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A supercharged LSX-swapped Chevelle lines up against a supercharged WS6 Trans Am at a BAR Shootout event, pitting a modernized classic against GM’s own factory-performance answer from the LS1 era. TheBayAreaRacing caught the pass, and the matchup says a lot about how two very different approaches to Chevrolet performance stack up on the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which philosophy wins.
A Hennessey HPE650 Camaro, a Shelby Super Snake, and a SpeedFactory-built Challenger SRT8 lined up with one thing in common: none of them left the factory anywhere close to this powerful. Hennessey went the naturally aspirated route with ported heads and cams, Shelby went straight to a Whipple blower, and SpeedFactory brought the Mopar. Here is why weight and traction usually decide these matchups long before horsepower does, and why the format of the race changes the answer.
A Pontiac 455 big block catches fire mid-pull on the dyno in this Nick’s Garage video, and instead of cutting the footage, the channel keeps rolling and walks through exactly what went wrong. It’s the kind of unfiltered honesty about engine building’s real risks that has built Nick’s Garage a loyal following, even when the pull doesn’t go as planned. Watch to see how the fire started and what it reveals about pushing a big-block V8 to its limits.
Mercury spent 1967 proving that a plusher, quieter Mustang could sell, then spent 1968 arming it with everything from a 230-horsepower 302 four-barrel to a 390-horsepower 427. This particular 1968 Cougar takes a different route entirely, pairing a worked-over small block with Vintage Air, Hooker headers and polished American Racing wheels. Read on to find out where it fits in the most underrated pony car lineup Ford Motor Company ever built.
Seventeen. That is the entire population of one specific 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda configuration, and it is not the one most people would guess. Ask a room full of Mopar fans to name the rarest droptop of that year and the answer comes back Hemi every time, which is correct on price and wrong on this particular question. The 440 Six-Barrel convertible with a heavy-duty four-speed is rarer than its automatic sibling and cost far less than any Hemi ever did. Read on for why so few buyers checked both boxes.
Detailing a modern engine bay is easy; detailing a 1969 Camaro SS’s exposed carburetor, distributor, and ignition system without frying anything is another matter entirely. The Chemical Guys Detail Garage crew bags every vulnerable component before touching a hose, then works through a specific degreasing and drying sequence built for engines that predate sealed, water-resistant electronics by decades. It’s the kind of process viewers have since applied to their own numbers-matching Camaros. Watch how they pull it off without a single misfire.
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.
Before NASCAR became a household name, the Hudson Hornet was already a genuine racing dynasty, with driver Marshall Teague finishing one season with an 83 percent winning percentage most modern teams would call impossible. Decades later the car found a second life in an unexpected place — read on to find out where.
This 1934-style Ford coupe hides an outlandish build sheet: three Chevy 350 V8s, 24 exhaust pipes, 16 coats of Imron paint, and Bridge of Weir leather inside. See what the photos confirm about this triple-engine show piece, and why builds this extreme almost never make it past the fabrication stage.
In just eighteen months, Ford transformed the full-size Galaxie from a family-oriented sedan into a NASCAR-chasing fastback packing a conservatively rated 425 horsepower. A mid-year roofline change and a top-shelf 406-cubic-inch V8 rewrote what a full-size Ford could be. Read on to find out how the 63-and-a-half Galaxie earned its nickname and its reputation on the track.
Zach Straits spent eight years bringing a neglected 1961 Ford Galaxie Starliner back to life, and the result — a 401-horsepower 390 FE-series V8 under one of Ford’s most distinctive fastback rooflines — stopped traffic at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois. Lou Costabile’s My Car Story caught the full build story on camera. Watch to see why one commenter called this the best-looking full-size Ford of its decade.
One Mustang owner had a question nobody could answer for him: does the flat-plane-crank GT350R actually beat a stock 2018 GT at the strip? At Beech Bend Dragway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he lined up his own R-package Shelby against his own 460-horsepower GT with its 10-speed automatic to settle it once and for all. The results split opinion in the comments before the video even finished. Watch to see which philosophy — track-bred manual or drag-strip automatic — crossed the line first.
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.
This 1963 Chevrolet Corvette convertible looks period-correct from ten feet away, but everything holding it together is decades newer than the body it’s wearing — a brand-new LS2 crate V8, a Bowtie Stage 3 automatic, four-wheel disc brakes, and ice-cold A/C hidden behind a frame-off restoration that took two years to complete. Vanguard Motor Sales walks through a build sheet detailed enough to make plenty of numbers-matching purists reconsider what “correct” should actually mean. Watch to see exactly what a modern restomod Corvette gets right — and what it deliberately leaves behind.
A 1969 GT500 that surfaced in Detroit in 2015 turned out to be far more than a rare production car — research confirmed it as the literal first Mustang built at Dearborn specifically for conversion into a Shelby prototype. Only four such prototypes were ever ordered. Read on for how three collectors pieced together nearly fifty years of hidden history.