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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.
Car News Central counts down seven of the rarest American cars ever built, from a two-off Duesenberg SSJ capable of 140 mph to a Corvette L88 whose real horsepower figure still sparks arguments in the comments. Along the way: an eight-car Trans Am convertible run split evenly between automatics and four-speeds, and the last Studebaker fast enough to matter. Watch to see the full list.
Barn Find Hunter’s Tom Cotter pulls off an Arizona highway for a cinder-block motorcycle shop and finds a pair of Mopars for sale in the desert — then discovers a set of original big-block Camaros parked nearby. Both Camaros sold quickly after the episode aired, and the comments add their own barn-find stories, from a numbers-matching Impala to a first-gen El Camino fans can’t stop talking about. Hagerty’s series keeps proving how much original muscle is still hiding in plain sight. Watch to see what else Tom finds.
Rick Schmidt and Jeff Ford head to a real auction in Raleigh, North Carolina to test whether the intimidating reputation classic car auctions have with first-time buyers actually holds up. Along the way they demonstrate a ‘little things’ philosophy: treating small overlooked details as warning signs about a car’s overall condition. One viewer says they watched the whole episode without skipping around, calling Rick’s expertise genuinely informative. Watch to see what actually happens once the bidding starts.
In the years right after World War II, Packard wasn’t just competing with Cadillac for America’s luxury car buyers — it was actually winning, with the Clipper-era lineup outselling Cadillac and LaSalle combined for a stretch. This 1949 Eight represents that high point: America’s last great straight-eight era, built the same year Packard’s total production topped 116,000 cars. It also marks the beginning of the end, since the brand still lacked the modern overhead-valve V8 that was about to reshape the entire industry.
Mark Lieberman spent three years talking an Ohio owner into selling a Tucker ’48 that had sat since 1982 with barely 8,000 miles on the odometer. Only 51 of these cars were ever built, and 47 are known to survive today, which is part of why one sold for nearly $3 million in 2013. Read on to find out how this particular barn find compares to every other Tucker Lieberman has restored.
This \,995 Model T bucket roadster traces its whole design language back to one car: a stripped-down T built by hot rodder Norm Grabowski in the 1950s that became famous nationwide after appearing on the TV show 77 Sunset Strip. Ford’s Model T was the perfect canvas for that idea, since millions were built between 1908 and 1927 and donor cars were cheap and everywhere. This particular build carries a modern 350 CID V8 and an automatic transmission, proof the T-bucket formula still works just fine with modern power under the hood.
A tip from a stranger led a well-known barn-find hunter to a rural Kansas shop, where a 1965 Chevelle Z16 — one of only 200 ever built — had sat untouched for roughly 48 years. The car’s owner, a local racing legend named Cliff, reportedly received it directly from Chevrolet decades ago, and it still carries the specific factory details that separate a real Z16 from an ordinary 396 Chevelle. Watch to see what half a century of stillness actually looks like.
It started as trash talk at a Wednesday night cruise-in outside a Sonic in Omaha. It ended with a nitrous-fed, 500-horsepower Fox body lined up against a Yamaha R1, a Kawasaki ZX-10R, and a Suzuki GSXR600 on a public street. The ‘beater bomb’ name undersells exactly how serious this build actually is.
Sherwin M. found his 1970 Ford XL through a classified ad with photos so bad the car was barely recognizable, which is probably why nobody else called first. What he found in person was a sixteen-year-dormant, numbers-matching survivor with its original 429 engine still intact. Read on to find out how a factory-correct rebuild turned this rare full-size Ford into both a daily driver and a genuine 14-second track car.
Pontiac only sold the 400-cubic-inch W72 with a mandatory four-speed manual in 1979, the final year for its biggest V8, and this factory-correct four-speed Trans Am backs that combination with an aluminum intake, Edelbrock carb, and long-tube headers. 1979 was also the single best sales year the Trans Am nameplate ever had. Read on to find out what made the last big-block Bird so specific.
A 1956 Buick Special barn find doesn’t usually come with a $900,000 price tag, but this one earned it: twin turbos strapped to a 401 Nailhead V8 push output to roughly 800 horsepower, backed by Ride Tech suspension and a Corvette C6 independent rear end. The Nailhead’s origins as a quiet 236-horsepower luxury engine make the transformation even more remarkable. Here’s what makes this one of the more unexpected restomod builds in the muscle car world.
A 1968 Plymouth Barracuda spent 32 years parked in a garage, untouched, and what rolled back out is one of just 18 documented examples of its exact build. The owner has confirmed it carries an original BO29 code and a four-speed transmission, a combination rare enough to turn a routine garage find into a genuine survivor story. See the car exactly as it looked the day the door finally opened.
A 30-year barn find just resurfaced wearing one of the rarest factory engine combinations Ford ever built — a triple-carbureted 406 big block that fewer than 124 full-size Mercurys ever received from the factory. Paired with a factory 4-speed and a special-order 4.11 rear axle, this Monterey is a genuine sleeper hiding inside a plain-looking family sedan. Read on to find out what made this engine option so rare, and what a numbers-matching survivor like this is worth today.
Nick’s Garage settles a long-running Mopar argument by testing the exact same stroked 426 Hemi with factory-style manifolds and then with headers, back to back, on the same dyno. The results push back on some assumptions viewers walked in with, and the comments are already asking for a round two with bigger headers. Watch the full pull-by-pull comparison to see which setup actually made more power.