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Mute Motors sets an ambitious premise — twelve cars that could credibly outrun a 1968 Corvette — and then actually delivers, mixing homologation-special Mopars, a nearly extinct ZL1 Camaro, and European legends like the Ferrari 250 GTO and Lamborghini Miura into one countdown. Watch to see which cars made the cut, and why each one earns its spot.
Somewhere between the Ford GT40 and the much-mocked Pontiac Fiero sits a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair that owner Chuck Rust turned into a mid-engine V8 sports car using the little-known “Crown” conversion kit. Builders who attempted this exact swap decades ago describe cracked differentials, hand-fabricated input shafts, and a kit that solved only the easy part of the problem. With a claimed pedigree that traces back to Smokey Yunick’s praise for a properly sorted Corvair, this homebuilt project asks what America’s mid-engine sports car could have been.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put a trio of America’s best-known sports coupes through its full crash test battery in a May 2016 release, and none of them walked away with a TOP SAFETY PICK award. Long hoods, low rooflines, and rear-drive proportions built for speed don’t always cooperate with small-overlap crash structure. What actually held these pony cars back is more specific than the headline suggests. Watch to see how the numbers break down.
There is a very specific sound that still turns heads on quiet streets more than sixty years after Detroit built the cars that made it, and an entire American car culture grew up around chasing that exact reaction. From the quarter-mile drag strip to Woodward Avenue’s nightly cruising ritual, the appeal was never really about spec sheets alone. Read on to find out how insurance surcharges, oil shortages, and shifting regulations nearly ended the era entirely, and why it came roaring back anyway.
Roadster Shop took a 1967 Chevelle that looks period-correct from fifteen feet away and hid a 680-horsepower supercharged LS, a custom Fast Track chassis, and a six-speed manual underneath it. The build keeps its original-style interior and chrome trim intact, proving a genuine pro touring monster does not have to look like one. Read on to find out what’s really under that Onyx Black paint.
By 1972, Plymouth had pulled every big-block engine from the ‘Cuda lineup, leaving buyers with nothing bigger than a detuned 340 small block. This particular ‘Cuda refuses to accept that answer, carrying a modified 7.2-liter 440 making 600 horsepower under its hood. Read on to find out why 1972 became one of the strangest years in muscle car history, and why builders keep finishing the story Chrysler left unresolved.
Few nameplates carry as much baggage — good and bad — as the Pontiac Trans Am, a car that went from low-volume performance special to pop-culture icon almost by accident. This transformed example takes that legacy and pushes it somewhere new, keeping the silhouette that made the Trans Am famous while updating what’s underneath. Read on to find out how a build like this honors the Trans Am’s history instead of erasing it.
This burgundy 1976 Ford Torino made local headlines after being stolen from a driveway, but the real story is what it represents: the final model year Ford ever built a car under the Torino name before renaming the whole lineup LTD II for 1977. Only 193,096 were built that year. Here is what made the Torino’s last stand worth remembering.
Plymouth built just eleven 1971 Barracuda convertibles with the 426 Hemi engine, and only seven of them went to U.S. buyers new. That scarcity has pushed sale prices as high as $3.5 million at auction, with a different example chasing a $4.8 million bid in 2021. Read on to find out what separates a seven-figure Hemi ‘Cuda from an ordinary E-body.
Car #180 is one of only 34 Shelby GT350R competition coupes ever built, and under driver Tommy Hamilton it won International Conference championships in 1967 and five west coast titles in 1968 — more than 40 race wins across two seasons. Decades later, a comment from Hamilton’s own son turned this video’s technical debate about horsepower and dyno numbers into something far more personal. Watch to see why this particular Shelby still means so much to the people who remember it racing.
When the 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE lapped the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife in 7:16.04, more than 13 seconds quicker than the standard automatic ZL1, it was only part of the story. Seven of the ten quickest American cars ever to tackle that track wear a GM badge. Read on for how aerodynamics beat horsepower, why the manual gearbox was the right call, and why the depth of that list matters more than any single lap.
The Oldsmobile Toronado’s revolutionary front-wheel-drive layout started as an unsanctioned design sketch in 1962, years before Oldsmobile’s engineers had even finished the seven-year development and 1.5 million miles of testing needed to make it real. The result was the first American front-wheel-drive car since the 1930s, wrapped in one of GM’s most dramatic body designs of the decade. Here’s the story behind the sketch that reshaped an entire division’s engineering priorities.
The first Ford Mustang ever built was not even supposed to leave the dealership. A Newfoundland airline pilot bought it three days before launch, and Ford spent two years trying to talk him into giving it back. Read on for the accidental sale, the name that almost wasn’t Mustang, and the front-wheel-drive platform switch that almost happened decades later.
MotorWeek’s retro review of 1987’s GM muscle car lineup, headlined by the turbocharged Buick Grand National, has become an unlikely favorite for a very specific reason: the comments are full of viewers whose skeptical parents dismissed these cars new, only to come around decades later once the numbers finally sank in. Behind the period-correct broadcast delivery sits a real engineering story about squeezing genuine performance out of the tightest emissions era muscle cars ever faced. Watch the full segment to see 1987 performance judged entirely on its own terms.
Somebody spotted drain holes drilled right beside a Shelby GT350’s exhaust tips and couldn’t leave it alone online — the kind of detail that looks like a factory oversight until you remember Ford doesn’t do anything to its most exotic V8 by accident. The Voodoo 5.2-liter engine’s flat-plane crankshaft lets it rev to 8,250 rpm and make 526 horsepower without a turbo in sight. Read on to find out why those holes are there on purpose.