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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.
A nitrous-fed 1967 Mustang and a twin-turbo 1999 Camaro squared off in a street race that RedmaroProductions caught on camera, and it didn’t end the way either driver hoped. Both cars, representing two very different eras of Detroit muscle, came out of the run needing serious bodywork, though both drivers walked away unhurt. The clip has drawn over 817,000 views and no shortage of debate about who was really at fault. Watch to see exactly how quickly a grudge race can go sideways.
A split-bumper Camaro Z28, a 429-powered Mustang Mach 1, and a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am — all rusting together in a Japanese field, thousands of miles from where any of them were built. Car-spotting channel WasabiCars found the yard first; Jalopnik later called it Japan’s random muscle car graveyard. Viewers in the comments don’t just identify the cars, they mourn them, with more than one person floating the idea of shipping the whole lot home. Watch to see exactly what’s been left to rust.
BMW’s 8-Series Concept revived a nameplate that vanished from showrooms for nearly two decades after the original E31 coupe was discontinued in 1999. Debuted at the exclusive Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este rather than a traditional auto show, the concept previewed a production coupe arriving in 2018 with a lineup topped by a twin-turbo V12. Its low hood, sweeping roofline, and 21-inch wheels signaled BMW’s intent to reclaim flagship coupe territory it had quietly ceded years earlier.
Building one movie car is expensive. Building six identical copies of the same car on purpose is a decision only a production with a serious stunt budget makes. That is exactly what happened with the widebody 1968 Dodge Charger built for The Fate of the Furious, a machine designed to cross frozen Icelandic lakes on tires packed with more than a thousand metal spikes each. Almost nothing underneath it was a Charger.
A rat rod is supposed to look like it barely runs, which is exactly what makes a genuine 550-horsepower Chevrolet C10 sleeper so satisfying. Underneath the patina sits a drivetrain with nothing in common with the bodywork, most likely an LS swap producing roughly double what the strongest factory engine ever managed. Read on for how a half-ton work truck became one of the most sought-after platforms in the hobby.
Classic cars like this one weren’t built for efficiency; they were built to turn heads at stoplights and dominate weekend car shows decades later. Deep paint, real chrome, and body lines drawn before computers ever touched a car design tell you everything about the era before you even read the badge. The debate over which classic deserves the spotlight hasn’t slowed down since these cars left the factory floor.
At sixteen, John C. paid $700 in paper-route savings for a 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring, then spent the next few years turning it into a Rallye Red, leopard-interior statement piece that eventually earned him a police citation for riding too high. His story, and the garage full of friends’ cars parked alongside his, capture a slice of 1970s car culture that never made it into any factory brochure. Read on for the full build, the ticket, and the friends who were building right alongside him.
Ringbrothers built this 1972 AMC Javelin around a supercharged Hellcat engine pushing roughly 1,100 horsepower — enough to earn a genuine, rare laugh out of Jay Leno himself on Jay Leno’s Garage. Mike and Jim Ring took one of muscle car history’s most overlooked nameplates and turned it into one of the wildest builds the show has featured. Fans in the comments are already asking for more AMC. Watch to see what makes this Javelin different from anything AMC ever built.
This 1934-style Ford coupe hides an outlandish build sheet: three Chevy 350 V8s, 24 exhaust pipes, 16 coats of Imron paint, and Bridge of Weir leather inside. See what the photos confirm about this triple-engine show piece, and why builds this extreme almost never make it past the fabrication stage.
This vintage promotional film captures Chevrolet’s original 1953 announcement of the Corvette, a car nobody was certain American buyers actually wanted. Commenters — including some old enough to remember passing on early Corvettes for a few hundred dollars decades later — trace a direct line from this uncertain debut to today’s mid-engine ZR1. Watch the moment a genuine gamble launched what’s become America’s longest-running sports car nameplate.
A 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible pulls into the World of Wheels show wearing a custom green that has no name on any factory chart, until its owner explains why. Built by Mark Klopack of Hot Rod Auto as a full restomod, the car hides a deeply personal story behind its paint and its name, Irish Eyes. Viewers who caught the segment on My Car Story left the comments more moved than they expected. The reason has nothing to do with horsepower.
Chevrolet’s postwar Advance-Design trucks hit the market a full year ahead of the competition, and by 1951 the line was refining details that collectors now prize above almost everything else — starting with the five-window cab option. New brakes, revised door windows, and a shorter cargo bed all arrived quietly that year. Here’s what made 1951 one of the more distinctive model years in the Advance-Design run.