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The third-generation Corvette ran for fifteen model years without a full redesign, longer than any generation before or since, while watching horsepower ratings collapse under new emissions rules almost the entire time it was on sale. Read on to find out how a car built on a Mako Shark II concept survived that transition — and which rare option is worth more than most entire classic cars.
Every car at this drag race has to leave the line the way it left the factory — original engine, original exhaust, no shortcuts. This year’s two-day coverage from Mid Michigan Motorplex mixes in-car and drone footage of a 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda, a 455-powered Pontiac T-37, an AMC Hornet SC 360, and a 454 Corvette, all running bone stock against each other. Watch to see which factory legend actually backs up its brochure numbers.
Not every car at Mecum Kissimmee 2026 found a buyer. Some rolled across the block, drew a scattering of half-hearted bids, and rolled right back off completely unsold. Buried in the same footage sits a Chevrolet SS that international viewers instantly recognized as a Holden Commodore SS wearing a different badge on the other side of the world. What actually separates a car that sells from one nobody wants to touch?
A 1970 Corvette that spent years abandoned and neglected has been torn down to bare fiberglass and rebuilt from the ground up — chrome, engine bay, and all. This was one of the lowest-production years of the entire C3 generation, and it still carries the last full chrome face before federal bumper rules changed the car’s look for good. What started as a write-off ends up looking, and running, like it never sat still at all. Watch to see just how far this transformation goes.
Chevrolet’s Mark IV big-block started as a truck engine and ended up terrorizing quarter-miles from Camaros to full-size Biscaynes. The 396, the 402 sold under a different name, and the legendary 427 all trace back to the same basic architecture. Read on to see how one engine family covered such wildly different cars.
In 1969 Chevrolet let a handful of buyers order an all-aluminum, race-bred 427 that needed fuel no gas station actually sold — and it nearly doubled the price of the car it went into. Only 69 Camaros and 2 Corvettes ever left the factory with the ZL1 option. Read on for the dyno numbers, the drag strip runs that outran them, and why this engine’s window of availability was so brief.
Most 1957 Thunderbird buyers never knew Ford quietly built America’s first production supercharged V8 that same year. Roughly 200 F-code cars left the factory rated at 300 horsepower — though Paxton itself claimed the real number was closer to 360. Here’s the story behind Ford’s rarest personal luxury car of the decade.
Chevrolet’s 350 spent from 1981 to 1996 quietly reinventing itself under different VIN codes — a low-compression truck motor, a twin-throttle-body Corvette engine, and eventually a tuned-port small block making 245 horsepower. Along the way it powered everything from K30 pickups and motorhomes to the Buick Roadmaster and even the Hummer H1. Read on to see how one engine family did so many different jobs across three decades of GM production.
Three of the most famous small-block Chevrolet engines ever built, the 302, the 327, and the 350, share the same 4.0-inch bore, the same block casting, and in many cases the same casting numbers. Only the stroke tells them apart. This third installment in our small-block series follows the 4.0-inch bore family from the 1962 327 through the 1968 journal change, the Trans-Am 302, the Duntov cam, and the 350 that eventually powered everything from Corvettes to delivery vans. Read on to find out how one casting did so much.
When one of the first 2019 Chevrolet ZR1s in the country landed at a Kentucky Chevy dealership, salesman Mike Davenport was there to see it delivered. The car reopened a debate that had nearly killed one of the ZR1’s most talked-about options entirely: should you actually buy the manual? Watch to see the car that nearly didn’t get a stick shift at all.
This 1967 Chevrolet Corvette wears a factory-correct Goodwood Green paint job, an original tank sticker, and over $150,000 in nut-and-bolt restoration work — but the drivetrain underneath sparked an immediate argument in the comments about whether it even counts as the engine everyone assumes it is. Built to satisfy both a concours judge and a cross-country road trip, this LS7-powered Corvette is chasing two very different goals at once. Watch to see how it pulls off both.
Cars Garage skips the dyno-pull theatrics and shows the entire assembly of a Chevrolet Corvette 6.2L supercharged LS9 — the engine that once made the ZR1 the fastest production car GM had ever built. Every torque spec, every forged component, every step from bare block to finished 638-horsepower engine is on camera. Watch to see what actually separates a factory-grade rebuild from a shortcut.
First published in Hemmings Muscle Machines back in December 2011, this quarter-mile pass pits one of the roughly seventy all-aluminum ZL1 Camaros Chevrolet ever built against a Pontiac Firebird running the airflow-focused Ram Air II. Commenters dig into cam specs, gearing, and a surprising trap speed result that still sparks debate. Watch to see which factory rarity actually crosses the stripe first.
A supercharged 500-horsepower Shelby GT500 and a naturally aspirated Corvette Z06 look like a mismatch on paper — until they actually line up at the drag strip. The Z06’s 700-pound weight advantage turns a 100-plus horsepower deficit into a genuine fight, with both cars trading blows in the 12-second quarter-mile range. Read on to find out which one actually crossed the stripe first.