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In the winter of 1965, Hertz partnered with Carroll Shelby to rent out 1,000 specially built GT350 Mustangs — the GT350H — for $17 a day at locations across the country. Each carried a Shelby-tuned 306-horsepower 289 V8 capable of 0-60 mph in about 6.6 seconds. High repair costs ended the program by late 1966, but the surviving cars are now some of the most sought-after Mustangs in the collector market.
By 1973, most manufacturers had already retreated from serious muscle car performance, but Buick’s Stage 1 option for the Gran Sport quietly delivered 510 lb-ft of torque — the highest of any production passenger car engine that year — from its 455-cubic-inch V8. Only 728 buyers ordered the package, making this rare Sun Coupe variant one of the most overlooked survivors of the entire muscle car era.
This 1970 Chevelle convertible swaps its original big-block for a supercharged LS9 straight out of a Corvette ZR1’s parts bin, with custom work covering nearly every panel. See how the factory LS6 454’s reputation still shapes what builders chase decades later, and why this one goes about it with a very different engine.
The 1958 Buick Roadmaster was Buick’s flagship, built around the 364-cubic-inch ‘Nailhead’ V8 rated at 300 horsepower (up to 330 with the optional performance package) and paired with the unusual triple-turbine Flight-Pitch Dynaflow transmission. With a 127.5-inch wheelbase and a price near $4,600, only 14,054 were built that year — a full-size cruiser with the kind of overbuilt engineering that made long hauls, like a run from Denver to Detroit, feel routine.
Every spring, Van Nuys, California hosts what’s billed as the largest Mopar show and swap meet west of the Mississippi, with more than 700 cars and close to 10,000 spectators. E-body Barracudas, ‘Cudas, and Challengers built between 1970 and 1974 are the stars of the show, turning out in the wild color palette Chrysler was famous for during that era. Now in its fourth decade, Spring Fling has become a fixture for serious Mopar collectors.
The Brothers Collection has enough drop-top muscle cars in one place that V8TV built an entire summer episode just ranking favorites — a 1967 Mustang K-Code, a 440+6 ‘Cuda in Tor-Red, a factory fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a rare Trans Am convertible among them. Convertible muscle cars were always the harder find, built in smaller numbers and lost to rust and neglect faster than their hardtop siblings. Seeing seven of them together says something about just how deep this collection actually runs.
A 2017 Ford GT — one of the most exclusive supercars Ford has ever built — meets a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for a real track session, with both drivers working through their first laps in these specific cars. The ZL1 was engineered to hang with exotics costing multiples of its price, and this footage puts that claim to the test in real conditions, mistakes included. It’s unpolished, unscripted, and more revealing because of it. Watch to see how close the gap really is.
Known simply as ‘The Hulk,’ this 1967 Chevy Nova runs a pair of 88mm Pro-Mod turbochargers and puts down roughly 2,500 horsepower — enough to run the quarter-mile in the very low seven-second range. The build has been featured on Discovery Channel’s Street Outlaws. What makes it even more surprising is the starting point: the Nova was originally Chevrolet’s compact economy car, not a performance model, before drag racers turned its light unibody into a favorite extreme-build platform.
The original 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 was factory-rated at 410 horsepower in street trim and around 485 in Competition spec — numbers that made it the fastest American road car of its day. Higher figures like 575 horsepower typically come from later continuation builds and restomods running modern crate engines in that same iconic body. Genuine 1965 cars are exceptionally rare, with only 53 of the required 100 homologation cars completed before Shelby’s deadline passed.
This 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible hides one of the rarest option combinations Dodge ever built — a 426 Hemi, a four-speed manual, and a drop top, a pairing only five cars in the world ever received. Its Plum Crazy Purple paint and factory Fender tag tell a story of Mopar’s most feared engine losing out to the more practical 440 Six Pack at the dealership. Today it’s a seven-figure unicorn from the Brothers Collection. Watch to see why Don Garlits himself once used the words “triple tough” to describe it.
This 1934 Ford Coupe hides an unusual secret underneath its vintage steel body: the chassis, suspension, and drivetrain of a wrecked Camaro ZL1, GM’s supercharged sixth-generation flagship. That donor brings roughly 650 horsepower and a factory-tuned performance chassis most scratch-built hot rods never get close to. It’s also a build that sits at the center of an ongoing debate in the resto-mod world about how much of a car’s identity survives a donor-chassis swap.