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The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 packed a 455-cubic-inch V8, a functional fiberglass ram-air hood, and a factory weight-saving trick most owners never notice. Built in far smaller numbers than its GTO and Chevelle SS 454 rivals, it is one of GM’s quietest muscle car flexes — and one of the easiest to fake if you don’t know what to check.
We found 8 1970 Plymouth Barracuda and Cuda listings across ClassicCars.com and Streetside Classics — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
A 1970 Buick GSX built and finished as one of Buick’s own factory show cars helped convince General Motors to greenlight the model at all. In this Muscle Car of the Week episode, owner Brad Conley walks through his Stage 1-equipped GSX at the 2018 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals – a car with a documented pre-production identity shared by only a handful of surviving GSXs. See the full story, specs, and auction context inside.
A million-dollar Plymouth resto-mod, a factory-correct Mustang restoration, and a rare NASCAR-homologation Dodge Daytona all crossed the same Mecum auction block within one weekend, combining for nearly a million dollars in sales. The prices ranged from $291,500 to $379,500 — and the gap between them reveals exactly what collectors are really paying for in today’s muscle car market.
A Camaro-versus-Corvette street race isn’t just two fast Chevys, it’s the latest chapter in a rivalry that goes back to 1966, when the Camaro was built specifically to compete for buyers cross-shopping a Mustang while the Corvette stuck to its sports-car mission. Who’s faster has flipped more than once over the decades, and it’s closer today than ever.
Two generations of Corvette line up on a Mexican street for a 60-to-190 mph roll race: a Procharged C7 Stingray against a nitrous-fed, 455-cubic-inch stroker C6 Z06. Boost versus displacement, little brother versus big brother, with no launch tricks to hide behind. Everyone expected a blowout — instead the outcome stayed in doubt past 190 miles per hour. Watch to see which Corvette philosophy came out ahead.
Pontiac’s 1981 Trans Am forced buyers to choose between a turbo automatic or a weak manual – never both real power and three pedals. One owner solved that decades-old problem with a 350 crate engine and aluminum heads. The POV binaural-audio drive that resulted has already reached nearly 2.9 million views.
Plymouth built just 666 Sport Fury GTs in 1970, aiming this full-size muscle car at buyers who wanted straight-line performance without giving up a big, comfortable body. This Alpine White survivor represents a genuinely rare combination of chrome, stripes, and 440 cubic inches of Detroit muscle. Here’s what made the Sport Fury GT such an unusual entry in Plymouth’s lineup.
A dust-covered 1969 Chevelle SS 396 just came out of decades of storage, and its value hinges entirely on details buried in the cowl tag and engine stampings. We break down the real specs — from the base L34 to the rare L78 — that separate a numbers-matching survivor from a clone wearing the right stripes.
Richard Rawlings’ crew stumbled onto three 1970 Dodge Challengers parked together in one barn — one still wearing a screaming factory “High Impact” color. That’s just the start: a rare L78 big-block Chevelle and a Monte Carlo buried for 40 years turn up on the same trip.
Auto Archaeology got rare access to Stephens Performance in Alabama, a property with enough B-body Mopars — Chargers, Road Runners, Coronets, GTXs, and Super Bees — to justify an entire video series just covering the first section. Rows of cars most collectors only ever see one at a time sit here by the dozen, in every condition from parts donor to genuine project car. And this is reportedly just the beginning. Watch the first chapter and see what else the property might be hiding.
A 1970 Plymouth Barracuda convertible sat parked for 23 years after a fender bender left its owner Julia unsure how to fix it. Hagerty’s Driveway Finds crew steps in to see how much of the E-body classic is still alive underneath — and what it really takes to wake a long-dormant Mopar back up.
This 1970 Chevelle wears deep black paint, a tucked stance, and a 555-cubic-inch supercharged big block under the hood — a combination that places it squarely in the Pro Touring movement reshaping classic muscle cars from the chassis up. Builders in this space have pushed similar Chevelles past 700 and even 775 horsepower while keeping the original silhouette intact. Here’s what separates a Pro Touring build from a straight restoration, and why the changes go far deeper than the engine bay.
Carspotter Jeroen catches Chevrolet’s new 2018 Corvette C7 ZR1 out in the open, letting its supercharged LT5 V8 do the talking. It’s the kind of unscripted, real-world clip that captures a car’s actual character better than a studio review ever could. If you want to know exactly what a blown Corvette sounds like on the street, this is it. Watch and turn your volume up.
Richard Boehl has owned his 1971 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Six Pack — one of just 98 built that year — since 1986. At Carlisle Events, he opens up about the speeding tickets it has earned him and what his mother thought the first time she saw it.