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Enthusiasts have called the third-generation Thunderbird the Bullet Bird for sixty years, and the nickname has nothing to do with how fast it was. It described the shape. This 1963, built by Manns Restoration and named Black Bullet, takes that missile-shaped body and fills the engine bay with a modern DOHC Coyote V8, a 9-inch rear on 4.11 gears, and Wilwood discs at all four corners. Here is why the Bullet Bird is such a good canvas.
This Cranberry Red 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS pairs the legendary 450-horsepower LS6 454 big-block with a four-speed manual — and, almost incongruously, a factory bench seat and working 8-track player. Featured on V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series, the car draws a sharp-eyed comment calling out its non-factory steering wheel, plus plenty of viewers sharing decades-old memories tied to the model. Only a few thousand LS6 Chevelles were ever built. Watch the full walkaround to see what still makes this one special.
A first-generation Camaro that once looked destined for the scrapyard gets a full rebirth in this restoration story, the kind of crash-to-showpiece transformation that keeps drawing builders back to this platform decade after decade. The math behind why a rough Camaro is worth saving comes down to more than sentiment. Watch the full video to see the build for yourself.
Jon Mello’s 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 isn’t just an early example of Chevrolet’s Trans-Am homologation special — it’s documented as the very first one built. Filmed at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, the Gold Z/28 wears its correct 302-cubic-inch small-block after a decade-long, period-correct restoration meant to undo years of hard use. Only around 602 Z/28s were built for 1967, and this one sits at the very start of that list. Watch to hear the story — and the engine — for yourself.
This 4K, unedited compilation of real muscle car crashes and near-misses spares no detail, including the moment a numbers-matching 1955 Chevy goes from a fifty-thousand-dollar restoration to five thousand dollars in scattered parts in under ten seconds. Every clip traces back to the same mismatch: decades-old suspension and drivetrain engineering asked to handle horsepower and driving styles it was never built for. The pure, unmixed audio makes each failure feel more real than any staged crash reel. Watch to see which classic gets it worst.
Burnouts look like pure chaos, but the smoke show hides a surprising amount of engineering logic underneath it. The maneuver started as a practical fix for a specific starting-line problem drag racers kept running into, decades before it became a backyard and social-media spectacle. Here’s how it went from a track necessity to one of muscle car culture’s defining rituals.
Oldsmobile reshaped the 1970 Cutlass Supreme around comfort and style rather than raw muscle car numbers — but buried in the order sheet was an option code that turned this luxury coupe into something considerably faster than its badge suggested. Most buyers never checked that box, which is exactly what makes finding one today interesting.
Housed at Chicago’s Klairmont Kollections museum, this 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible has been called the most photographed rear end in automotive history thanks to its towering tail fins. The car also came loaded with factory air conditioning, power vent windows, and cruise control — features far ahead of their time. Commenters even tracked down its exact paint code. Watch to see why fans still call it the greatest Caddy ever built.
Owner Kirk Phillips brought his 1971 Plymouth GTX 440 — one of only a handful built with a factory sunroof — to the 24th Annual Belvidere MOPAR Happening, where Lou Costabile caught up with him. The car’s export history and a second fender tag full of rare factory options had commenters cataloguing details down to the exact paint code. Watch the full story behind one of the rarest GTX combinations still on the road.
A 1969 Dodge Daytona spent nine years sitting in a Kansas City junkyard, one of roughly fifty impounded cars slowly waiting their turn at the crusher after a used-car dealer’s title fraud scheme collapsed. One collector’s memory of a Richard Petty magazine ad is the only reason it still exists, and the deal he struck to save it was stranger than most restoration stories get. Read on for how it ended up winning a Concours Gold award decades later.
The 1984 Corvette was the car Chevrolet skipped an entire model year to get right, and it arrived with a chassis so stiff that magazines complained about it while recording the highest skidpad number they had ever measured on a production car. Its 205-horsepower Cross-Fire Injection V8 was the weak link in an otherwise radical package. It still outsold every other C4 model year. Read on for what made it matter.
The 25th Raleigh Classic Car Auction filled two exhibition halls at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds with decades of automotive history, from unrestored survivors to numbers-matching classics. What began as a modest sale has grown into a twice-yearly tradition for collectors chasing originality over modification. Indoors, under controlled lighting, cars that rarely surface elsewhere finally cross the block. See what drew bidders back for a milestone 25th event.
Someone crowned this clip ‘The Greatest Burnout of All Time,’ a bold claim in a genre with no shortage of contenders. See where the tradition of smoking tires for a crowd actually started, how it spread from drag strip prep to parking-lot ritual, and why it’s grown into a full-blown competitive event at shows like Summernats.
Somebody built a 1960 Chevrolet Corvette that looks as though it drove out of a horror film, and gave it a name to match. Revenant appeared at the 2016 Detroit Autorama wearing pale silver paint laced with deep violet-maroon, hiding a crate LS7 427, a six-speed manual, a fully custom tube chassis, and rear bodywork widened three inches. The body is nearly all that survived. Read on to find out what it took to build.
Full-size 1970s Cadillacs like the Fleetwood and Eldorado stretched close to 20 feet long and packed a 500-cubic-inch V8, the largest displacement engine GM ever put in a regular passenger car, all in the name of comfort over cornering. The Eldorado’s front-wheel-drive layout, borrowed from the Oldsmobile Toronado, made an already enormous car even stranger to engineer. Read on to find out why bigger, heavier, and harder to turn was exactly the point Cadillac was chasing.