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A beat-up 1972 Chevrolet Nova wearing dog-dish hubcaps and a decade of patina doesn’t look like it could outrun anything on four wheels. Under the hood, a twin-supercharged LS2 built by Kurt Urban makes 1,160 horsepower and sends the car into nine-second quarter-mile territory. Here’s the story behind one of the internet’s most famous sleepers.
Every Corvette built since 1981 has come out of one town: Bowling Green, Kentucky. This video walks the assembly line itself, hand-fitted composite panels, box fans the size of tables, and a floor so clean workers joke about it in the comments. Multiple owners in the replies talk about flying in just to watch their own car come together. Watch to see how a two-seat icon still gets built almost entirely in one place.
The 2022 Shelby GT500 packed 760 horsepower from a supercharged V8 nicknamed Predator, making it the most powerful Mustang Ford had ever built. It also turned out to be the last Shelby Mustang the company would make.
A 1934 Ford coupe wearing the bones of a wrecked sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 has no business working as well as it does. The donor brought a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4, magnetic dampers, and Brembo brakes to a body shell built when Ford’s best V8 made 85 horsepower. The nickname Road Kill R came from how the parts were sourced. Read on to find out why this particular pairing splits the hot rod world down the middle.
A restored 1970 Road Runner in Lime Light green shows why Plymouth’s cheapest big-block muscle car outsold its fancier GTX sibling by miles — and why a licensed cartoon horn was never the joke it sounds like.
This 1968 Dodge Dart tribute build packs a 605-cubic-inch Hemi big block under a functional hood scoop, riding on a tubbed rear end built to handle far more power than Dodge’s original 80-unit Hemi Dart ever put down. Painted bright red with a chrome-and-polish engine bay to match, it channels the spirit of Dodge’s most notorious factory drag car. Read on to find out what actually separates this tribute from the real thing.
A 1970 Pontiac Trans Am looks the same whether it packs the common 345-horsepower Ram Air III or the ultra-rare 370-horsepower Ram Air IV, but Pontiac built only 88 of the engine that actually earned the car its racing name. Here’s the one-year rule change that made both possible.
A 1967 Ford Mustang fastback disappeared into an East Texas warehouse for four decades, and the only resident who kept it company was a mouse. When two brothers finally hauled it out, they skipped the narration entirely and let a tired 289 do all the talking.
A soft yellow paint job and gold cloth interior make this 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II look like grandma’s Sunday driver, until you find the 426 Hemi hiding under the hood. Chrysler built the Street Hemi to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules after banning the race version outright, and only a handful of Belvederes ever left the factory with one. Read on to find out just how rare a combination like this really was.
Before you wire money for a muscle car, here is what a real classic pre-purchase inspection covers, who offers one, and what the published prices look like.
The badge on this car says V8, but the Lincoln-Zephyr that defined the late 1930s never came with one from the factory — it ran a smooth, compact V12 unlike anything else in Lincoln’s lineup before or since. Edsel Ford personally championed the design, and it helped save Lincoln during the Depression. Here’s the real story behind the engine that made the Zephyr famous, and what a V8 badge on this example likely means.
A 1970 Ford Torino Cobra could run with Chevy’s fastest LS6 Chevelle, if you knew which box to check on the order form. Here’s the hidden 429 engine option Ford never advertised, and the 700-horsepower NASCAR car built around the same block that got killed before it ever raced.
Chevy’s 1967 Camaro Z/28 ran a 302 built from a mismatched crank and bore just to satisfy a Trans-Am rulebook. Two years later, 20,302 buyers wanted what only 602 people understood first.
Buick built only 124 examples of the GSX in 1971, the year GM stripped two full points of compression from its 455 V8 to meet new fuel standards. This numbers-matching survivor, shown at the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, proves some buyers wanted the car anyway.
A stock sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 already runs the quarter mile in the low elevens straight off the showroom floor. Vengeance Racing decided that was a starting point, built one past 1,000 rear-wheel horsepower, and ran a 9.58 at nearly 153 mph, the quickest sixth-gen ZL1 in the world at the time. Then they went considerably further. Read on to find out how far the platform can actually be pushed.