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Jeff Lutz’s third 1957 Chevy build carries the weight of everything he learned from two previous versions, plus his Mad Max Pro Mod Camaro that won Hot Rod’s Drag Week outright. Built to satisfy street-car-class rules rather than pure Pro Mod specs, this car has a real resume to live up to. See what a two-time Drag Week champion demands from car number three.
A private tour through the Martin Auto Museum’s 170-plus vehicles gave nine-year-old Blake a walk through automotive history — from an 1886 Benz to a Duesenberg once linked to Al Capone’s inner circle. Surrounded by that much irreplaceable history, it was still the modern muscle cars that held his attention longest. See what makes this Phoenix collection, and its youngest fans, stand out.
MotorTrend’s Generation Gap lines up a 1987 Buick GNX, the turbocharged legend of the 1980s, against a 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle that looks like it belongs to somebody’s grandmother. The twist is what hides under the Chevelle’s plain sheet metal: a rare COPO 427 rated at 425 horsepower. It is 1980s tech versus 1960s cubic inches in a head-to-head sleeper showdown. Watch to see which era wins.
Seal Beach’s Main Street show has grown from a modest 1980s sidewalk-sale add-on into one of Southern California’s largest beachside car gatherings, drawing 25,000 to 35,000 visitors to a town far smaller than its own crowd. This milestone edition brought sunshine, live music, and hundreds of showstoppers lined up along the coast. See how a small surf town built one of the region’s biggest car shows.
A 1955 Chevy launches down the track at Pikes Peak International Raceway and then gets loose in a way that makes your stomach drop. For a few seconds the clip is genuinely alarming, which is exactly why the ending lands so hard. This is a dramatic reminder of how far drag racing safety gear has come, and why the driver was able to walk away unharmed. Watch to see the moment of relief.
This Dallas street race leans fully into ‘run what ya bring’ territory, pitting a flat-black turbo LSx Nova against a nitrous-fed small-block Nova and a sleeper Firebird that looks far slower than it runs. No sanctioning body, no class breaks — just whoever shows up quickest. See how three very different builds stack up against each other.
At Vantaa Cruising in Finland, one car cut through a crowd of dozens using sound alone: a supercharged 1969 Plymouth Barracuda with a blower whining over the noise. Jamboolio captured it in a single unbroken take, letting the Barracuda look mean, bark through the exhaust, burn out, and launch hard. It is a pure celebration of American muscle an ocean from home. Watch the whole thing unfold.
This 1971 Plymouth Barracuda is not a finished show car; it is a Pro Touring HEMI build taking shape one fabricated panel at a time, documented by builder johnscudashop. Built around the most coveted E-body year and topped with an iconic shaker hood, it aims to combine classic muscle looks with modern handling. Watch to see the craft and vision that go into a serious ground-up build.
From across the Belvidere MOPAR show field, this 1971 Plymouth GTX looks like a clean 440 car in all the right colors, until you notice the one detail in the roof that stops collectors mid-sentence: a factory sunroof. Owner Kirk Phillips explains to Lou Costabile how a car built for export ended up back in the States, and why it is such an unusual survivor. Watch to hear the whole story.
By 1973, insurance surcharges, emissions rules, and new bumper regulations had already reshaped the muscle car era that once defined Plymouth’s Barracuda. The E-body soldiered on regardless, sharing its platform with the Dodge Challenger. Production numbers from this final full season tell a quieter, less celebrated story than the Hemi-powered years that usually get the attention.
Ford never marketed the Thunderbird as a sports car, even though it arrived the same year Chevrolet was building the Corvette into exactly that. Instead, Ford created the personal luxury car segment, and 1956 brought a handful of small but meaningful fixes to the original formula. Just 15,631 were built that year, making it the rarest of the three original two-seat Thunderbirds.
This Ford Model T “Lightning Bug” was driven by “Kookie” on the late-1950s TV hit “77 Sunset Strip,” spawning countless look-alikes over the decades since. Reportedly the genuine article rather than a replica, it now wears a 454-cubic-inch big-block Chevy engine in a body built for basic 1920s transportation. Here is how that unlikely combination came together.
This C6 Corvette trades its expected LS-series V8 for something far stranger: a 549-cubic-inch V6, force-fed by a pair of massive 98mm turbochargers after roughly seven years of development. It’s the kind of oddball drag-racing engineering that only makes sense once you understand why builders sometimes cut cylinders instead of adding them. See what’s really behind an engine layout nobody expects in a Corvette.
The Corvette Stingray 1967, the last and sleekest of Gen 2, was a real head-turner, boasting five jaunty louvers and a hood scoop that meant business. Under $40k might get you a small-block ’67, but expect a few repair surprises! Inside, Chevy spiced up the upholstery and moved the handbrake—finally. The L88 option? A beast meant for the track, not Sunday drives, with its 103-octane diet and whopping 560 bhp. It was more rocket than car, with a top speed of 194 mph and an attitude to match.
This 1968 Dodge Charger R/T wears R6 Red paint and its original numbers-matching 440 Magnum V8, backed by a documented three-and-a-half-year rotisserie restoration with the receipts to prove it. It is not a ten-foot car; it rewards close inspection. From the 727 TorqueFlite to the 8 3/4 Sure Grip rear, this is a second-gen Charger built to be shown without an asterisk. Watch to see the details up close.