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This feature follows a two-year-long 1967 Chevy C10 build, inching toward completion while its owner watched his girlfriend’s 1941 Willys pickup rack up show trophies. The C10’s blend of clean 1967-72 styling and modern LS-engine power has made it one of the most popular restomod platforms on the market. The question of just how powerful this particular truck turned out to be remains part of its appeal.
A vintage Dodge Dart with a Chrysler 340 under the hood lines up against a modern C5 Corvette, and the comment section had already decided who wins before the video even loaded. One viewer calls it over before it started; another shares the story of nearly buying a 340 Duster for $1,000 back in 1975. Watch to see if old-school Mopar muscle really does settle the argument.
This bright green Dodge Charger hides an 800-horsepower Procharged Hemi and a subwoofer-equipped interior — built, per commenters, by the owner himself. 1320video catches the car running Colorado Springs Airport’s runway at the 2017 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack. Viewers call the owner a badass for actually driving it instead of trailering a build this serious. Watch to see what a real daily-driven, 800-horsepower Hemi can do.
Chevrolet builds 69 COPO Camaros a year, sells every one, and not a single one of them can legally touch a public road. The name traces back to a 1969 paperwork loophole that let dealers order 427-powered Camaros the option book said did not exist, including 69 cars with an all-aluminum ZL1 big-block. Chevy revived the idea at the 2011 SEMA Show and has staged the reveal there almost every fall since. Here is how the trick actually worked.
Rory Carroll edits Autoweek from Detroit, but his own car story starts in the orchards of northern Michigan and runs straight through a welded-shut door at the 24 Hours of Lemons. In this conversation with host Pat Caporuscio, Carroll traces his path from a cherry-country childhood to one of the industry’s most recognized editorial chairs, and explains why an editor who still races tells a different kind of story. Read on to find out what shaped his eye for the muscle car world.
This 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z convertible has covered just 7,630 original miles in the hands of a single owner who kept it in a climate-controlled garage for twelve years. Chevrolet built only 3,940 convertibles that year, making this a genuinely rare, well-documented survivor from the final seasons of the IROC-Z badge. The listing lays out the VIN, mileage, and history in detail rare for a car this age. See the full walkaround and find out what makes this one worth a serious look.
Most hot rod builders chase horsepower with a turbocharger or a bigger cam — but a rare few skip straight to doubling their cylinder count instead. A 14-liter V16 swap sounds like something out of a tall tale, yet boutique engine builders have made versions of it real, repurposing marine and industrial architecture for street use. Here’s what it takes to shoehorn sixteen cylinders into a car that was never designed to hold them.
The same man has owned this 1955 Chevrolet for forty-one years. Nine of those years went into a build that started out as a drag car and quietly turned into something else entirely, ending up with 1,250 horsepower, a fully custom interior, and a father-and-son story attached to it. The Pro Street stance it wears is not a random styling choice. Read on to find out what it is actually quoting.
This 1970 Chevrolet Nova hides a built 355 small-block and four-speed Muncie transmission behind classic sleeper styling — no rust, straight body panels, and none of the visual cues that would tip off a stoplight rival. Read on to find out how a hopped-up small-block Nova compares to what Chevrolet actually put on the showroom floor that year.
Vanguard Motor Sales walks through a red 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle, VIN and all, with the kind of detailed, plain-language presentation that’s turned its host into a fan favorite in the comments. It’s a pivotal model year for the Chevelle, the first to offer the 396 big-block as a widely available, regular-production SS option. No dyno pulls, no drag strip — just an honest, thorough look at a genuinely significant piece of GM history. See what makes this one worth a second look.
This 1970 Ford Torino GT, nicknamed ‘All In,’ turned heads at a Corvette-only car show despite being built by a completely different brand. Ford’s designers reshaped the Torino that year around a ‘coke-bottle’ body and built only 56,819 GTs out of 230,411 total Torinos, with just 3,939 convertibles among them. The nameplate went on to win Motor Trend’s Car of the Year. Read on to find out what makes a mid-size Ford confident enough to crash someone else’s car show.
This 1968 Mustang fastback looks stock at a glance, but Customs by Killkeary dropped a modern Coyote V8 under the hood, turning a classic silhouette into a genuinely different driving experience. Read on to find out how shops make a fifty-plus-year-old chassis work with thoroughly modern power, and why this kind of build keeps growing in popularity.
This 1965 Chevrolet C/10 Pickup wears a patina finish its owner never bothered to smooth out, and hides a supercharged small-block Chevy underneath it. Spotted parked at Riffey’s Hot Rods, it’s less a show truck than a genuine sleeper, built to be driven rather than trailered. Watch to see why an unfinished-looking paint job and a blower poking through the hood make for one of the more honest builds on the channel.
Chevrolet built 114,630 Camaros for 1971, a fraction of what the nameplate had managed at its peak, with a UAW strike and a federal fuel mandate both squeezing the second generation from opposite directions. Only 4,862 of them were Z/28s. This lightly modified example keeps its interior close to stock, and that restraint says something about where the second-gen market has landed.
The 1958 Thunderbird was Ford’s biggest gamble with the nameplate: four seats instead of two, eighteen inches longer, and roughly a thousand pounds heavier. It won Motor Trend Car of the Year and nearly doubled sales in a recession. This one carries a modern Coyote V8 under two-tone gloss white and satin grey, and the restraint is the best part.