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Adam Kappell’s radiant green 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Type LT RS pairs a track-focused performance package with Chevrolet’s plushest available trim, a combination most Z/28 buyers that year skipped entirely. With only 11,574 Z/28s built out of nearly 97,000 total Camaros for 1973, the odds of finding one dressed in luxury-level Type LT trim get slim fast. Read on to find out just how rare this particular build really is.
A certified auto appraiser has inspected hundreds of classic cars professionally — so when he calls a 1967 Camaro RS/SS ‘the most loaded Camaro I’ve ever inspected,’ that is not a casual compliment. This California-history coupe pairs a rare factory color with an unusually complete options list, backed by a full third-party inspection report. Watch to find out exactly what convinced an expert this was something special.
MotorWeek’s retro review of 1987’s GM muscle car lineup, headlined by the turbocharged Buick Grand National, has become an unlikely favorite for a very specific reason: the comments are full of viewers whose skeptical parents dismissed these cars new, only to come around decades later once the numbers finally sank in. Behind the period-correct broadcast delivery sits a real engineering story about squeezing genuine performance out of the tightest emissions era muscle cars ever faced. Watch the full segment to see 1987 performance judged entirely on its own terms.
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra carries Ford’s rare $155 Drag Pack option and a story that runs deeper than any spec sheet — passed down through Troy’s family after his father was killed in one of three identical Torinos he once owned. Read on to find out what made the Drag Pack version a genuine 13-second car, and just how few of them survive today.
A supercharged Ford GT making an estimated 700 horsepower lines up against a Toyota Supra pushing 570 wheel horsepower on a completely stock motor. One car has a factory-bred chassis and forged wheels; the other is proving what a 2JZ can survive under 28 psi of boost. See which one actually gets to the stripe first.
Somebody spotted drain holes drilled right beside a Shelby GT350’s exhaust tips and couldn’t leave it alone online — the kind of detail that looks like a factory oversight until you remember Ford doesn’t do anything to its most exotic V8 by accident. The Voodoo 5.2-liter engine’s flat-plane crankshaft lets it rev to 8,250 rpm and make 526 horsepower without a turbo in sight. Read on to find out why those holes are there on purpose.
1970 marked the end of an era for the Buick Electra 225 — the last year of its 1965-era styling, the last convertible, and the last high-compression engines before emissions rules changed everything. Buick sent it off right with a new 370-horse 455 V8, the biggest engine this generation ever got, and over 150,000 buyers agreed it was worth the honor.
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 rolled from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City to Iowa Speedway and the Davenport fairgrounds, and the cars stealing the show belonged to the 1970s: the last high-compression muscle of the early decade and the blower-scooped, white-letter-tired street machines that followed. The decade Detroit almost gave up on turned out to be the crowd favorite. Read on to find out why ’70s survivors and tributes drew the tightest crowds on the tour.
A hood scoop can be pure decoration or it can be the single hardest-working part of a muscle car’s engine bay — and in the late 1960s, Chrysler, Ford, and Pontiac each answered that question differently. This episode of Muscle Car of the Week walks through some of the wildest cold-air intakes in The Brothers Collection, including the shaker scoops that visibly move with the engine underneath them. Watch to see which manufacturer’s approach still gets the most respect from muscle car fans today.
The 2018 Buick Regal GS trades the traditional sedan shape for a Sportback liftback body and adds a twin-clutch rear differential more commonly found on sports coupes. A 310-horsepower V6, Brembo brakes, and a HiPer Strut front suspension round out a genuine engineering commitment rather than a badge-only performance package. Read on to see why Buick is chasing a very different kind of buyer with this one.
Ford built the 1968 F-100 to survive job sites and farms, never imagining it would become one of the most requested platforms in the street truck community decades later. Read on to find out how Ford’s Twin I-Beam suspension changed the ride quality game, and why this generation’s proportions still work with a lowered stance and a built V8.
Chrysler built roughly 738 Hemi Coronets across the entire 1966 lineup, and this one carries a combination rare enough that plenty of lifelong Mopar guys have never seen one in person. Under unassuming sheet metal sits a genuine numbers-matching 426 Street Hemi and four-speed, a pairing that cost the original buyer nearly a thousand dollars and scared off almost everyone else. Read on to find out just how thin that production number really gets.
A Ford engineer’s idea of a headline about comfort turns out to be one of the driving world’s best jokes — this 1964 Fairlane Thunderbolt had its heater, sun visors, and even a windshield wiper removed in the name of speed. Built in tiny numbers purely to dominate NHRA Super Stock, it terrified rivals with a horsepower figure Ford never fully admitted to. Read on to find out what was really hiding under that fiberglass hood, and what a real one costs to own today.
Before Buick ever got its hands on the Riviera’s shape, it was turned down by both Cadillac and Chevrolet, two divisions with far flashier reputations. What Buick built instead became one of GM’s most quietly potent personal luxury cars, eventually packing a 455-cid V8 good for over 500 lb-ft of torque. Read on to find out why the flashier divisions walked away, and how a Buick ended up out-muscling cars it was never supposed to compete with.
A barn find 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible, believed to be one of only 17 built with the 370-horsepower Ram Air IV engine and a factory Muncie M21 four-speed, reportedly sold for $350,000. Commenters debated its numbers-matching status, corrected a mistaken transmission claim, and shared their own stories of buying Pontiac muscle cars for a few thousand dollars decades ago. Some want the car restored, others insist it should stay exactly as found. Is this genuinely one of the rarest GTOs left to discover?