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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.
Five cars defined 1960s muscle car culture, but two of them have wilder backstories than most people realize: a GTO that exploited a GM loophole to become a 32,450-unit phenomenon, and a Barracuda so rare its Hemi convertible now sells for millions. Here’s what made these five cars the icons they became.
Tom’s one-day transformation of a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle didn’t just change the way the car looks — it started an argument in the comments before the video even hit widescreen. Between a debated wheel swap, a safety tip about a badly placed fuel filter, and a soundtrack that reduced multiple viewers to tears for reasons that had nothing to do with the car, this quick build turned into something bigger than a Saturday project. Watch to see what a single afternoon and the right set of wheels can actually do.
Gas Gears and Glory’s short documentary “The Complete History of American Muscle Cars” traces the genre from its 1960s birth through the decades that nearly killed it and the modern era that brought it roaring back. It’s the kind of overview that names names — Mustang, Camaro, Challenger — while asking what actually made these cars matter beyond their horsepower figures. Watch to see how the story gets told this time around.
Carroll Shelby dropped a 427 cubic inch Ford FE into a British roadster and accidentally built the fastest production car in the world. But the version that earned that title only exists because Shelby failed to finish enough race cars to satisfy the rulebook, and had to do something creative with the leftovers. Here is how a homologation shortfall created the most valuable Cobra of them all.
Chevrolet’s 348, 409, and 427-cubic-inch “W series” engines look nearly identical from the outside, sharing interchangeable heads and the same basic block architecture — with one telltale difference: dipstick placement. Introduced in 1958 as Chevrolet’s first true big-block V8, the family climbed from a 250-horsepower Turbo-Thrust up to a 350-horsepower Special Super Turbo-Thrust before the 409 and 427 took over as the brand’s flagship big-blocks. Read on for how to tell these engines apart and where each one fits in Chevrolet’s horsepower history.
A boat, a narrow street, and a muscle car owner clearly betting the marina could wait one more minute for a photo. This meme has circulated car forums since 2017 for good reason — the open-ended caption format never gets old, and neither does the mystery of whether the driver actually made the turn.
Jamboolio’s Best Muscle Car Sounds of 2016 skips music and narration entirely, letting nearly twenty American V8s — from a nitrous-fed 1967 Camaro to a 1000-horsepower Buick Grand National — speak for themselves at full throttle. Viewers picked out standouts ranging from a black Pontiac Firebird to a twin-turbo Corvette pushing an estimated 1500 horsepower. Watch to hear which cars made the biggest impression.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
Eighty-five thousand dollars went into turning a 1955 Chevrolet 210 sedan, the middle trim of the Tri-Five range, into a street rod its owner says drives like a modern car. A ZZ4 crate small block under dual four-barrels, a 700R4 overdrive, a square-tube chassis and Camaro rear suspension are only part of the list. Read on for what a 210 buyer actually got in 1955 and how far this build has traveled from it.
There’s a sound that doesn’t need subtitles to be understood anywhere in the world: the uneven, chest-thumping burble of an American V8 idling at a stoplight. Compilations built entirely around that sound circulate constantly in muscle car circles, and enthusiasts often recognize the engine family from the exhaust note before a single body panel appears. This one is a tribute to exactly that sensory appeal.
Dodge’s 1969 Charger Daytona wore a 23-inch nose cone and a rear wing tall enough to bolt through the fenders, chasing a single goal: beating NASCAR’s fastest superspeedway cars. It worked well enough to hit 205 mph at Chrysler’s own proving ground, but only 503 were built, and just 70 got the legendary Hemi engine. Read on for the numbers behind one of muscle car history’s shortest, strangest production runs.
Muscle cars run on a simple formula: big power, small price. Japan never quite matched that formula until Infiniti’s 2018 Q50 Red Sport 400 showed up with 400 horsepower, four doors, and a price tag tens of thousands below what a GT-R or RC F demands. First-drive reviewers loved the power but split hard on one specific detail. Here’s what stood out.
By 1972 Chevrolet had backed the Chevelle Malibu into a corner, and this numbers-matching 350 example is what came out the other side. The original black vinyl interior is intact, the factory air conditioning still blows cold, and the car has never strayed far from stock. That combination is getting harder to find every year. Read on for why the last year of this body style is the smart place to enter the A-body market.
Plymouth built the 440 into the 1970 ‘Cuda as one of its rarest, most serious performance options, and someone has now supercharged that same big block to a claimed 550 horsepower. This pro touring build backs that power with a completely reengineered chassis, big brakes, and modern tires, turning a fifty-year-old E-body into something that can actually use everything under the hood. Read on to find out what it took to get there.