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A collector spent years tracking down a genuine Shelby Cobra, a rare AC Ace, and a numbers-matching 1968 Shelby GT500 — three of the most coveted names to come out of Carroll Shelby’s era. He never got to finish restoring any of them. Now his daughter and her husband are working through the list, one barn-worn classic at a time.
A 3,770-pound BMW M2 CS just out-dragged Dodge’s newest six-cylinder Charger Scat Pack and the 670-horsepower Charger Daytona EV in a head-to-head sprint. The margin at the finish line was less than half a car length, and it had almost nothing to do with horsepower. Here’s how Hagerty’s drag race actually played out — and why the lightest car in the lineup came out on top.
A 1972 Chevy Nova that spent four decades sinking into the dirt gets a second chance in Hagerty’s newest budget build. Restoration duo Dustin Hallinan and John Brito set themselves a brutal number: bring it back to life for less than $5,000. What they find underneath says a lot about what’s still possible in today’s classic car market.
Hagerty’s Driveway Finds crew already built an awesome muscle car out of a 1972 Nova found rotting in the dirt — on a $5,000 budget. Then they doubled it, dropped in an LS engine, and drove straight to LS Fest to see how hard a sleeper barn find can really launch. Watch to see whether a second $5,000 budget was enough to hang with cars that cost ten times as much.
Brito and Dustin dig a 1972 Chevy Nova out of 40 years of dirt with no engine and a badly rotted floor, then give themselves a hard $5,000 limit to make it run and drive. Hagerty’s Driveway series skips the million-dollar restoration fantasy for something scrappier and more relatable. Watch to see how far junkyard ingenuity and a tight budget can actually go.