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Ford’s DOHC Coyote makes as much as 480 horsepower and weighs less than an iron 302 – but it measures roughly 29 inches across, and a 1965 Mustang’s shock towers were never asked to make room for that. CJ Pony Parts walks through the control packs, clearance calls, and hidden costs that decide whether this swap becomes a weekend win or a two-year money pit.
A wrecked Yenko/SC Camaro gave up its 1,150-horsepower supercharged V8, and it landed in a third-gen Camaro that cost less than a decent set of tires. ScrapLifeLee’s salvage build has pulled 2.6 million views by asking the question auction catalogs never do: how much of a Yenko is the badge, and how much is the engine underneath it?
Plymouth built the 1971 ‘Cuda with a look it never repeated: quad headlights, fender gills, and billboard graphics found on no other year. UFC president Dana White picked exactly this rare-bodied ‘Cuda for a full restomod, swapping in a 425-horsepower 440 and a Curry 9-inch rear end. The result became one of MuscleCar’s most-watched builds ever.
A shop took a tired 1968 Ford Torino fastback and rebuilt it with a stroked 427, a tubbed chassis, and air suspension – and viewers are calling it one of the best Torino restomods ever. Ford’s own 428 Cobra Jet was rated so low on paper that most experts believe the real number was closer to 400 horsepower. Here’s why this overlooked Ford muscle car is finally getting its due.
Brothers Mike and Jim Ring, already known for a 4,700-hour build on a 1969 Dodge Charger, turned their attention to AMC’s most overlooked muscle car — a 1972 AMX Javelin once dismissed by Mustang and Camaro owners as an ‘ugly duckling.’ A year and roughly half a million dollars later, Ridiculous Rides documents exactly what that obsessive effort bought. Watch to see whether the Javelin finally earns the respect it never got the first time around.
Kevin Hart didn’t just buy a 1969 Pontiac GTO — he spent three years working directly with Detroit Speed & Engineering to build one exactly to his standard. It debuted at the 2023 SEMA Show and, according to the builders themselves, still dazzles everyone who sees it. Zach Arlen walks through the subtle details that set this GTO apart. Watch to see what three years and real collaboration actually buys.
Jay Leno gets a look at a car that shouldn’t exist by any normal logic: a brand-new 1968 Mustang GT 2+2 Fastback with Cobra Jet badging, built from freshly manufactured tooling rather than a restored donor car, and packing a modern Coyote V8 underneath period-correct steel. Watch to see how a Florida manufacturer is legally building Mustangs Ford stopped making decades ago.
A 1970 Ford Mustang SportsRoof gets a complete heart transplant on PowerNation’s Detroit Muscle, swapping its original small-block for a supercharged 5.0-liter Coyote V8 paired with a Tremec TKX five-speed transmission. The build leans on ARP fasteners, Detroit Speed headers, and a custom belt-drive system to make the modern powerplant fit a decades-old engine bay. Viewers in the comments debated the real cost of the swap, with one builder pricing out a $305 header alternative to the show’s $3,500 name-brand set. The result is a classic fastback built to run with cars its original engineers never had to worry about.
B is for Build cut a 2019 Mustang GT down to bare metal and fabricated a 1967 Fastback body onto its modern chassis, calling it a roughly $40,000 build. Their own commenters ran the labor math and came up with a very different number. Watch the SEMA-deadline build that turned into a debate over what car builds actually cost once real labor counts.
A 1965 Dodge Monaco spent roughly forty years buried and forgotten before Dylan McCool’s team pulled it back into the light — and paired it with a second wrecked car nobody else wanted. What followed was a fully custom body swap and a budget Hemi build that reportedly turned a profit instead of draining one. Fans in the comments are already asking for a sequel. See how two written-off cars became one running Hemi-powered Monaco.
Every part in this 1968 Mustang restomod came from a junkyard Ford Explorer — the V8, the rear end, even the transmission. No Bolts Left Behind breaks down the real dollar cost of the swap, chapter by chapter, and viewers say the honesty is rare in restomod content. One commenter put the builder’s labor alone at $20,000. See the full parts-bin formula and what it actually costs to build it yourself.
This 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner was bought to be wrecked on camera — positioned as the car Letty rolls in Fast and Furious. The crash scene never happened, and the car disappeared until builder Jamie, who got a Roadrunner tattoo at thirteen, brought it back as what one host calls one of the best restomods he’s ever filmed. See how a movie stunt double became a driver’s car.
Project Henchman started as a bone-stock 1969 Pontiac GTO — the kind of car that never got the factory Judge treatment. A frame-off restoration and a 500-plus horsepower LS swap later, it looks every bit the part, but not everyone in the comments is happy about the engine choice. See the build, the backlash, and why one viewer is already using it as a blueprint for their own Pontiac Tempest project.
This 1968 Dodge Charger restomod has drawn reactions in at least six languages since it went up, with viewers calling its blacked-out grille everything from menacing to vampiric. Underneath the coke-bottle body line sits a fully modernized chassis and an exhaust note tuned to sound as aggressive as the car looks. The build description calls it a fusion of vintage muscle and modern engineering. See the finished Charger in motion to judge for yourself.