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Plymouth expected to sell about 20,000 Road Runners in 1968 and moved more than twice that, building a muscle car around the radical idea of removing everything a buyer did not need. Fewer than one in forty buyers paid the $714 premium for the 426 Hemi, which cost roughly a quarter of the car’s base price. This restored blue example carries that exact rare combination. Read on for why the cheapest Mopar got the most expensive engine.
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.
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.
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.
This 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV represents Lincoln at its most luxurious, and its most cautious, after toning down a wild 1958 redesign just one year later. Only 2,195 convertibles like this one were built, powered by a 430 V8 making 350 hp. Here’s the story behind one of the rarest personal luxury cars of its era.
Plenty of enthusiasts talk about cutting a monthly bill and redirecting the money into a project car. Far fewer actually do it. This owner canceled cable television, broke a long cycle of buying cheap and wretched project cars, and ended up with a green 1972 Ford Ranchero from the single most transformative model year in the nameplate’s history. Read on to find out what changed that year and why it mattered.
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.
Nissan split its 2014 GT-R into three distinct machines built on one platform: a genuinely comfortable Premium trim, a styling-focused Black Edition, and a 150-unit Track Edition with the back seats deleted entirely. All three shared a hand-built 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 officially rated at 545 horsepower — though real-world estimates run considerably higher. With a base price near $100,000 and a claimed 2.7-second 0-62 time, the GT-R undercut plenty of pricier rivals. Read on for how the numbers broke down trim by trim.
A 1969 Dodge Charger SE sat dormant for more than twenty years before Dylan McCool’s Backroad Garage helped move it to a new home, and the metallic blue paint and black vinyl top are still holding up better than anyone expected. It’s a documented factory 383 car, though the engine currently installed isn’t original. Viewers couldn’t stop comparing it to the General Lee — see why this rescue struck such a nerve.
1953 marked the final year for Ford’s legendary flathead V8, a 239 cubic inch engine that had powered the brand for 21 years. This Customline, Ford’s mid-level trim slotted between the Mainline and Crestline, was one of 761,662 built that year. It’s a car that looked ordinary on paper but carried real automotive history under the hood. Here’s what made 1953 such a pivotal year for Ford’s V8 lineup.
Every recurring video or talk show has to start somewhere, and the first episode almost never gets the fanfare of the ones that follow – no big reveal, no marquee guest, just an introduction to the people steering the conversation going forward. Before diving into builds, history, or debates over which engine option was really the best of its era, it helps to know who’s asking the questions and who’s shaping what makes it to the screen. So who’s behind the camera, and who decides what gets cut? Read on to find out.
By 1973, Ford already knew the Mustang convertible was finished — regulations and buyer trends were closing in, and no drop-top Mustang would follow until 1983. Buyers reacted the way buyers do when they hear something is ending: convertible sales nearly doubled. This Blue Glow example with a white interior, power everything and its original 302 shows exactly what the last one looked like. Read on to find out why the 1973 cars deserve more respect than they get.
Ford did not have the GT package ready when the Mustang launched. It took a full year of buyers snapping up the pony car before an option group appeared for drivers who wanted their car to handle and stop the way it looked. Roughly 15,000 of that year’s half-million Mustangs got it, and because the package never appeared in the VIN, telling a real one from a tribute takes paperwork. Read on for what was actually in the box.
Between 1959 and 1962, Oldsmobile redesigned the Rocket 88 practically every single year — new frames, new suspensions, and an American first buried inside the lineup that most shoppers walked right past. The Starfire’s console-mounted shifter changed how automatic transmissions were packaged industry-wide. Read on to find out which year brought the biggest structural change, and why the Starfire deserves more credit than it usually gets.