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A nationwide search-data report from ClassicCars.com found one car dominating collector car searches in more U.S. states than anything else — GM models included. The 1965 and 1967 Ford Mustang model years topped the list state after state, for reasons that trace straight back to the car’s origin as the founder of the entire pony car segment. Read on to find out which states are chasing it hardest.
Chevrolet’s 350 small-block went through four dramatically different personalities in barely a decade — from the 425-horsepower NHRA-rated LT-1 in 1970 to a computer-assisted, 190-horsepower L81 just eleven years later. Tracing the L46, LT-1, L82, and L81 in sequence lays out exactly how emissions rules and changing priorities reshaped one of GM’s most important engines. Read on for the full breakdown, casting numbers included.
On a recent episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” appraiser Donald Osborne challenged Leno to guess which of three unrestored classics had appreciated the most — and even Leno got it wrong. The reveal says a lot about how collectors actually value originality over polish, a lesson echoed by Ralph Lauren’s own decades of collecting and by the crowds still showing up to events like the Daytona Turkey Run. Read on to see why the roughest-looking car in the lineup won.
The 1967 Dodge Dart looks like a simple facelift year buried in Mopar’s compact lineup, but underneath that new sheet metal Dodge quietly reengineered the chassis to accept engines the old Dart never could. Wider front track, respaced frame rails, and a redesigned K-member set the stage for the small-block street fighters that would make the Dart name legendary just a couple years later. Add curved side glass, a new dual-circuit brake system, and 154,500 units built, and this transitional year deserves way more credit than the glory-grabbing GTS versions usually get.
For the Camaro’s 50th anniversary, Chevrolet didn’t settle for a badge and a paint stripe. The sixth-generation car arrived smaller, sharper-handling, and backed by a lineup running from a 275-horsepower turbo-four up to a 455-horsepower SS V8, with a new ZL1 added specifically for the occasion. Here’s what made the anniversary edition — and the platform underneath it — genuinely worth the celebration.
A 1967 television commercial for the Pontiac GTO sold horsepower the way modern car ads almost never do – through swagger, identity, and a voice actor’s delivery that viewers are still praising decades later. One commenter even traces BMW’s Ultimate Driving Machine slogan back to what Pontiac was already doing here first. Watch to hear the pitch that built a legend.
Chevrolet built three very different Camaros under one badge in the late 1960s, one dressed to be noticed, one built to go fast, and one so quietly race-bred that Chevy barely admitted it existed. The RS brought hideaway headlights and showroom flash, the SS brought big-block muscle, and the unadvertised Z28 brought a 302 small-block engineered specifically to win Trans-Am races. Read on to find out how rare that racing option really was, and why so few dealers even knew to offer it.
The 1967 Plymouth Belvedere lived a double life — one version chased down traffic violators for the LAPD and starred in Adam-12s pilot episode, while another, ordered with the rare 425 horsepower 426 Hemi option, could out-muscle nearly everything else on the road. Only 720 buyers checked that Hemi box that year, making it one of the most overlooked factory Hemi cars Mopar ever built.
Plymouth needed an answer to the Pontiac GTO, and in 1967 they built one by dropping a standard 440-cubic-inch, 375-horsepower Super Commando V8 into a dressed-up Belvedere and calling it the GTX. Unlike most muscle cars of the era, buyers didn’t have to option their way up to big power – Plymouth handed it to them standard, with the fabled 426 Hemi waiting as an upgrade.
Chevrolet planned to build one hundred Grand Sport Corvettes in 1963. Only five ever left the factory, and all five still survive in private hands today. That’s just the beginning of the story of the second-generation Corvette’s five model years, which moved from a one-year-only split rear window to a factory 427 so powerful Chevrolet wouldn’t put the real horsepower number on paper. Read on to find out how the Sting Ray earned its reputation.
This 1967 Chevelle skips a factory-correct restoration in favor of an old-school street machine build, complete with a big-block or LS swap, reinforced suspension, and deep-dish wheels. The choices made under the hood and underneath the body reveal a builder chasing a specific look and driving feel rather than numbers-matching authenticity. Read on for what actually separates a good street machine build from a great one.
Dodge built just 628 convertible versions of its 1967 Coronet R/T, and owner Glen Kellmann says that in more than twenty years of attending car shows, he has never once come across another one. See his factory 440-powered survivor and hear the story of a car that, as far as its own owner can tell, has no twin.
This 1967 Chevrolet Nova SS hides a 565 cubic-inch Dart Pro M aluminum big block reportedly making 900 horsepower — a number that has nothing to do with anything Chevrolet built for this body style. A narrowed 9-inch rear on ladder bars, a transbrake, and a tubbed six-point cage all point toward serious quarter-mile intentions, while custom Indigo Blue paint and stainless trim keep it show-worthy too. Gateway Classic Cars documented every part on this Chicago showroom build. Watch to see what a full Pro Street transformation of a compact muscle car actually looks like.
Long before the 1968 Corvette reached showrooms, GM design chief Bill Mitchell used a one-off 1967 Camaro convertible called the Cherokee to test styling ideas that would define it. Muscle Car Of The Week talks with restorer Charley Hutton about bringing the car back, including bumper and color details subtle enough that even longtime Camaro owners miss them. Watch to see the concept even collectors rarely know exists.
Ford built exactly 57 of these R-code Fairlanes in 1966, not for showroom sales, but to satisfy a NASCAR homologation rule requiring a minimum production run. Every one wore the same white-over-black color combination and hid a 427 side-oiler under a stripped-down interior. Only about 25 are believed to survive. Here is the story behind Ford’s rarest mid-size muscle car.