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This 1963 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk carries a four-barrel 289 V8 and a 3-speed Flight-O-Matic automatic, but Studebaker actually offered the engine in four different states of tune that year, including a supercharged version most fans have never heard of. Built during the company’s final years of U.S. passenger car production, every surviving GT Hawk is a piece of automotive history. Here’s what made this compact grand tourer more interesting than it looks.
For 2017, Dodge let R/T Scat Pack buyers order the Dynamics Package and walk away with forged 20-inch wheels and six-piston Brembo brakes pulled straight from the SRT 392 and Hellcat parts bin, all for $2,200. What Dodge would not share was the supercharger, and that decision was entirely deliberate. Here is what the package actually changed, what it left alone, and why it still matters on the used market.
This 1967 Mustang fastback isn’t a real Shelby GT500 — it’s something arguably more interesting: a meticulously built tribute running a 390 V8, five-speed Tremec, correct Shelby wheels, and a documented Marti Report confirming its original California sale. Every detail, from the subframe connectors to the fiberglass Shelby hood, was chosen to replicate the real thing without the real-thing price tag. One viewer called it a screaming deal even years ago. Watch the full test drive and walkaround to see why.
Every May, a park in Van Nuys, California fills with more than 700 Mopars, 300 swap-meet vendors, and close to 10,000 spectators, and the cars everyone photographs are the E-bodies. Barracudas, Cudas, and Challengers built across a five-year window that produced some of the rarest muscle cars ever sold. Read on to find out why a platform that lasted barely half a decade still anchors the largest Mopar gathering west of the Mississippi.
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.
Chevrolet already had a Camaro ZL1 that could embarrass six-figure exotics on a road course, so when engineers built a more extreme version they did the unexpected thing and left the 650-horsepower supercharged V8 completely alone. The 2018 ZL1 1LE found roughly three seconds a lap at GM’s Milford Road Course through dampers, tires, downforce, and about sixty pounds of deleted weight instead. From twenty feet away it looks nearly identical to the standard car. It is not.
A week behind the wheel of a 485-horsepower Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack in California taught seven distinct lessons about what a modern muscle car actually demands from a daily driver, from throttle modulation to fuel stops to the constant attention it draws in ordinary parking lots. None of these lessons show up on a spec sheet, and most only became clear after days of real-world driving rather than a quick test drive. Read on to find out what surprised a first-time Scat Pack driver most.
This 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z convertible has covered just 7,630 original miles in the hands of a single owner who kept it in a climate-controlled garage for twelve years. Chevrolet built only 3,940 convertibles that year, making this a genuinely rare, well-documented survivor from the final seasons of the IROC-Z badge. The listing lays out the VIN, mileage, and history in detail rare for a car this age. See the full walkaround and find out what makes this one worth a serious look.
A 2017 Ford GT and a 2017 Camaro ZL1 share a track session where both drivers admit it’s their first time turning laps in either car. What follows splits viewers almost evenly between the GT’s raw numbers and the ZL1’s value-driven performance, with the onboard telemetry revealing more about driver skill than either car’s spec sheet. The comment section still hasn’t settled the debate.
David Freiburger’s on-camera shout of “Thermoquad!” during Roadkill’s General Mayhem build turned an obscure Carter carburetor into a legend — but few people actually know what makes one different. This Roadkill Extra breaks down the spread-bore design, the unusual plastic float bowl built to fight heat, and exactly why Freiburger called it the carburetor that “punishes” careless drivers. It’s a deep dive into a piece of Mopar hardware most fans only know as a punchline. Watch to finally learn the mechanics behind the meme.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T ordered with the Special Edition package, a sliding sunroof, and a 440 describes a buyer who wanted the full performance car and the full luxury car in one signature. That combination was unusual when it was new and is genuinely scarce now. The R/T’s own sales collapsed by roughly half that year as insurance costs caught up with the segment. Read on for what this order sheet says about 1970.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray and Z51 came in six trims spanning a $56,000 to $67,000 price range, but the real story is what GM packed into every one of them: a reworked interior with no visible plastic, a driver mode dial that changes the steering itself, and a Z51 version quick enough to worry cars costing twice as much. Read on to find out which spec sheet actually tells the truth about this generation.
Long before infotainment screens and built-in phones were standard equipment, one enthusiast crammed a television, a telephone, and a working mini bar into a customized 1959 El Camino and called it the Ultimus. Built by hand for a fraction of what a factory concept would cost, its gold metalflake paint and double bubble top made it one of the strangest show cars of its era. Here’s the story behind the build.
A year after landing in receivership, Studebaker didn’t retreat — it redesigned its entire lineup and bet the company’s recovery on it. The 1934 Commander Regal arrived with an engineer-driven inline-eight and two features years ahead of their time, and sales more than doubled overnight. Here’s how a company on the brink turned one model year into a genuine comeback.
One supercharger wasn’t enough for this 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne — its builder stacked three of them under the hood of a full-size platform that was never meant to carry this kind of hardware. The result is a sleeper build so over-engineered that even seasoned viewers do a double take. Comment section reactions range from admiration to a warning about getting carried away with power numbers. Watch to see exactly how a triple-supercharged setup comes together on a car this unexpected.