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This 1940 Ford Cabriolet’s spec sheet lists a 302 small block and C4 automatic, neither of which existed until decades after the car was built. See what Ford actually put under the hood back in 1940. Then see why swapping in a modern drivetrain has become the standard way to keep prewar Fords like this one on the road.
A free monthly parking-lot meetup has quietly become the largest car gathering in the entire state of Oklahoma. See how Coffee and Cars OKC grew from a simple Saturday morning tradition into a genuine charity fundraiser. This particular meet carried extra weight, tied to the Oklahoma City Auto Show’s 100th anniversary.
Weld a stainless steel panel and that shimmering rainbow discoloration is almost guaranteed to show up. It’s not just cosmetic, it’s chromium leaving the surface of your metal. Professor Hammer breaks down what’s really happening when stainless overheats, and the simple chemical and mechanical fixes that stop it from becoming a corrosion problem down the road.
A 1960 Corvette rolled into the Detroit Autorama wearing paint dark enough to earn it the name ‘Revenant.’ Almost nothing below the sheet metal is original: a custom tube chassis, a reworked LS7, and a rear end widened three inches. See what made this build a real contender for the Ridler Award.
Most Edelbrock carburetor headaches have nothing to do with the carburetor. Muscle Car Solutions walks through the setup steps that actually matter: correct fuel pressure, a proper baseline, an air-fuel-ratio gauge, and the calibration chart that ships in the box and almost never gets used. Dial those in and the engine that felt lazy and rich suddenly wakes up. It is the difference between chasing ghosts and actually tuning.
A supercharged Toyota Tundra has no business hunting down a Hemi Challenger R/T at the drag strip, and that is exactly what makes this Road Test TV matchup so hard to look away from. The truck brings a TRD blower, a Killer Chiller, and drag radials; the Dodge answers with a Kenne Bell supercharged 419 stroker. One was built to be fast, the other was beaten into it. Watch to see which one blinks first.
A ’69 Camaro named after a prehistoric 60-foot shark shouldn’t be able to keep up with fully-funded no-prep teams. Builder Brent Austin put this one together alone, in his home garage, in about a year. See the 565-inch big block and ProCharger combo that earned Megalodon its name, and why it keeps showing up at the front of the pack at events like No Prep Mayhem.
This montage runs the entire Chevrolet Camaro story from its 1967 debut to the muscular coupe of 2015, compressing nearly five decades into a few minutes. Along the way the Camaro reinvents itself repeatedly, even surviving a full discontinuation in 2002 before its dramatic revival. Seeing every generation in sequence shows how much the car changed while staying unmistakably itself. Watch the whole evolution unfold.
A 1937 Chevrolet Master coupe looks like simple Depression-era transportation, until you dig into the ground-up redesign hiding underneath it. New frame, new suspension, new engine, all in one model year. See what made this the most important Chevrolet of the decade, and why so many of these coupes are still around for collectors to find today.
This full-size cruiser got a near-total redesign for 1960, sharing only its roof and trunk lid with the previous year’s model. Buick built it around a 364 cubic inch V8 offered in three different tunes, topping out at 300 horsepower with the four-barrel Power Pack option. More than 150,000 rolled off the line that year alone. Did you guess the year, make, and model?
Mike and Jim Ring started painting car bodies as ten-year-olds on the back roads of Spring Green, Wisconsin, long before their small-town gas station business became one of the most respected custom shops in the country. Ringbrothers still handles everyday collision repair alongside the one or two headline-grabbing builds they unveil at SEMA each year. Along the way they’ve collected Chevrolet Best in Show awards, Goodguys honors, and a SEMA Battle of the Builders win.
Chevrolet had less than a year to answer the Ford Mustang, and the Camaro it rushed to market in 1967 ended up defining an entire era of American performance cars. Buyers could order the style-focused RS package with its hidden headlights, or step up to the SS for real hardware including access to the 396 big-block V8. That same year, a Camaro RS/SS convertible paced the Indianapolis 500, and Chevrolet sold 100 replicas to commemorate it.
No-prep drag racing strips away the sticky track surface most cars depend on for grip, turning every run into a battle against wheelspin on bare concrete. At the Conquer the Concrete event at Thunder Valley Raceway Park near Oklahoma City, James ‘Birdman’ Finney turned that chaos into a $10,000 payday. It capped a run that had already put more than $45,000 in his pocket across his previous three major no-prep races.
Choosing between a Tremec TKX five-speed and a Magnum six-speed for a classic car swap comes down to a tradeoff most builders don’t expect: torque capacity versus tunnel space. The Magnum handles up to 700 lb-ft and revs to 7,800 rpm with noticeably smoother shifts, but at 12.25 inches wide it usually demands cutting into a pre-1990s transmission tunnel. The TKX trades some capability for a slimmer 10.5-inch width that often bolts in without any modification at all.
A powerful Pontiac 455 gets strapped to the dyno at Nick’s Garage and pushed toward its limits, until it lights up in flame. Dyno pulls are meant to be controlled, but this big-block had other ideas. The incident is a vivid reminder of how much stress a high-output engine is under and why testing exists to find failures before the street does. Watch to see what went wrong and how the pros handle it.