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In 1970, Plymouth’s marketing team illustrated a Hemi Cuda wrapped in all 25 colors the brand offered that year, beating Ford’s 15-color Mustang palette and Chevy’s 18-color Camaro lineup. The car in the ad was never built. Decades later, one collector’s memory of that image and a numbers-matching Cuda found untouched in a New Orleans warehouse changed that. Read on for why the finished car looks completely different depending on which side you approach from.
The 1969 Mercury Cougar was sold as the grown-up alternative to a Mustang, with more chrome, a longer wheelbase, and a quieter ride. It could also be ordered with a 428 Cobra Jet, and from April onward with a Boss 302 that no other Cougar could get. This Gateway Classic Cars gallery captures the third-year car. Read on for the option boxes that turned a luxury coupe into something else entirely.
A handful of 1969 Camaros left the factory hiding a secret: an aluminum 427 ZL1 engine ordered through a fleet-vehicle paperwork loophole that let dealers dodge GM’s own ban on big blocks in mid-size cars. Only 69 were built, each one costing more in engine surcharge than most base Camaros cost outright. If the blue car above is packing one of these motors, it’s sitting on a small fortune.
TFLcar puts a 2015 Ford Mustang GT up against a six-figure 2016 Jaguar F-Type R in a track-and-drag-strip mashup that was never supposed to be a fair fight. One car costs a fraction of the other, yet the straight-line result raises real questions about what that price gap actually buys. Watch to see which V8 gets to the end of the strip first.
Ask most car people who built Ford’s earliest production vehicles and they’ll say Ford, obviously. They’d be wrong. Two brothers ran the machine shop that made it possible, and their 1903 handshake deal would eventually make them rich enough to found a rival empire.
The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray was a complete reinvention — new chassis, independent rear suspension, hidden headlights, and a split rear window that lasted exactly one model year. Put one in the hands of Alloway’s Hot Rod Shop, a place known nationally for black paint and a stance that looks like it is trying to get under the pavement, and the result is a specific kind of collision between two design philosophies. Read on to find out what makes that combination work.
Nobody at this drag event could identify the mystery vehicle drawing a crowd – until 1320video tracked down the owner and got the hood open. It turns out to be a Local Motors Rally Fighter, essentially a sand rail in body panels, hiding a supercharged LS3 V8. Watch to see it make a pass nobody expected.
Few names are more closely tied to Monster Energy-liveried drift machines than Vaughn Gittin Jr., whose partnership with the brand dates back to 2010 and helped turn a factory Mustang platform into a full-time competition drift car. Formula Drift itself only dates back to 2003, yet muscle car platforms quickly became the backbone of the sport. This image captures exactly the kind of sideways moment that built that reputation.
The 1966 Dodge Charger was strange enough that buyers walked past it on the showroom floor, and Dodge built barely 37,000 of them. Two years later a redesign sold nearly triple the original projection, and within another year the nameplate needed a hand-formed aerodynamic nose just to stay competitive on NASCAR superspeedways. The production numbers behind that turnaround explain more about the Charger than any highlight reel does.
This 1970 Chevrolet Nova SS pairs a numbers-matching 350 four-barrel with a Muncie four-speed, a 12-bolt limited-slip rear end, and believed-original mileage in the mid-70,000s. It’s the kind of sleeper build that hides serious performance behind understated styling. Watch the full walkaround to see exactly what’s under the hood.
After seventeen years sitting in a Texas barn, this rare 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais – factory four-speed manual, factory Power Astro-roof – gets a shot at running again from the team at Classic GBody Garage. It’s the first chapter of a build they’ve dubbed ‘Project Ratlass.’ Watch to find out if the engine still turns over.
The Sunbeam Tiger paired a modest British roadster body with an American Ford V8, a combination suggested by Formula One champion Jack Brabham and engineered with help from a young Carroll Shelby. Built in England, powered by Detroit, and cancelled the moment Chrysler bought a controlling stake in Rootes Group, the Tiger’s four-year production run tells one of the more unusual stories in 1960s performance cars. Read on to find out why so few Mark II examples exist today.
This 1969 Nova SS left the factory with a 375-horsepower 396 and spent 24 years drag racing across two owners before a pawned-for-a-wedding detour, a full restoration, and a trade for a Harley-Davidson brought it to its current owner, Bob Cole of Odessa, Washington. What followed was a methodical effort to verify and correct every detail back toward period-correct spec. Read on to find out what the teardown revealed.
This unrestored 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 has covered under 8,000 original miles and stayed with the Leszczynski family since 1998. Finished in the uncommon Deep Water Blue and carrying matching numbers, it’s the kind of survivor collectors specifically hunt for rather than stumble across. Watch the full walkaround to see why this one rarely makes it to market.
The 1962 Chevrolet Impala introduced the 409-cubic-inch V8 that inspired the Beach Boys’ hit song of the same name, sold in six different body styles that pushed total Impala production past 700,000 units, and paired its biggest engines exclusively with manual transmissions. Read on to find out why a silver convertible from that year stands out from its half-million siblings.