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At the 2026 NHRA Rocky Mountain Nationals in Edmonton, the 3,500-horsepower Yeti Chevelle went head-to-head with Mike Gondziola’s Terminator and Sander Spelt’s Bunker Junker through a full weekend of Pro Modified eliminations. The coverage runs from Thursday test-and-tune through Saturday’s final round. It’s proof that regional Pro Mod racing delivers just as much spectacle as any national event.
A chance encounter with a brand-new Oxford White 2014 Mustang GT while cruising in a 1987 5.0 turned into an unexpected lesson in just how far Ford’s small-block had evolved. The Fox-body’s 225-horsepower pushrod V8 and the Coyote’s 420-horsepower DOHC screamer share a name and a displacement, but almost nothing else under the surface. What one owner discovered comparing them side by side says a lot about a quarter-century of Mustang engineering, and about the friendships that get built around cars like these.
A Dodge Challenger wedged between a Prius and another hybrid in a Maryland parking lot raises a fair question: is there any version of this HEMI-powered muscle car that’s actually earned a spot in the hybrid section? The honest answer is no, every third-generation Challenger since its 2008 revival has run purely on gas, V6 or V8. This was pure parking-lot irony, not a loophole.
Very few 1970 Dodge Challengers left the factory with both the 426 Hemi and the upscale RT/SE Special Edition package — and this one has been fully restored by a specialist shop in Iowa. Restorer Tim Wilhelm walks through exactly what makes the car unique ahead of a Mecum Auction preview. Watch to find out what one sharp-eyed viewer says is the only thing this Hemi Challenger is still missing.
The first-generation Chevelle produced one of the rarest and most faked muscle cars General Motors ever built. Only 201 Z-16 Malibu SS 396 cars were assembled in 1965, roughly 75 are believed to survive, and their six-figure values have created an entire cottage industry of counterfeits. The reason the fakes fall apart has nothing to do with paperwork. Read on for how to read a real one, and what made the 1966 SS 396 different.
A British Columbia rock scaler spent forty years quietly amassing more than 340 vehicles on five acres near Tappen, from a DeLorean to a rare 1966 Pontiac Beaumont SD and a 1968 Chevelle SS396. Now he wants out, but only as a single package, house and restoration shop included, for roughly Can$1.45 million. Who has the space and the nerve to take it all at once? Read on to find out.
Alfa Romeo built a car named after Montreal, unveiled it at Expo 67 in Montreal, and then never legally sold a single new example in Canada or anywhere else in North America. Fewer than 4,000 were built, and the word Montreal appears on the car exactly once, hidden on the ashtray cover. Under the hood sits a detuned racing V8 from a sports prototype. Read on for how one of Bertone’s most striking shapes became a car almost nobody on this continent could buy.
Pontiac never sold the Tempest in Canada, so GM built an entirely separate nameplate to fill the gap: the Acadian, a Chevy II underneath wearing no Pontiac or Chevrolet badge at all, sold through Pontiac-Buick dealerships from 1962 to 1971. It was exported as far as Chile and South Africa, spun off its own Beaumont sub-model onto the Chevelle platform, and quietly outlasted most people’s memory of it ever existing. Read on to find out how a domestic-content law created one of GM’s strangest badge-engineering stories.
Oldsmobile’s 442 rarely gets mentioned alongside the GTO or the Road Runner, but the W-30 package hiding under this 1969 example held its own against anything Pontiac or Plymouth built. This particular car adds a documented Canadian-market history and a place inside the Brothers Collection, a pairing of rarity and provenance that few surviving 442s can claim. Its Outside Air Induction hood and factory specs tell a story most muscle car fans have never heard. Watch to see why this quiet performer deserves more credit than it’s ever gotten.
A W-30 badge on a 1969 Oldsmobile 442 already means something rare, but this car carries an extra layer most American muscle cars never get: a passport. Oldsmobile built just 171 W-30 sport coupes for the entire model year, and only five of them were sold new in Canada. Read on to find out what the Force-Air Induction system actually did and why tracking down a car like this has more in common with genealogy than car shopping.
This 1969 Dodge Charger 500, reportedly the very first one built and originally used by the Dodge News Bureau for promotion, is one of only 27 built with the 426 Hemi and four-speed manual — and the only one combining that drivetrain with Bright Red paint, a black cloth interior, and power windows. Documented by Chrysler records and Mopar authenticator Galen Govier, it sat in a private Ontario collection for decades in unrestored condition. Read on to find out why collectors value it over a fully restored example.
Four years without a new Camaro on dealer lots should have been the end of the story. Instead, a 2006 concept car reveal quietly locked in a production decision that brought the nameplate back for 2010 with a track-only preview year first. Read on to see how the fifth-generation Camaro went from concept stage to a 580-horsepower ZL1 flagship.
Plymouth’s answer to the Ford Mustang did not just need to look sporty; it needed to earn the title, and the 1965 Formula S package was how it happened. A 235 horsepower Commando V8 paired with upgraded suspension and a factory tachometer turned an ordinary Barracuda into a genuine performer. Fewer than three thousand buyers ordered it that year, so why did the option that made the car worth having stay so rare?
A seized engine, locked-up wheel bearings, and fifteen years of garage dust didn’t stop one owner from buying a 1947 Chevrolet StyleMaster for $500. This entry walks through how a bent push rod straightened in a home vice, a $150 parts car found by accident, and two decades of patient driving turned a scrap-price purchase into a lifelong restoration project. Read on to find out what the story teaches about buying rust-free over buying cheap.