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The 1971 Chevrolet C10 arrived during the single best year Chevrolet’s truck division had ever posted, with 739,478 units built and more than 260,000 C10 pickups among them. It brought standard front disc brakes, a new egg-crate grille, and the debut of the Cheyenne trim package. Finding one that survived five decades without being improved along the way is the hard part.
Henry Ford’s famous line about paint color was really about efficiency, not aesthetics — so what would he make of this 1936 Sedan Delivery running a Chevrolet engine? The rare, cargo-hauling body style has been fully restomodded with a 350 cubic-inch GM crate V8 and automatic transmission, trading Ford’s original flathead for GM performance. See the full build in the photos below.
Part pickup truck, part passenger car, the 1968-1969 Ford Ranchero offered genuine hauling utility without sacrificing Torino-level comfort and trim. A redesigned grille, plush upholstery options, and three distinct trim levels gave Ford a single body style that could compete against both work trucks and upscale personal cars. Read on for the details behind this early car-truck hybrid.
Steve McQueen’s dark green 1968 Mustang GT fastback is the most influential movie car ever made, and it sold for $3.74 million when it finally resurfaced. So a fastback wearing that same silhouette but built to handle sand rather than San Francisco hills demands a second look. Here is what Max Balchowsky actually built for the film, what happened to both cars, and what it takes to send a classic Mustang off the pavement.
This 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS carries the rare RPO L78 396 engine, factory-rated at 425 horsepower and backed by a 4-speed manual — a combination that may survive in as few as five convertible examples today. Two commenters share their own family histories with the exact same drivetrain. Watch for the burnout at the end that one viewer calls the king of all time.
Ford didn’t change a single body panel on the 1956 Thunderbird, yet dealers had a new selling point that year — a larger V8 hiding under the hood. This restored two-seater pairs that upgraded 312 engine with its original Ford-O-Matic automatic, the exact combination collectors look for when judging whether a Thunderbird’s drivetrain is truly numbers-matching. See the full set of images from this Gateway Classic Cars example below.
Full-size Fords do not usually get invited into the muscle car conversation, being too big, too heavy, and too obviously built for families. Ford’s engineers apparently ignored that when they wrote the 1965 Galaxie order sheet, because buried past the bucket seats and the carpeted door panels sat an engine that turned the company’s plushest hardtop into a legitimate quarter-mile threat. Most people walking past one today have no idea.
Ryan takes the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Premium into the California desert to test its sound modes, 10-speed automatic, launch control, and line lock — then issues a mid-review correction on how it actually stacks up against the Camaro SS. Watch to see why this review is still drawing comparisons to the Challenger Scat Pack years later.
Carburetor or fuel injection — which one actually makes sense for your build? Summit Racing’s Dave breaks down 2-barrel, spreadbore, and race carburetors against modern EFI, and the comments below are full of real builders working through the same decision on their own cars. Watch to see where the technical trade-offs actually land.
This twin-turbo, 406-cubic-inch Chevy Nova had already beaten a Nissan GT-R and a supercharged Camaro on the street when its 800-plus horsepower engine finally gave out. Viewers who know the owner say he built it himself — and that he’s already got two more motors ready to go. Watch what happens in the moments before it lets go.
Mecum’s January 2016 Kissimmee auction closed with more than 91 million dollars in sales across ten days, led by four Hemi-powered Mopar convertibles that combined for over 7.5 million dollars. A 78 percent sell-through rate and a 30 percent year-over-year jump in totals made it the highest-grossing sale in company history. See the full top-10 list and what each car brought.
Ford built 24,946 Rancheros for 1971 and only 3,632 of them wore the GT badge. Fewer still left the factory with the 429 Super Cobra Jet, an engine that made this car-based pickup quick enough to run with a Chevelle SS 454. It was also the last year that combination existed, which is why finding a correct one takes years rather than weekends. Here is what made the 1971 Ranchero GT worth the search.
A Voodoo flat-plane V8 that revs to 8,250 RPM, a Tremec six-speed built to match it, and one owner’s E85-tuned example — this Shelby GT350 review digs into what makes Ford’s naturally aspirated Mustang halo car different from every GT500 and Terminator Cobra it gets cross-shopped against. Watch to see if it lives up to years of anticipation.
Fifteen years after Hurst and Oldsmobile first teamed up on a specialty muscle car, the partnership was still going in 1984 — just with a lot less horsepower than the original promised. Wearing colors flipped from the year before and built around a distinctive Lightning Rod floor shifter, only about 3,500 examples were produced. Under the hood sat a 307-cubic-inch V8 making a modest 180 horsepower. Was this really a muscle car, or a nostalgia exercise wearing a muscle cars name?
The 1969 Camaro wore its sculpted sheet metal for exactly one model year before the second generation arrived, and it became the most recognizable first-generation shape of them all. The SS package offered a 350 or three separate 396 ratings topping out with the solid-lifter L78. Here is what separated those engines, what sat above them in the COPO catalog, and why documentation matters so much on this particular car.