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A 1964 Pontiac LeMans got its final bodywork and a coat of Firemist Aquamarine — a color Cadillac kept to itself — inside a pole barn with no booth and no crew. Body shop veterans with 25 and 30 years in the trade turned up in the comments to say the DIY result was genuinely good enough. Here is the part of a restoration nobody films, and the one step that decides how the whole car ends up looking.
Plymouth’s A51 Twister package put the Duster 340’s grille, stripes and even its hood scoops on cars powered by a 145-horsepower slant six, and Dodge did the same thing with the Demon Sizzler. Half a century later, buyers are still confusing them with the genuine article. Here is exactly what separated the look from the muscle.
Plymouth built the 1971 ‘Cuda with a look it never repeated: quad headlights, fender gills, and billboard graphics found on no other year. UFC president Dana White picked exactly this rare-bodied ‘Cuda for a full restomod, swapping in a 425-horsepower 440 and a Curry 9-inch rear end. The result became one of MuscleCar’s most-watched builds ever.
A George Barris-customized 1968 Dodge Dart GTS convertible spent years chasing criminals on TV’s Mannix before disappearing into obscurity and eventually turning up dilapidated in a field. Automotive reporter Dave Kunz tracked it down, confirmed it by its hidden Barris touches, and restored it to its on-screen British Racing Green with the original 340 V8 still under the hood. Jay Leno takes it for a drive to find out why this compact GTS could out-hustle flashier detective-show muscle cars of its era.
At 6Sixty Street’s Pre-72 class, there’s one rule that never bends: if your muscle car wasn’t built before 1972, it doesn’t line up — and if it can’t drive itself to the start line, it doesn’t race at all. No trailers, no tow rigs, no exceptions. It’s a throwback that turned a grassroots meetup into 44 minutes of Nova-on-Nova rematches and one Ford truck nobody saw coming.
A shop took a tired 1968 Ford Torino fastback and rebuilt it with a stroked 427, a tubbed chassis, and air suspension – and viewers are calling it one of the best Torino restomods ever. Ford’s own 428 Cobra Jet was rated so low on paper that most experts believe the real number was closer to 400 horsepower. Here’s why this overlooked Ford muscle car is finally getting its due.
Mike’s dad drove this Pontiac GTO home from a dealership lot back in 1969, mid-way through a stint in the Navy. Decades later, Mike taught himself to restore the car alone — engine to upholstery — and renamed its paint color after his own late-night garage sessions. Here’s how one family kept a GTO’s story running for two generations.
This 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertible has been reduced to a bare shell, a stripped cowl, and one stamped fender tag — yet collectors are still willing to pay close to $20,000 for it. The reason comes down to rarity: Plymouth built just 635 ‘Cuda convertibles in 1970, and fewer than one percent wore the High Impact Sassy Grass Green paint this one supposedly left the factory in. Backyard Barn Finds documents the deal as it happens, tag and all. Watch to see why a car that can’t be driven is still worth fighting over.
Ford built the 1968 Torino GT to go head-to-head with the GTO and the Chevelle SS, and for owners who actually drove one, it delivered — right down to a 428 Cobra Jet option that could win a stoplight race outright. Yet the car never became a household name the way its rivals did. King of Classic Cars digs into why a genuinely competitive muscle car slipped out of the conversation, drawing on decades of owner stories along the way. Watch to find out what got left out of the history books.
This 1963 split-window Corvette spent two decades buried in a barn before the team at WD Detailing brought it back into the light — dirt, mold, and all. It’s the only model year Chevrolet ever built with that iconic split rear window, a design detail that makes this car one of the most sought-after Corvettes in collector circles. Comments under the video suggest there’s more to this car’s story than just neglect. Watch to see what twenty years of dust was hiding.
Nostalgia Drags 2026 filled Meremere Dragway with straight-axle Gassers, Wild Bunch doorslammers, and a nitro Funny Car throwing demo burnouts — a scene mainstream drag racing left behind in the 1970s. Here’s the real story behind the raised-nose look, and why this corner of New Zealand refuses to let it go.