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For the show’s 200th episode, V8TV sat down with three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser next to the exact 1969 Ford Torino he drove to victory at Pikes Peak — a car built by Bill Stroppe, Holman & Moody, and powered by a Smokey Yunick-built Boss 429. Unser hadn’t seen it since 1969. Watch to hear him tell the story of a car, and a win, he clearly hasn’t forgotten.
Ford never actually tied the Mustang GT package to a single engine, letting 1968 buyers choose between a mild 302 V8 and the fabled 428 Cobra Jet, all wrapped in a genuinely upscale interior with a two-spoke safety steering wheel and bench-seat option. That same duality put a GT 390 fastback on movie screens in Bullitt, and the surviving ‘hero car’ later sold for $3.4 million. Read on to find out why the muscle-or-luxury debate has never actually been settled.
Plymouth’s Lemon Twist paint code paired with a 426 Hemi and a four-speed manual makes for one of the rarest combinations in the entire muscle car world — a car so scarce that most Mopar fans will never see one in person. Read on to find out just how few of these actually left the factory, and why that number keeps shrinking the more you dig.
The mistakes that cost muscle car buyers the most money rarely feel like mistakes at the time: taking numbers matching on faith, trusting fresh paint, skipping the inspection, treating the title as a formality, mistaking a clone for the real thing, and letting emotion set the price. This article walks through each of them, why they happen, and the simple checks that prevent them, along with the costs that arrive after the sale and how to budget for them. Read on to find out where buyers actually get burned and how to avoid joining them.
A private collection lends V8TV one of only eleven 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertibles ever built, and host Kevin finally gets the drive commenters say he has been owed for a while. Between a documented 3.5 million dollar auction result for a sibling car and a sharp-eyed viewer spotting real rust in the tailpipe, this episode of Muscle Car Of The Week turns a routine drive into something closer to an event. What does it actually feel like to finally get behind the wheel of the car everyone calls the top fish?
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.
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.
This Granada Gold 1967 Camaro SS396 convertible, built for V8TV’s 50th-anniversary Camaro coverage, marks the exact mid-year moment Chevrolet finally let the 396 big block into the Camaro — a full two years after it debuted in the Impala SS. Host Kevin Oeste and The Brothers Collection dig into why the engine was late, and viewers’ own decades-old ownership stories fill in the rest.
This Tiger Gold 1965 Pontiac GTO isn’t just another restored classic — it’s a rolling argument for why this car, more than any other, deserves credit for starting the muscle car era. Built with the desirable 389 V8, a close-ratio four-speed manual, and a limited-slip differential, it represents the GTO the way serious original buyers actually ordered it. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series tracked down this survivor and its story. Watch to see why enthusiasts still can’t agree on much except that this car changed everything.
Ford built the Boss 351 for a single model year in 1971, and Hot Rod Magazine later dyno-tested it at 383 horsepower, enough to outmuscle plenty of genuine big-blocks from the era. At the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago, V8TV’s cameras caught up with one of these overlooked one-year wonders on display among the country’s rarest Mustangs and Corvettes. One commenter once found a genuine example rotting in a salvage yard for $2,650. See why this small-block still divides opinion.
A soft yellow 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a warm gold interior looks like the mildest car on the lot — until you learn it’s hiding a genuine 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual transmission underneath. Sourced from The Brothers Collection for Muscle Car of the Week episode 178, this true sleeper is exactly the kind of factory oddity serious Mopar collectors chase. Find out why the comments call it a favorite.
Ask ten muscle car fans to name the greatest of all time and you will get eleven answers and one argument. A reader poll settled it once, and the results are stranger than you would expect: the car that finished first was never designed to race, and the car with the highest horsepower rating finished second. Read on for the full countdown and the numbers behind each placing.
This 1969 Plymouth Barracuda isn’t fast, and it was never meant to be — its mild 318 and automatic transmission sit well below the muscle car standard. What makes it worth a feature is the factory Mod Top option overhead, a rare floral vinyl roof and interior package that turned a base-model car into one of the most distinctive survivors from the era. Few enthusiasts have ever actually seen one in person. Watch to find out why this quiet Barracuda earned its own spot in the Brothers Collection.
Gas Ronda’s bright orange 1965 Mustang is one of a handful of A/FX factory drag cars built with Ford’s 427 SOHC Cammer engine, an all-out answer to Chrysler’s Hemi that Ford engineers designed in roughly 90 days. Holman-Moody stripped these cars down to almost nothing before the season started. Restored to as-raced condition, it shows exactly how far a factory would go to win a class in 1965.