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More than 200 classic, sport, and muscle cars filled Saratoga Spa State Park for the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s 15th annual spring show. The museum itself has an unusual backstory, housed in a repurposed Georgian Revival building that once served as a New York State bottling plant. The turnout capped off a season-opening event with an audience built from the region’s century-old resort-town appeal. Read on to find out what made this year’s show stand out.
Comedian Gabriel Iglesias just showed off two 1988 Monte Carlo SS coupes on Jay Leno’s Garage, and one of them still has the factory plastic on its seats. Chevrolet built just 16,204 before retiring the G-body platform for good. Here’s why a 180-horsepower cruiser from 1988 still makes grown men weak in the knees.
Buick spent two decades disguising some of the fastest cars General Motors ever built as luxury sedans. The 1970 GSX Stage 1 hid a 510 lb-ft big block under a car built for church parking lots, and the 1987 turbocharged GNX blew past that year’s Corvette in the quarter-mile. Here’s how a brand nobody feared became one of muscle car history’s biggest sleepers.
An Oldsmobile outsold the Mustang and the Camaro combined for years running in the mid-1970s, and its 87-year-old designer is finally telling the story. Len Casillo shaped the Cutlass Supreme’s formal Colonnade lines — the same lines that turned a mid-size Oldsmobile into America’s best-selling car two years running.
A rolled-up newspaper drops as the starting signal, and a 1993 Mustang coupe lines up against a 1968 Nova SS — two completely different eras of Detroit performance settling things the old-fashioned way in a parking lot. The CLUNKER channel’s comment section has been arguing about the result for years since it first posted. Watch to see which one actually gets the better launch.
SS Shaun’s LSX-powered Chevelle and Big Matt’s nitrous-and-methanol Camaro lined up for a straightforward proposition: a thousand dollars, one run, no excuses. The race itself settled the question of which car hooked better off the line. What happened after — when it came time to actually hand over the money — turned out to be the more interesting part.
Buick built the 1969 GS 400 Stage 1 to out-punch flashier muscle cars while wearing a luxury convertible’s clothes. This triple-black four-speed survivor is one of the rarest option combinations Buick ever built, hiding 345 horsepower and 440 lb-ft under a completely understated shell. Here’s the story behind the numbers most people never notice.
A 1969 Chevy Nova rolled into Roadkill Garage as a bare shell — and rolled out packing more than 1,000 horsepower. Hosts David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich built the entire street/strip package from scratch, then hauled it straight to the track to see if the numbers held up. Fans are calling it one of the show’s best comebacks yet.
A black cherry 1970 Chevelle LS6 carries a VIN and trim-tag date stamp that place it at the very end of that year’s production run, fueling a claim that it may be the last LS6 ever built. With 450 horsepower and 500 lb-ft from its 454 big block, it briefly out-muscled the Corvette itself. Only 4,475 were ever made.
Dodge spent two years insisting the V8 muscle car era was over, replacing the Charger’s supercharged HEMI with a battery pack and then a turbocharged six-cylinder. Weak EV sales and comments from Dodge’s own CEO have changed that story: a supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat V8 making more than 700 horsepower is reportedly locked in for the Charger’s 2028 refresh. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s still rumor, and why the wait might be worth it.
Pontiac rebuilt the Firebird four separate times in 35 years, surviving two gas crises and a movie-fueled sales boom that forced GM to delay an entire redesign. This retrospective traces every generation, from the 325-hp 1967 Ram Air 400 to the record-setting late-90s WS6 Trans Ams, right up to the federal safety rule that finally ended the run in 2002.
A 1970 Buick GSX in rare Apollo White just went through MCACN’s five-hour Vintage Certification process — one of only 187 built in that color, and one of just 32 with California emissions. Host Dan Vasic walks through what separates a genuinely original survivor from a car that’s been quietly refreshed. The GSX’s story turns out to be as much about engineering as paint.
Manual transmission drivers have argued for decades about whether engine braking secretly wears out a clutch, and Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained finally settles it with real mechanical reasoning instead of garage folklore. The answer involves rev matching, brake pad life, and fuel cutoff systems most drivers never think about. Nearly three million views later, the comment section is still arguing anyway.
Nate Rider’s built 1968 Mustang Fastback isn’t a garage-queen survivor — it’s a working argument for why a classic still beats anything on a modern lot, backed by a supercharger, carbon fiber trim, and a serious tuning shop. The comments underneath it read like confessions from owners who agree completely. Watch to see the build, and the reasons, for yourself.