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Regular Car Reviews poses a deliberately unanswerable question at the Carlisle Ford Nationals, wandering a field that spans everything from Model A-era classics to a modern carbon-fiber GT. Host MrRegularCar’s deadpan commentary turns a simple car show walkthrough into a running bit about what ‘best’ even means across nearly a century of the same badge. Watch to see which Ford nearly breaks the host’s trademark cynicism.
Chevrolet built 7,209 Nova SS 396s for 1969, and most buyers skipped the milder engine option for the one built to actually hurt people at the drag strip. Five hundred pounds lighter than a Chevelle running the same 396, this compact turned into one of the quickest cars Chevrolet sold that year. Read on to find out why Chevrolet let its cheapest muscle car become one of its fastest.
Filmed by ScottieDTV at the 2012 Grand Rod Run, this 1969 Chevy Nova SS 396 is built to be driven, not trailered — exactly the kind of street-driven muscle car whose lighter unibody let it punch above its class against heavier Chevelle and Camaro siblings. Commenters flooded the video with their own Nova ownership stories rather than critiquing the build, a sign of how deeply this compact sleeper is woven into everyday enthusiast memory. Watch to see why this owner’s pride in his Nova is so well earned.
One of these two Chevrolets could be ordered by nearly anyone with the cash; the other required knowing about a hidden engine code most dealers had never heard of. Both hid more horsepower than their factory ratings admitted to. Here’s how a mass-produced 450-horsepower Chevelle and a nearly unobtainable 69-unit Camaro both earned a permanent place in muscle car history.
Kyle of BoostedBoiKyle took the least likely sleeper platform imaginable, a minivan, and pointed a turbocharger at it, chasing a dyno number that startled even his own crew. A shower of sparks mid-pull and a hubcap moment fourteen minutes in became the video’s two most-discussed details. Comments are already joking about a cop pulling it over for triple-digit speeds. Watch the full build and dyno pull for yourself.
Plymouth only offered this exact combination for a few months before moving on, which is precisely why the A12 Road Runner remains one of the most talked-about mid-year muscle cars ever built. Wearing Vitamin C Orange paint straight from The Brothers Collection, this particular 440 Six Barrel car represents a stopgap Chrysler engineered on the fly to answer a very specific rival. Watch to find out what problem this car was actually built to solve.
Most 1970 Dodge Challengers spend their lives on quiet Saturday cruise nights, never once seeing triple-digit speeds. This one runs the German Autobahn regularly, camera and speedo mounted for anyone brave enough to watch the needle climb. Viewers keep coming back to a very specific complaint about this car in the comments, and once you hear the engine screaming near 140 mph, you’ll understand exactly why.
Vanguard Motor Sales took this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle — stock #5668, documented with over 100 photos and finished in a bold orange that’s winning over commenters — out for a real test drive instead of just a showroom walkaround. It’s a rare, transparent look at how a dealer actually vets a classic before it lists it. See how the Chevelle performs when the pedal goes down.
1967 was the year the Plymouth Satellite got quietly outranked by its own family. The new Belvedere GTX arrived that year with a 440 wedgehead V8 and the 426 Hemi, an engine Plymouth had already been selling in the Satellite since 1966. The Satellite carried on as Plymouth’s value performance pick, powered by a 383 available with either a two-barrel or four-barrel carburetor. Here’s how the B-body pecking order shifted in a single model year.
A 1970 Hemi Road Runner sat untouched since the 1970s before it was finally dug out of hiding, and what its build sheet revealed turned a routine barn find into a genuine discovery: VIN 00015, the first 1970 Road Runner ever built. Only 44 coupes left the factory with this exact 426 Hemi and 4-speed combination. Watch to see the car that started an entire model year.
By 1971 the muscle car era was already cooling off, and Buick’s Gran Sport had to adapt to new fuel and emissions realities without losing its identity. This GS 350 survived that transition looking sharp, one of a shrinking number left from a production run that barely broke nine thousand cars. Here is what made the 1971 GS a genuinely interesting footnote in Buick’s performance history, not just a leftover from better years.
Only eleven of these were ever built, and this bright yellow and white example happens to be one of them. A 426 Hemi under the hood of a drop-top 1971 ‘Cuda made this one of the rarest, most valuable muscle cars Plymouth ever produced, and the comment section is full of owners and fans who clearly understand exactly what they’re looking at. One viewer even brings up a famous TV cop show ‘Cuda that almost, but not quite, matches this car’s pedigree.
This side-by-side pits an original Hertz-era Shelby GT350 against a brand-new one, a genuine continuation car from Revology Cars, the only company Ford has ever licensed to build reproduction Mustangs from scratch. With an all-new steel body, a modern Coyote V8, and Carroll Shelby’s own blessing, it’s the closest thing to buying a factory-fresh 1965 GT350 six decades later.