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Owner Tom Lembeck has something almost no other collector can claim: a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona in Spring Green Metallic and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird in Vitamin C Orange, both factory 426 Hemi cars, parked side by side in the same collection. Host Lou Costabile walks through exactly what separates NASCAR’s two winged Mopars once you see them together. Watch to see both aero legends compared directly, nose cone to nose cone.
Pontiac never built a watered-down engine lineup for its 1964 Catalina Safari wagon, meaning a suburban family hauling kids and camping gear could order the same 421 cubic-inch V8 available in the flashier Catalina coupe. Roughly 33,000 found buyers that year. Read on to find out why these quiet family haulers have become genuine sleeper collectibles today.
A homemade video shot at a small Michigan dragstrip in 2001 captures something the big-budget car shows almost never do: what grassroots Mopar racing actually looked like when nobody was performing for a camera crew. Pat Muscle Car Fan’s footage from Ubly Dragstrip is a time capsule of a scene that shaped how an entire generation of Mopar owners learned to race.
A deep-sea fishing trip and a concept car with no top somehow combined to produce one of the most recognizable silhouettes in American automotive history. King Rose Archives traces the origin of the second-generation Corvette Sting Ray, and the design fight between two GM legends that decided whether you could actually see out the back window.
Only two of these were ever built, and this 1957 Ford Ranchero hides one of the most unlikely muscle car secrets of the entire decade under its work-truck sheet metal. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week goes looking for the story behind a supercharged engine nobody expected to find in a Ranchero, and the NASCAR connection that explains how it got there.