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A YouTuber talked his way into a decaying barn that had swallowed six real muscle cars since the mid-1990s, then walked out having bought one of the rarest Chevelle LS6s left on earth. But it’s the collection’s priciest car — a ‘matching-numbers’ Chevelle listed for $175,000 — that has viewers combing through every frame looking for what its paperwork isn’t saying.
A modern-day Hyundai fender bender nearly finished off a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T that a 426 Hemi option couldn’t outsell. Its owner Rick rebuilt it instead, and the car now carries a fitting new name: Mayhem. See what the factory 440 Magnum and a set of line locks can still do almost six decades later.
Plymouth built only 64 of these 440 Six Barrel Sport Fury GTs for 1970, and this one had not turned over since a minor accident parked it in 1981. Dead Dodge Garage spent months chasing a stubborn carburetor problem before finally coaxing the numbers-matching big-block back to life. What they found under the hood tells a bigger story about how few of these full-size muscle cars are still running today.
American Motors never had Detroit’s budget, but for a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, its Javelin and two-seat AMX spinoff went toe-to-toe with the Mustang and Camaro on both the street and the Trans-Am track — with Roger Penske and Mark Donohue behind the wheel of a purpose-built 5.0-liter version. Watch to see why this overlooked underdog still deserves a second look.
Richard Boehl has owned his 1971 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Six Pack — part of a production run of just 178 cars — since 1986, and he’s collected plenty of speeding tickets along the way. Filmed at Carlisle Events for My Car Story with Lou Costabile, this Concours-caliber Charger runs a triple-carburetor big block that sounds nothing like a standard four-barrel setup. Watch to hear it, and hear Boehl’s stories, for yourself.
Ford’s Mustang Dark Horse carries a naturally aspirated 5.0L V8 into a segment everyone else has turbocharged or walked away from. A well-known YouTube reviewer lined it up against Dodge’s radically different new Charger and picked a winner. Here’s the case for the V8, spec for spec, against 550 horsepower of twin-turbo inline-six.
Comedian Gabriel Iglesias just showed off two 1988 Monte Carlo SS coupes on Jay Leno’s Garage, and one of them still has the factory plastic on its seats. Chevrolet built just 16,204 before retiring the G-body platform for good. Here’s why a 180-horsepower cruiser from 1988 still makes grown men weak in the knees.
A numbers-matching 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda with the rare 440 Six Barrel engine and a four-speed manual is about to cross the auction block in Las Vegas — one of only 108 Plymouth ever built with that exact combination. Its quad headlights and shark-gill fender vents mark it as a one-year-only design, and its drivetrain still carries the original numbers. Here’s what makes this ‘Cuda worth watching when the gavel drops.
A fourth-generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am hides a Corvette-derived LS1 V8 under a body style most collectors still overlook. Owners in the comments back the pitch up with odometers past a quarter-million miles. Here is why a mechanic with over five decades on the job calls it the smartest cheap muscle car buy left.