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210 episodes into covering the Brothers Collection, Muscle Car of the Week finally ranks the convertibles — pulling from a 1967 Mustang K-code, a 1964 Plymouth Satellite 426 Wedge, a fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a 440 Six Barrel ‘Cuda in Tor-Red. Each car represents a different era and manufacturer’s approach to open-top American performance. The comments are already split over which one deserves the top spot. Watch to see the full lineup and decide which convertible you’d pick.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray and Z51 came in six trims spanning a $56,000 to $67,000 price range, but the real story is what GM packed into every one of them: a reworked interior with no visible plastic, a driver mode dial that changes the steering itself, and a Z51 version quick enough to worry cars costing twice as much. Read on to find out which spec sheet actually tells the truth about this generation.
This vintage road test puts the 1969 AMC AMX through its paces exactly as period buyers would have seen it — no nostalgia, no hindsight, just a genuine two-seater posting a 6.3-second 0-60 time that still holds up today. Viewers can’t decide what stands out more: the numbers, the styling, or the unmistakably late-1960s marketing. Watch the full period test.
A modern Corvette Z06 riding on upgraded BBS wheels lines up against a Shelby Cobra in this roll race capture from upyersbuddy’s channel, and the title alone hints that things didn’t go the way most spec-sheet arguments would predict. Viewers in the comments were quick to reference Top Gear’s Richard Hammond and the kind of shock only an unexpected result can produce. Watch to see which of these two very different approaches to speed comes out on top.
A ’68 Corvette catches fire mid-shoot in this decade-old clip from Republic DRIVE, turning a routine promotional filming session into the kind of moment every classic car owner dreads. Commenters zeroed in fast on a possible cause — an electric fuel pump left running — while others shared their own decades-old stories of losing cars the same way. It’s raw, unscripted, and still circulating as a cautionary tale.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray spent seven years and three delayed launch dates becoming GM’s answer to a demographic problem nobody wanted to say out loud. Carbon fiber panels, a 455-horsepower LT1 V8, and a completely redesigned cabin were only part of the plan — the rest played out in a video game and at Indianapolis. Read on to find out how a seventh-generation Corvette tried to out-argue its own reputation.
A C7 Corvette-bodied Pro Mod once trapped 249.49 mph in 5.73 seconds and earned a “new world record” claim that stood as one of the class’s benchmark runs, even though the record books have since moved well past it. Underneath that recognizable street-car silhouette sits a purpose-built tube chassis carrying an estimated 3,000-plus horsepower. Read on to find out how a Corvette-shaped race car keeps closing the gap with dedicated dragsters.
Restore a Corvette too close to perfect and purists call foul; restore it too loose and you lose the numbers-matching value collectors chase. This decades-old argument over Corvette restoration standards, factory-correct versus “better than Detroit ever made it,” still splits owners today. Read on for both sides of a debate that has no clean answer, and the questions that help you pick your own.
Fred already had a reputation for beating cars he had no business beating, including a widely shared win over an EcoBoost Mustang in the half mile. In this video, he brings his Corvette to the Merrill Ice Drags in Wisconsin, where studded tires replace drag radials and horsepower counts for far less than throttle control. The result adds another chapter to an already unlikely winning streak. Watch to see how the Corvette handles a surface with almost no grip at all.
A 1967 Corvette carrying the top-of-the-line L71 427, a 435-horsepower solid-lifter tri-power big block, sat parked and forgotten for nearly 40 years before finally resurfacing with just 25,000 original miles. Commenters who have owned or ridden in identical cars are still trading stories about what this engine could really do. Watch the recovery of a Corvette that time genuinely forgot.
The name on these valve covers has shown up on three completely different Chevrolet engines across five decades, and every single time it’s meant one thing: this is the Camaro that isn’t messing around. Today’s version makes 455 horsepower and spits flames on overrun, but the badge traces straight back to a drag-strip-born small-block from 1970. Read on to find out what actually connects a modern Camaro SS to a Z/28 from half a century earlier.
Craigslist’s reputation for shady deals is well earned, but that does not mean every listing is a scam; it means you need to know exactly what to check before sending a single dollar. From VIN and trim-tag verification and reverse image searches to pre-purchase inspections, title checks, and safe in-person meeting spots, a few simple habits separate buyers who land a great classic from buyers who lose their deposit. Read on for the full checklist.
Alux.com runs down fifteen facts about Chevrolet, who really founded the brand, the most expensive Corvette ever sold, and what the bowtie logo might actually stand for. The comment section did not just fact-check the list, one viewer added the Corvair, America’s only mass-produced air-cooled rear-engine car, to it. Watch to see how many of the fifteen you already knew.
Chevrolet officially rated the 1967 Corvette L88 at 430 horsepower — a number almost nobody believes, with real output reputed to be closer to 560 or even 600. Only 20 of the 22,940 Corvettes built that year carried the option, which required deleting the heater, radio, and air conditioning just to qualify. A Sunray DX-entered L88 went on to win the 12 Hours of Sebring outright that same year. Read on for how Chevrolet built the most powerful — and most deliberately hidden — engine it ever put under a Corvette hood.
Car and Driver rides shotgun in the new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at Willow Springs International Raceway, a demanding high-speed circuit known as “The Fastest Road in the West.” The track’s unforgiving sweepers are exactly the kind of test that separates real aerodynamic grip from marketing claims. Watch to see how GM’s most track-focused Corvette handles it.