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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.
During the final round of the Stick Shift class at I-29 No Prep in 2017, the Unicorn C5 Corvette — finally dialed in after a round of suspension and tire changes — caught fire mid-pass when a loose injector o-ring sprayed fuel onto the engine bay. A competing Subaru driver’s fast thinking with a fire extinguisher kept real damage to a minimum, and 1320video walks through exactly what went wrong and why. The car lived to race another day. Watch to see how close it came to not.
A brand-new Dodge Demon — Dodge’s 840-horsepower, factory drag-ready Challenger — gets delivered in Amarillo, Texas, and the crowd around it turns into its own story. Commenters split between outrage at strangers touching a sold car and celebration for the buyer’s family. Watch what happens when one of the rarest muscle cars ever built shows up at a small-town dealership.
A sixteen-year-old school bus driver in Cleveland County, North Carolina talked his father into a $100 down payment on a yellow 1966 Dodge Charger — the most cash the man had ever handed his son at once. What followed was a factory 383/four-speed muscle car turned into a gas-guzzling street machine, sidelined by the 1973 oil embargo, and left parked outdoors for the better part of four decades. Read on for how one phone call from a friend turned into a lifelong family project.
This 1969 Chevelle SS had already been through a full restoration before the V8 Speed & Resto Shop crew tackled its next upgrade: a Tremec TKO 600 five-speed overdrive conversion behind its 454 big-block, rated to handle 600 pound-feet of torque. The install keeps the shifter in its factory location and drops highway RPM dramatically, a detail one viewer calculated out to roughly 1,750 rpm at 60 mph. Watch the full install to see what it takes to give a numbers-matching muscle car an overdrive gear Detroit never offered.
A pair of 88-millimeter turbochargers mounted directly in the grille of a first-generation Camaro is not a subtle build choice, and it is not meant to be. Turbos that size are reserved for big-block combinations chasing four-digit power, and everything behind them has to be built to match. Read on to find out what a setup like this actually commits a builder to, and why the first-gen body keeps getting chosen for it.
By 1973, most of Plymouth’s real performance had already been regulated away — except for one engine nobody expected much from. Bud Lindemann puts this Cuda 340 through a full road test, and the stopwatch tells a story that surprised buyers who’d already written off the smog era. Watch to see exactly how quick a detuned Mopar could still be.
Modern muscle cars like the Hellcat twins hit numbers the original 1960s and 1970s era never touched, but they get there through supercharging and computer control instead of big cubic inches and low compression. Here’s a closer look at how Detroit’s horsepower war came back in the 2010s, and what changed in the engineering between the original muscle car boom and its modern revival.
Regular Guy Garage is dropping a 347 stroker into a 1986 Mustang Notchback, and against the current of nearly every build video out there, he’s doing it with a carburetor instead of fuel injection. His reasoning — no sensors, no wiring harness, no computer to fight with — has resonated with viewers who own everything from Chargers to Firebirds to Camaros. Watch to hear the full case for going old-school.
From the curb, this 1948 Chevy Fleetmaster Coupe looks completely factory-correct — until the test drive reveals a fuel-injected drivetrain and overdrive transmission hiding under period-correct sheet metal. MyRod.com’s resto-mod keeps the postwar Chevy’s original silhouette fully intact while modernizing everything a daily driver would actually notice, drawing praise from commenters for restraint rather than the dramatic transformation resto-mods usually chase. Watch to see just how convincing the disguise really is.
Before the 2018 model year, a rendering claiming to reveal a revived three-door Chevrolet Chevelle spread online, complete with invented horsepower figures and a suspiciously plausible price tag. It never happened — Chevrolet never built it, and the Camaro remained the brand’s only performance coupe. Read on to find out what the rumor actually claimed, and why fans wanted a modern Chevelle badly enough to believe it.
Plymouth only offered this exact combination for a few months before moving on, which is precisely why the A12 Road Runner remains one of the most talked-about mid-year muscle cars ever built. Wearing Vitamin C Orange paint straight from The Brothers Collection, this particular 440 Six Barrel car represents a stopgap Chrysler engineered on the fly to answer a very specific rival. Watch to find out what problem this car was actually built to solve.
This 1970 Dodge Challenger arrived at the shop rusted through, rotted out, and barely holding itself together, which is exactly the kind of car Detroit Muscle lives for. Nicknamed Project Ultra Violet, it would need a new roof, a new trunk pan, and an entirely different chassis before it could become anything resembling a driver. Nearly twelve million people have watched what happened next, and the comments reveal this build means something far more personal to longtime fans than horsepower alone.
Project Cool Blue’s ’65 Coronet hides an 825-horsepower Ray Barton Hemi under a deliberately unremarkable exterior, but the trickiest part of staying invisible isn’t the engine, it’s feeding it fuel without giving anything away. The team turned to a fuel system originally built to solve the same problem in modern Corvettes, adapted to fit inside a decades-old stock gas tank. No visible fuel cell, no whining pump, no giveaway hanging underneath. Read on to find out how a shallow foam baffle keeps an 800-horsepower secret completely silent.