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A 1999 garage explosion nearly killed the owner of this Hemi ‘Cuda and reduced one of only 48 ever built to what should have been a permanent loss. Graveyard Carz picked up the project anyway, and this 4K restoration segment shows the final assembly of a car most shops would have scrapped on sight. Mark Worman’s reputation carries the story, but it’s the owner who survived the fire that gives it weight. How do you bring a car back from that?
Mark Worman of Graveyard Carz built his reputation on numbers-matching originality, which makes his involvement with this 1970 Plymouth Superbird tribute worth paying attention to. Under the legendary wing and nose cone sits Mopar’s Hellcrate, a 707-horsepower supercharged crate HEMI built for exactly this kind of plug-and-play swap. Several viewers reported starting their own Hellcrate builds after watching this reveal. Watch to see what happens when a fifty-year-old NASCAR homologation special meets modern crate-engine power.
Mark Worman’s Graveyard Carz took on a 1970 Hemi Coronet R/T convertible — one of just two Hemi convertibles Dodge built for the 1970 model year, in a four-year Hemi convertible run that totaled closer to two dozen cars than the round number sometimes quoted. The comment section turned into an oral history project, with viewers tracing the car’s ties to the Otis Chandler collection and swapping stories about neighbors who still own its rare siblings. Watch the restoration and the history that follows it.