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If You Like Cats,The 1970 Mercury El Gato Concept Car Is For You!

A lime-green Cougar so radically reworked that showgoers assumed it was a new model altogether — that was Mercury’s 1970 El Gato concept, unveiled at back-to-back auto shows before vanishing for good. It borrowed its fastback roofline from a Mustang, swapped its back seat for a European-style cargo shelf, and tested run-flat tire technology that failed spectacularly. Ford’s standard practice of destroying show cars means no one has documented seeing it since 1970. Here’s the story behind Mercury’s strangest concept car.

Classic silver convertible car at an indoor auto show.

Lincoln Continental 1964 Convertible

by Kiril

A powder blue 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible represents one of the rarest body styles Lincoln built that year, outnumbered roughly ten to one by its hardtop sedan sibling. The rear-hinged doors that made the car famous also worried Lincoln enough to engineer a safety system most owners never knew existed. Read on to find out what makes a four-door convertible from 1964 this difficult to find today.

Classic blue muscle car with white roof and racing stripes.

One-of-a-Kind Holman-Moody-Prepped 1969 Ford Torino Cobra Was a Gift to NASCAR Great David Pearson

by Kiril

After David Pearson took back-to-back NASCAR Grand National championships, Ford and Holman-Moody built him a street Torino Cobra finished in his No. 17 livery. The detail that makes it unrepeatable is the rear spoiler, which was taken directly off the race car he had just driven to the title. Read on for how the car was built, what it ran, and why documentation matters more than horsepower here.

Mechanic working on a 1964 Cougar XR fastback convertible in a garage.

1966 Coupe to fastback conversion – welding on the new roof!

by Wes

Greg Hillyer walks through the welding and prep work behind one of the more ambitious Mustang modifications an owner can attempt: converting a 1966 coupe into a fastback by grafting on a donor roof. It’s a job that demands precision most home builders never attempt, and the stakes for getting the fit and structural integrity right are high. At least one viewer credits a direct conversation with Hillyer for the success of their own conversion. Watch to see exactly how the roofline transformation comes together.

Restored 1963 Corvette with a powerful V8 engine under the hood.

Barn Find! 1967 Corvette 427 ci 435 hp Tri- Power – 4 speed – 25,000 original miles – Road Test TV

by Wes

A 1967 Corvette carrying the top-of-the-line L71 427, a 435-horsepower solid-lifter tri-power big block, sat parked and forgotten for nearly 40 years before finally resurfacing with just 25,000 original miles. Commenters who have owned or ridden in identical cars are still trading stories about what this engine could really do. Watch the recovery of a Corvette that time genuinely forgot.

A red sports car parked at a crowded car event with many people and vehicles around.

Which Corvette is Best Corvette?

by Wes

Regular Car Reviews heads to Corvettes at Carlisle, the largest single-marque Corvette gathering anywhere, and asks a deceptively simple question: which generation is actually the best Corvette? From the fiberglass-bodied C1 through the freshly launched C7 Stingray, owners from every era make their case with total confidence and zero agreement. Watch to see seven decades of America’s sports car argue with itself in one Pennsylvania parking lot.

Close-up of a classic gold car with black racing stripes and chrome wheels.

1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS: The Debut Year That Started It All

by Kiril

Chevrolet let Ford sell more than a million Mustangs before it put a rival on a showroom floor, which meant the 1967 Camaro had to arrive with an answer for every buyer Ford had already taken. It did, moving nearly 221,000 cars in its debut year. But the SS badge did not mean what most people assume, and the package almost nobody ordered in 1967 is the one collectors chase hardest today. Here is how the debut lineup actually broke down.

Shiny vintage red convertible car with yellow interior.

Ford Roadster restomod 1934 images

by Ross Mills

Ford’s 1934 Model 40 was cheap, practical transportation for a country climbing out of the Depression — not a performance car. Somehow it became the chassis hot rodders have chased for nearly a century. This burnt-orange build trades the original flathead V8 for a 350 small-block, air suspension, and a fully custom leather interior while keeping the shape that started it all. Here’s why this humble Ford still turns heads at every show it enters.

Classic red convertible car with a sleek design.

Plymouth Fury III – 1967 images

by Ross Mills

Plymouth sold the Fury in three trim levels sharing one C-body platform, with the Fury III positioned as the upscale, best-equipped version of the bunch. Most buyers chose comfort over speed, which makes this 383 cubic inch, 4-speed manual example a genuinely uncommon way to order a car built primarily to coddle its passengers.

Classic silver muscle car parked by a brick garage.

Chevrolet’s 1969 L78 Nova: Ultimate Street Sleeper

by Kiril

Chevrolet built the 1969 Nova SS with the L78 396, a 375-horsepower solid-lifter big block, and then left it out of every official sales brochure. Buyers had to know to ask for it by code. Enough of them did that it accounted for nearly a third of Nova SS production that year. Read on for what the engine really was, why Chevy stayed quiet, and how to tell a genuine car from a clone.

Classic red and white vintage pickup truck with hood open at a car show.

Chevrolet C/10 1970 Street Truck

by Kiril

This 1970 Chevrolet C10 hides a 383 stroker under a hood that looks nearly stock, and the red and white paint does a fine job of not giving anything away. The Action Line generation was built for work, which is exactly why so many survived to become street trucks decades later. Read on to find out what Chevrolet changed for 1970 and why these trucks became such a popular build platform.

The Aerovette Mid-Engine XP-882 John DeLorean Vette

by Pat C

Canceled by John DeLorean, revived by John DeLorean, and eventually powered by an exotic four-rotor Wankel engine that never stood a chance once the 1973 oil crisis hit — the GM Aerovette’s path to nowhere is one of the strangest stories in Corvette history. Developed by legendary engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov as the XP-882, it previewed a mid-engine Corvette layout GM wouldn’t actually put into production for another five decades.

Classic red car with an open hood revealing the engine.

Muscle Car Heaven

by Wes

A short reel from the channel Motortube drops viewers straight into an auction lane full of muscle cars, no narration required. Some machines pull a scramble of bids while others slide through in near silence, and the gap between those two outcomes says a lot about where the muscle car market stands today. There is no script here, just chrome, paint, and a room deciding what history is worth. Watch to see which ones the crowd chases.

Classic white 1970s muscle car with sleek design and chrome accents.

Pontiac Grand Prix 1974 images

by Ross Mills

The 1974 Pontiac Grand Prix arrived just as the muscle car era was winding down, wearing a federally mandated 5-mph bumper and an emissions-strangled 400-cubic-inch V8 that made noticeably less power than earlier versions. Pontiac leaned into comfort and styling instead, and buyers responded: despite the power cuts, nearly 100,000 Grand Prixs sold that year. It remains one of the clearer snapshots of how regulation reshaped Detroit’s performance cars almost overnight.

Two classic muscle cars racing on a drag strip.

Rare L88 427 Corvette vs Olds 442 W30 – 1/4 Mile Drag Race – Old School – Road Test TV

by Wes

A 1969 L88 Corvette, one of only 116 built and deliberately underrated by Chevrolet at 430 horsepower, takes on a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 officially rated at just 300 horsepower. A commenter who says they worked at Olds Experimental during this era insists that number was never accurate, and that a genuine W-30 could beat Mopars, GTOs, and Corvettes regularly. The race backs up the claim. Watch the run and read the insider testimony in the comments before trusting either car’s factory rating.

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