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A barn find 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A has been sitting untouched for years, its original 340 cubic inch Six Pack engine still intact under the hood. Dodge built only 2,399 T/A Challengers that year, and viewers can’t even agree on the factory paint color, some call it Panther Pink, others Plum Crazy Purple. The video poses a pointed question: would you trade this original for a modern Hellcat? Most commenters say no.
The Chrysler 300 SRT8 for 2013 is the ultimate sleeper sedan, looking inconspicuously like its six-cylinder sibling but packing a powerful punch with a 470 hp 6.4-liter V8 engine. It rockets from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.3 seconds and can hit 175 mph. With a suspension that offers track, sport, and auto modes, this car is perfect for both city cruising and highway escapades. Inside, it boasts comfy heated seats, a 19-speaker stereo, and a touch screen, though be prepared for a bit of a gas guzzler tax!
GM’s 1956 Firebird II was a titanium-bodied, gas-turbine dream car that never got anywhere near a dealer lot — so how did its name end up on one of the most iconic pony cars Detroit ever built? Pontiac almost called its new 1967 Mustang-fighter something else entirely before reaching back to that jet-age Motorama show car. From a 165-horsepower base six to a 325-horsepower GTO-sourced V8, the production Firebird offered enough combinations that no two seem to drive alike.
One Florida collector ran out of garage space and solved it in the most literal way possible — by buying an entire former Walmart in Punta Gorda and turning it into a private car storage building. Locals driving by on US 41 can catch a glimpse of a baby blue 1964 Impala parked behind the fence, but that is only a fraction of what is reportedly inside. Watch to see just how much car a big-box building can actually hold.
The Corvair remains the only mass-produced, rear-engine, air-cooled car ever built by an American manufacturer, and for most of the 1960s it genuinely competed with the VW Beetle — even spawning a supercharged Monza Spyder and a 180-horsepower turbo variant. Then a single book changed everything, and sales collapsed from 350,000 units a year to just 6,000. Read on for the full story of the Corvair’s rise and its rapid fall.
This 1971 Chevrolet Nova arrived at Vanguard Motor Sales with barely a paragraph of description, but the comments filled in the blanks fast — viewers pegged it as a serious resto-mod running what one commenter called ‘7.4 liters of fun,’ shorthand for a 454 cubic-inch big block Chevrolet never offered in this body style. The amber lighting and paint drew their own praise, with one viewer calling it a flat-out show stopper. Watch to see a compact built as a blank canvas rather than a numbers-matching original.
Chevrolet’s 1955 Bel Air debuted with an engine so influential that nearly every GM V8 built for the next several decades traced back to it — even though the earliest examples burned oil and struggled on regular gas. From the 195-horsepower Super Power Pack to the rare fuel-injected 283 offered in 1957, the TriFive years defined an entire era of Chevrolet performance. Read on for the full year-by-year breakdown of what made these cars so significant.
This 1967 Dodge Charger was not built for a dealer lot — it was assembled for Dodge’s stand at the International Auto Show, loaded with options and powered by the 426 Hemi most buyers could only special-order and hope for. Now preserved in The Brothers Collection, the car still carries its factory show-car details, right down to a four-bucket-seat interior fans call one of Chrysler’s best. Watch to see what almost sixty years of careful preservation looks like up close.
This 1970 Plymouth Superbird was built to win NASCAR races, not just look fast — but the detail everyone remembers is the horn, which plays an actual “meep meep” straight out of the Road Runner cartoon. Between the original $4,794.62 window sticker and the aerodynamics NASCAR forced onto the design, this in-depth walkaround finds a lot more than a gimmick. Watch to hear the horn for yourself.
This compilation runs four real 1969 commercials back to back: Pontiac GTO, Ford Mustang Mach 1, Lincoln Mercury Cougar, and Plymouth Road Runner, each selling the same basic promise with a completely different pitch. Watching them in sequence makes each brand’s advertising strategy, attitude, performance credibility, upscale polish, or cartoon charm, obvious in a way a single ad never shows. See which pitch actually holds up six decades later.
Oldsmobile’s 1966 Toronado paired a 425 cubic-inch V8 with front-wheel drive at a time when that combination was nearly unheard of in America. Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard heads to the Lingenfelter Collection to walk through exactly what separates a well-sorted example from a expensive mistake, and makes the case for why this overlooked personal luxury coupe deserves real collector attention. Watch for the full checklist.
Don Yenko found three different ways around GM’s rule capping Camaro engines at 400 cubic inches, hand-swapping in 427s for 1967 and 1968 before finally getting Chevrolet to build the combination on the factory line for 1969. With production numbers as low as 104 cars in the first year, these remain some of the rarest true muscle cars ever built. Read on for the year-by-year breakdown of exactly how each version came together.
One owner, two generations of the same nameplate: this Autofocus.ca segment pairs a genuine early Dodge Challenger with a modern successor, both owned by the same person. Rather than settling for a manufacturer-style verdict, the comparison digs into what actually changed — and what didn’t — across nearly fifty years of the same badge. Watch to hear the case made by someone who never had to choose between them.
Jay Leno rides shotgun in the legendary Hemi Under Glass, a 2,500-horsepower exhibition car built to run an entire quarter mile balanced on its rear wheels, driven by veteran stunt driver Bob Riggle. Even with decades of automotive experience, Leno’s reaction on camera makes clear this ride is unlike anything else in his garage. Watch to see how a car engineered to defy physics actually feels from the passenger seat.
GM capped intermediate cars at 400 cubic inches in 1968 — so Hurst and an independent Michigan dealer built this Cutlass-based coupe outside the factory line to get around it, stuffing a 455 under the hood. This vintage road test captures the resulting Hurst/Olds exactly as period journalists first experienced it. Watch to see the loophole car in action.