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A muscle car site covering Tesla news in early 2016 might seem like an odd fit, but the numbers behind that quarter’s delivery report explain why it mattered. Between a battery fire fix, a width comparison that embarrassed full-size trucks, and delivery figures that finally quieted Tesla’s skeptics, the fourth quarter of 2015 turned into a genuine inflection point. Read on to see how an electric startup’s numbers stacked up against Detroit’s own performance obsession.
James Craig spent eight years as Detroit’s Chief of Police while quietly building one of the more unusual resumes in muscle car fandom — assembly line worker, Plymouth Fury owner, and eventually the proud driver of a 2020 Dodge Challenger 392 Scat Pack. On Dodge’s Ride Along with Cristy Lee, Craig opened up about walking the line between loving high-horsepower cars and keeping them off Detroit’s streets. Read on to find out how a police chief turned his own muscle car obsession into a citywide safety message.
Dodge’s sales fell 49 percent in the first half of 2025, and its electric Charger Daytona struggled to find buyers without the V8 rumble that made the old Charger and Challenger icons. At the 10th annual Roadkill Nights, Dodge picked the moment to reveal something new — timed for maximum attention from the enthusiast crowd most likely to decide the brand’s next chapter. Read on for how Dodge’s rough year set the stage for the reveal, and what a single unveiling at a drag racing event says about the brand’s strategy going forward.
This build video documents a classic Mustang fastback getting the full resto-mod treatment – fabrication work good enough that commenters call the welder “legit,” a roughly $35,000 starting price for a road-ready car, and a Coyote V8 swap penciled in for later. Viewers debate the real cost of a project like this in the comments, torn between admiration for the build and warnings about where restorations quietly go over budget. One comment even imagines the finished car in a Batman movie. Watch to see the full cost breakdown.
This short documentary traces the sixty-year rivalry between Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge, from the Mustang’s accidental creation of the pony car segment in 1964 through the Camaro’s 1967 response and the Challenger’s late arrival in 1970. It’s less about specs and more about how three companies turned a straight-line horsepower race into an entire cultural identity. Watch to see how the story connects to the muscle cars still being built today.
This 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu underwent a complete frame-off restoration and has logged just 15,000 miles since, now running a 5.3-liter LS V8, a Quick Performance 9-inch rear end, and a full RideTech suspension. Listed out of Ubly, Michigan for $59,000, it pairs SS badging and classic sheet metal with genuinely modern mechanicals. Read on to find out everything that went into this build.
MadRatt Garage’s air ride saga on his 1964 Chevy C10 hits a stubborn snag in this Part 2: the compressor finally works, but the front bag won’t release air no matter what he tries. It’s the kind of real-world troubleshooting that separates DIY restoration content from polished shop videos — no guaranteed fix, no script, just a guy working through a problem on a budget. Watch to see whether he finds the culprit, or adds it to next episode’s to-do list.
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.
By 1977, the Dodge Charger nameplate barely resembled the fastback muscle car that made it famous a decade earlier — and the R/T badge on this particular car raises a question most muscle car reviews skip entirely: was it still earning that name, or just borrowing it? AutoMastersHQ digs into the specs, the styling, and the restoration realities of a Charger most collectors overlook. Watch to find out what got lost, and what actually survived, in the decade between 1968 and 1977.
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.
A 1971 Buick GS Stage 1 Convertible, described as looking just as it did the day it left the showroom, gets the full 4K treatment at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Buick’s factory performance package turned this GS into a genuine competitor against Chevelle SS and GTO buyers of its era. Watch to see a rare survivor convertible that barely shows its age.
This fully restored 1970 Ford F100 pickup, featured on Built VS Bought, blends vintage American muscle with a modern touch — sleek body lines, a redone interior, and the kind of attention to detail that has viewers calling it one of the most tastefully done F100 builds they’ve seen. It isn’t a patina show piece or a garage-queen trailer find. It’s a truck built to be driven, admired, and argued about in the comments. Watch to see what “Built, Not Bought” really means in practice.
A Hemi-swapped 1970 Dodge Challenger and a carbureted 1973 Charger running a 361 big block face off at Irwindale’s eighth-mile strip, with fuel injection, manual-versus-automatic, and drag radials all in play. Both cars are genuine owner builds, driven by their respective creators. Watch to find out whether modern engineering or classic displacement wins the day.
Adding horsepower to a muscle car that still rides on its original suspension usually makes it feel worse, not better. The parts that transform how a classic actually drives are rarely the flashiest ones, and the order in which they are installed matters as much as the parts themselves. From shocks and springs to sway bars, control arms, bracing, and the final alignment, this guide walks through where the money should go first and why. Read on to find out which upgrade does the most for the least.
The 2007 Mustang GT’s 4.6-liter three-valve V8 made 300 horsepower and 320 lb-ft, ran the quarter mile in the high thirteens, and never had the reputation of a big-inch engine. In the right hands it consistently embarrassed cars that outgunned it on paper, without a turbo or a supercharger anywhere in the build. The secret was never displacement. Read on for where the power actually hides in a naturally aspirated 4.6, and what it costs to find it.