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A bone-stock 1970 Camaro RS with no Super Sport history got a full nine-episode transformation into an L78 396 tribute called ‘Project Limelight’ on MuscleCar — and the compiled build video has now been watched more than 12 million times. Here’s the real story behind the car, the engine it borrowed its identity from, and how to tell a genuine SS from a well-built clone.
For $2,547, Plymouth handed buyers a compact built to look forgettable, with a genuine 340 cubic-inch V8 hiding under that plain sheet metal. Here’s how the Duster 340 quietly became one of Detroit’s smartest muscle car buys, and why numbers-matching survivors are only now getting the collector attention they’ve earned.
Jeff Lutz’s Mad Max Camaro carries a Drag Week championship and a years-old speed record, plus an equally well-earned reputation for spectacular mechanical failures. Rick Ware Racing bought the car in 2026 and built a new twin-turbo Noonan Hemi specifically to chase the elusive five-second average. The comeback lasted exactly one scored pass.
Creator Sick McVick films an entire burnout tutorial from the passenger seat, breaking down exactly how to smoke the tires in a 1970s automatic muscle car — a technique manual-only guides never cover. The car itself has drawn comparisons to the black Nova from Tarantino’s Death Proof, with multiple commenters independently spotting the resemblance. Beyond the driving lesson, the video’s loose, high-energy style has viewers comparing the host to a mashup of two well-known comedic actors. The result is equal parts instructional content and pure car-culture entertainment.
Chevrolet has only ever used the LT5 badge on two Corvette engines – one hand-assembled by a boat-motor company in Oklahoma, the other a supercharged monster built nearly 30 years later. The first set FIA world records within weeks of hitting showrooms; the second made 350 more horsepower. Here’s why GM recycled the name instead of starting fresh.
Buick built the 1965 Riviera as a luxury coupe, then quietly optioned in a 360-horsepower 425 V8 for buyers who wanted it both ways. Fewer than 3,500 people checked that box, making the Gran Sport one of the rarest true muscle cars of the era. Decades later, Bill Burr got behind the wheel with Jay Leno – and left convinced it might be the meanest car he’s ever driven.
A dealer in Greene, Iowa is selling a 1970 Chevelle SS with the one document every collector wants — its factory build sheet. The catch: the engine, transmission, and rear gearing under the hood today have nothing to do with what that sheet describes. Here’s what changed, and why one viewer isn’t sure the swap should have happened at all.
Only one 1969 Trans Am ever left Pontiac’s factory with a race-bred Ram Air V under its hood, built purely to test a car nobody planned to sell. From that single engineering mule to the 335-horsepower 455 HO of 1971 and the Super Duty that closed out the era in 1974, these are the rarest Trans Am engine programs collectors still track down decades later.
Buick spent two decades disguising some of the fastest cars General Motors ever built as luxury sedans. The 1970 GSX Stage 1 hid a 510 lb-ft big block under a car built for church parking lots, and the 1987 turbocharged GNX blew past that year’s Corvette in the quarter-mile. Here’s how a brand nobody feared became one of muscle car history’s biggest sleepers.
A 1968 Chevy Nova has traded its small-block V8 for the turbocharged straight-six out of a Toyota Supra, and the numbers make the swap impossible to dismiss: over 860 wheel horsepower, more than double what any factory Nova SS ever produced. Here’s how a 2JZ ended up under a muscle car’s hood, and whether the swap actually holds up as a daily-drivable build.