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A 1972 Chevy Nova that spent four decades sinking into the dirt gets a second chance in Hagerty’s newest budget build. Restoration duo Dustin Hallinan and John Brito set themselves a brutal number: bring it back to life for less than $5,000. What they find underneath says a lot about what’s still possible in today’s classic car market.
A Plymouth Superbird and a Ford Mustang went head-to-head in the Search For Speed league, but the real story wasn’t horsepower — it was a launch gone wrong. Viewers, including at least one Superbird owner himself, pinned the loss squarely on tire spin rather than the car, while others argued the whole matchup was unfair to begin with since the Superbird was built for Daytona’s high banks, not the quarter-mile.
Ford widened the Mustang’s engine bay for 1967 to fit its first big-block V8, worrying Lee Iacocca it would ruin the formula. Instead the redesigned fastback, with its sharper shoulder line and reworked roof, became the generation owners still call the best-looking Mustang built.
Slide behind the wheel of a 1968 Firebird 400 expecting nothing but brute force and the first surprise is how composed it feels at speed. Pontiac had spent a year learning what its pony car needed, and the 1968 answer involved a hidden factory restriction, a mid-year engine change and a rear suspension redesign that finally cured the axle tramp. Read on for what actually made this one of the best-sorted pony cars of its year.
Off a quiet road in Melbourne, Florida sits a 123,000-square-foot building holding more than 420 American muscle cars insured at an estimated $32 million — and it’s barely open to the public. One YouTuber talked his way inside for a full walkthrough that’s since pulled in over 3 million views. The collector behind it made his fortune in pet pharmaceuticals, not cars, and built the place to stop history from disappearing. Read on to find out how veterans get in free.
Chrysler and Hurst sold the 1970 300H as a hardtop only, but George Hurst had one convertible built for himself and for Linda Vaughn’s drag-strip appearances. Fifty-plus years later the numbers-matching 440 TNT drop-top survives in a private collection, and Rocket Restorations walks through every detail that proves it is real.
Plum Crazy Purple with a white vinyl roof and a 440 Six Pack under the hood — this 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee is the kind of factory combination that still stops traffic at a car show fifty years later. Restorer Mark Klopack walks through the build at Chicago’s World of Wheels. Watch to hear that pistol-grip four-speed and 440 come alive.
The 1968-1974 Chevrolet Nova rode a 111-inch wheelbase with room for a genuine 396 big-block — and, at the right dealership, a 427, turning an economy car into one of the muscle car era’s best-hidden street fighters. One owner even drove his 396 Nova 3,100 miles from California to Florida in 38 hours. Once dismissed as a cheap compact, the Nova has become one of the most underrated classics you can buy.
FarmTruck, Street Outlaws famously rough-looking Chevy C10, lines up against Azn’s all-wheel-drive, supercharged Jeeper Sleeper in the daily driver class at a Street Outlaws Live event in North Carolina. The footage does not stop at one race, following the same Jeep to a second event in South Carolina before closing with a completely separate grudge match between FarmTruck and Azn’s other build, the Dung Beetle. Fans in the comments are already asking for a rematch against a different car entirely. Watch to see if the sleeper lives up to its name.
One of the 212 fiberglass-and-aluminum Galaxie Lightweights Ford built for 1963 belonged to Mickey Thompson, and it carries the engine he built to beat Chrysler at its own game: a 427 FE wearing his aluminum hemi heads and three-piece pushrods. After 47 years dormant, it runs again.
Dodge’s teaser campaign for the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon leaned entirely on math instead of marketing hype, previewing a launch force over 35 percent higher than the already-brutal Hellcat. With 840 horsepower on race fuel, a one-seat factory configuration, and only 3,000 units built, the Demon turned out to be one of the most deliberately extreme muscle cars Detroit has ever sold. Read on for the numbers behind the teaser.
The 1964 Comet Cyclone squeezed a 210-hp 289 into a compact that was originally drawn up as an Edsel, then proved itself by lapping Daytona for 40 days straight. Hemmings put one on the road to explain what a buyer needs to know before writing a check for the muscle car everyone forgets.
Barely more than a hundred buyers ordered a 426 Hemi in their 1967 Dodge Charger, which is exactly why Dodge occasionally sent one to the auto show circuit instead of a customer. The Street Hemi was rated at 425 horsepower and cost roughly a quarter of the car’s base price on its own. Add the Charger’s own weak sales that year and the survivors become genuinely scarce. Read on to find out what made this combination so hard to sell.
The 1966 Toronado was the first front-wheel-drive American car in almost 30 years, and Oldsmobile packed it with oddities nobody else was building: a speedometer drum that rolls like a slot machine, headlights that disappear, and a completely flat floor. An 18-minute walkaround of a stunning survivor shows every one of them up close.
A 1969 Plymouth Satellite convertible turned up on Gateway Classic Cars’ lot in bold orange with a black top, and the engine bay backs up the listing’s claim of a 383 Super Commando V8 under the hood. Nine photos show the paint, the interior, and the underhood detail that most listings leave out — but they still can’t confirm the one thing that matters most: what the fender tag actually says. Read on to see what the photos prove, and what’s still left to verify.