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Calling a 1962 Chevrolet Impala two-door hardtop sweet barely scratches what that model year actually meant for Chevrolet. A $53.80 trim option that had existed for barely a year was about to become one of the most influential ideas in the company’s history, and at the top of the engine range sat a 409 that made buyers give up their automatic transmission to get it. Read on to find out how the Super Sport took over and how close this hardtop came to the fastest option on the lot.
The 409 had already become a cultural icon by 1964, but that same year marked the beginning of its decline, with just 8,684 installed across Chevy’s entire full-size lineup that year, Impala SS included. Behind that restyled body with its signature triple taillights sat one of Detroit’s most serious engines. Here is what made the dual-quad 409/425 combo a genuine handful in the best way.
A rare Hurst/Olds 442 comes back from years of storage in this full restoration teardown, and its story is stranger than most barn finds: Oldsmobile wasn’t technically allowed to build this car at all. Fewer than 1,000 were made under the loophole that created it — here’s how it worked.
A rare 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 — one of only about 400 ever built — just resurfaced after years hidden away, its wheels rusted solid and its Saturn Yellow paint buried under dust. The Stage 1’s 455 V8 once held a 33-year American torque record, and the man who rescued it is now working to prove this is the real thing, part number by part number. Here’s the story behind one of Buick’s rarest muscle cars finally seeing daylight again.
Ford’s Mustang Dark Horse carries a naturally aspirated 5.0L V8 into a segment everyone else has turbocharged or walked away from. A well-known YouTube reviewer lined it up against Dodge’s radically different new Charger and picked a winner. Here’s the case for the V8, spec for spec, against 550 horsepower of twin-turbo inline-six.
Enzo Morales took a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu, a trim level Chevrolet never intended to be anything special, and built it into something viewers compare to a Mercedes CL63 or a Bentley Continental GT. The result raises a genuinely odd question: can an American mid-size sedan earn the nickname ‘American Aston Martin’? Watch to see the build, and the burnout, that convinced a crowd of onlookers the answer is yes.
A 1969 Pontiac GTO spent twenty-five years locked away and untouched — until a barn-find rescue channel finally opened the doors. See what a quarter-century in hiding really did to one of Detroit’s original muscle cars, and why this survivor has GTO collectors paying attention.
This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS 396 carries the rare L89 aluminum-head option and a four-speed manual, sourced from the respected Brothers Collection and finished in LeMans Blue. Muscle Car Of The Week’s 112th episode puts it through its paces on camera. One commenter’s story of buying a similar Camaro for in 1987 — and wrecking it three hours later — shows just how far values have climbed since. Watch the full feature.
A 1965 Chevy II Nova built to be forgotten now hides a 525-horsepower LS3 under its hood. Only about 9,100 Novas wore the SS badge that year, and none of them could touch what this modern restomod does today. Here’s why builders are quietly targeting Chevrolet’s cheapest 1960s compact.
A dealer in Greene, Iowa is selling a 1970 Chevelle SS with the one document every collector wants — its factory build sheet. The catch: the engine, transmission, and rear gearing under the hood today have nothing to do with what that sheet describes. Here’s what changed, and why one viewer isn’t sure the swap should have happened at all.
More than 200 classic, sport, and muscle cars filled Saratoga Spa State Park for the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s 15th annual spring show. The museum itself has an unusual backstory, housed in a repurposed Georgian Revival building that once served as a New York State bottling plant. The turnout capped off a season-opening event with an audience built from the region’s century-old resort-town appeal. Read on to find out what made this year’s show stand out.
Comedian Gabriel Iglesias just showed off two 1988 Monte Carlo SS coupes on Jay Leno’s Garage, and one of them still has the factory plastic on its seats. Chevrolet built just 16,204 before retiring the G-body platform for good. Here’s why a 180-horsepower cruiser from 1988 still makes grown men weak in the knees.
At the 2026 NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, one Stock Eliminator racer sent the front wheels of a completely unmodified muscle car off the pavement — and NHRA’s own rulebook says it’s perfectly legal. Bobby Fazio’s coverage captures 35 minutes of staging lane interviews, in-car runs, and mid-track action from one of NHRA’s most historic stops, including a wagon several fans called the best-appearing car in the field. Watch to see why a factory suspension can throw a wheelie a wheelie-bar car would need a tech inspection for.
Only one 1969 Trans Am ever left Pontiac’s factory with a race-bred Ram Air V under its hood, built purely to test a car nobody planned to sell. From that single engineering mule to the 335-horsepower 455 HO of 1971 and the Super Duty that closed out the era in 1974, these are the rarest Trans Am engine programs collectors still track down decades later.
Ford built the third-generation “Bullet Bird” Thunderbird for only three model years, and 1963 was the last of them. Of the 63,313 built that year, just 5,913 were convertibles, powered by a 390 FE making 300 horsepower and 427 lb-ft and backed exclusively by an automatic. It was never intended to race anything, and that was entirely the point. Read on to find out what Ford was really building here.