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This Petty Blue 1970 Plymouth Superbird carries a documented history that few muscle cars can match — matching-numbers drivetrain, original broadcast sheets, and a rarity rating that puts it ahead of plenty of Hemi cars. Read on to see why paperwork, not just horsepower, makes this survivor special.
Chevrolet built just 201 examples of the 1965 Chevelle Z16, handing a tiny group of buyers a genuine big-block 396 a full year before the option became widely available. One convertible was reportedly built for a GM executive and is believed destroyed; only about 75 of the original run are accounted for today. Read on to find out what made this the rarest Chevelle Chevrolet ever built.
Carroll Shelby’s 1965 GT350 was a 306-horsepower race car with a license plate, and it earned three straight SCCA B-Production championships to prove it. Fifty years later Ford revived the name on a Mustang with a high-revving flat-plane V8, a manual transmission, and a suspension tuned for the track. Parked side by side, the two cars look nothing alike, but they share one uncompromising mission. Read on to find out whether the new car truly earns the badge.
A rotted-out 1970 Dodge Challenger becomes Project Ultra Violet in this POWERNATION Detroit Muscle build. The crew brings in chassis builder Jeff Schwartz for a full-frame conversion, grafts in a low-deck aluminum Hemi and a Tremec six-speed, and finishes it off with metallic purple paint and graphics from builder Chris Ryan. Watch to see how a shell most shops would have scrapped becomes a genuinely modern resto-mod.
Restoration shop owner Luciano ‘Lucky’ Lacerda built this 1961 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible specifically to showcase his own shop’s work at SEMA, finishing it in a deep green that stands out even at a packed Scottsdale cars-and-coffee. It’s a deliberate choice in a SEMA field dominated by trucks and muscle cars. Watch to see what a restoration shop owner picks when the whole point is to prove what he can do.
This 1951 Oldsmobile 98 still runs the original 303 cubic inch Rocket V8 that helped ignite Detroit’s horsepower war, and it still wears its factory interior after all these decades. Surviving this honest is rare for a car this old. Here’s why the Rocket name mattered, and why finding one still original is worth stopping for.
A factory mix-up put an SS badge on this 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu convertible — and when it was restored decades later, the family that had owned it since new put the mistake right back on, badge and all. The story was even verified and published in the Grand Rapids Press back in 1996. Watch to find out why a factory error became part of the car’s identity instead of something to correct.
Pitted, dented stainless trim is one of the first things restorers toss in favor of reproduction pieces, and one of the first things veterans wish they had saved when the repro molding refuses to follow a body line. Original stainless can be brought back to a mirror finish with hammers, dollies, files, a wet-sanding progression from coarse to ultra-fine grit, and careful buffing, but the process rewards patience and punishes shortcuts. This guide walks through each stage and the mistakes that ruin good trim. Read on to find out what saving the original actually takes.
This 1968 Camaro claims 1000 horsepower with zero turbo, supercharger, or nitrous — just massive displacement, 14:1 compression, and a camshaft aggressive enough to make it idle like it’s fighting itself. Freshly restored and cruising the streets of Houston at roughly 2,950 pounds with the driver, it’s the kind of build commenters say they’ve replayed a thousand times just for the sound. Watch to hear it for yourself.
This 1967 Chevrolet Corvette wears a factory-correct Goodwood Green paint job, an original tank sticker, and over $150,000 in nut-and-bolt restoration work — but the drivetrain underneath sparked an immediate argument in the comments about whether it even counts as the engine everyone assumes it is. Built to satisfy both a concours judge and a cross-country road trip, this LS7-powered Corvette is chasing two very different goals at once. Watch to see how it pulls off both.
RamblinAround tracks down one of only 503 original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas ever built, still running its factory 440 V8 and finished in correct T5 Copper paint. The Daytona’s nose cone and rear wing were built to break NASCAR speed records, and did, forcing the sport to change its rules. Watch to see the winged Mopar that inspired decades of dream-car regret in the comments.
Nate Rider breaks down what it actually costs to turn a classic muscle car into a modern-driving restomod — real numbers, real trade-offs, no vague “it depends.” From drivetrain swaps to suspension upgrades, this cost breakdown functions less like entertainment and more like a planning document for anyone considering a build of their own. Watch to see where the money really goes.
Fred Mandrick’s 1968 Oldsmobile FWD 442 Toronado, nicknamed the Fouranado, is the only one of its kind, born from a Hurst/Olds engineering experiment in the program’s very first year. The previous owner kept it for 42 years before Fred took over in 2012, and it later stood as the featured car at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch to hear how a one-off prototype survived five decades intact.
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS LS6 454 carried a factory rating of 450 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, the highest gross horsepower GM ever officially assigned a muscle car. This feature breaks down exactly why that number happened in 1970 specifically, and why regulatory changes the following year made sure no muscle car would ever match it again in the same way. Even Mopar loyalists show up in the comments to give credit where it’s due. Watch to see the case laid out in full.