well into her 90s. It carries the optional 260-cubic-inch V8, a Ford Fairlane-derived engine good for 0-60 in under ten seconds, paired with air conditioning few base-sedan buyers ordered together. Six decades of careful ownership turned an uncommon factory combination into a genuinely rare survivor.
The 1955 Chevrolet didn’t just look new – Ed Cole’s all-new 265-cubic-inch small-block V8 and an all-new perimeter chassis helped Chevrolet outsell Ford by roughly 250,000 units that year. This Bel Air carries the Tri-Five’s iconic wraparound ‘Sweep-Sight’ windshield and custom interior, but swaps in a ’69 Corvette 350 for real modern power. With just 42 miles since a show-quality restoration, it’s Tri-Five history built to actually drive.
This 1969 Chevelle hides a 540-cubic-inch big block and twin 76mm turbochargers under its hood, riding on a Roadster Shop chassis built to handle the power. Builders combining this exact recipe of chassis, engine, and turbo setup have pushed similar Chevelles past 1,000 horsepower. Here is what makes this combination work.
This compilation stacks up dozens of real street racing encounters with police — some clean escapes, some spectacular failures — without picking a side or softening what happens when the math doesn’t work out. The line between a win clip and a fail clip turns out to be thinner than you’d expect, often coming down to a single split-second decision. It’s raw, unscripted, and occasionally hard to watch. See how many of these moments go the way you’d expect.
Ford built the Boss 302 engine to satisfy SCCA Trans-Am racing rules, and almost as an afterthought, a handful found their way into the 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator. Mercury built just 469 of these cars for the entire model year, with only 323 getting the close-ratio four-speed that made the high-revving engine worth having. Backed by blacked-out styling and a full-length front spoiler, the Boss 302 Eliminator remains one of the rarest, most overlooked performance Cougars Mercury ever built.
Jeff Tittle’s 1970 Chevy Nova keeps its plain ‘granny car’ looks fully intact while hiding a 355 small block, a Super T-10 four-speed, and a 9-inch Ford rear end underneath. RamblinAround stopped to check out the build and find out how Jeff balanced old-school style with genuine street performance. It’s a car built to be driven, not just looked at. Watch to see it in action.
Buick’s 1956 Special sat at the bottom of the lineup, but it carried real firsts – the Special and Century Riviera introduced the industry’s first four-door pillarless hardtop body just a year earlier. Under the hood, a 322-cubic-inch V8 made 220 horsepower, good power for a car Buick still marketed as its entry-level model. Owner Ken Becker has kept this Red-and-Black two-tone example for 25 years, and it shows.
Ford officially rated the 1969 Mustang’s 428 Cobra Jet at 335 horsepower, a number widely believed to be deliberately understated to dodge higher insurance rates – real output likely topped 400 hp. Fewer than 30 GT convertibles were built with the four-speed R-code version of this engine that year, and today only four are confirmed to survive. This car’s rare Indian Fire Red paint and factory power top make it a standout even within that tiny group.
Only 50 examples of this 2016 Shelby Terlingua Mustang were built, and Lou Costabile got a walkthrough of one straight from Shelby American’s own leadership at their Las Vegas facility. President Gary Patterson and VP of Operations Vince Laviolette explain what separates this yellow limited edition from the rest of Shelby’s lineup. Watch to see what fifty cars and a legendary name actually buys you.
Bill Mitchell designed the boattail Buick Riviera to channel the drama of 1930s speedster styling, scaling up a taper he had already proven on the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray. The controversial shape divided critics for three model years, and by 1973 Buick had already begun smoothing it out. This particular example later passed through Count’s Kustoms, the Las Vegas shop behind History Channel’s Counting Cars.
Plymouth built the Road Runner around one idea: strip the luxury trim and let a big-displacement V8 do the talking. The standard 383 made 335 horsepower, but the mid-1969 A12 package added the fearsome 440 Six Pack — three two-barrel carburetors, a fiberglass hood, and 390 horsepower for just $250 more. Only about 1,432 were built, and period testing showed it running nearly as quick as a 426 Hemi in the quarter-mile.