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The ‘Unicorn C5’ twin-turbo Corvette already put down 980 horsepower on the dyno once, then spent three months getting torn apart, rebuilt, and delayed by broken parts before the team at 1320video could chase the number again. Tucking a pair of turbochargers into a C5’s notoriously tight engine bay is never simple, and this build proves it. The team found a few more horsepower along the way and plans to push it further still.
Steve Brody’s 1964 Pontiac GTO convertible scored 997 out of 1,000 points at judging – fitting for the car most historians credit with starting the entire muscle car era. Pontiac’s team built it around a GM displacement loophole, and sales managers were so unsure of demand they capped the first run before realizing they’d underestimated buyers by a wide margin. Here’s the real story behind the car that started it all.
Not every muscle car story needs a famous name attached – this small-block Chevy V8 build is built around something simpler: a dad, his son, and a car that’s more about bringing a crew together than chasing horsepower records. Here’s why builds like this one still matter as much as the six-figure survivors.
The 4-4-2 name had already been demoted to an option package by 1972, and the convertible body was on its way out entirely. But drop a real W-30 455 under the hood and you’ve got one of roughly 113 built that whole model year. Here’s why this rare drop-top Olds still turns heads at every show it rolls into, and what made its final convertible run so special.
Chevrolet dropped its first real big-block into the Corvette in 1966, and the numbers on paper barely tell the whole story. GM quietly underrated the top engine to keep insurance companies calm. Here’s what made the 427-powered ’66 Sting Ray one of the most significant Corvettes Chevrolet ever built, and why so few came off the factory floor exactly like this one.
A 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J might look like just another personal-luxury coupe at first glance, but the drivetrain hiding underneath tells a much more interesting story. From a detuned economy 400 to the range-topping 455, Pontiac gave buyers a surprisingly wide menu that year, even as total Grand Prix production got cut nearly in half. Here is what made the base-trim J worth a second look.
Chevrolet moved 777,000 Impalas in 1969, and this Custom Coupe survivor runs the oddball 396 big block that somehow made less horsepower than the standard 350, yet cost more to order. It is one of the strangest factory spec quirks of the era. Here is why the numbers do not add up, and why that makes this cruiser worth a second look.
Big Chief’s new Crowmod wasn’t just a replacement for his wrecked LeMans – it was a full rebuild around a twin-turbo Pontiac engine that survived that crash, wrapped in a lighter 1968 Firebird body. Taking it straight to Lights Out meant getting a brand-new combination race-ready under serious time pressure. Here’s the story behind one of drag radial racing’s most recognizable Pontiacs.
This 1966 Ford Mustang convertible wears Tahoe Turquoise paint, a 289 with a four-barrel carb, and the 76B Pony interior package, a combination that turns a common first-gen Mustang into something a lot harder to find at a show. Ford sold more convertibles that year than any other automaker, nearly doubling second-place Chevy Impala’s numbers. Wire hubcaps and a power top round out a spec sheet built for buyers who wanted every box checked. It’s a genuinely loaded example of America’s favorite drop-top.
This black 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 trades its factory bias-plys for drag radials, and the difference shows the moment the light turns green. Chevrolet built 63,006 SS 396s that year across three engine options, topping out at a rare 375-horsepower L78 that only 612 buyers managed to order. The SS 396 package brought disc brakes, red-stripe tires, and unmistakable styling to the table, but it’s the modern tire upgrade that finally lets this big-block put its factory torque to real use.
Barn-find hunter Ryan Brutt tracked down a Midwest barn holding several of the rarest cars in muscle car history — a Plymouth Superbird, Dodge Charger Daytona, Charger 500, Ford Torino Talladega, and Mercury Cyclone, all products of NASCAR’s brief and furious late-1960s aero wars. Most haven’t moved in decades. See exactly what’s sitting behind that barn door.
This chopped, chrome-heavy 1950 Cadillac street rod is built on the same Series 62 platform that carried Cadillac’s groundbreaking new V8 into showrooms that year. Today it runs a modern 6.2 liter engine making over 500 horsepower. Here is what made the original Cadillac V8 such a big deal, and how far this build has taken it.
A stock-looking late-model Mustang that pushes past 1,400 horsepower and still gets driven to Starbucks sounds like a car-guy tall tale, but this Hellion Turbo build makes it real. Running sub-9-second quarter miles while staying fully streetable, no trailer required, it’s the kind of sleeper build that earns respect at the track and stays completely invisible everywhere else. And the person behind the wheel embarrassing unsuspecting cars at the light? The Hellion Turbo owner’s own wife.
Mike O’Toole nearly sent this Tahoe Turquoise 1966 Mustang hardtop to the junkyard before deciding to restore it instead. It’s a survivor from a model year when Ford built over 607,000 Mustangs and hardtops made up more than 80 percent of them – a production pace that helped the Mustang claim over 7 percent of the entire U.S. car market. Here’s what made 1966 such a pivotal year for Ford’s pony car.
This award-winning 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air wears a custom Blue Heaven paint job, but the real story is under the hood. Chevrolet’s rare Rochester Ramjet fuel-injected 283 made 283 horsepower in 1957 — good for one horsepower per cubic inch — and only about 1,530 Bel Airs left the factory with it. That same engine got a Chevy sedan banned from NASCAR that year. Whatever’s powering this custom, it’s chasing a one-year-only legend.