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Dodge’s Super Bee ran a full four-year spread of engine options, from a stout 383 all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi, but the rarest combination of them all was the mid-1969 A12 Six-Pack. Only 1,907 of those 440 Six-Pack cars were built, and the Hemi option was even scarcer at just 125 units. It’s a lineup that proves not every muscle car icon needed a household name to earn its reputation.
A 540-inch stroker build in a 1969 Camaro squares off against a 427-powered 1966 Chevelle in a straight-line battle between two very different paths to big-block muscle. One car leans on raw displacement, the other on GM’s factory racing bloodline, and the launch alone has viewers debating suspension setups more than a decade after this race first hit YouTube. Watch to see which classic comes out ahead.
Don Adams sold a Buick once and spent years regretting it before spotting a 1969 Riviera GS Gran Sport in a magazine ad and, with his wife’s encouragement, finally buying it back in 2002. This all-original Embassy Gold example has never been restored — just preserved. It’s a rare survivor from a personal luxury coupe that traded some of Buick’s usual comfort focus for real performance. Watch to hear the full story behind how this car found its way home twice.
When Ford realized their Mustangs were being outpaced by Chevy’s Camaros, they brought out the big guns (or engines, rather) with the Boss 302 in 1969-70. This Mustang was like the cool kid at school with its sleek design, minus those non-functional rear scoops. Packed with power, it could hit 0-60 in 6.9 seconds, leaving others in the dust. At $3,720, it was a steal back then, though good luck finding one now that won’t cost you more than a small island!
The narrator can’t quite settle on how to pronounce GTX, but there’s no confusion about what this 1969 Plymouth can do. This vintage road test pushes the 440-powered GTX through acceleration runs and cornering that surprised even the crew filming it, backed by a factory pedigree tied to Sox and Martin’s NHRA racing program. Watch to find out exactly how fast the quarter-mile route to Squeelsville really was.
AMC spent the late 1960s selling the Rebel as sensible family transportation, a four-door sedan, a wagon, and a hardtop built for buyers who wanted nothing flashy. Then it built The Machine: a 340-hp version of the same car, wrapped in a single red, white, and blue paint scheme with a hood-mounted tachometer. Read on to see how AMC quietly redesigned the Rebel for 1969 and 1970, and how The Machine turned an economy car into a genuine muscle car.
Chevrolet built just 201 examples of the 1965 Chevelle Z16, handing a tiny group of buyers a genuine big-block 396 a full year before the option became widely available. One convertible was reportedly built for a GM executive and is believed destroyed; only about 75 of the original run are accounted for today. Read on to find out what made this the rarest Chevelle Chevrolet ever built.
Debbie Powless’s love of Buicks started with her grandfather’s Electra 225, a gift that planted a seed years before she ever owned a Buick herself. After spotting a Riviera at a car show, she searched until she found this exact 1971 Buick Riviera GS Gran Sport in Vintage Red, then restored it from the ground up. Under the hood sits the 455 cubic inch V8 that gives the car its signature sound. Watch to hear it, and to hear how a family hand-me-down turned into a decade-long search.
An editor spent hours splicing together the greatest car chases from more than a dozen films, Bullitt, The French Connection, Vanishing Point, Mad Max, and beyond, into one continuous five-minute sequence. The result plays like an entire decade of practical stunt driving compressed into a single unbroken chase. Watch to see how many of these iconic films you can spot.
The Dodge Challenger, revving into the scene in 1970, was Chrysler’s late entry into the pony car race, sporting a design inspired by the Charger. Despite muscle car sales tanking by ’71, the Challenger made a valiant effort with options ranging from a humble six-cylinder to a monstrous 426 Hemi. As the years rolled on, it shifted from R/T to Rallye, losing its shaker hood but keeping its cool. With 165,437 units cruising off the line by ’74, the Challenger’s first-gen was a wild ride!
Robert McGaffin’s 1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 has been cloned into a 442 and fitted with a carbureted 461 cubic-inch big-block, built specifically to handle autocross duty rather than just straight-line bragging rights. Featured in The Drive’s BIG MUSCLE series, it’s a deliberate argument for a brand that rarely gets its due next to Chevrolet and Pontiac. The comments turn into a genuine defense of Oldsmobile power, praising McGaffin for skipping the easy LS-swap route. Watch to see what a serious Olds big-block build actually looks like.
Buying a classic car sounds romantic until the bills start arriving, and TFL Classics built an entire spinoff series around exactly that gap between expectation and reality. Episode 2 of “Load Bearing Paint” counts down the top five pitfalls to avoid, but it’s the comment section that delivers the real lessons, including one viewer’s $250 junkyard find that became a $13,000 project he still doesn’t regret. What separates buyers who finish their projects from the ones who don’t?
The third-gen Chevrolet El Camino, 1968-1972, truly revved up the muscle car game with its Malibu-inspired style and Chevelle platform. In ’68, it flaunted options like posi-traction and a power disk brake for those who wanted to stop as impressively as they could go. The high-performance SS debuted, with engines roaring up to 375 bhp. By 1970, it could house a monstrous LS6 454 engine, racing through the quarter-mile in 13 seconds! Alas, emissions rules in ’71 took a bit of the vroom out of its zoom.
Exactly ten 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II convertibles were built with the factory 426 Hemi, and this one, from The Brothers Collection, is Episode 228 of V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series. Most comments focused on the car’s rarity and color — but a few sharp-eyed viewers flagged a driver’s door that doesn’t sit quite right where it meets the rocker panel. On a car built in single-digit numbers, that kind of scrutiny comes with the territory. Watch the full walkaround.