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When Studebaker abandoned the car business in 1966, two of its own dealers refused to let the Avanti name go with it. This 1978 Avanti II pairs a 350-cid V8 with a four-speed automatic, one of the hand-assembled grand tourers built years after Detroit had already moved on, with every example built to order. Here’s what made this leftover from a canceled company an unlikely survivor for nearly two decades.
The Grand National Roadster Show has been running since long before most of the cars on its floor were even conceived, and the 2017 edition packed in over a thousand entries. Among the customs and restorations, one green Dodge Dart quietly upstaged plenty of flashier iron. Here is what made that Mopar corner of the show worth a second look.
The 2004 Maserati Spyder took the brand rebirth-era 4200 GT platform and turned it into a proper open-top grand tourer, backed by a 4.2-liter V8 that revs like it belongs on a track. Buyers had a genuinely rare choice for the era: a traditional manual, or a Formula 1-style paddle gearbox. Here is what made this Spyder stand out.
1974 was the final year Plymouth built a Cuda, closing out a nameplate that started exactly a decade earlier. This particular car skips the factory-spec 360 and instead runs a stroked 408 with a three-carb six-pack setup. Here is what it took to build the high-output Cuda that Detroit never actually offered.
A vintage road test of a well-optioned 1971 Dodge Charger SE 440 plays like a time capsule from when big-blocks were simply how cars came. The period reviewer’s praises and complaints reveal as much about 1971 as they do about the Charger itself. Decades later, the collector market finally caught up to what this test got right. Watch the Charger judged on its own era’s terms.
This showroom shot of a polished orange muscle car taps into one of Detroit biggest marketing gambles: the early-1970s high-impact color wars. Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, and Grabber Orange all trace back to the same era of factory one-upmanship. Here is the story behind the shade that still turns heads decades later.
In a quiet Oregon junkyard, 1960s Mustangs, Camaros, and Chevelles sit settling into the ground, and the man filming admits he takes a strange delight in documenting the decay. It’s part treasure hunt, part elegy for American steel that was once somebody’s pride. Some of these cars are gone for good; a few might still be saved. Watch and decide which ones you’d rescue.
This meme captures a scene every manual-transmission owner has lived: trying to explain a simple part to someone who has never driven anything but an automatic. It is a small joke, but it points at a bigger shift in car culture. Here is why rowing your own gears became such a point of pride.
A certified appraiser crawls beneath an R4 Red 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona — one of just over 500 winged warriors Chrysler ever built — to verify every claim before a buyer commits. Magnet in hand, he checks whether the numbers on the block, transmission, and tags actually match. This is the kind of forensic inspection most collectors never get to witness. Watch to find out whether this aero legend earns its price.
Buick built the Riviera as a luxury cruiser first, but the Gran Sport option buried a genuine performance car inside that elegant fastback body. Only 5,718 of them left the factory with the GS package in 1966. Here is the engine option most Riviera buyers never even knew to ask for.
Few things in muscle car culture beat the moment a long-dormant engine catches after sitting untouched for decades. This Camaro spent 21 years parked in a barn before somebody finally turned the key again. What actually happens between it has not run since the last time gas was under a dollar and a V8 idling like it never stopped?
By 1966, Ford wanted the mid-size Fairlane to hang with cars twice its reputation, and dropping in a 390-cubic-inch big-block was how they did it. The GT and GTA badges marked which transmission got the job of putting that power down. Here is what made this often-overlooked Fairlane one of the sharper performance buys of its era.
The Ford-Chevy rivalry is old enough to have outlived several generations of both companies engineers, yet it still shows up in a fresh meme every week. This one pokes fun at Ford with a classic stunt-photo gag, the kind of ribbing that has been a staple of garage culture for decades. Where did this century-long feud actually start, and why does it still land?
Long before wheelie contests became a fixture at nostalgia drag meets, exhibition cars like the Little Red Wagon proved a vehicle could win over a crowd without ever putting all four wheels down. This wagon-versus-Nova wheels-up showdown carries that tradition forward, pitting two very different builds against each other in a battle of who can stay airborne longest. Which one takes the win might surprise you.
Fast Muscle Car’s countdown of the ten most expensive muscle cars ever isn’t ranked the way casual fans would guess. Horsepower barely factors in; rarity, documentation, and auction-night drama do the real work. A few obvious legends make the cut, but at least one entry near the top reliably starts arguments. Watch to see which cars command seven figures and why.