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A Los Angeles shop took a budget-grade 1966 Chevy Nova SS and ignored the car’s rare factory L79 history entirely, swapping in a supercharged, built LS1 making 550 horsepower instead. See how Lakeside Speed and Shine turned Chevrolet’s cheapest compact into one of the cleanest restomods YouTube has seen all year.
A 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle built by a shop called Backyard Specialties runs a supercharged Kong Performance LSX rated anywhere from 750 to 900 horsepower — nearly double the factory LS6’s 450. The build rides on a Speedtech Performance chassis engineered decades after the body ever left Chevrolet’s factory.
AMC’s smallest-in-Detroit budget somehow built a Trans-Am champion — then quietly let the Javelin’s final engine lose 20 horsepower on its way out the door. This 1974 AMX didn’t end up as a trailer queen: its current owner swapped in modern fuel injection and keeps driving it the way AMC intended. Only 4,980 AMX-trimmed Javelins were built that year, and this is one that still earns its keep.
This 1970 Chevrolet Impala, powered by a 350 small-block paired with a TH350 automatic, hadn’t run since 1993, 23 years of silence before this restart attempt. Using nothing more than a dwell meter, timing light, and decades of hands-on know-how, host Jonathan walks through exactly what it takes to wake up an engine everyone assumed was finished. Watch to hear how it sounds once it finally catches.
A former video game designer traded twenty-five years of shipping hit titles for a welding torch and a Ron Sutton race chassis. His shop’s signature build, a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500, now makes 700 horsepower through a six-speed manual and wears battleship-camouflage paint. Here’s how a career spent solving problems on screen turned into one of the wildest restomods on the road.
A dealer in Greene, Iowa is selling a 1970 Chevelle SS with the one document every collector wants — its factory build sheet. The catch: the engine, transmission, and rear gearing under the hood today have nothing to do with what that sheet describes. Here’s what changed, and why one viewer isn’t sure the swap should have happened at all.
A rough 1968 Dodge Charger project has become one of YouTube’s most talked-about Hellcat swaps, racking up over a million views. Under the hood sits the same supercharged 707-horsepower engine that powers Dodge’s modern factory Hellcat models. Commenters are still arguing over whether the grille is really from 1968 or borrowed from 1969.