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Only five 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AARs were ever finished in FT6 Burnt Tan, and only two are known to survive. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week profiles the rare homologation special built so Plymouth could legally race the ‘Cuda in SCCA Trans Am — complete with a triple-carbureted 340, side-exit exhaust, and a rulebook-driven design most casual fans never notice.

Recorded off broadcast television around 1995 and quietly preserved with no monetization attached, this documentary traces stock car racing’s real origin story — from Prohibition-era moonshine runners outrunning revenue agents to the factory muscle cars racing rules eventually pushed Detroit to build. It has racked up over half a million views with zero promotion behind it. Watch to see what a pre-internet retelling gets right that modern documentaries often miss.

Richard Petty’s own 1970 Plymouth Superbird hadn’t turned a wheel on the road in over forty years — until Goodwood convinced him to drive it again. The winged, 200-mph NASCAR homologation special that helped make Petty’s name (and inspired Pixar’s The King in Cars) gets a rare public outing, engine roaring for the first time in a generation. Fans in Petty’s hometown of Randleman, North Carolina still stop him for photos to this day. Watch to hear what a real Hemi sounds like waking up after forty years.

A Swedish filmmaker named Albert pointed a GoPro Hero 5 at a muscle car meet in the middle of Stockholm, four thousand miles from Detroit, and turned it into something that plays more like a short film than a car show recap. The low, sweeping shots and a Cranneg remix soundtrack pulled praise from viewers across Europe and the Americas alike. Watch to see how far the American muscle car hobby actually travels.

Internal Combustion’s 4K walkaround of the 2017 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals captures the Rosemont, Illinois show known for its Time Capsule survivor awards alongside concours-level restorations. The creator calls out Mopars, Boss 429 Mustangs, and Pontiac Firebirds as personal favorites, while one viewer argues the show is missing the average joe car altogether. MCACN’s indoor November format gives fragile, unrestored originals a weather-proof stage most summer shows can’t offer. Watch to see what an indoor survivor-focused show actually looks like up close.

Mike bought his 1967 Chevrolet Camaro at nineteen with a plan he couldn’t yet execute — a build centered on an engine most Camaro owners have never heard of. Nearly two decades later, Quality Custom Rides finally sourced the specialty V12LS motor he’d been waiting for, and wrapped it in suicide doors, an air-ride stance, and custom paint. The plan now is simple: drive the wheels off it. See what a V12 swap actually looks like under a first-gen Camaro’s hood.

A 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T and a 2017 Dodge Charger R/T share the same HEMI V8 but very different body styles, and Modern Muscle’s host puts his own Challenger up against @frederic_rt’s Charger to settle which one actually wins on the street. Rolling starts and dig starts each favor a different car, splitting the comments right down the middle. It’s one entry in a much larger local rivalry series. Watch to see who takes it.

A 440-powered, four-speed Dodge Coronet convertible is rare enough on its own — most big-block Mopar buyers skipped the convertible body entirely. Nick’s Garage treats the teardown of this particular example less like routine work and more like something worth savoring, and the engine underneath explains exactly why. Viewers with decades of engine-building experience call it one of the most satisfying breakdowns the shop has posted. Watch to see what a patient, detail-focused teardown of a genuinely rare Mopar actually looks like.

Compression ratio is the number every engine builder throws around, and the one most can’t actually explain past ‘higher is better.’ Roadkill Extra host David Freiburger breaks down exactly what it measures, why pushing it too far invites engine-destroying detonation, and how builders actually raise or lower it on a real engine. One top comment argues the fourteen-minute video teaches the concept better than a university engineering class. Here’s what actually earned that praise.

This compilation strings together ten vintage television commercials for Ford’s 1970 lineup — Maverick, Thunderbird, Mustang, Torino, and the performance-focused Mustang Grabber — straight from period broadcast masters. Watching them back to back reveals exactly how Ford pitched five very different buyers in a single model year, from budget compacts to muscle car performance. It’s a snapshot no modern retrospective fully replicates. Watch to see 1970 advertising exactly as audiences originally saw it.

This compilation kicks off a new monthly format built around the best street races a single month produced, and the headline pull says it all: an 850-horsepower Camaro against a heavily built Nissan GT-R, reportedly hitting 180 miles an hour. Both platforms represent completely different paths to serious street power. Which one actually gets there first is the whole point of watching. Check out the full top-10 rundown above.

Twenty thousand dollars on the line, no track prep, and a field of big-tire cars at Tulsa Raceway Park’s Redemption 6.0 — Urban Hillbilly Videos has full coverage of the Big Tire class for an event where the purse was real enough to bring out machines that mean business. No-prep racing rewards skill and setup over everything else, and this coverage shows what that looks like when the stakes match the horsepower.

Hagerty sent three of its own editors onto the streets of Portland with $3,000 apiece to find the best classic car that budget could buy, and came back with an Alfa Romeo, a Volkswagen Beetle, and a rotary-powered Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE. Commenters didn’t hold back — questioning the RX-7’s shift points, disputing the Beetle’s model year by its taillights, and side-eyeing the Alfa’s flame paint job. Watch to see whether $3,000 really stretched as far as the video claims.

This 1964 Pontiac GTO Post Coupe was pulled out of an open farmer’s field, not a barn, and somehow made it back to red-paint condition in time for the 25th Annual Indian Uprising All Pontiac Weekend. Owner Dick Boneske shares the surprisingly simple story behind the find directly from the farmer who wanted it gone. As a first-year GTO, this car carries more historical weight than its rough backstory suggests. Watch the full story.

A Mustang fleeing police spins out completely, not once but three separate times, and somehow keeps driving every single time. A stop sign gets caught in the axle mid-chase, a local newsroom loses its composure on air, and viewers are already comparing the footage to Baby Driver and Grand Theft Auto. How does a chase this chaotic actually end?

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