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This 1968 Plymouth GTX convertible is one of 24 built, not 34, despite what the video’s own description claims elsewhere — and Mopar fans in the comments caught the contradiction. Under the hood, a 426 Hemi rated at 425 horsepower but built for NASCAR carries torque near 500 lb-ft, backed by a rear end reinforced specifically to survive it. One commenter even corrects the entire GTX-versus-Road-Runner origin story. So which details actually hold up?
Chevrolet’s 1963 pickup redesign quietly introduced a coil-spring front suspension and the truck line’s first alternator, changes that outlasted the model itself and shaped the C/K lineup for years. The factory engine lineup topped out well below what this particular restomod carries under its hood today. Here’s how a truck originally rated at 180 horsepower ended up running a modern small-block instead.
This 1970 Dodge Charger R/T pairs the 426 Hemi with a rare EB3 Light Blue Metallic and black vinyl top combination — one of just 56 Hemi Chargers built with an automatic transmission that year. Read on to find out why so few buyers said yes to the Hemi’s steep price tag, and how the engine paid off on Dodge’s most successful NASCAR season yet.
POWERNATION’s Detroit Muscle crew takes on Project Ultra Violet, a 1970 Dodge Challenger so rusted it needs sandblasting before the real work can even begin. What follows is a uni-body-to-full-frame conversion built around a Jeff Schwartz G-Machine chassis and a low-deck, all-aluminum Hemi backed by a T56 six-speed. This is not a preserved survivor — it’s a genuine rust-bucket resurrection. Watch to see how far the team pushes it.
Nick’s Garage settles a long-running Mopar argument by testing the exact same stroked 426 Hemi with factory-style manifolds and then with headers, back to back, on the same dyno. The results push back on some assumptions viewers walked in with, and the comments are already asking for a round two with bigger headers. Watch the full pull-by-pull comparison to see which setup actually made more power.
Kyle of BoostedBoiKyle took the least likely sleeper platform imaginable, a minivan, and pointed a turbocharger at it, chasing a dyno number that startled even his own crew. A shower of sparks mid-pull and a hubcap moment fourteen minutes in became the video’s two most-discussed details. Comments are already joking about a cop pulling it over for triple-digit speeds. Watch the full build and dyno pull for yourself.
Only two buyers in 1966 ordered a Ford 7-Litre convertible with the dual-carburetor R-Code 427 instead of the standard 428 — and this Brothers Collection car is one of them. Muscle Car Of The Week digs into what actually separates the R-Code’s cross-bolted big block from the ordinary version riding under most 7-Litre badges. Watch to see why this one stopped the crew in their tracks.
Ford built two completely different 1969 Mustang Mach 1s that looked identical parked side by side, and most buyers had no idea which one they were driving home. Same badge, same stripe, same scooped hood, same displacement on the fender. The difference came down to a single character in the VIN. This Acapulco Blue fastback settles the question the moment its hood comes up, and the answer explains a lot about how Ford sold the Mach 1.
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XL convertible with the R-code 427 was one of the strangest performance cars Ford ever sold: a two-ton, four-seat drop-top carrying a dual-quad big block that the factory refused to pair with an automatic transmission. Checking that single order-sheet letter changed the suspension, the driveshaft, and the brakes before the car ever reached a dealer. Read on to find out why so few of these survived the decade they were built in.
The 1963 Impala SS looks like a full-size cruiser and, ordered correctly, was one of the fastest cars Chevrolet sold that year. The car in this Gateway Classic Cars gallery carries the rare factory dash-mounted tachometer, an option most buyers skipped and the one that tells you what the original owner intended. Read on for the engine that a pop song made famous and the aluminum trim that defines the model year.
Hudsons Rod and Customs is refreshing a 1957 Chevrolet pickup that already wears the shop’s own logo, a client’s truck serving double duty as a rolling advertisement. An LS swap is planned for reliability, while a temporary Cadillac-sourced leather interior holds things over until a fully custom cabin gets built. Watch to see what a custom shop chooses to change on its own showcase vehicle.
Stock-motor, stock-turbo quarter-mile racing is a surprisingly competitive corner of the Porsche 911 world, where a handful of tenths separates casual bragging rights from an actual record. This twin-turbo 911 leans on nitrous and drag radials rather than internal engine work to chase that record — a very different game than the heavily built cars dominating the outright quarter-mile books.
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.
General Motors built five Corvette Grand Sports in 1963 before corporate leadership shut the program down, and those five became some of the most valuable Corvettes in existence. Superformance now builds continuations under official GM license, on a tube chassis with hand-laid bodies. This one carries a Lingenfelter LS7, Wilwood discs, and air conditioning.
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.