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Ken ‘Big Stick’ Godsey’s 1964 Mercury Comet tribute to drag racing legend Ronnie Sox made its first nine-second pass at the NHRA Holley Hot Rod Reunion — a wheels-up, bouncing four-speed launch that still gets commenters talking about clutch adjustment and crash-box durability years later. Barely a minute long and almost entirely without narration, the clip lets the launch speak for itself. Watch to see the pass that earned it.
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.
This 1958 Ford F100 shortbed still runs its factory 272 cubic-inch Y-block V8 and original three-speed manual, filmed at Country Classic Cars in Staunton, Illinois. Sharp-eyed commenters spotted clues suggesting the radio and mirrors weren’t original to the truck — a reminder of just how much detective work goes into verifying a survivor. Watch to see what else gives this classic Ford’s history away.
A Chrysler 440 big block living inside a vintage Ford racer is the kind of combination that makes purists twitch and racers grin. This build pairs a hot-tanked and honed RB block with upgraded pistons, a period-correct roll cage, and a carefully sorted carburetor setup. The result sounds nothing like what the badge on the body promises. Read on for why the 440 keeps ending up in cars Chrysler never built.
Lou Costabile heads to Schwartz Performance Inc. headquarters in Woodstock, Illinois, to check out a custom 1966 Pontiac GTO owned by Dale Schwartz, whose father Jeff runs the shop’s build team. The orange paint gets attention, but the real story is underneath: a lighter, stronger custom frame plus disc brakes and improved steering. Watch to hear directly from the builders why the chassis mattered more than the finish.
This 1970 Torino Cobra is an original N-code car, meaning the 360-horsepower 429 Thunder Jet V8 under the hood is the engine Ford installed at the factory. It pairs that big block with a close-ratio four-speed, 3.50 gears with Traction-Lok, and the genuinely odd addition of factory air conditioning. A Marti Report verifies every option. Read on for why the Thunder Jet is the most overlooked engine Ford built that year.
A rural New Mexico parish found an unusual way to pay for seminary education: restore a classic muscle car from the ground up and give it away. What began in 2014 with one donated vehicle had grown, by the time this 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible crossed the raffle stage, into a volunteer restoration operation. The car was no ordinary find either, with roughly eleven thousand Firebird convertibles built that year, one previous owner, and 79,000 miles. Read on for how a diocese ended up in the classic car business.
Bob has owned his original Shelby GT350 for fifty-one years. Sam owns a modern GT350 built around a flat-plane-crank Voodoo V8 that didn’t exist when Bob bought his. When the two met on camera, the resulting conversation about heritage, horsepower, and what changes across five decades struck a chord with viewers far beyond the usual comment section debates. Watch to see two very different eras of the same badge side by side.
Engine Masters takes a completely stock Chevrolet 305 small-block, keeps its original cast crank, rods, and pistons untouched, and feeds it nitrous until something finally gives out. Along the way, one host delivers a line about nitrous and human error that viewers still quote, and a perfectly timed Spanish slang word becomes its own small viral moment. Watch to find out exactly how much a genuinely stock 305 can take before it lets go.
Chevrolet’s ‘W’ series big block ran into a hard power ceiling around 6,500 rpm, prompting a near-total redesign that became the Mark IV, nicknamed the ‘porcupine’ engine for its distinctive splayed valve angles. The new architecture kept key ‘W’ features like side-oiling and Moraine main bearings while dramatically improving high-rpm breathing. Read on to find out exactly what changed under the valve covers.
King Rose Archives’ vintage newsreel-style profile of the Ford Thunderbird traces the car from its 1955 two-seat debut through the decades when Ford kept redefining what a “Thunderbird” even was. The comments underneath it read like their own oral history — a 427-powered 1962 bought as a $2,000 wedding present, a 1966 428 Q-code picked up for $600 from a woman who called it ugly, and a Sammy Davis Jr. sighting from decades ago. Watch the original piece, then read what four generations of T-Bird owners had to add.
What actually makes a muscle car worth a 95 instead of a 70? It’s rarely about how clean the paint looks in a photo. Professional appraisers lean on the collector-car hobby’s classic 1-6 condition scale alongside a separate check for numbers-matching originality, and the two don’t always agree. A rough-around-the-edges original can outrank a glossy restoration once the numbers get checked. Here’s what the pros actually look for.
Marc Vernon spent time deliberately searching online for a Pontiac Formula before finding this 1975 Firebird Formula 400 — an original, unrestored survivor finished in a shade of Arctic Blue that collectors rarely see anymore. He could not pass up the opportunity once he found it. The car has already picked up its own small following among viewers who remember Firebirds in this exact color from decades ago. Watch to see what made this particular find worth the search.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
The 1969 Porsche 912 was the last of its kind — a four-cylinder alternative to the 911 that briefly outsold its six-cylinder sibling before Porsche folded the nameplate away for good. Built on the same stretched wheelbase and flared fenders as that year’s 911, it’s now drawing steady collector interest for being simpler, cheaper to maintain, and increasingly rare. A well-kept example today can bring well into five figures.