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A YouTuber talked his way into a decaying barn that had swallowed six real muscle cars since the mid-1990s, then walked out having bought one of the rarest Chevelle LS6s left on earth. But it’s the collection’s priciest car — a ‘matching-numbers’ Chevelle listed for $175,000 — that has viewers combing through every frame looking for what its paperwork isn’t saying.
The first driving leg of HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 ran roughly 230 miles from Kansas City, Missouri to Iowa Speedway in Newton, the opening day of a seven-city route ending in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photographers followed the convoy and came back with 200 images of cars, drivers, and heartland roads. Power Tour is about driving, and the Long Haulers who complete every leg in vintage machines earn a badge no static show can offer. Read on to find out what it takes.
AMC’s Javelin never outsold the Mustang or Camaro, and production stopped for good after 1974. Decades later, two rusted survivors pulled from a junkyard and hauled roughly 250 miles home prove the fan base never actually left. Here’s what makes this overlooked pony car worth knowing.
In 1993, Ford’s brand-new Special Vehicle Team had one job: build a Mustang worthy of the Cobra name. What they delivered was a reworked 5.0-liter V8 making 235 horsepower — and, for the truly committed, an ultra-rare 107-unit Cobra R that anyone could buy with no racing license required (a loophole SVT closed for good on the 1995 R that followed). Together the two variants added up to barely 5,100 cars out of a production year well over 100,000 Mustangs. Here’s the story of the Cobra that started it all.
Plymouth sold the 1969 GTX as the muscle car for buyers who wanted power without giving up polish – a blacked-out grille, an upscale cabin, and a 375-horsepower 440 standard with no options required. Only 208 of that year’s 15,602 GTXs left the factory with the legendary 426 Hemi instead. Here’s what it takes to get one of the more common 440 survivors running exactly the way Plymouth intended.
Ford built roughly 750 Torino Talladegas in early 1969 for one reason: NASCAR would not let a body style race without street-legal homologation copies. David Pearson turned that loophole car into a championship-caliber season, and it went on to rack up 29 Grand National wins. Here is how a plain-looking Torino became one of NASCAR’s most dominant weapons.
A twin-turbo, supercharged, nitrous Ford GT pushing an estimated 1200 horsepower lined up against a supercharged, nitrous Dodge Viper putting down roughly 1050 — and the race came down to who left the line clean, not who had the bigger number. High Tech Corvette caught the whole exchange, reaction-time jokes and all. Watch to see whether raw horsepower or a perfect launch wins the day.
In 1968, Ford quietly built its final 427 side-oiler into just 357 Mercury Cougars — not Mustangs. This is the story of the GT-E, a sleeper built for buyers who wanted comfort with their horsepower, and why almost nobody remembers it today.
A Cadillac CTS-V owner ripped out the factory supercharger and replaced it with a 106 millimeter turbo, roughly tripling the car’s horsepower and putting it into low 7-second quarter mile territory. This run was the setup’s maiden voyage, bugs and all, and the video does not hide that. Comments have zeroed in on the turbo’s jet-engine presence and the fact that the interior is still mostly intact despite the radical power increase. Watch the run and see what 1,600-plus horsepower looks like in a car that still has a back seat.
A 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 shouldn’t sound like this. Built the same year Oldsmobile demoted the 442 back to an option package, this candy-plum, gold-wheeled build hides a modern supercharged engine under styling made to look understated. The result: a viral car-show regular with over a million views and an exhaust note that catches everyone off guard.
A barely-running 1968 Mustang, bought for $9,500, gets a fuel-injected V8 heart transplant from an unlikely donor — a Ford Explorer, not another Mustang. No Bolts Left Behind compresses nine months of wrenching, a custom EFI wiring harness, and a full drivetrain overhaul into one build, and viewers are calling it the most approachable engine swap they’ve seen in years. Watch to see why the donor engine choice has over a million viewers rethinking what a budget V8 swap actually requires.
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You’ve found it — the right stance, the right color code, an engine that actually turns over. Before you hand over a deposit on a 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda, though, know what you’re really buying underneath the sheet metal. The systems most likely to bite you on this car aren’t cosmetic — they’re the ones under your feet and under your hands. NHTSA has three official recalls on file for the ’71 Barracuda, and every single one touches steering or brakes. One restorer just spent an entire build episode ripping the factory K-frame, control arms, and brakes out entirely and starting over. Here’s what a buyer needs to check before signing anything.
Dodge hid its rarest 1968 big-block under the skin of its cheapest compact, and only 991 buyers ever got the 383-and-four-speed combination. Jay Leno tracked one down for his own personal collection, not a guest’s car passing through. Here’s why a plain-looking Dart could out-run muscle cars twice its size.
A modern-day Hyundai fender bender nearly finished off a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T that a 426 Hemi option couldn’t outsell. Its owner Rick rebuilt it instead, and the car now carries a fitting new name: Mayhem. See what the factory 440 Magnum and a set of line locks can still do almost six decades later.