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Royce Peterson wired the full asking price for a rare 1968 Cobra Jet Cougar XR7 after just thirty minutes of thought, convinced the car might be connected to a personal encounter with drag racing legend Don ‘Dyno Don’ Nicholson fourteen years earlier. Only 10 to 12 Cobra Jet Cougars from that model year are known to exist. Read on for how a chance trackside conversation became a decade-spanning provenance mystery.
This twin-turbo Ford Falcon, nicknamed the Dirty Bird, runs a stroked 449 cubic inch small-block through a pair of 88mm turbochargers to claim roughly 2,600 horsepower, all while competing on 275-millimeter drag radials at North Star Dragway. Nearly seven million viewers have watched the small-block Ford hold its own in a class often dominated by LS-swapped builds. Watch to see the run that turned this Falcon into a following of its own.
A modern Coyote 5.0 crate engine and a nearly sixty-year-old full-size Ford should not look this comfortable together, but this 1963 Galaxie makes the case. Tan PPG paint, a custom brown leather interior, and a Tremec manual behind Ford’s four-cam V8 turn a car built for NASCAR ovals and dealership showrooms into something genuinely usable. Read on for what the 1963 Galaxie originally was, and what it takes to modernize one properly.
A properly built 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda needs no introduction, which is exactly why the first question anyone asks is what is under the hood. The 1970 model year brought an all-new E-body platform engineered wide enough to accept engines no earlier Barracuda could physically hold, and that decision defined everything the car became. Read on for what Plymouth offered that year, how to separate a real ‘Cuda from a tribute, and where the rust always hides.
This 1962 Chevrolet Impala hardtop just rolled out of a custom shop wearing a full leather interior by Steve Holcomb Pro Auto and an LS engine where a 409 once would have lived. It is a build that trades period correctness for usability, and does it with enough craftsmanship to make the argument convincingly. Read on for what the 1962 Impala originally offered, and what a swap like this gains and gives up.
At nearly 233 inches long, the 1977 Lincoln Continental Town Car was the largest mass-produced car sold anywhere in the world that year, beaten only by hand-built limousines almost nobody actually owned. It arrived just before Detroit abandoned cars of this size for good. Here’s what made this generation the last of its kind, and what was actually under the hood of the biggest sedan money could buy.
This 1967 Chevrolet C10 wears a 454 cubic-inch V8 that Chevy never actually offered in this body style, a serious departure from the truck’s factory roots as the first year of GM’s completely redesigned C/K lineup. See what made the ’67 redesign such a turning point for Chevy trucks, and how far a swap like this actually pushes it past stock.
Tom Cotter’s Barn Find Hunter uncovers a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 Long-nose Alloy coupe and a 1967 Shelby Cobra 427 sitting together in a condemned Charlotte garage scheduled for demolition, with no local tow company willing to move them. Both cars were extracted and consigned to Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island Auction. Watch to see how a rescue this dramatic actually comes together before the wrecking crew arrives.
Mike bought a disassembled, engine-less Mustang shell in a small Pennsylvania town on nothing more than a seller’s claim that it was a genuine Super Cobra Jet Drag Pack car. A Marti Report later confirmed something neither of them suspected: this was the first Super Cobra Jet Mustang ever ordered with 4.30 gears. Read on for how a risky overnight decision uncovered a documented piece of Ford history.
This 1958 Ford Fairlane debuted the FE big-block engine family and a fresh twin-headlight facelift. See what the photos confirm about its two-tone green paint and color-matched interior, and where its mid-pack 332 V8 sat in that year’s all-new engine lineup.
While working on unrelated 1956 and 1957 Napco trucks, CarGuyLuke stumbles onto a back lot holding five late-1960s Mopars, including two Hemi Chargers, a 1969 model built in fewer than 1,000 units and a four-speed 1968 example limited to just 467. VIN-by-VIN decoding on camera confirms exactly what each car is and how rare it really is. Watch to see all five cars broken down in detail.
At the 2015 Good Guys West Coast Nationals, two members of the Bay Area Engine Modelers set up something that stopped people mid-stride: a fully functional overhead-valve V8 displacing 6.3 cubic inches, wearing a supercharger, producing a documented 16 horsepower, and sounding like nothing its size has any right to. The whole V8 displaces roughly an eighth of what one cylinder of a 426 Hemi does. Here is why that is far harder than it looks.
The 1956 Chevrolet 210 Handyman wagon never got the glory that the Bel Air or Nomad soaked up, but it shared the same tri-five platform and small-block V8 architecture that made those cars legends. Built for families who needed cargo room more than chrome, it’s quietly become one of the more interesting restoration finds from Chevrolet’s most transformative decade. Here’s why this overlooked wagon deserves a second look.
Three distinct sports cars, three different colors, and a caption clearly daring you to admit what actually grabbed your attention first. Side-by-side lineup shots like this have been a car-culture staple for generations, because there’s no wrong answer, only a fast way to find out what kind of driver you really are. Scroll through, make your pick, and see if your reasoning holds up.
A 2008 teen comedy nobody expected to matter produced a chase scene between a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge and a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse, and that sequence has quietly outlived the film that contained it. It works because it stages an argument American car culture has been having for thirty years. Read on for the story behind the Judge, the Eclipse, and why 1.3 million people keep coming back to two minutes of film.