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In 1959, Chevrolet finally gave the Impala its own model line instead of treating it as a Bel Air option package, and backed it up with a lowered, widened body sharing sheet metal with Buick and Oldsmobile, horizontal tailfins, and an engine range topping out at 315 horsepower. A year later, Chevrolet toned almost all of it down. Read on to find out what changed, and why some Impalas from this era were hand-built in Australia.
Spotted in the pits at Lights Out 8 in Georgia, this Ford-powered Mercury Comet wears a rear wing cut straight from an old barn’s tin roof, riding on a full tube chassis instead of anything resembling a stock Comet unibody. The 1320video crew got the story straight from the build itself — rat rod looks, real function underneath. See why a car built from scrap outshines rides costing ten times as much.
For years, Street Outlaws’ The Reaper raced anonymously behind a nickname alone. At the PRI trade show, he pulled the cover off a new Procharged Camaro, trading his prior combination for a centrifugal-blower setup that no-prep racers often favor for its more manageable power curve. Fans in the comments, who know him by his real name, James Goad, flooded in with support for the new build’s debut on Oklahoma City’s notorious 405 list. Watch the reveal that has longtime fans debating what it means for his next run.
Audi’s R8 was already fast enough to embarrass supercars costing twice as much, which did not stop German tuner MTM from unveiling a 5-liter biturbo version at Geneva in 2011 and then spending two years making it substantially wilder. By 2013 the GT version was making 802 horsepower and running to 223 mph. Read on for what MTM changed, and why the chassis work mattered more than the engine.
A 1968 Dodge Charger body, a twin-turbo Viper V10, and a Corvette chassis underneath — this Swedish-built hybrid took five years to complete and reportedly left Jay Leno speechless. Street-legal and rated around 1,000 horsepower, it’s the kind of build that mixes three unrelated platforms into something none of their original manufacturers ever intended. Commenters keep coming back to one detail above all else: the sound. Watch to hear why.
David Freiburger genuinely forgot he owned this 1970 Plymouth Duster until it turned up buried in dirt on a California grape farm belonging to Engine Masters editor Steve Dulcich. What followed was a five-day sprint to stuff a salvaged 440 big-block into the car, complete with hammered-on headers and a trunk painted before the engine even ran. Longtime fans still call it the best episode Roadkill ever made. Watch the full build and burnout below.
Jaguars E-Type earned its reputation on a racetrack before it ever reached a showroom, tracing its lineage to a D-Type that won Le Mans three years straight. By 1966 the car had grown into its most well-rounded form, pairing a 4.2-litre, 265-horsepower six with mechanical upgrades that fixed the earlier cars biggest complaints. It is a combination collectors still chase today.
Hollywood built eleven Mustangs to play Eleanor in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, and only three of them could actually be driven. None was a real Shelby GT500. A quarter century later the replica business built around that car is still going, now offering twin-turbocharged and Coyote-powered versions the film cars never had, and a federal appeals court has finally settled the long-running fight over who is allowed to build them. Read on to find out how a movie prop became one of the most copied Mustangs ever made.
The front subframe on a Charger or Challenger carries the engine and sets the entire front suspension geometry, which makes replacing it far less forgiving than it looks. A cradle installed a few millimeters out of position throws no codes and makes no noise, it just quietly ruins how the car drives. Here is what the job actually involves, where it goes wrong, and what is worth upgrading while everything is apart.
Hagerty puts the classic carburetor-versus-EFI debate to an actual test, converting Parts Finder specialist Davin Reckow’s own 396 big-block Chevelle to a Holley Terminator throttle-body system and measuring the results every way that matters: feel, chassis dyno, eighth-mile drag strip times, and real-world gas mileage. It’s less opinion and more hard data for any big-block owner weighing the same swap. The numbers might surprise carburetor purists.
A 1974 Nova SS body sitting on a Dodge Ram 3500 Dually 4×4 chassis shouldn’t work — but at the Pigeon Forge Rod Run, it did. Commenters shared their own diesel-swap build specs, debated the wheel fitment, and one claimed to have spotted the exact truck at Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan. Is it a show car, a work truck, or both?
A supercharged Camaro ZL1 — reportedly belonging to host Liel Levy’s father — takes on a modified BMW and a $200,000 Bentley in this street-racing matchup. The factory 650-horsepower LT4 V8 makes the outcome closer than the video’s title suggests, and the comments are still arguing about just how close it really was. Watch to see how the numbers play out on the street.
POWERNATION’s Detroit Muscle crew takes on Project Ultra Violet, a 1970 Dodge Challenger so rusted it needs sandblasting before the real work can even begin. What follows is a uni-body-to-full-frame conversion built around a Jeff Schwartz G-Machine chassis and a low-deck, all-aluminum Hemi backed by a T56 six-speed. This is not a preserved survivor — it’s a genuine rust-bucket resurrection. Watch to see how far the team pushes it.
Bill Devin started out racing a modified Crosley on a car salesman’s budget — then built a modular fiberglass body mold nobody else in the industry had figured out. By 1958, his shop was shipping nearly 100 body shells a week worldwide. This particular roadster is one of only 16 built to this exact spec, running a 283 Corvette V8.
Chevrolet’s 2019 Corvette ZR1 arrived after years of speculation, packing a supercharged LT5 V8 and the largest rear wing ever offered on a production Corvette. This breakdown covers the details that turned rumor into one of the most respected Corvette generations among enthusiasts. Fans in the comments call it nothing short of Big Nasty. Watch to see why the nickname stuck.