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Carburetor or fuel injection? It’s one of the oldest arguments in the hobby, and Summit Racing’s Dave cuts through the noise. He walks through two-barrel, spread-bore, and race carbs before comparing them fairly to modern EFI — covering what each actually does well. It’s a practical primer for anyone planning an engine build. Watch to finally understand the difference for yourself.
A magazine assignment to imagine a forgotten luxury nameplate reborn somehow became a fully functional one-off, built on a genuine Shelby Cobra chassis and dressed in copper and brass. Commissioned by a metals trade association rather than an automaker, the Mercer-Cobra combined retro coachbuilt styling with real Shelby performance underneath. Decades later, it sold for $660,000 at a Monterey auction. How does a concept car built to promote copper end up among the most valuable one-offs in Shelby history?
The Ford 427 was named for a racing displacement limit rather than its true 425.98-cubic-inch size, and it earned its reputation the hard way, winning Le Mans outright in 1966 and 1967 inside the GT40, and dominating NHRA Super Stock in the Ford Thunderbolt. Ford’s single-cam Cammer variant made 616 horsepower and was so dominant that NASCAR banned it before it ever raced. Few engines in Detroit history combined that much racetrack success with that much controversy.
A 1976 Dodge Aspen R/T doesn’t look like a factory Super Bee — because in the U.S., that car never existed. Chrysler kept the nameplate alive four extra years exclusively for Mexico, grafting a Dodge front end to a Plymouth’s tail and fitting an engine American buyers couldn’t get. One grandfather-grandson build project set out to recreate it from scratch, one badge and taillight at a time.
Real horsepower sometimes hides in places you can’t see — like the shape of the passages inside an intake manifold. The host of The Fab Forums pulls back the curtain on port matching, blending the manifold runners to the cylinder head so air never stumbles on its way in. It’s patient, permanent work where knowing when to stop matters more than how hard you grind. Watch how a professional approaches a job that punches far above its weight.
Greg Hillyer of hillyersmustang takes on one of the boldest jobs in the classic Mustang hobby: cutting the roof off a 1966 coupe and welding on a fastback donor roof to create the far rarer, far more valuable body style. The payoff is huge, but so is the risk, because a wavy roofline or bad panel gap ruins everything. Watch to see how the welding and prep come together.
This 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback wears the most famous silhouette in pony-car history, built in the image of the gray-and-black “Eleanor” that Hollywood turned into a legend. The listing says only that it has sold, which leaves the better question: tribute, restomod, or something in between? From the ram-air hood to the driving lights in the grille, every detail nods to the screen car. Take a closer look.
Regular Car Reviews drives a genuine survivor, an unrestored, all-original 1966 Plymouth Barracuda that has aged into something reproductions cannot fake. Instead of the loud aggression modern muscle cars chase, this early fastback is smooth, refined, and surprisingly quiet. Built on the humble Valiant platform with its signature wraparound rear glass, it is a first-gen car the collector world quietly came to prize. Watch to see what a real survivor feels like from behind the wheel.
What happens when engineers deliberately hunt for the moment an engine grenades? In this Engine Masters episode from MotorTrend, the victim is a humble stock 305 Chevy small-block, still wearing its factory cast crank and pistons, fed more and more nitrous until something lets go. Before the inevitable failure, the dyno reveals exactly how much a stock bottom end can take and how to run nitrous safely. It is spectacle and genuine education in one. Watch to see how much the little 305 could stand.
Jay Leno spent his teenage years dreaming about a 1966 Ford Galaxie, and decades later he finally built the one he always wanted — then rebuilt it, and rebuilt it again. This “ultimate edition” full-size Ford keeps its period looks while hiding modern brakes and drivability upgrades underneath. It’s less a restoration than a memory chased to perfection. Watch to see why he couldn’t leave it alone.
Aluminum heads or cast iron? Nick’s Garage settles the eternal garage argument the honest way, with the same Oldsmobile Rocket 350 run back to back on the dyno, chasing a clean 400 horsepower. Off come the heavy iron castings, on go the Edelbrock aluminum pieces, and the numbers do the talking. It is a controlled test that tells you not just which wins, but by how much and whether the upgrade is worth the cost. Watch to see the results.
A fabricator named Greg tackles the rusted rear quarter of a 1967 Mustang coupe — the exact spot where these cars quietly rot themselves to death. It looks like simple bodywork, but the gap between ‘looks simple’ and ‘looks factory’ is where most restorations fall apart. This is the unglamorous metalwork that decides whether a classic lives or dies. Watch the craft behind a proper patch panel.