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This 1970 Chevelle wears deep black paint, a tucked stance, and a 555-cubic-inch supercharged big block under the hood — a combination that places it squarely in the Pro Touring movement reshaping classic muscle cars from the chassis up. Builders in this space have pushed similar Chevelles past 700 and even 775 horsepower while keeping the original silhouette intact. Here’s what separates a Pro Touring build from a straight restoration, and why the changes go far deeper than the engine bay.
Carspotter Jeroen caught a camouflaged Corvette ZR1 prototype mid-test, its supercharger whining like, in one viewer’s words, a fighter jet, complete with visible exhaust flames and a Mercedes seemingly overtaken in the process. Filmed near known manufacturer testing routes before Chevrolet ever confirmed the car’s final specs, the footage remains a rare, unscripted look at the development mule behind one of the most track-focused Corvettes Chevrolet has built. Watch to see what gave this disguised prototype away.
Richard Boehl has owned his 1971 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Six Pack — part of a production run reported at just 98 cars — since 1986, and he’s collected plenty of speeding tickets along the way. Filmed at Carlisle Events for My Car Story with Lou Costabile, this Concours-caliber Charger runs a triple-carburetor big block that sounds nothing like a standard four-barrel setup. Watch to hear it, and hear Boehl’s stories, for yourself.
Barrett-Jackson has a reputation for record-breaking six and seven-figure sales, so Flying Wheels’ Craig set himself a strict $10,000 budget at the West Palm Beach auction to see what’s actually still affordable. Between overlooked models, movie-pedigree Jeeps out of budget, and buyer’s fees nobody warns you about, the answer isn’t as simple as it sounds. Watch to see exactly what $10,000 bought.
Tim Allen played a horsepower-obsessed sitcom character for eight seasons, and off screen he built an estimated $20 million muscle car collection to match. Inside it are two cars that tie the fiction to reality: a custom roadster nodding directly to Home Improvement, and a Camaro pushing roughly 505 horsepower. Take the rare tour of a private collection most fans never get to see.
A 1970 Ford Mustang SportsRoof gets a complete heart transplant on PowerNation’s Detroit Muscle, swapping its original small-block for a supercharged 5.0-liter Coyote V8 paired with a Tremec TKX five-speed transmission. The build leans on ARP fasteners, Detroit Speed headers, and a custom belt-drive system to make the modern powerplant fit a decades-old engine bay. Viewers in the comments debated the real cost of the swap, with one builder pricing out a $305 header alternative to the show’s $3,500 name-brand set. The result is a classic fastback built to run with cars its original engineers never had to worry about.
B is for Build cut a 2019 Mustang GT down to bare metal and fabricated a 1967 Fastback body onto its modern chassis, calling it a roughly $40,000 build. Their own commenters ran the labor math and came up with a very different number. Watch the SEMA-deadline build that turned into a debate over what car builds actually cost once real labor counts.
Westen Champlin’s Mustang build didn’t start with an engine — it started with a family of rats living in the engine bay. What followed was a fully built 2,000-horsepower big block, a fabrication job that pushed the Mustang’s chassis to its limits, and a viral moment involving an unexpected Camaro joke. With more than 11.5 million views, it’s become one of the biggest builds this channel has ever released. See how a rodent eviction turned into one of the year’s most talked-about engine swaps.
A 1965 Dodge Monaco spent roughly forty years buried and forgotten before Dylan McCool’s team pulled it back into the light — and paired it with a second wrecked car nobody else wanted. What followed was a fully custom body swap and a budget Hemi build that reportedly turned a profit instead of draining one. Fans in the comments are already asking for a sequel. See how two written-off cars became one running Hemi-powered Monaco.
Six V8 muscle cars share one thing in common: real pedigree, and a price tag that still starts with a one. While Hemi Cudas and Boss Mustangs keep climbing past six figures, these cars have been quietly overlooked — including one viewer’s own 1973 Nova, bought new for ninety-nine dollars a month. See which cars the collector market hasn’t caught up to yet, and why that window may not stay open much longer.
Rich Fairservis spent most of his life buying the cars he wanted, one at a time — and the result is a warehouse holding six Dodge Demon 170s making a combined 6,150 horsepower, plus a Viper from every generation ever built. Photographer Larry Chen was let inside to document it. One viewer even stumbled onto the building by accident, driving for Uber nearby. See what a lifetime of deliberate collecting actually looks like up close.
Every part in this 1968 Mustang restomod came from a junkyard Ford Explorer — the V8, the rear end, even the transmission. No Bolts Left Behind breaks down the real dollar cost of the swap, chapter by chapter, and viewers say the honesty is rare in restomod content. One commenter put the builder’s labor alone at $20,000. See the full parts-bin formula and what it actually costs to build it yourself.
This 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner was bought to be wrecked on camera — positioned as the car Letty rolls in Fast and Furious. The crash scene never happened, and the car disappeared until builder Jamie, who got a Roadrunner tattoo at thirteen, brought it back as what one host calls one of the best restomods he’s ever filmed. See how a movie stunt double became a driver’s car.
Project Henchman started as a bone-stock 1969 Pontiac GTO — the kind of car that never got the factory Judge treatment. A frame-off restoration and a 500-plus horsepower LS swap later, it looks every bit the part, but not everyone in the comments is happy about the engine choice. See the build, the backlash, and why one viewer is already using it as a blueprint for their own Pontiac Tempest project.