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This 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport arrived during the one year Ford dared to redesign the Torino from the ground up, then walked the styling back within twelve months. Under the hood sits a 351 Cobra Jet, a Cleveland-block V8 carrying real Boss 351 lineage. Here’s why this specific model year stands apart from every Torino before or after it.
This 1968 Pontiac GTO convertible skips right past the factory’s 350-, 360-, and 366-horsepower Ram Air options and goes straight for a 461 cubic-inch stroker backed by a five-speed manual — a combination Pontiac never dreamed of building. The GOAT’s best sales year meets a modern-day engine build that would make even the Ram Air II blush. Here’s what made 1968 the GTO’s high-water mark, and why this stroker droptop earns its own bragging rights.
This 1970 Chevrolet Impala, powered by a 350 small-block paired with a TH350 automatic, hadn’t run since 1993, 23 years of silence before this restart attempt. Using nothing more than a dwell meter, timing light, and decades of hands-on know-how, host Jonathan walks through exactly what it takes to wake up an engine everyone assumed was finished. Watch to hear how it sounds once it finally catches.
Chevrolet handed its brand new Camaro one of the biggest stages in American motorsport in 1967, and a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner drove it around the Brickyard in front of a packed house. Then the man who actually won the race that day refused to go anywhere near it. This 1967 Camaro SS convertible is one of the small fleet Chevrolet built for that month of May, and its story is stranger than the badge suggests.
A restorer who wouldn’t hand his own ‘Cuda over to anyone else, a paint color pulled straight from Chrysler’s loudest era, and a 440 that one viewer called “a monster” before the walkaround even finished. Lou Costabile caught up with Tom Benson on the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale floor to find out how a self-restored 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda ended up looking factory-fresh in Sassy Grass Green. The comments reveal an even wilder history hiding behind that color code. What was it actually like to own one of these new?
This 1978 Chevrolet Corvette 25th Anniversary Pace Car turned up at Corvette Mike Midwest in Burr Ridge, Illinois, in the black-over-silver Indy 500 Pace Car livery that made it an instant classic the year the C3 finally got its wraparound fastback rear window. Dealership co-owner Bill Kotzum, who has specialized in Corvettes since 2004, walked through what makes this particular Pace Car edition worth seeking out. Watch to see why one fan spent forty years chasing this exact car after seeing it in a magazine.
In 1935, this body style helped Ford outsell Chevrolet for the first time using style and value alone – with roughly 820,000 built that year. The flathead V8 that originally powered it made just 85 horsepower; this particular car swapped that out for a modern LS1 crate engine, keeping the Depression-era looks and losing none of the drivability.
A 1967 Barracuda wearing ‘AAR’ badging is borrowing a name that wouldn’t exist as a real Plymouth package for three more years. That contradiction is exactly what makes this custom build interesting – a first-year redesigned Barracuda dressed up as a legend that hadn’t been built yet. Here’s what the real 1967 Barracuda offered from the factory, and where the AAR name actually came from.
A genuine, numbers-matching 1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom SS doesn’t show up often – especially one wrapped in LeMans Blue paint and packing a real 427. Owner Arnold Boris has kept this big-block full-size Chevy since 2007, and Lou Costabile’s Chicago-area feature captures a restoration so clean it looks factory-fresh. Viewers are already debating just how rare cars like this actually were. Find out what sets a real SS 427 apart from the badge-engineered pretenders.
A Plymouth engineered to win NASCAR races before it ever had to satisfy a single customer, this 1970 Road Runner Superbird hides a nineteen-inch nose cone and a factory explanation that wasn’t the real one. At the Volo Auto Museum, director Brian Grams walks through the Alpine White, 440-powered example on camera, tracing the aero-war engineering Plymouth built in genuinely limited numbers before NASCAR changed the rules for good. The scoops, the wing, and the vinyl top all had a job to do.
A Buick GSX built during a five-month factory window in 1970 raises a genuine documentation question for its current owners — one that even a close look at the car’s trim and colors can’t fully settle. Its Stage 1 engine option carried an official rating widely considered too conservative for what the car could actually do. Here’s the open question at the center of this particular GSX.
Ford quietly swapped engines mid-year on the 1968 Shelby GT500, and the change turned an already potent muscle car into a legend. Early cars carried the 428 Police Interceptor, rated at 360 horsepower, before Ford dropped in the underrated 428 Cobra Jet and renamed the car GT500KR, King of the Road. This red-and-white example wears the classic Shelby colors, and which 428 sits under its hood tells you exactly when it was built. Read on to find out how to tell them apart.
Plymouth called this color Sassy Grass Green, part of a deliberately loud High Impact palette designed to make its muscle cars impossible to ignore. Wrapped around a factory 440-powered 1971 ‘Cuda restored by owner Tom Benson’s own restoration company, it drew comments calling the front end “the best of any muscle car” from the era. Filmed at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, this is a restoration built to hold up under serious scrutiny. Watch the full walkaround and hear the 440 run.
Tom Lembeck has owned fourteen 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertibles, but this Jamaica Blue example with the 440 Six Pack still holds a specific title: the first big-block ‘Cuda he ever bought, back in 1997. Nearly three decades later, it still looks close to showroom-fresh. Watch to hear why, out of fourteen cars, this is the one Tom keeps coming back to.
This 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible pairs a numbers-matching 383 with the iconic Hurst Pistol Grip four-speed, factory disc brakes, and a heavy-duty suspension package, all wrapped in a restrained blue-over-black color combination. Read on to find out what makes a matching-numbers manual convertible like this one so hard to find today.