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A Bright Yellow 1969 Cougar Eliminator is headed to a no-reserve auction with its original G-code paperwork intact, proof it left Dearborn with Ford’s rare Boss 302 and a mandatory four-speed. Somewhere along the way that engine vanished in favor of a 351 and an automatic, and nobody wrote down why. Whoever buys it next has to decide whether the car’s real value is in what it is now, or what it once was.
AMC handed part of the 1971 Javelin AMX’s styling to its own Trans-Am champion, Mark Donohue, and the result carried real racing pedigree straight into its sheet metal. With a 330-horsepower 401 V8, a factory Go Package, and a championship season nobody else in Detroit even bothered to contest, it remains one of the most overlooked muscle cars of its era.
Oldsmobile had no budget, no big engine, and only months to catch Pontiac’s GTO — so its engineers answered with a suspension package nobody else in Detroit was offering. Here’s how a new 400-cubic-inch Rocket V8 and a factory rear sway bar turned the underdog 4-4-2 into the car period testers actually preferred.
A wrecked Pontiac in Alabama had almost nothing going for it — wrong year, wrong paint, wrong drivetrain — until MotorTrend’s Roadworthy Rescues decided the details didn’t matter as much as the shape. Here’s how a mismatched Firebird became a screen-accurate Bandit tribute, and the real specs behind the 1977 original that started it all.
