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A 1970 Corvette that spent years abandoned and neglected has been torn down to bare fiberglass and rebuilt from the ground up — chrome, engine bay, and all. This was one of the lowest-production years of the entire C3 generation, and it still carries the last full chrome face before federal bumper rules changed the car’s look for good. What started as a write-off ends up looking, and running, like it never sat still at all. Watch to see just how far this transformation goes.
A shell company with a boring name built a handful of Chevy sedans in 1957 that were so fast NASCAR banned the technology under their hoods for more than 50 years. This tribute wears the Black Widow paint scheme and drivetrain spirit of that legendary program, built off-books to beat the competition without General Motors’ name on the invoice. Here’s the story behind the ban.
This Chevy Nova looks like exactly what it is on the outside — a garage-built driver car with old-school flavor and nothing flashy about it. What’s hiding underneath is a supercharged LSA V8 putting down a dyno-verified 557 horsepower to the rear wheels, with an estimated 650 to 700 at the crank. It’s the kind of sleeper that wins by surprise, not spec sheet. Watch to see what happens when the supercharger whine finally gives it away.
Dodge pulled the Hemi out of the Charger. Chevy shelved the Camaro. That leaves the 2026 Ford Mustang GT as the last mainstream American muscle car still offering a naturally aspirated V8 and a genuine 6-speed manual, and this review drives a base-spec example in a stunning Adriatic Blue Metallic that’s already convinced at least one viewer to order the same color. With 480 horsepower and zero turbo lag, it’s a reminder of what the formula used to feel like. Watch to see whether the last one standing still holds up.
A trunk hinge that still creaks and a spare tire that’s apparently never touched pavement — small details that tell Mopar collectors everything about how untouched this 1968 Plymouth Road Runner really is. Owner Jeff Fleming has kept the QQ1-blue, 426 Hemi car since 2013, correcting a common mix-up with the following year’s B5 Blue paint code along the way. Commenters call the color-and-engine combination the best Plymouth ever built.
In 2013, Cobras, Daytona Coupes, and Mustangs rolled into the Shelby Convention to celebrate a legacy built on a wild bet: that American muscle could out-race Ferrari at its own game. Only six original Daytona Coupes were ever built, and the story of how they beat Europe’s best still pulls collectors together decades later. Read on to find out what made those six cars unrepeatable.
Craig Jackson has watched more Hemi ‘Cudas cross the auction block than almost anyone alive as Chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson — and out of all of them, this 1970 example is the one he kept for himself, calling it ‘the quintessential muscle car.’ Jay Leno joins him for a drive through the canyons and hears the full story behind how Jackson acquired it. When the industry’s top authority on muscle car values picks a favorite, it’s worth paying attention. Watch to hear why this one made the cut.
This Oldsmobile 442 spent nearly 27 years sitting untouched in a storage unit, covered in mold and grime thick enough to hide what it actually was underneath. The team behind this channel specializes in taking cars nobody thought could be saved and surprising the owner with the finished result once the work is done. Watch the full pressure wash, clay bar, polish, and mold-removal process that brings a genuinely underrated muscle car back to life — and see the owner’s reaction when they finally get it back.
Chevrolet confirmed in March 2023 that this generation of Camaro would retire at the end of the 2024 model year, with no gas-powered successor announced. This ZL1 review captures the top of the lineup at exactly that moment — supercharged 6.2L V8, available manual transmission, Recaro seats, and styling that refused to soften. Viewers are calling it a genuine monster and a ‘now or never’ buy. Watch to see the last great V8 Camaro in action.
Picture a single parking lot holding a Yenko Camaro, a GTO Judge, a Smokey and the Bandit tribute Trans Am, and well over a hundred more genuine muscle cars and hot rods, all in one afternoon. That’s the Street Machine Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota — one of the biggest gatherings of its kind in the country. With a list of cars this long, the challenge isn’t finding something worth stopping for, it’s knowing where to look first. Watch the full walkthrough.
This 1970 Ford Mustang runs Ford’s original 302 small-block, the same displacement that powered the Boss 302’s Trans-Am championship run against the Camaro Z/28. Bunkie Knudsen and designer Larry Shinoda helped turn a modest small-block into a genuine giant-killer on the track. Read on to find out how a 220-horsepower engine helped rewrite what a small-block could do.
A matte black 1970 Chevrolet Nova built as an almost exact replica of Kurt Russell’s villain car from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof rolls through a cruising night in Helsinki, Finland — and the burnout that follows makes clear why the exhaust note mattered as much to the build as the paint job did. Nearly two decades after the film’s release, the car is still instantly recognizable to anyone who’s seen it.
This 1973 Dodge Charger wears its Rallye stripes and hood pins like a well-kept survivor, but under the hood sits a custom 605 cubic inch big block claimed to make 805 horsepower. A stock ’73 Rallye topped out around 280 horsepower from its 440 Magnum, so nearly everything about this car’s performance belongs to a different era of engine building. Read on to find out how much of it is still 1973, and what it takes to make an old B-body carry that much power.
The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T came standard with the 440 Magnum, and the sound that big block makes at idle is the reason so many people call this one of the best-looking muscle cars of all time before it ever moves. Most R/T buyers took the 440 over the Hemi, but far fewer of those cars survive today with their original drivetrain intact. Read on to find out how the R/T earned its badge and what to check before buying one.
The Pontiac GTO Judge got its name from a Sammy Davis Jr. bit on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, an unlikely origin for what became one of the most iconic muscle car packages ever built. Standard power came from the 366-horsepower Ram Air III, and Pontiac moved 6,833 Judges in 1969 alone. What started as a marketing stunt to keep the GTO relevant turned into a legend that’s outlasted the joke that inspired it.