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Ron Reolfi’s 1968 Chevrolet Camaro disappeared from outside his North Canton, Ohio workplace in twenty minutes back in 1981 — and stayed gone for 33 years. The reason it eventually came back has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with a title that never legally changed hands. Watch the full story of how a decades-old paperwork trail reunited a man with the car he never stopped losing.
Ramo Stott’s #7 Superbird won four races across ARCA, USAC, and NASCAR-adjacent competition in the early 1970s, and current owner Doug Schellinger has spent years turning its scars into documented history, down to a rear window that Stott himself deformed with a blowtorch to pass tech inspection. Every ding, weld, and mismatched panel on this car has a story and, often, a photograph to back it up. Read on to find out how a blown engine and a stubborn NASCAR inspector shaped one of the most authenticated winged cars left on the road.
Tom Scarpello ran Ford’s Special Vehicle Team from 1998 to 2004, then founded a company to answer the question he kept hearing at car shows: why not just build the original Mustang again? Revology does not restore old cars. It builds new ones on officially licensed reproduction bodies, powered by Ford’s modern Coyote V8, with modern steering, brakes, wiring, and air conditioning. Here is what that actually gets you, and what it costs.
A stock Dodge Hellcat’s factory tires look aggressive enough to pass for an aftermarket upgrade, but every size on every trim rolled off the assembly line exactly as Dodge specified it. From the original 2015 car’s 275/40ZR20s to the Super Stock’s massive 315-width rear tires, the rubber underneath a Hellcat does as much work as the supercharged Hemi on top of it. Read on to find out exactly how much of a Hellcat’s quarter-mile time comes down to what’s bolted to the wheels.
A Nest camera notification let this SRT8 Jeep owner watch, in real time, as someone went through his vehicle outside his own house — and he ran out barefoot with a firearm to confront them. He explains exactly why he did it, what Pennsylvania law allowed, and how his Jeep ended up unlocked in the first place. Watch the full account, in his own words.
A driver named Kyle Nadler spotted a Dodge Ram swerving across a Louisiana highway and called it in — setting off a chain of events caught on a passenger’s dashcam that ends with the truck ramming directly into a waiting State Trooper’s vehicle. Both driver and trooper walked away with only minor injuries. Watch the full clip and the moment of impact above.
Elon Musk first confirmed the Tesla Model Y would share its platform with the Model 3 sedan on a quarterly earnings call — but the crossover didn’t actually reach the public until its March 2019 unveiling, with production following in January 2020. When it arrived, roughly 76% of its parts were shared with the Model 3, and Tesla offered four powertrain configurations plus an optional third row. Here’s how the promise from that call actually played out.
A stretch of Houston road became the unlikely battleground for an 840-horsepower Hellcat, a 1300-horsepower GT-R, a 1200-horsepower Trans Am, and a handful of boosted Ford Coyote Mustangs nobody expected to keep winning. Lone Star Street Racing’s cameras caught the results, and they did not follow the horsepower numbers on the thumbnail. Watch to see which platform actually backed up its bragging rights on the street.
Only 71 buyers ordered the Hemi R/T package on a 1971 Dodge Challenger, and this triple-black example, sourced from The Brothers Collection, is one of the last built before Chrysler discontinued the 426 Hemi entirely. One viewer compared it to a villain out of a Stephen King novel. Watch the full walkaround to see why even self-described Chevy loyalists admit this car earns the respect.
Don Dames’ 1970 Chevrolet Nova wears Green Mist paint and runs a six-cylinder rather than any of the big-block options that usually headline Nova stories. It sat in storage for years and emerged roughly 80 percent original, a survival rate that eludes almost every Nova built for straight-line speed. Read on for why the six was actually the most popular engine that year, and why honest survivors like this one are getting harder to find than restored SS cars.
DailyElectrician’s channel turns up two Corvettes in one barn — a 1962, the last year of the original C1 body, and a 1974, deep into the C3’s most transitional stretch. One commenter called them two of the least desirable model years Corvette ever built; several others disagreed on the spot. Sharp-eyed viewers even spotted a factory alarm keyhole that helps date one of the cars.
Jay Leno owns hundreds of cars, but few tell a story as understated as his 1966 Dodge Coronet, a boxy family coupe hiding one of the most feared engines Detroit ever sold to the public. That small “426 Hemi” fender badge marks the first model year Chrysler offered the Hemi as a genuine street engine rather than a race-only exotic, sold in just three B-body nameplates. Read on to find out why a car this plain-looking still commands serious respect from collectors like Leno.
Doug Cook and the team at Motion Raceworks skipped the well-worn LS platform for something almost nobody had real data on: GM’s Gen V LT4. With virtually no seat time on the new combination, they walked straight into Hot Rod’s Drag Week 2017 chasing a record, and immediately ran into wiring harness gremlins that nearly derailed the entire attempt. See how a team with no playbook turned a fresh, largely undocumented engine build into record-setting territory.
Pagani built exactly sixteen examples of the 2009 Zonda R, each one wrapping a 750-horsepower AMG-sourced V12 in a chassis made from aircraft-grade aluminum, titanium, and magnesium. At roughly $750 per pound of curb weight, that works out to around $1.8 million for a car Pagani itself says only really belongs on a racetrack. Read on to find out what that kind of extremity actually buys.
Nelson Bandy spent years trying to buy a 1968 Shelby GT500KR convertible from a young married couple in a small Tennessee town, and every time he asked, the answer was no. Then the car disappeared in 1978 and stayed gone for nearly four decades. Its reappearance closed a chapter that started with a chance sighting on a main street. Read on to find out what makes a KR convertible worth a forty-year wait.