Favorite Convertibles From The Brothers Collection

210 episodes into covering the Brothers Collection, Muscle Car of the Week finally ranks the convertibles — pulling from a 1967 Mustang K-code, a 1964 Plymouth Satellite 426 Wedge, a fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a 440 Six Barrel ‘Cuda in Tor-Red. Each car represents a different era and manufacturer’s approach to open-top American performance. The comments are already split over which one deserves the top spot. Watch to see the full lineup and decide which convertible you’d pick.

Two hundred and ten episodes into a series built around one private collection, the hosts finally decided to answer the question viewers had been asking for years without saying it outright: which cars in the Brothers Collection do they actually like best? Summer seemed like the right excuse to finally rank the drop-tops specifically, pulling from a lineup that spans three different American manufacturers and three very different eras of performance. The cars they picked, and more importantly the reasons behind each pick, say as much about what makes a muscle car great as any spec sheet ever could.

A Series Built Around One Collection

Muscle Car of the Week has spent 210 episodes documenting the Brothers Collection car by car, and this installment breaks from the usual single-car format to survey the convertibles specifically — a format shift that lets the hosts compare cars across brands and decades rather than examining one in isolation. Reaching episode 210 on a single private collection says something on its own about the depth of what’s actually being housed and cared for there, week after week, without running out of new material.

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A 1967 Mustang That Started the Legend

Among the convertibles referenced is a 1967 Ford Mustang K-code, powered by the high-performance 289 cubic-inch V8 that Ford reserved for its most serious first-generation Mustang buyers. The K-code designation marked cars built with a specific combination of high-compression heads, solid-lifter camshaft, and larger carburetion, making any surviving K-code Mustang a meaningfully different animal from a standard 289 car — a detail collectors take seriously when evaluating originality and value on the current market.

Mopar Wedge Power From 1964

The lineup also draws on a 1964 Plymouth Satellite equipped with the 426 Wedge engine, a big-block predecessor to the more famous 426 Hemi that still delivered serious performance in its own right during an era when Chrysler was aggressively pushing displacement across its entire lineup. Wedge-powered Mopars from this period often get overshadowed by their Hemi siblings in casual conversation, despite representing a genuinely important chapter in Chrysler’s early muscle car performance story that predates the Hemi’s mainstream arrival.

A Corvette From Before the Muscle Car Era

Reaching further back, the collection includes a 1959 Corvette with factory fuel injection — a technology so advanced for its era that most American cars wouldn’t see anything comparable for another two decades. Fuel-injected C1 Corvettes represent some of the rarest and most technically significant cars of the pre-muscle-car performance period, predating the Pontiac GTO and the muscle car boom by half a decade while still delivering genuinely exceptional performance for a car built in 1959.

The ‘Cuda That Split Opinion in the Comments

Rounding out the referenced episodes is a 1971 ‘Cuda finished in Tor-Red and powered by the 440 with the Six Barrel carburetor setup — one of the most visually striking and performance-focused combinations Plymouth ever offered on the E-body platform. Fittingly, this is also the car that drew the strongest reaction in the comments, with one viewer admitting the ‘Cuda has their “blood pumping” more than any other car mentioned, while another pointed out an appreciation for the Corvette instead.

Why Ranking Convertibles Specifically Makes Sense

Convertibles occupy a distinct place in muscle car culture, often prioritized differently than their hardtop counterparts by collectors who value open-air presence and rarity over outright chassis rigidity. Surveying just the convertible side of the Brothers Collection gives viewers a focused look at how four cars from three completely different manufacturers and eras approached the same basic idea — a fast American car with the roof down — each solving it in a distinctly different way and with a different engine philosophy behind it.

A Snapshot of American Performance Across Three Decades

Taken together, the cars referenced in this episode span from 1959 to 1971, tracing a direct line from Corvette-era fuel-injected performance through early Mopar wedge power to the final, most extreme years of true muscle car excess before emissions regulations reshaped the entire industry. Watching a single private collection cover that much ground, and hearing the hosts debate their favorites among it, offers a genuinely useful crash course in how American performance evolved decade by decade, model by model.

What 210 Episodes of Familiarity Buys You

What keeps a series like this compelling after 210 episodes isn’t just the cars themselves but the relationship the hosts clearly have with the collection — the kind of familiarity that only comes from spending years around the same group of vehicles, learning their individual quirks and histories well enough to rank them with genuine conviction rather than reciting spec sheets from memory. That familiarity is exactly what turns a simple convertible roundup into a debate viewers actually want to weigh in on themselves.

A Syllabus in a Single Video

For anyone building their own appreciation of American convertible performance history, this episode functions almost like a syllabus condensed into a single video — four cars, three manufacturers, four distinct engineering philosophies, all housed under one roof and discussed by people who’ve spent years actually driving and maintaining them rather than just admiring them from a distance at a show.

Why the Shop Behind the Camera Matters

V8 Speed Shop’s involvement in producing this series also gives it a technical credibility that a purely enthusiast-run channel might lack — the same shop maintaining and servicing these cars behind the scenes is the one presenting them on camera, which means the commentary comes from people who’ve actually had these engines apart, not just researched their specifications secondhand. That hands-on relationship shows up in small details throughout the episode, from how confidently the hosts discuss each car’s mechanical quirks to the specific maintenance stories they reference in passing. That’s a level of authenticity a purely scripted review show would struggle to replicate, and it’s exactly why the series has managed to sustain 210 episodes on a single collection without running dry. Viewers clearly recognize that difference too, which is exactly why a simple ranking episode generated the kind of passionate comment-section debate usually reserved for a single-car feature.

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