Posts Tagged: Flagship
A rare 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 — one of only about 400 ever built — just resurfaced after years hidden away, its wheels rusted solid and its Saturn Yellow paint buried under dust. The Stage 1’s 455 V8 once held a 33-year American torque record, and the man who rescued it is now working to prove this is the real thing, part number by part number. Here’s the story behind one of Buick’s rarest muscle cars finally seeing daylight again.
Most 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoilers built with the rare 429 Super Cobra Jet have long since vanished. One owner didn’t just save his — he races it in a class that demands factory-look parts and stock-style tires, and it’s turning 11-second quarter miles. Here’s the story behind Detroit’s most overlooked 429.
A 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona built to chase a 200-mph NASCAR dream has sat in a private collection without ever being titled or plated — not once in over 50 years. Only 503 of these winged Mopars were built before NASCAR rewrote the rulebook to stop them. Here’s the story behind one of the rarest muscle cars in America.
Buick built the 1969 GS 400 Stage 1 to out-punch flashier muscle cars while wearing a luxury convertible’s clothes. This triple-black four-speed survivor is one of the rarest option combinations Buick ever built, hiding 345 horsepower and 440 lb-ft under a completely understated shell. Here’s the story behind the numbers most people never notice.
A barn-stored 1968 Shelby GT500KR spent thirty years out of sight before selling for $495,000 at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction, beating out two rare Boss 429 Mustangs and a $396,000 Hemi Superbird. See what else made Barrett-Jackson’s own list of the sale’s ten best-selling muscle cars, and why documented originals are commanding record money in 2026.
A heavily built Shelby GT500 pushing an estimated 1,500 horsepower squares off with a 1,200-horsepower Camaro ZL1 in a straight-line showdown. Both cars started as factory monsters before their owners pushed them into a different league entirely, and the pairing revives a rivalry that dates back to 1967.
A three-way design vote on a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda restomod just took a hard left turn: instead of a classic orange or period-correct blue scheme, the build team picked a modern quad-headlight front end nobody expected. Here’s why that call matters on a car with only 14 factory Hemi convertibles ever built, and where Project CudaCat heads next.
The L88 427 was Chevrolet’s most brutal engine of the muscle car era, and it never once appeared on a factory Camaro order sheet. This 1968 SS/RS wears one anyway, the product of a dealer tradition that turned Corvette-only horsepower into a street-legal secret weapon. Here’s the real story behind an engine GM rated at 430 horsepower that everyone in Detroit knew made closer to 570.
One classic car owner did everything right over a long winter in the garage — then found out a stuck parking brake could end a spring drive in minutes. We break down the real storage mistakes that quietly wreck engines, tires, and brakes on classic and muscle cars, using advice from veteran UK dealer Derek Mathewson and dozens of owners who have learned the hard way.
In 1967, Hurst had just 45 days to solve an impossible problem: GM had capped its intermediate cars at 400 cubic inches, but Hurst wanted a 455 in a 442. Their answer was to graft an entire Oldsmobile Toronado underneath it, creating a one-of-one front-wheel-drive muscle car nicknamed the ‘Fournado.’ It vanished for nearly 50 years before Jay Leno finally got to drive it.
