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This 1964 Pontiac GTO Post Coupe was pulled out of an open farmer’s field, not a barn, and somehow made it back to red-paint condition in time for the 25th Annual Indian Uprising All Pontiac Weekend. Owner Dick Boneske shares the surprisingly simple story behind the find directly from the farmer who wanted it gone. As a first-year GTO, this car carries more historical weight than its rough backstory suggests. Watch the full story.
Plymouth built just 666 Sport Fury GTs in 1970, aiming this full-size muscle car at buyers who wanted straight-line performance without giving up a big, comfortable body. This Alpine White survivor represents a genuinely rare combination of chrome, stripes, and 440 cubic inches of Detroit muscle. Here’s what made the Sport Fury GT such an unusual entry in Plymouth’s lineup.
A genuine, numbers-matching 1969 Chevrolet Impala Custom SS doesn’t show up often – especially one wrapped in LeMans Blue paint and packing a real 427. Owner Arnold Boris has kept this big-block full-size Chevy since 2007, and Lou Costabile’s Chicago-area feature captures a restoration so clean it looks factory-fresh. Viewers are already debating just how rare cars like this actually were. Find out what sets a real SS 427 apart from the badge-engineered pretenders.
Built in 1996, this Buick GSX became the first GS Pro Street car to break into the 9-second quarter-mile bracket, debuting at the GS Nationals and winning its class outright. Fourteen years later, new owner Bob Ortolani brought it back to the same shop for a fresh powerplant, and this video captures the very first day that combination hit the strip, three passes that kept dropping the number, followed by an unplanned wheelie nobody saw coming. Watch the full run and see how close the car came to the 9.40s.
Matthew Betz’s dad let this 1969 Camaro RS/SS sit for 28 years before it finally started again — and that dramatic restart was just the beginning. This update picks up years later, deep into sandblasting the rusted metal ahead of a full rebuild around an aluminum big block. Longtime followers are still demanding updates. See how far a real, multi-year father-son build has come.
The Dodge Charger burst onto the scene in 1966, a sleek, fastback beauty that made its Coronet cousin look like the introverted sibling at a car family reunion. Luxuriously priced at $3,100, it was like a Marlin with a snazzier hat. Boasting hidden headlights and a taillight grin, it packed options from a 318-cubic-inch engine to the roaring 426 Hemi. In 1967, the Charger donned fender signals and a vinyl roof, but sales took a nosedive—guess not everyone wanted a car that could double as a disco.
A mildly modified 2004 Dodge SRT-4 takes on a four-speed, 383-powered 1965 Plymouth Belvedere in a street matchup that should have favored the turbocharged compact. More than a decade of comments still argue over who really won, split between Mopar loyalists and turbo-four believers. Watch to see whether raw displacement or forced induction wins the day.
Everyone remembers the black-and-gold 1979 Trans Am, but this Van Nuys-built example skipped that costume for something far rarer: a one-year-only shade called Atlantis Blue. Built during the Trans Am’s best-selling year ever, it could be optioned with the 400-cubic-inch V8 and 4-speed manual or the smaller 403 depending on the build. Decades later, its rarity – not its fame – is what makes this particular Trans Am worth a second look.
This 1966 Chevelle convertible skips the trailer-queen treatment in favor of being a genuinely great driver, and it’s got the pedigree to back it up. The original ’66 redesign gave Chevelle its iconic coke-bottle shape and spawned the SS 396, of which only 5,429 convertibles were ever built. This particular car swaps in a supercharged LSX for modern muscle, wrapped in a custom interior and a stance that nails the look.
This chopped, chrome-heavy 1950 Cadillac street rod is built on the same Series 62 platform that carried Cadillac’s groundbreaking new V8 into showrooms that year. Today it runs a modern 6.2 liter engine making over 500 horsepower. Here is what made the original Cadillac V8 such a big deal, and how far this build has taken it.
A 1963 Ford Falcon was never supposed to be a show car — Ford built it to be cheap and forgettable, not fast or beautiful. The build that turned up at the 2017 Detroit Autorama, with a modern 5.0 Coyote V8 under the hood and a stance that reportedly makes nearby Camaros look sad, argues otherwise. Even longtime enthusiasts in the comments admit they never expected to be impressed by a Falcon. Watch to see the build that changed their minds.
This 1932 Ford roadster proves the old hot-rodder rule that the engine badge never mattered as much as what is actually bolted to it, under the hood sits a bored-out Pontiac 400 breathing through a tri-power setup pulled from a completely different Pontiac decades later. Add in a mix-and-match interior built around 1940 Ford components, and this roadster tells the story of a builder who cared more about the finished product than staying loyal to one brand. Here is what makes this kind of cross-brand hot rod build a genuine hobby tradition, not a shortcut.
Finished just three days before Cruisin the Coast, this 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS is a near-stock restoration done right, no over-the-top paint, no wild stance, just a full-size Chevy brought back close to how it left the factory. 1967 was the SS package high-water mark, with over 76,000 hardtops and convertibles built before it became an option-only trim. Take a closer look at what makes a just-finished-in-time build this satisfying.
This Chevelle wears Medium Garnet Red, one of the meanest factory colors Chevrolet ever put on a mid-size car, and backs it up with a genuine SS 396 four-speed combination that most 1966 buyers didn’t actually order. Chevrolet built three different versions of that 396 engine, and nearly a third of buyers paid extra for the hottest one. Of the 72,272 SS 396s built that year, the overwhelming majority left the factory with an automatic. Here’s why a real stick-shift 396 deserves a second look.
Tom Lembeck has owned fourteen 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertibles, but this Jamaica Blue example with the 440 Six Pack still holds a specific title: the first big-block ‘Cuda he ever bought, back in 1997. Nearly three decades later, it still looks close to showroom-fresh. Watch to hear why, out of fourteen cars, this is the one Tom keeps coming back to.