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A 1967 Plymouth GTX packing the legendary 426 Hemi lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger breathing through a 440 Six Pack, two of Chrysler’s rarest muscle cars separated by just 35 rated horsepower. On paper it is close, but on the strip weight, traction, and gearing tell a different story. Both cars are worth a small fortune today, which makes every burnout and launch that much more thrilling. Watch to see which Mopar takes it.
Every car on this list has one thing in common: buyers keep paying a premium regardless of what else is happening in the market. Rarity, documented history, and a wave of nostalgia driven demand, especially from younger collectors introduced to these cars through film and pop culture, keep pushing prices for even once affordable muscle cars steadily upward. It is a reminder that horsepower alone was never the whole story.
Chevrolet’s Cameo pioneered something no pickup buyer had seen before, smooth fiberglass bed panels built by the same supplier making Corvette bodies, wrapped around available power steering, power brakes, and Hydra-Matic luxury. This 1957 example represents one of the rarest model years, with only a few thousand built before Chevy moved on. It is the truck that quietly invented the lifestyle pickup category still around today.
Ask ten enthusiasts what actually makes a muscle car and you will start a fight, because engine, body, era, and badge all have their champions and nobody agrees. This video wades straight into that argument and draws the lines most fans blur, separating the true intermediate brawlers from pony cars and sports cars that only look the part. The answer leans less on horsepower than you would think. Watch to see where the line really gets drawn.
The Mercury Cyclone rarely gets mentioned alongside its more famous muscle car rivals, but its resume says otherwise, a Mustang sourced 289 V8, a 428 Cobra Jet option, and a genuine NASCAR winning pedigree that included a 1-2 finish at the 1968 Daytona 500. Only around 74,000 were built across nine years, making surviving examples like this one a rare sight anywhere, let alone on a scenic backroad drive.
The 1968 Hemi Barracuda did not just compete in Super Stock drag racing, the NHRA credits it with reshaping the class entirely. Bucky Hess keeps that legacy alive behind the wheel of his hand painted Kandy Kuda, one of the last SS/AH racers still willing to foot-brake a Hemi car deep into the eight second zone. It is old school drag racing discipline in a sport that has moved almost entirely to electronics.
The original 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake was not built as a limited edition collectible, it was a tire test mule for Goodyear, stuffed with a 427 race engine borrowed from Shelby’s GT40 program. A planned run of 50 street versions never happened because buyers balked at the price, leaving just the one prototype. That same car later became the most expensive Mustang ever sold at auction.
It looks like a clean 1969 Mustang Fastback, but almost nothing on this car is what it seems. Built by Schwartz Performance as a Raybestos Brakes sweepstakes giveaway for the 2016 SEMA Show, it took roughly 1,400 hours to turn a rust-free California donor into vintage sheetmetal over fully modern underpinnings. On My Car Story, Jeff Schwartz walks through the build and fires it up. Watch to hear this restomod Mustang start for the first time.
Ford’s Model T didn’t just put America on wheels, it accidentally created the first speed parts industry, as owners raced to make the affordable, mass produced car go faster than the factory ever intended. This 1917 style Speedster replica carries that tradition forward, pairing a vintage body with a Ford flathead V8 and 3-speed manual gearbox. It offers a glimpse at how the earliest hot-rodding instincts still shape builds a century later.
Master mechanic Paul Annunziata built a supercharged 426 HEMI into a humble 1975 Plymouth Duster, and before he passed away he wanted to be sure it went to a good home. On Jay Leno’s Garage, Jay tells Paul’s own history of the car and shows what he has done to keep the dream alive. It is a perfect sleeper and a genuine tribute rolled into one. Watch to hear the story behind this blown Hemi Duster.
Chevrolet’s Camaro became just the third car in history, and the first since 1955, to pace the Indianapolis 500 when it took the honor in 1967. Behind the glossy pace-car status was a stranger story: the actual race winner refused to be associated with the car at all. This 350-powered convertible carries the Festival Car designation, one of just over 100 built for VIPs during Indy’s month of May.
Dodge and Plymouth both chased the same NASCAR aero rulebook in 1969 and 1970, but they answered it in very different ways. The Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird share a wild winged silhouette, yet their noses, wings, and even their interiors were engineered by rival teams with different priorities. Production numbers, drag coefficients, and race results reveal which wing car actually had the edge.
This 1947 Mercury started life as Ford’s answer to a price gap between its own lineup and Lincoln — a modestly powered flathead V8 coupe built for buyers who wanted more than a Ford without paying for a Lincoln. Decades later, this restomod swaps that original 100-horsepower flathead for a Corvette-sourced LT1, proving the body’s lines were worth preserving long after the original mission Mercury built it for had faded.
By 1980, the Camaro Z/28 name still promised drag-strip aggression, but emissions rules and insurance realities had already reshaped what was under the hood. The Smoking Tire’s Matt Farah found that out firsthand behind the wheel of a restored example — 190 horsepower, a mostly stock suspension, and brakes that couldn’t quite match the styling’s bravado. Here’s how the numbers explain what he felt.
Jim Kolich bought this gold 1966 Buick Riviera the same year he brought his newborn daughter home from the hospital, and more than thirty years later he still has both. On My Car Story, Lou Costabile explores the car’s striking Riviera Gold paint and the deep rumble of its 425 Nailhead V8. This is not a collection piece traded between owners; it’s a family car with three decades of memories. Watch to hear that Nailhead run.