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Ronnie married the woman who bought this 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T brand new in April 1970. They divorced in 1978, but he kept watching the car for decades afterward, waiting for the moment she finally decided to sell. When she did, he had the first chance to buy it back. Watch the story of a marriage that ended and a car that never really left.
Phil Martin sold his 1965 GTO, regretted it, and bought this charcoal blue 1966 replacement in 1995 to fill the gap it left behind. Lou Costabile catches up with Phil and the car at Rosemont’s World of Wheels show, and the comments spend as much time praising the restoration work as they do debating whether 1966 or 1967 wore the GTO’s taillights better.
Windstream’s Locally Crafted Goods series profiles Dave Hall, owner of Restore A Muscle Car in Lincoln, Nebraska, a shop built on reconnecting people with the classic cars they once owned and thought were gone for good. Hall’s current project, a father-and-son ’70 Trans-Am restoration, captures exactly why his small-town shop has built a following well beyond state lines. It’s a story about craftsmanship as much as community. Watch to see what makes his approach different.
Somewhere between the Ford GT40 and the much-mocked Pontiac Fiero sits a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair that owner Chuck Rust turned into a mid-engine V8 sports car using the little-known “Crown” conversion kit. Builders who attempted this exact swap decades ago describe cracked differentials, hand-fabricated input shafts, and a kit that solved only the easy part of the problem. With a claimed pedigree that traces back to Smokey Yunick’s praise for a properly sorted Corvair, this homebuilt project asks what America’s mid-engine sports car could have been.
A 740-horsepower supercharged LS3 Corvette lines up against a 770-horsepower supercharged Coyote Mustang, and the extra 30 horsepower isnt the whole story. RedmaroProductions captures a tight, hard-fought pass where shift timing and driver execution end up mattering as much as the numbers on paper. Comments erupted over which side needed the driver mod more, keeping the decades-old GM-versus-Ford rivalry alive at the strip. Who actually crossed the stripe first?
Omni Rider breaks teenage drivers into five familiar types — the texter, the show-off, the secretly fast one, the overly cautious rookie, and the speed-chaser — and the comments immediately pile on with archetypes the video missed entirely, from the parking-lot curb-checker to the mythical Crown Victoria owner every school seems to have had. See which type you were, or still are.
EngineLabs handed two teams an identical $9,999 budget and one instruction: build the strongest engine possible, Ford’s Coyote for one, GM’s LS3 for the other. The result is less a definitive winner and more a clinic in budget-build tradeoffs, big pushrod displacement against high-revving overhead cams, cheap aftermarket parts against premium modular components. Even the comments split along brand lines, with one self-described “Ford guy” breaking ranks to praise the LS3 outright. Watch the full build to see which philosophy actually made more power for the money, and decide for yourself which side of this rivalry your own garage falls on.
Van Hurst’s father once owned this 1969 Chevelle COPO — before it left the family, disappeared for years, and turned up again through nothing more than an internet search. Built through Chevrolet’s Central Office Production Order loophole, the car was deliberately disguised as a base-model Malibu to hide its 427 big block from the crowd. Between a Chilean sighting decades ago and a trio of Calgary neighbors who bought sister cars together in 1969, this COPO’s story stretches well past its own build sheet. Watch the full reunion.
MotorTrend pits a numbers-matching 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge against a twin-turbo, 750-horsepower 2006 GTO inside Ken Lingenfelter’s personal collection, then asks a simple question with no easy answer: which one would you actually want to drive? The Judge brings 1969 history and mechanical honesty; the modern car brings more than double the factory horsepower. Watch the comment section split right down generational lines.
A 1967 television commercial for the Pontiac GTO sold horsepower the way modern car ads almost never do – through swagger, identity, and a voice actor’s delivery that viewers are still praising decades later. One commenter even traces BMW’s Ultimate Driving Machine slogan back to what Pontiac was already doing here first. Watch to hear the pitch that built a legend.
KFLY67’s tour of a sprawling Oregon junkyard has racked up nearly half a million views, and the comments do more identifying than the video’s own description ever attempts — a red Chevelle worth real money, a misidentified California Special Mustang, and a four-speed ’66 Chevelle buried among roughly 600 other cars. Watch to see what regional enthusiasts have already spotted for themselves.
Filmed in 2007 for a television series most viewers have never heard of, this segment captures a 1971 Plymouth Cuda’s 440 Six Pack coming to life under Legendary Motorcar’s care. The triple-carburetor setup gives the big-block a distinctive burble that Mopar collectors can pick out by ear alone. See why this specific engine badge still commands serious money and even more serious attention.
The 1973 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty 455 arrived at the worst possible moment for a big-block muscle car — insurance rates were climbing, emissions rules were tightening, and most of Detroit had already walked away. V8TV’s look at this SD-455 explains why Pontiac built it anyway, and why Car and Driver once called it one of the last true fast cars of its era. Watch to see what’s hiding under that shaker hood.
The 1969 Firebird Trans Am existed for exactly one model year in this form, wearing a color combination buyers couldn’t change and stripes that ran straight over the roof, a look Pontiac never repeated. This Ram Air III 4-speed example from The Brothers Collection pairs that one-year-only styling with a functional hood feeding a 400 cubic inch V8. See what made the very first Trans Am look and drive like nothing else on the lot.
Buried inside the largely forgotten 1994 film F.T.W. is a car chase sequence that has taken on a life of its own online: a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner driven hard through real stunt work rather than sanitized for the camera. Viewers in the comments zero in on the Shaker hood and the rare 440-cubic-inch four-speed combination, calling it one of the best-optioned Road Runners ever put on film. Watch the full clip to see genuine period-correct Mopar muscle pushed to its limits.