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Zora Arkus-Duntov built five secret Grand Sport racers to take on Shelby’s Cobras, and General Motors shut the program down before it could finish the job. This widebody 1965 Corvette Sting Ray track car picks up that fight decades later, starting from the first Corvette generation with standard four-wheel disc brakes and the year the big block first arrived. Read on to find out what it takes to build the track Corvette Chevrolet was never allowed to sell.
This 1963 Chevrolet Nova looks like a clean product of the Kennedy era until you notice the LS engine, custom wheels, and aggressive stance underneath, then the comments start arguing about something else entirely. ScottieDTV’s walk-around at the 2017 World of Wheels in Birmingham caught visible cracks in the two-tone paint, sparking a debate over whether it’s a build flaw or trailer transport damage. The interior, though, drew nothing but praise. Which side of the argument would you land on?
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra carries Ford’s rare $155 Drag Pack option and a story that runs deeper than any spec sheet — passed down through Troy’s family after his father was killed in one of three identical Torinos he once owned. Read on to find out what made the Drag Pack version a genuine 13-second car, and just how few of them survive today.
The narrator’s own 1979 Pontiac Trans Am was his first car — and, by his own admission, never as fast as it looked. This build, from Steve Holcomb Pro Auto Custom Interiors, fixes that exact problem with a 7.0-liter engine swap and then goes further with one of the most detailed custom interiors the car has ever worn. Watch to see the fix — and the interior work commenters can’t stop talking about.
Most show cars arrive on a trailer. This 1971 Camaro street machine drove 275 miles under its own power to reach the show field, with an LS swap under a hood that was never meant to hide it. Chevrolet built 114,630 Camaros that year, and only 4,862 of them were Z/28s. Read on to find out why a strike at the Norwood plant made 1971 the second-generation F-body’s real first year.
At $3,033, the SS 396 convertible was the only 1967 Chevelle priced above three thousand dollars, and at close to 3,600 pounds it was also the heaviest car in the lineup. Chevrolet then made things stranger by pulling its own 375-horsepower 396 off the order sheet partway through the year, letting only 612 sell once it returned. The light-blue example featured here answers the power question its own way, with a supercharged LS3. Read on for the full story.