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Spotted at a Scottsdale Cars & Coffee, this 1965 AC Cobra carries a small-block 289 V8 and, according to Lou Costabile, the documentation to back up its ‘real deal’ status — a meaningful claim in a market flooded with replicas. It’s the configuration purists still argue is the best-balanced Cobra Shelby ever built. One commenter calls it a lifelong dream car; it’s easy to see why. Watch the walkaround, and listen for that unmistakable exhaust note.
Most 1969 Chevrolet C10 pickups left the factory with a small-block six or a 350 doing the work. This one didn’t take the usual path — a 396 big block sits under the hood, a combination Chevrolet built but never pushed hard in its truck lineup. Read on to find out why a big-block C10 is a rarer find than most people assume.
Two months before any other Ford product carried it, the FE V8 made its debut in the unlikeliest of cars: the all-new 1958 Edsel. From there it split into truck duty, police-package cruisers, and factory tri-power setups shipped loose in the trunk, before a redesigned block gave rise to the short-lived but influential 406. Read on to find out how a workhorse engine family quietly built the foundation for Ford’s most feared big-blocks.
V8Builds, presented by Air Flow Research, pairs a traditional show-and-shine with a genuine SCCA autocross course – turning a static parking lot event into something builders can actually drive hard. The second installment at Auto Club Speedway topped its debut at Willow Springs with a bigger crowd and deeper car count. Classic muscle, modern muscle, resto-mods, and pro touring builds are all welcome. Here’s what set it apart from a typical car show.
Somebody spotted drain holes drilled right beside a Shelby GT350’s exhaust tips and couldn’t leave it alone online — the kind of detail that looks like a factory oversight until you remember Ford doesn’t do anything to its most exotic V8 by accident. The Voodoo 5.2-liter engine’s flat-plane crankshaft lets it rev to 8,250 rpm and make 526 horsepower without a turbo in sight. Read on to find out why those holes are there on purpose.
Chevrolet actually builds two distinct 1LE track packages on the Camaro, a 335-horsepower V6 version and a 455-horsepower SS version, sharing the same Magnetic Ride Control suspension and Brembo brakes but differing underneath in ways most buyers never notice. Read on to find out how the V6 1LE holds its own against far pricier machinery on a demanding circuit like Willow Springs.
An LS6 under the hood, a Detroit Speed chassis underneath, Wilwood brakes at all four corners, and black paint so deep it looks wet standing still under the lights at Pigeon Forge — this 1969 Chevrolet Nova splits the difference between numbers-matching restoration and full resto-mod better than almost anything else on the field. Read on for what separates this build from the rest, right down to the Stinger hood tying it all back to 1969.
David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan head to a Colorado junkyard with roots back to 1959 and walk straight into a genuine rescue project: a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that had been sinking into the same spot since around 1980. Thirty-seven years of neglect usually means a car is done for good — this one had other plans. The team’s approach to getting it running again is classic Roadkill. Watch how far a nearly-forgotten Mach 1 can go.
The Plymouth Barracuda beat the Ford Mustang to market by two weeks in April 1964, yet spent the next decade being remembered as the follower rather than the pioneer. Across three generations – from its Valiant-based origins with the largest rear window ever fitted to a production car, to the dedicated E-body platform that could be ordered with the 426 Hemi – the Barracuda repeatedly reinvented itself before the 1973 energy crisis ended its run after 1974.
Saabkyle04 gives the 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 the same in-depth, first-person treatment he brings to everything from vintage Impalas to Lamborghinis — start-up, exhaust note, and a full walkthrough of what changed when Ford swapped in the 351 Cleveland V8. One commenter’s memory of staring at his brother-in-law’s Mach 1 for hours in 1972 says as much about this car’s legacy as any spec sheet could. Watch the full review to hear that exhaust note for yourself.
A phone call in 1966 about a yellow Charger sitting on a used car lot in Shelby, North Carolina started a story that kept one car in the same family for 40 years, 20 of them spent parked on a lift. It was the Charger’s very first model year, introduced with rotating hidden headlights that had not appeared on a Chrysler product since the early 1940s. Only 468 of the 37,344 cars built that year left with a Hemi.
At the 2016 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, a 10,000-mile Olds W-30, an 11,000-mile Hemi ‘Cuda gifted to a high schooler, and a 1968 Camaro SS350 that vanished for thirty years all sat in the same Vintage Certification area — untouched, unrestored, and worth more for it. Read on to find out what makes original beat restored.
When a stolen car barreled back toward a crowded park, one father in a lifted diesel truck did not wait for police — he drove straight into its path. The split-second collision, caught on multiple cell phones and picked up by HLN, ended a dangerous chase involving a 14-year-old joyrider in seconds flat. Online, the internet split between calling it reckless and calling it heroic, while comment sections debated whose vehicle came out looking better. Watch to see exactly how close it came to going wrong.
International Dyno Authority walks a rough-idling 1969 Camaro Z28 through a full carburetor tuning session, chasing a damaged choke plate, float adjustments, and jetting changes one dyno pass at a time. The result: a 20 percent horsepower gain and 12 percent torque gain, entirely from tuning — no new parts required. It’s a clear, step-by-step reminder of how much power a poorly adjusted carburetor can quietly hide.
Under-$10,000 classic convertibles aren’t a myth — Alfa Romeo Spiders, droptop Beetles, and even 1970s-80s Mercedes SLs regularly sell for less than a new economy car. The catch is knowing which cars are genuinely affordable to own versus which just look that way on the price tag, and a pre-purchase inspection is the cheapest insurance you’ll ever buy.