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A 1968 Plymouth GTX in B5 Blue with the rare 440+6 Six Pack setup would be notable on its own, but owner Kevin Plummer’s reason for buying it is what turns heads. He spent years chasing down the exact car his father owned when he was a boy, and he’s owned it since 2015. The comment section fills with strangers telling nearly identical stories about their own fathers.
This 1964 Buick Riviera almost never existed as a Buick at all, it started as a Cadillac-bound design GM’s Bill Mitchell called “La Salle II” before Cadillac passed on it. Buyers could choose a 340-horsepower 425 V8 or step up to the dual-carb “Super Wildcat” at 360 horsepower, and Buick sold 37,655 of them in 1964. The result was a personal luxury car sharp enough to make you forget Cadillac ever said no.
A 1958 Ford Ranchero isn’t the car you’d expect to see wearing a roll bar and side pipes, but that’s exactly what makes this Pro Street build worth talking about. Ford’s second-year hauler borrowed its facelift from the Thunderbird and offered up to 300 horsepower from a fresh 352 V8, hardly the stuff of drag strip legend. Someone clearly disagreed. Take a look at how this family grocery-getter got the full strip-brawler treatment.
Built on a 2008 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor chassis and wearing a 1985 Ford F-150 bullnose body on top, this SEMA 2016 street truck combines Eaton springs, a Metco Motorsports billet rear four-link, and a six-inch-raised bed floor into one clean, restrained build. Commenters praised it specifically for what the builder didn’t touch, no shaved handles, no over-modification. Watch the full walkaround to see how a police cruiser ended up wearing a classic Ford’s clothes.
This cruising ’66 Ford F-100 Shortbed Fleetside carries a badge most people drive right past: Twin I-Beam. Ford spent years developing its own independent front suspension in-house after GM beat them to a half-ton pickup with IFS in 1960, and the system that resulted would ride under Ford trucks for the next three and a half decades. Under this particular truck’s hood sits a smallblock V8 and a set of updated air conditioning, proof this classic hasn’t just survived — it still gets driven.
Chevrolet’s 1972 Nova SS came with exactly one engine, a 200-horsepower 350 small-block, making this claimed 700-horsepower supercharged build a completely different animal from the factory original. It was also the last year the Nova SS carried real weight as a factory performance package, since the big-block option had already disappeared the year before. Somewhere between 12,309 stock Novas built in 1972 and whatever’s boosting this one, a whole lot of extra horsepower got added.
This 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible wears some of the most extravagant tailfins Harley Earl ever signed off on, only now it’s been dropped down low on an air-bag suspension for a custom stance nobody at GM would have approved in period. Just 11,130 of the roughly 70,736 Series 62s built that year were convertibles, making the body style itself a minority even before anyone touched the ride height. Factory power came from a 390 cubic-inch V8 in 325 or 345 horsepower tune, though this one’s clearly built for style over stock spec sheets.
A Plymouth engineered to win NASCAR races before it ever had to satisfy a single customer, this 1970 Road Runner Superbird hides a nineteen-inch nose cone and a factory explanation that wasn’t the real one. At the Volo Auto Museum, director Brian Grams walks through the Alpine White, 440-powered example on camera, tracing the aero-war engineering Plymouth built in genuinely limited numbers before NASCAR changed the rules for good. The scoops, the wing, and the vinyl top all had a job to do.
John Hennessey’s shop strapped a Shelby GT350R to the dyno wearing its new HPE850 supercharger package, running on Shell V-Power 93 octane, and posted a pull that added 311 rear-wheel horsepower and 193 lb-ft of torque over the car’s naturally aspirated baseline. The resulting graph, a dual-scale readout where the horsepower and torque curves cross around 7,400 rpm, briefly confused viewers before the final number sank in. Watch the pull to see what boosting a flat-plane-crank Voodoo V8 actually looks like on the rollers.
This 1966 Dodge Coronet claims to be one of just seventeen 426 Hemi cars ever built — a number worth digging into before you take it at face value. Mopar’s own Hemi Coronet production records are murkier than you’d expect. Here’s what the real numbers say, and why it barely matters once you hear it run.
No-prep racing strips away the safety net of a perfectly prepped track and dares drivers to make it work anyway, and this chopped-top Chevy Nova wagon is built for exactly that kind of chaos. A 632 cubic inch big block and two kits of nitrous turn a family hauler into something that launches like a bomb going off. Swamp Thing and crew brought it to Wichita’s No Prep Mayhem to prove it. Traction was optional; horsepower was not.
The 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air didn’t just sell well, it kicked off the “Tri-Five” era that’s still shaping how enthusiasts build cars seventy years later. A new 265 cubic inch small-block V8 earned it the nickname “The Hot One,” and Chevy sold 1.7 million cars that year on the strength of it. This Pro Street build pushes that legacy into drag-strip territory, proving the Tri-Five formula still has room to grow.
1957 was the last year for Ford’s original two-seat Thunderbird, and it went out with its best sales year yet at 21,380 built. Buried in that number is a rare F-code variant, a factory-supercharged Y-block making a rated 300 to 340 horsepower, with barely 200 or so built, the first handful of them purely to homologate the engine for NASCAR racing. Whether this particular Thunderbird hides that same blower under its hood is a question worth asking.