A Gulfstream Aqua 1969 Shelby GT500 outlived a fire and years of racetrack abuse, only to sit silent for thirty years over an unfinished wiring job. Hagerty’s Driveway Finds tries to bring the 428 Cobra Jet back to life.
A green Road Runner sits against a plain background, daring Mopar fans to name its exact model year from the details alone. Plymouth built this car across three closely related seasons, and the differences are subtle enough to trip up even seasoned collectors. Read on to find out which year this one actually is.
A 1968 Mercury Cougar gets the fastback roofline Mercury’s own engineers never offered, built by JF Kustoms with a 700-horsepower big block and a manual transmission behind it. See how the shop made two different Ford-platform bodies look like one factory-correct car.
Nightmare Logistics spent Mecum Harrisburg 2026 chasing the cheapest hammer prices they could find, and came back with ten cars that sold for between $2,000 and $4,500 — before the buyer’s premium even gets added. A scarce Studebaker outshines several mainstream muscle cars in the comments, and one viewer’s story about a 2005 Thunderbird bought as an “investment” back in the day gets an unexpectedly blunt update twenty years later. Which bargain would you have raised your paddle for?
In 1998, Pontiac handed its Firebird Trans Am the same all-new V8 architecture GM had just introduced in the Corvette a year earlier. A functional Ram Air hood pushed the WS6 package to 320 horsepower, the strongest regular-production Trans Am Pontiac had built up to that point. Here’s how a car built in the shadow of the Firebird’s own cancellation became one of its most important engineering stories.
This widebody 1973 De Tomaso Pantera hides a serious trick under its flared fenders: a Ford GT front end grafted onto an Italian mid-engine body, backed by a 351 Cleveland V8 and a ZF five-speed transaxle. Ford sold the Pantera through Lincoln-Mercury dealers for just a few years before an oil crisis and warranty headaches ended the partnership. Read on to find out what it took to merge two very different Fords into one genuinely double-take build.
The 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A existed because a racing rulebook demanded it, not because Dodge wanted to sell it. Here is how a 290-horsepower loophole became one of Mopar’s most collectible one-year wonders.
A Los Angeles shop took a budget-grade 1966 Chevy Nova SS and ignored the car’s rare factory L79 history entirely, swapping in a supercharged, built LS1 making 550 horsepower instead. See how Lakeside Speed and Shine turned Chevrolet’s cheapest compact into one of the cleanest restomods YouTube has seen all year.
This 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport arrived during the one year Ford dared to redesign the Torino from the ground up, then walked the styling back within twelve months. Under the hood sits a 351 Cobra Jet, a Cleveland-block V8 carrying real Boss 351 lineage. Here’s why this specific model year stands apart from every Torino before or after it.
A 2002 Pontiac Firebird WS6 landed in Jay Leno’s garage as payment for a debt, not a purchase. Under the hood: the strongest factory V8 the Firebird nameplate ever carried, built the same year GM decided to kill it for good.
Only two buyers in 1966 ordered a Ford 7-Litre convertible with the dual-carburetor R-Code 427 instead of the standard 428 — and this Brothers Collection car is one of them. Muscle Car Of The Week digs into what actually separates the R-Code’s cross-bolted big block from the ordinary version riding under most 7-Litre badges. Watch to see why this one stopped the crew in their tracks.
Chevrolet’s 1969 Indy 500 Pace Car Camaro turned into one of the most imitated paint jobs in muscle car history. A barn-find example surfaced after 45 years — here’s how to tell a documented original from a tribute.
A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible just crossed the block at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction for $3.3 million, blowing past the house’s own high estimate. Only a handful of these convertibles ever left the factory with the 426 Hemi — here’s why this one commanded a price most muscle cars never see.
Built in the year everyone blames for killing the muscle car, this all-black 1971 Pontiac Firebird Formula 455 still hides real teeth: a 335-horse HO big block, 480 lb-ft of torque, and a heavy-duty three-speed for anyone who ordered it to be driven hard. Overshadowed by its Trans Am sibling’s spoilers and stripes, the Formula was and remains the second-gen Firebird’s best-kept sleeper secret.