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Brad Conley owns one of the actual Stage 1 prototype show cars Buick used to prove the GSX deserved to exist before the division ever built one for a customer. Host Kevin Oeste finally met his own childhood dream car face to face at the 2018 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago — and Conley did more than let him look. Watch to see what happened when the owner invited him to sit inside.
At the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, V8TV’s Kevin tracks down Chuck Cantwell, Shelby’s program manager during the original GT350’s development, for a firsthand account most Shelby documentation never captures. Episode 196 pairs that interview with multiple Shelby cars unveiled on the show floor, presented alongside coverage from The Brothers Collection and Reliable Carriers. It’s a rare chance to hear engineering decisions explained by the person who actually made them.
Doug Bolton wanted the hottest engine Chevrolet built for 1970, and Roy Price Chevrolet was just blocks from his house in Bountiful, Utah. Decades later, his unrestored 4,300-mile LS6 Chevelle is still on the road rather than tucked away in a trailer. Read on to find out what makes an LS6 the engine every Chevy fan of that era wanted.
Robert Lamb’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat just became the first of its kind to run a 9-second quarter mile on pump gas — no race fuel, no built engine, just a smart bolt-on parts list and a dialed-in tune. His 9.993-second pass at 137.89 mph came from a car he drives every day, not a dedicated race build. Read on to find out exactly what it took to break a barrier Hellcat owners have been chasing for years.
Each November, automotive archeologist Ryan Brutt assembles roughly 25 to 30 of the rarest unrestored muscle cars in the country for the Barn Finds & Hidden Gems display at MCACN. The 2016 lineup included a NASCAR homologation Charger 500, a factory GTO funny car, and a turbocharged 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. What sets the section apart isn’t just rarity, it’s the documented story behind every single survivor.
210 episodes into covering the Brothers Collection, Muscle Car of the Week finally ranks the convertibles — pulling from a 1967 Mustang K-code, a 1964 Plymouth Satellite 426 Wedge, a fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a 440 Six Barrel ‘Cuda in Tor-Red. Each car represents a different era and manufacturer’s approach to open-top American performance. The comments are already split over which one deserves the top spot. Watch to see the full lineup and decide which convertible you’d pick.
Back in 2016, word started spreading that Dodge might drop the V8 from the Challenger and Charger in favor of a twin-turbo V6 — a rumor most Mopar fans, including this outlet, dismissed outright. Years later, the debate turned out to be an early preview of exactly where the industry was headed. Read on to see how a rumor once written off as internet noise ended up getting the last laugh.
A 1969 Dodge Daytona spent nine years sitting in a Kansas City junkyard, one of roughly fifty impounded cars slowly waiting their turn at the crusher after a used-car dealer’s title fraud scheme collapsed. One collector’s memory of a Richard Petty magazine ad is the only reason it still exists, and the deal he struck to save it was stranger than most restoration stories get. Read on for how it ended up winning a Concours Gold award decades later.
Brian Carpenter’s 1968 Mercury Cougar XR7-G looks like a dressed-up small-block Cougar at first glance, but the details tell a different story — a functional Ram Air-capable hood scoop, sequential taillights, and sunroof switches wired in whether or not the car actually has a moonroof. Cougar historians estimate Mercury built only around 619 of these for 1968, making it far rarer than the similarly-named Dan Gurney Special package many people mistake it for. Watch to see what actually separates the two.