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Tom Lembeck has spent decades building one of the more serious MOPAR collections around, so when he calls this 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Convertible one of his favorites, it’s worth paying attention. The car wears a rare Triple Black specification — paint, top, and interior all finished in black — paired with the potent 440 Six Pack engine, and Tom has owned it since 1999. Lou Costabile sat down with him in Chicago to find out why.
Named after Garth Brooks’ hit about ditching pretension for good company, the Friends in Low Places Car Truck and Bike Show made it to its sixth year by keeping things simple: an open field, a mix of muscle cars, trucks, and bikes, and no velvet-rope attitude. Grassroots shows like this one rarely make headlines, but they’re often where the most honest, unrestored survivors turn up.
Muscle Vs Tuner built an entire parody character around one very specific kind of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 owner — and gave him a mangled catchphrase about a German racetrack that somehow relocated itself to Kansas. A cameo from a real Z06-focused channel adds an extra layer to the joke, and the comment section has spent years piling on new one-liners of its own. Watch to see how many of the stereotypes you recognize.
The 1963 Chevy II Nova SS convertible carried Chevrolet’s sportiest badge and bucket seats, floor shifter, and unique trim — but not a single extra horsepower, since the only engine offered that year was a 120-hp inline six. Chevrolet dropped the convertible body from the Nova SS lineup the very next year, making 1963 the only season you could get one with the top down. It’s a rare, six-cylinder oddity hiding behind a performance badge.
Somewhere in Australia sits a 1976 Ford Falcon XB coupe that answers to a name most owners would never give their car: XBOSS. The XB hardtop is the shape that gave Australia its own muscle car identity, put a Falcon in one of the most famous movies ever made, and then vanished from the lineup almost as quickly as it arrived. Read on to find out why a two-door Falcon still commands this kind of reverence half a century later.
A 1974 Nova SS body sitting on a Dodge Ram 3500 Dually 4×4 chassis shouldn’t work — but at the Pigeon Forge Rod Run, it did. Commenters shared their own diesel-swap build specs, debated the wheel fitment, and one claimed to have spotted the exact truck at Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan. Is it a show car, a work truck, or both?
Carroll Shelby did not turn the Mustang into a race car with horsepower. He did it with a rulebook technicality so blunt that the first cars had a spare tire bolted where the back seat used to be, purely so the SCCA would classify them as two-seat sports cars. That trick launched three straight championships and a car that is now essentially unobtainable. Read on for how it actually worked.
A homeowner comes home to find a stranger’s car blocking his driveway, decides not to wait for a tow truck, and instead relocates the vehicle to the middle of the street himself. What happens when the actual owner returns — and police show up in the meantime — has made this one of the most-watched neighborhood parking disputes online, mostly because nobody can agree on who was actually in the wrong. Watch the confrontation unfold.
The Horsepower Monster wraps up its three-part documentary on reviving a genuine Chrysler 426 Hemi — the engine Mopar fans still call the ‘Elephant’ — with the moment every rebuild ultimately comes down to: a dyno pull. After months of teardown, machining, and reassembly on one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built, the crew finally finds out whether their work paid off. The full dyno sheet is published alongside the video for anyone chasing the exact numbers.
Marspeed’s rundown of forgotten Dodge and Chrysler SRT models digs up five performance cars that history left behind — a turbocharged economy car, a German-flavored coupe, a Hemi-powered family wagon, and a full-size pickup running a Viper’s V10 under the hood. Each one carried real performance credentials in its day, yet all five have faded from the SRT conversation entirely. Some command real money today; others remain surprisingly affordable bargains. See which one you’d forgotten existed.
Shelby put the words King of the Road on a 1968 Mustang, which is the kind of claim that requires backing up. It got a different engine than the GT500 it replaced, a reinforced chassis, and for one single model year, a convertible body. Finding one of those droptops under decades of barn dust is the sort of discovery that ends with a phone call to a registry. Here is why it matters.
Justin Bieber’s Ferrari was just one of many high-profile cars at this Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale sale, alongside NASCAR and Hollywood names on hand for the show. The event traces back to a 1967 local car show turned annual auction empire. Here is how it grew, and why some of the cars on the block that day were not for profit at all.
Ford’s 221-cubic-inch flathead V8 earned a nickname simply from its horsepower rating: enthusiasts still call it “the 85 horse” engine decades later, even though output actually varied across its production run. This restored 1938 Deluxe, shown here courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, represents a quiet but important midpoint in that engine’s development, right before a bigger redesign arrived later that year.
A routine vehicle repossession in Jackson, Mississippi turned into a dive for cover when gunfire broke out mid-hookup — and the agent’s own description of the incident to a local news crew is more unsettling than the video itself. He calls it a typical day. The debt, the law, and the split-second decisions that define one of the more dangerous jobs almost nobody thinks about are all part of the story. Watch the full account below.
This 1968 Ford Torino GT arrived at the exact moment Ford finally stopped chasing the GTO and started genuinely competing, pairing aggressive SportsRoof styling with an available 428 Cobra Jet V8 that quietly embarrassed cars with flashier reputations. The redesign helped push the Torino to sales-leader status in its segment that year. Find out what made this underrated Ford one of the smartest muscle car buys of its era.