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Classic black 1967 Ford Mustang parked on a driveway.

Chevrolet Corvette 1967 Convertible Custom

Only twenty buyers checked the box for Chevrolet’s most serious 1967 Corvette engine option, and the horsepower figure on the window sticker was deliberately understated. This custom convertible takes that same idea and reworks it with five decades of engineering the original buyers never had, wrapped in a paint color that did not exist when the car was built. Shark Gray over black, a modified 427 Z06-based engine, and a question every restomod eventually has to answer. Read on for where the line actually sits.

Close-up of an engine cylinder head with visible valves and chambers.

LS Upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

by Wes

A 6.0-liter LS truck engine doesn’t become a 6.2 with a few bolt-on parts, and this hands-on build video from Myvintageiron7512 shows exactly why, bore work, machine shop tolerances, and the same architecture GM used to build the LS3 that powers C6 Corvettes and fifth-gen Camaros. One viewer summed up the appeal simply: this is someone who clearly knows the platform inside and out. See what it actually takes to bridge the gap between a budget truck engine and genuine LS3-spec displacement.

Classic white vintage car parked on a leafy street.

Buick LeSabre 1970 Convertible

by Kiril

Buick only built 2,487 LeSabre convertibles for 1970, and this numbers-matching example carries the rare high-compression 350 that most buyers skipped over. Kept in the same Texas family since new, with original paperwork to prove it, it’s a documented survivor from the last year of a body style before Buick’s convertibles started disappearing for good. Here’s what made the high-compression option worth chasing.

A car emitting thick black smoke on a dynamometer test.

Top 5 Worst Dyno Fails COMPILATION!

by Wes

This compilation stacks five of the worst dyno pulls caught on camera — cars held at redline too long, a suspiciously unconventional ‘single roller in a box’ dyno that has viewers questioning its safety, and at least one Subaru that survives purely because it was strapped down right. HighSpeedManiaNET keeps the commentary minimal and lets the footage speak. Watch the full compilation to see which car makes it through.

Red classic muscle car with a large engine scoop on the hood.

This Guy Lives Sideways In A Blown 1968 Hemi Dart!

by Wes

Bob Welling served as a Marine in Vietnam, came home a died-in-the-wool Chevy guy, and still ended up chasing down a piece of 1968 Mopar history decades later. What started as a simple fix for an engine rattle turned into a full supercharged Hemi build — one so powerful that hitting the throttle at highway speed sends the rear end sideways. Read on to find out how a tribute to Dodge’s rarest factory drag cars became Bob’s daily street cruiser.

Three cars racing on a track under a blue sky with clouds.

The Mustang Absolutely Destroyed The Camaro In Sales Last Month

by Kiril

Chevrolet’s Camaro beat the Ford Mustang for America’s top-selling muscle car crown in September and October — then lost it right back in November, proof that this decades-old sales rivalry can flip in a single month. The same stretch also saw a lifelong Chevelle SS hunt finally pay off, a new Motor Trend show built entirely around muscle car culture, and a 560-horsepower pro-touring Camaro built by Detroit Speed. Read on for what the whole picture says about the state of muscle cars in the mid-2010s.

Classic green vintage muscle car displayed indoors.

Ford Torino 1968 GT “390 Power!”

by Kiril

This two-owner 1968 Ford Torino GT carries a documented 390 four-barrel rated at 335 horsepower, backed by window stickers, the original invoice, and a title copy tracing it to day one. Ford built the Torino to go head-to-head with the Chevelle SS and GTO, and this survivor still wears the paper trail to prove it earned its place. Read on to find out what period testers clocked at the drag strip.

A classic black muscle car driving on a road under a clear sky.

American Aston Martin? ’66 Malibu

by Wes

Enzo Morales took a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu, a trim level Chevrolet never intended to be anything special, and built it into something viewers compare to a Mercedes CL63 or a Bentley Continental GT. The result raises a genuinely odd question: can an American mid-size sedan earn the nickname ‘American Aston Martin’? Watch to see the build, and the burnout, that convinced a crowd of onlookers the answer is yes.

Classic green muscle car parked on a sunny street.

Brilliant 1972 Chevrolet Chevy Camaro SS in Gulf Green!

by Kiril

At the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom in Scottsdale, Lou Costabile talks with Showroom Sales Associate Mike Hoye about a 1972 Chevrolet Camaro SS finished in an uncommon Gulf Green paint over a 350 V8. 1972 marked one of the final years for the original SS badge before it disappeared from the Camaro lineup for a decade. See what makes this color and condition combination stand out.

A classic muscle car racing on a drag strip.

Chevrolet Camaro SHOCKER vs The MISTRESS!

by Kiril

Street Outlaws built its reputation on real grudge matches between real cars, and few rivalries carried more weight than Kye Kelley’s nitrous-fed Camaro, the Shocker, squaring off against a twin-turbo rival known as the Mistress. Nitrous versus turbos is one of drag racing’s oldest arguments, and this matchup played it out in front of a national television audience. Read on to find out how a garage-built Camaro became one of the most recognized cars in the entire street racing scene.

Cadillac 1954 – 1956 generation four series 62

by Ross Mills

The fourth-generation Cadillac Series 62 arrived for 1954 with wraparound glass, reverse gull-wing bumpers and a dual exhaust routed straight through the rear bumper, then spent three years breaking its own sales records. Along the way it went from a 17.3-second run to 60 mph to a flat 12 seconds. Here is how to tell a 1954 from a 1955 from a 1956, and what the differences actually mean.

Classic white pickup truck parked indoors with vintage decor and flags.

Test Driving 1964 Dodge Polara 426 Max Wedge

by Wes

This 1964 Dodge Polara isn’t numbers-matching — and one commenter says that hasn’t stopped it from being “worth every penny” of its roughly $39,000 asking price. Under the hood is a full crossram 426 Max Wedge with dual four-barrels and fender-exit headers, backed by a four-speed and a 4.11-geared Dana 60 built purely for launching hard. A full-size sleeper with a well-preserved original interior, it’s the kind of Mopar that collectors chase for substance over paperwork. Watch the walkaround and hear it run.

A man stands beside a heavily modified classic pickup truck in a garage.

Tim Allen’s Hemi Ford Pickup

by Wes

Tim Allen’s 1956 Ford pickup hides a genuine Chrysler Hemi under the hood, a build the shop dialed in across sixty-plus dyno pulls until it settled at 640 horsepower and 670 pound-feet of torque. It is a cross-brand swap that breaks every rule of Ford-versus-Mopar loyalty and turns a basic work truck into something that can embarrass purpose-built muscle cars. Watch to see exactly how this unlikely combination came together.

A red sports car with blue tape and a speedometer overlay of 140 mph.

TT Mustang SCREAMS on Dyno – Nearly 1400hp!

by Kiril

This twin-turbo Coyote Mustang rolled onto the dyno at Dynoedge running a modified Hellion turbo kit, reworked specifically to shorten intercooler piping and cut turbo lag, and posted a run that pushed toward nearly 1,400 horsepower at 26 psi of boost. Commenters zeroed in on the exhaust note as much as the numbers, calling it one of the best-sounding Coyotes they’d heard on a dyno. Watch the full pull to see exactly what a shortened-piping Hellion setup can do to a factory 5.0.

Classic black vintage car parked indoors.

Chevrolet Impala 1962 images

by Ross Mills

‘She’s real fine, my 409’ turned a Chevy engine option into one of the most quoted lyrics in hot rod history — and this 1962 Impala carries the exact engine the Beach Boys were singing about. The real surprise is how fast that combination actually was on the street, not just on the radio.

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