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A stock 1966 Chevy Nova left the factory with roughly 100 horsepower — this one makes an estimated 2,200. Built around a ProCharger F-series centrifugal supercharger and a reinforced chassis, it’s proof that no muscle car platform stays forgettable once the right builder gets involved. Read on to find out what it takes to survive that much power.
This 1969 Camaro wears the Pro Street look in its purest form — a blower punching through the hood, tubbed rear wheels stuffed with wide slicks, and a 521-cubic-inch Hemi combination capable of mid-8-second quarter miles at close to 180 mph. Read on to find out what it actually takes to build one this aggressive.
Ringbrothers didn’t just restore this 1966 Chevelle, they aimed a Whipple-supercharged LS7 making 980 horsepower at everything a stock A-body used to be. The build debuted at the 2014 SEMA Show wrapped in hand-laid carbon fiber and a custom color called “Sand Storm,” and it introduced an entirely new HRE wheel series along the way. Read on to find out what it actually took to earn a name like “Recoil.”
This 1962 Impala came to Jason Hill’s Lubbock, Texas shop already carrying a stalled build, a 502 big block from an owner who ran out of money before he ran out of ambition. Hill pulled the big-inch engine entirely and went a smarter direction, and the result earned a spot at SEMA 2015 after twelve straight years of builds from his shop. Read on to find out why less displacement turned out to be the right call.
The Chevrolet 3100 was never meant to be a showpiece — it was a farm truck, built for hauling feed and fence posts, not turning heads on a Saturday night. This 1951 custom takes that humble half-ton and reworks it into something its original buyer never could have imagined. Read on to find out what makes the Advance Design generation such a favorite starting point for custom truck builders.
A Corvette racing a three-row family SUV sounds like an easy call on paper, but the 2006-2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 hid a 420-horsepower Hemi under its ordinary sheet metal that made the outcome far closer than the horsepower numbers suggest. Between the LS2’s 4.1-second 0-60 time, the SRT8’s nearly ton-and-a-half weight disadvantage, and a four-wheel-drive launch advantage, this matchup has more layers than a typical drag strip mismatch. Read on to find out which car actually crosses the line first.
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra carries Ford’s rare $155 Drag Pack option and a story that runs deeper than any spec sheet — passed down through Troy’s family after his father was killed in one of three identical Torinos he once owned. Read on to find out what made the Drag Pack version a genuine 13-second car, and just how few of them survive today.
Ford built the 1968 F-100 to survive job sites and farms, never imagining it would become one of the most requested platforms in the street truck community decades later. Read on to find out how Ford’s Twin I-Beam suspension changed the ride quality game, and why this generation’s proportions still work with a lowered stance and a built V8.
Chrysler built roughly 738 Hemi Coronets across the entire 1966 lineup, and this one carries a combination rare enough that plenty of lifelong Mopar guys have never seen one in person. Under unassuming sheet metal sits a genuine numbers-matching 426 Street Hemi and four-speed, a pairing that cost the original buyer nearly a thousand dollars and scared off almost everyone else. Read on to find out just how thin that production number really gets.
A Ford engineer’s idea of a headline about comfort turns out to be one of the driving world’s best jokes — this 1964 Fairlane Thunderbolt had its heater, sun visors, and even a windshield wiper removed in the name of speed. Built in tiny numbers purely to dominate NHRA Super Stock, it terrified rivals with a horsepower figure Ford never fully admitted to. Read on to find out what was really hiding under that fiberglass hood, and what a real one costs to own today.
A modified C6 Corvette is laying down eighth-mile passes in under four seconds at 193 mph, numbers that belong to professional doorslammer classes rather than a car still wearing a production body. Getting there means a built bottom end, forced induction stacked in ways most street builds never attempt, and a fuel system built to survive numbers most engines can only dream about. Read on to find out what it actually takes — and what it costs — to push a small-block Corvette platform into four-digit horsepower territory.
Marc Vernon’s 1958 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe, finished in Sierra Gold and owned since 2014, represents a body style Chevrolet built for exactly one model year before redesigning the Impala entirely. Fans call it the Baby Cadillac for its Cadillac-rivaling chrome and presence. Watch to see why this one-year-only design still stops strangers in their tracks.
1979 was the biggest sales year the Firebird ever had, and the Formula sat in an interesting spot between the budget-focused Esprit and the flashier Trans Am. This example carries the shaker hood and dual exhaust that made Formula buyers feel like they’d gotten the enthusiast’s Firebird without paying Trans Am prices. Read on to find out what made 1979 such a pivotal year for the second-generation Firebird lineup.
Scott Cawley’s 1950 Studebaker still wears the polarizing bullet nose that made strangers ask which direction the car was actually driving, but this one skips the trailer-queen treatment most survivors get. An updated suspension and a modern engine swap keep it as a genuine daily driver, seventy years after Studebaker’s gamble on Raymond Loewy’s design became the best-selling year in company history. Read on to see what made the design so divisive in the first place.
A 1964 Corvette with an engine that rises above its own roofline is not built to blend in. This Pro Street build claims 2,600 horsepower from a stacked, blown big-block that turns the car’s hood into an afterthought, putting it in the same conversation as some of the most extreme builds the genre has ever produced. Read on to see where that claim actually stacks up.