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This 1969 Buick Skylark wears every badge and stripe of a genuine GS – right down to the hood scoop and monogrammed vinyl roof – but underneath is a more modest Special Deluxe coupe running a smaller 280-horsepower V8. Buick built only 3,574 examples of the California GS, an affordable package that let buyers buy the muscle car look without the muscle car price tag. Tom McCahill still clocked it to 60 mph in under 10 seconds.
The 1964 Pontiac GTO started life as a loophole in GM’s own corporate rulebook, and the rarest version of it packed three carburetors instead of one. Only a fraction of that first model year’s production carried the Tri-Power option that made the GTO a genuine performance threat. Here’s what separated the base car from the one everyone really wanted, and why a correct restoration is harder than it looks.
Lou Costabile found something rare at Rosemont’s World of Wheels show: a 1972 Corvette Stingray in Cascade Green paint, still with the same owner who bought it new nearly 50 years ago. No restoration story, no reconstruction guesswork — just one person’s decision, repeated for five decades, to keep the car instead of selling it. Viewers are already calling it one of the best ’72s they’ve ever seen. Watch to hear the full story behind the color and the miles.
Calvo Motorsports took a factory Dodge Viper ACR Extreme, kept the aero kit and stock 19-inch wheels untouched, and pulled 1750 horsepower from a sleeved version of the production block. The result: 0-200 mph in under half a mile at Texas Invitationals. See why this build still has fans wishing Dodge built it this way from the factory.
Chevrolet set out to build 50 lightweight, aluminum-bodied 1962 Impalas purely to dominate the NHRA drag strip, but a body-panel stamping problem cut the run to just 16 or 18 actual cars. The result, badge-coded Z-11, is one of the rarest regular-production Chevrolets ever built, backed by a Winternationals-winning pedigree. Read on to find out why this 409-powered homologation special never even offered an automatic transmission.
RamblinAround tracks down one of only 503 original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas ever built, still running its factory 440 V8 and finished in correct T5 Copper paint. The Daytona’s nose cone and rear wing were built to break NASCAR speed records, and did, forcing the sport to change its rules. Watch to see the winged Mopar that inspired decades of dream-car regret in the comments.
Cars Garage skips the dyno-pull theatrics and shows the entire assembly of a Chevrolet Corvette 6.2L supercharged LS9 — the engine that once made the ZR1 the fastest production car GM had ever built. Every torque spec, every forged component, every step from bare block to finished 638-horsepower engine is on camera. Watch to see what actually separates a factory-grade rebuild from a shortcut.
Nobody built cars to disappear quite like Chevrolet built the 1964 Biscayne, the cheapest full-size car in the lineup, yet a rare handful of buyers spec’d it with the same 409 big-block that made the Impala SS famous. Stripped of chrome and drag-strip focused, a 409 Biscayne is arguably the ultimate factory sleeper of its era. Here is why even dedicated Chevrolet historians cannot agree on exactly how many were built.
A driver takes a 2017 Camaro ZL1 out for their first-ever laps on track, sharing the session with a Ford GT — one of the most exclusive supercars Ford has built in decades. With a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4 V8 and a chassis engineered specifically for road-course work, the ZL1 was built for exactly this moment. Watch how a first-timer handles a car with this much capability.
A 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 running a factory Turbo Hydramatic 400 automatic squares off against a modified 1951 Henry J nicknamed the Green M&M in this quarter mile nostalgia drag race. Kaiser-Frazer built the Henry J as a stripped-down economy car decades before drag racers discovered its featherweight unibody made it a natural straight-line weapon. Viewers praised the channel’s consistent camera work and asked for more up-close burnout footage. Does decades of muscle car engineering really beat a proper weight-to-power ratio down the strip?
An orange Dodge Charger R/T dressed in unmistakable General Lee livery does something the Dukes of Hazzard rarely showed on screen — sliding sideways through a corner instead of flying over a jump. Shot on a brand-new camcorder as the creator’s first upload, the clip pairs a genuine R/T’s engine note with real driver involvement. Watch a TV icon prove it’s more than just a stunt car.
First published in Hemmings Muscle Machines back in December 2011, this quarter-mile pass pits one of the roughly seventy all-aluminum ZL1 Camaros Chevrolet ever built against a Pontiac Firebird running the airflow-focused Ram Air II. Commenters dig into cam specs, gearing, and a surprising trap speed result that still sparks debate. Watch to see which factory rarity actually crosses the stripe first.
This LS engine teardown starts with the same uncertainty every rebuild does — you never quite know what years of neglect actually did until the first bolts come loose. Viewers ranging from lifelong diesel technicians to first-time builders have weighed in on the technique, debating everything from head bolt removal order to a cheap salvage-yard 6.0-liter with an oddball factory quirk. Watch to see exactly what comes out of this engine, one bolt at a time.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon shipped with two different keys, each unlocking a genuinely different power output depending on what fuel is in the tank — 808 horsepower on regular pump gas, or the full 840 on 100+ octane race fuel. Making that switch safe required a second engine computer and a built-in failsafe against mixing fuels. Read on to find out how the system actually works.
At first glance, Ed Roethel’s two-door Pontiac wagon looks like a converted Chevelle from the mid-1960s. It isn’t — Pontiac never built a two-door wagon on this platform in any year, which makes this a genuine one-off creation rather than a rare factory survivor. Read on to find out what it took to fabricate a body style that never officially existed.