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Red on red isn’t a subtle color combination, and neither was Ford’s 1967 decision to finally give the Mustang a genuine big-block option. The GT390 changed the whole equation, turning a good-looking pony car into a real muscle car overnight. Read on to find out what made the S-code cars rare, and why this exact color combination still turns heads more than half a century later.
Mercury built the Cougar Eliminator to answer a question nobody asked out loud: could the plush, buttoned-down Cougar throw a punch like a Boss Mustang? With engine options running from a workable 351 to a 428 Cobra Jet, and production numbers this thin, finding one today is harder than most people think. Read on to find out what actually made this muscle cat rare.
Pikes Peak doesn’t just test a car’s speed — it tests brakes, cooling systems, driver nerve, and the thinning mountain air itself. This 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda took on more than twelve miles of switchbacks during the 90th running of one of the oldest motorsport events in America. Read on to find out what it actually takes for a street-bred muscle car to survive a mountain built to break machinery.
Plymouth’s Lemon Twist paint code paired with a 426 Hemi and a four-speed manual makes for one of the rarest combinations in the entire muscle car world — a car so scarce that most Mopar fans will never see one in person. Read on to find out just how few of these actually left the factory, and why that number keeps shrinking the more you dig.
Gabriel Henaut grew up the son of a mechanic in France, cutting his teeth on Mk1 Volkswagen Golfs before deciding an American V8 was worth chasing down despite feeling like pure fantasy. Petrolicious follows his search across the Atlantic and the 1973 Chevrolet Camaro that ended up living permanently in the French countryside. Watch the full story to see why more than one viewer said it brought them to tears.
Mike Cosculluela first fell for a 1969 Chevrolet Nova as a paperboy in rural Ohio, drawn in by the sound, the black paint, and the Cragar S/S wheels on a car he passed every day. Forty-plus years later, he owns one just like it — and drives it, rather than displaying it. The House of Muscle’s fourth episode traces that connection, and it’s left more than one viewer surprised by how much it affected them. Watch to see why.
Chevy didn’t build the 2014 Camaro Z/28 to win drag races — it built it to be the fastest Camaro around a road course, even if that meant giving up horsepower to its own ZL1 sibling. Strip away the back seat and most of the sound deadening, and what’s left is a 505-horsepower track weapon. Read on to find out how a car built to be slower in a straight line ended up faster where it actually counted.
By 1980, Chevrolet wasn’t putting big-blocks in the El Camino anymore — so a build like this one wearing a 454 didn’t come off any factory floor. It came out of a garage where somebody decided the rulebook didn’t apply. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make a truck-based platform swallow a genuine big-block Pro Street build.
Convertibles get overlooked in the muscle car world, and this scarce 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 drop-top is proof they shouldn’t be. Pontiac built barely over 11,000 open-air Firebirds that year, and adding the big-inch 400 on top made this combination rare even when it was new. Read on to find out what makes a genuine 400 convertible worth chasing decades later.
A first-gen Camaro convertible rolls up with a push-button ignition and an exhaust note that has nothing to do with 1969 — and everything to do with a build philosophy that swaps factory nostalgia for modern grip and driveability. This pro-touring ’69 keeps the silhouette everyone loves while quietly replacing everything underneath it. Read on to find out what it actually takes to make a 55-year-old convertible drive like new money.
Earl spent his entire working life saving up for a Lamborghini Miura. He finally bought one, drove it for years, then let it sit untouched in his garage for fifteen years as he grew older. When a determined collector named Jeff finally tracked the car down, he discovered a completely original, unrestored 1969 Miura now valued at $2.5 million. Watch the full story of a barn find fifty years in the making.
Chevrolet built the 1966 Corvette’s 427 big-block for one reason: Shelby’s Cobra was embarrassing American racing, and something had to answer it. Only 5,258 of the 27,720 Corvettes built that year came with the range-topping L72 427/425, a solid-lifter monster that could reportedly outrun its own factory horsepower rating. That scarcity is why numbers-matching L72 cars still command serious money at auction. Few options ever turned a sports car into a legend this fast.
Not every SEMA show car is built to be photographed, this 2016 Camaro SS was built to be tested. ScottieDTV’s coverage reveals it served as the actual development mule for GM’s new LT1 engine before Lingenfelter Performance Engineering added a Magnuson supercharger and reshaped its output entirely. The wheels and exhaust came almost as an afterthought. What LPE actually did under the hood is the part worth understanding before you write this one off as just another show floor build.
This Gen V Dodge Viper wears a twin-turbo setup the factory never built, stacking boost on top of an 8.4-liter V10 that already made up to 645 horsepower stock. Dodge built only 2,427 fifth-generation Vipers before regulations and slow sales ended the model in 2017. What does it take to turn America’s last naturally aspirated supercar into a forced-induction street monster? This build has the answer.
Pontiac built just 759 GTOs with the Ram Air IV package in 1969, and only 59 of those were convertibles, making this four-speed example one of the rarest combinations Pontiac ever offered. The Ram Air IV wasn’t a badge-only upgrade either, it packed round-port heads and an aluminum intake good for 370 horsepower. Here’s what made this engine option worth chasing then, and worth a small fortune now.