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At the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, V8TV’s Kevin tracks down Chuck Cantwell, Shelby’s program manager during the original GT350’s development, for a firsthand account most Shelby documentation never captures. Episode 196 pairs that interview with multiple Shelby cars unveiled on the show floor, presented alongside coverage from The Brothers Collection and Reliable Carriers. It’s a rare chance to hear engineering decisions explained by the person who actually made them.
Wearing factory Sandalwood paint and a 426 Max Wedge under the hood, this 1964 Plymouth Fury represents the final, sharpest version of Chrysler’s wedge-head big block before the 426 Hemi took over for good. With only a few hundred Max Wedge cars built across the whole B-body lineup that year, and a four-speed stick rarer still, every surviving example gets its paint code checked twice.
Ford needed a brand-new nameplate in 1968 to compete with the Chevelle SS and GTO, and the Torino GT had to prove itself fast. This 2-owner 390-powered survivor comes with the kind of paperwork most collector cars only dream about, window stickers, original invoice, and a title copy included. Here’s how Ford’s new fighter actually stacked up against the establishment.
Not every car at Mecum Kissimmee 2026 found a buyer. Some rolled across the block, drew a scattering of half-hearted bids, and rolled right back off completely unsold. Buried in the same footage sits a Chevrolet SS that international viewers instantly recognized as a Holden Commodore SS wearing a different badge on the other side of the world. What actually separates a car that sells from one nobody wants to touch?
Everyone insists the deals are gone from major collector car auctions — so a channel built on proving that wrong went to Mecum Kissimmee 2026 with an $18,000 ceiling and came back with a Pontiac Le Mans, a Mach 1 Mustang, and a 1958 Thunderbird that gave one lifelong owner a lump in their throat. Is the market really as brutal as everyone claims?
A handful of factory Mopars slipped through Mecum Kissimmee 2026 for prices that left the room stunned — a letter-series 300 for around $30,000, a 440-powered ‘Cuda, a Coronet R/T one viewer called the best deal of the weekend. Dealers noticed first, and they’re already marking these cars up. Which ones got away, and what should have sold for twice as much?
A genuine, numbers-matching 1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom SS doesn’t show up often – especially one wrapped in LeMans Blue paint and packing a real 427. Owner Arnold Boris has kept this big-block full-size Chevy since 2007, and Lou Costabile’s Chicago-area feature captures a restoration so clean it looks factory-fresh. Viewers are already debating just how rare cars like this actually were. Find out what sets a real SS 427 apart from the badge-engineered pretenders.
A 1967 Pontiac Firebird sat rotting behind a Georgia dragstrip for sixteen years before Mike Finnegan pulled it out and gave it a nickname: the rubber duck. Six years later, this milestone episode finds the car running genuine six-second quarter-mile passes at the very track it used to sit behind. There’s also a quieter moment involving an emotional ride and a woman named Otto’s wife reliving old memories. The full-circle version of this story is better watched than described.
A 1970 Plymouth HEMI Superbird and a 1969 Chevrolet ZL1 Camaro both fought their way into the top ten at Barrett-Jackson’s record-breaking $207.6 million 2024 Scottsdale Auction. Fewer than 150 Superbirds were ever built with the HEMI, and the ZL1’s all-aluminum 427 came from Can-Am racing, not the street. Only one of them claimed the top spot. Watch the full countdown to see which one it was.
A real 1967 Shelby GT500 sat gutted in a Nebraska barn for forty years before anyone dared touch it. Then a stranger spent $141,000 to bring it back — not to trailer it to shows, but to actually drive it, following a philosophy that’s since become the video’s most quoted line. Nearly 15 million viewers have watched the transformation unfold. What’s left is finding out exactly where all that money went.
This 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee wears a badge that shouldn’t exist: a 472 cubic-inch Hemi, a displacement Chrysler never actually built. Real factory Super Bee Hemis were rare enough on their own, with well under 200 leaving the assembly line in 1969. So what’s actually under this hood, and why would a builder chase more cubic inches than Mopar’s engineers ever offered? The story behind the number is almost as interesting as the car itself.
A Monte Carlo SS sat buried under twenty years of dirt, mold, and neglect before a detailing crew decided to bring it back to life. What they didn’t expect was how much the reveal would mean to the family behind it — an 81-year-old father, a daughter thrilled to see her family’s story go global, and losses the family had carried for decades. The restoration itself is a masterclass in undoing two decades of decay. But it’s the moment the owner sees his car running again that stays with you.
Five muscle cars and dragsters in this roundup share one trait: their engines refused to stay hidden under the hood. One entry, a supercharged coupe nicknamed the “Screwed Coupe,” even had its own model year corrected by sharp-eyed viewers in the comments. Behind the spectacle is a real engineering reason these hood-through supercharger setups exist, tied directly to the gasser and nostalgia-drag scene’s history. Find out why builders cut through sheet metal on purpose, and just how much boost these vintage chassis are being asked to survive.
Jarred and his dad pulled the V8 out of a 1966 Ford Mustang and replaced it with a turbocharged Honda K24A engine, built with a 67mm turbo, a Nissan 350Z transmission, and standalone KPro tuning — all in their own garage. The swap has split viewers between calling it blasphemy and calling it genius. Watch the full build to see which side you land on.
Vice Grip Garage’s 1973 Plymouth Duster is losing its famously indestructible slant six and weak 904 automatic, but what Derek drops in their place isn’t the Mopar-correct choice anyone expected. A 351-based stroker, paired with a heavy-duty 727 TorqueFlite, sends this budget-performance fastback in a direction that’s already sparking debate among Mopar loyalists in the comments. Longtime fans are also reminiscing about their own Duster and Dart memories along the way. See exactly what Derek chose to build this Duster around, and why it’s dividing the Mopar faithful.