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Ford gave the Mustang II one final send-off in 1978, borrowing styling straight from its biggest rival to create the rarest trim of the whole generation. The King Cobra combined Trans Am-inspired graphics with a genuine 302 V8, a factory air dam unique to the model, and a fully-equipped price that pushed past $6,000. Read on to find out how one six-Mustang-II collector still had to go hunting for the one trim missing from his garage.
Steve Beck bought his 1965 Shelby GT350 for $900 on his eighteenth birthday, hoping it would help him land his first job as a mechanic — it did, on the spot. Hagerty’s Breakdown series traces decades of vintage racing and track days at Willow Springs that followed, plus more than a few speeding tickets along the way. Fifty years later, Beck is still driving it hard. Watch to see why he never let this one go.
Veteran drag racer Nick Scavo walks through exactly how to pack a parachute for drag racing, footage pulled from the V8TV Archives and produced by Kevin Oeste. At speeds where brakes alone can’t stop a car safely, a parachute packed wrong can fail at the worst possible moment. This is hands-on knowledge rarely captured on camera. Watch to see the precise, repeatable process a real racer trusts his own safety to.
Long before magazine comparison tests, Chrysler produced internal Master Tech training films to arm Plymouth dealers with talking points against the competition. This one pits the redesigned 1971 Barracuda directly against Ford’s Mustang, built to prep salesmen rather than persuade customers. Preserved by MyMopar.com with Chrysler’s permission, it’s a rare look at the muscle car wars from the showroom floor. Watch to see exactly how Plymouth told its own sales team to win the argument.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put a trio of America’s best-known sports coupes through its full crash test battery in a May 2016 release, and none of them walked away with a TOP SAFETY PICK award. Long hoods, low rooflines, and rear-drive proportions built for speed don’t always cooperate with small-overlap crash structure. What actually held these pony cars back is more specific than the headline suggests. Watch to see how the numbers break down.
TheAutoSpotter’s cameras caught a lineup of American muscle unloading burnouts at a European car rally — and one black Charger with airbrushed green flames stole the entire show. A commenter claiming to know the car’s owner says it runs on biofuel and produces over 1,000 horsepower, which would explain why the street ended up coated in melted rubber. Watch to see which car in the lineup earned the most respect from a crowd that clearly knows its muscle cars.
Chevelle enthusiasts had swapped rumors for years about a 1970 SS454 sitting untouched inside a collapsed Ohio barn. In May 2017, a grainy cell phone video finally proved the story true — and when the car came out after nearly 40 years, its original buildsheet was still tucked inside the door panel. Read on to find out what that buildsheet revealed about how, and why, this particular Chevelle was built.
A stock 1969 Dodge Charger, an authentic Charger Daytona with its full nose cone and rear wing, and a modern 2015 Hellcat all go through the same wind tunnel to answer a question muscle car fans have argued for decades: how much did the Daytona’s radical aero package actually do? NASCAR banned the bodywork almost as soon as it proved effective. Watch to see what the real numbers say, fifty years later.
John’s widebody Hellcat Challenger cost $83,000, and according to this video, it’s developed damage again — the kind that’s split his comment section between “take it to the dealer immediately” and “that’s just modern Hellcat ownership.” Between an electrical tape debate and a stability control fault viewers are tracing back to the shocks, this is less a build reveal than a real-time look at what owning a heavily modified, six-figure-adjacent Mopar actually involves. Watch to see what breaks next.
A routine nitrous pass off Mexico Racing League’s camera turns into a real-time lesson in why a 100-shot kit needs its own dedicated fuel system to survive. What starts as a hard, loud launch ends with something under the hood giving way in an instant, and a comment section full of tuners explaining exactly why. The failure has nothing to do with the car being cheap and everything to do with basic nitrous fueling math. See what actually went wrong.
A genuine 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible — metallic green, 383 V8, 4-speed manual — headed to no-reserve auction as part of the Rietz Mopar Collection sale in Mansfield, South Dakota. Convertible Road Runners were rare even when new, and survivors this complete rarely surface. No reserve means it sells to whoever bids highest, no matter the number. Watch to see what a car this scarce actually brings under the gavel.
A Ford Shelby GT350 built by Cordes Performance Racing runs an F1A Procharger, ARH long tube headers, and E85 fuel to a claimed 923 horsepower at the wheels — on a completely stock bottom end. At Shifts3ctor’s California Airstrip Attack in Coalinga, it lines up against a Chevrolet C7 Corvette Z06 kept close to factory spec. The horsepower gap looks enormous on paper. Watch to see whether launch and traction close it at all.
A 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner packing a 440-cubic-inch big block (rated 280 horsepower under 1972’s stricter net rating system) lines up against a 2002 Corvette Z06 and its 405-horsepower LS6 V8 at Estonia’s 2015 ABCS drag event in Haapsalu. On paper it looks lopsided, but big-block torque and modern chassis engineering rarely settle their arguments on paper. The pass pits fifty years of engine philosophy against each other in one quarter-mile. Watch to see which era of Detroit muscle actually wins the light.
Pony car purists have a firm opinion about rear-wheel-drive muscle cars in the snow: it doesn’t go well. The team at The Fast Lane Car put the all-wheel-drive Challenger GT up against a Mustang and Camaro on the same snowy pavement to settle whether Dodge’s unusual drivetrain choice actually held up. Watch the full comparison to see which pony car kept moving when the others couldn’t.
December 2017’s Houston Cars and Coffee started like any other early-morning meet — until a Dodge Viper owner made a mistake in front of a crowd already filming. RP Productions captured the chaos, the cars, and the moment that split viewers into two very different camps. Watch to see what actually happened.