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Long before Pontiac built the GTO and started the muscle car era in earnest, Chevrolet was already chasing serious horsepower out of a small-block V8 — and doing it with fuel injection instead of a carburetor. This 1959 Corvette from The Brothers Collection wears its rare Rochester Ramjet system under a crown sapphire hood, a full decade ahead of the cars usually credited with starting the muscle car story. Watch to see what a factory fuelie 283 actually looks like in person.
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske tackles one of the most argued-about questions in manual transmission ownership: does skipping a gear actually hurt your synchronizers? The answer turns out to hinge less on which gear you pick and more on how well you rev-match the shift — a distinction that matters enormously for owners running decades-old Muncie and Borg-Warner four-speeds in classic muscle cars. Watch to see what’s really happening inside the gearbox on every shift.
After thirty years sitting untouched with its original one owner, this 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 XL — a genuine 428, four-speed big-block — fires back up on camera in Hotwoods Pontoon’s footage. Commenters flooded in with memories of nearly identical family cars from the same era, and one pointed out the fitting choice of Hotel California playing as the engine came back to life. Watch to see whether three decades of silence was enough to keep this 428 from running again.
For years, collectors traded rumors about an untouched, low-mileage 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 without ever confirming it was real. My Car Story host Lou Costabile tracks down the car — all-original, with just 4,305 miles and even its factory tires still on it — and the chain of connections that finally brought it to owner David Beem. Commenters are calling it a genuine Holy Grail of muscle car survivors. Watch the moment its LS6 fires up for the first time in years.
A 1970 Chevelle nicknamed ‘Triple Threat’ swaps its factory V8 for a Duramax diesel and still manages an 8.98-second quarter mile at 152 mph, a run that would humble plenty of gas-powered muscle cars. Builder Rick Fletes has pushed the combination as high as 1,800 horsepower over the life of the build. Watch the full video to see the run for yourself.
A Camaro held against its rev limiter, a parking lot full of bystanders, and a police cruiser parked just a few feet away — this burnout clip has racked up over 800,000 views on the strength of one moment that still gets debated in the comments over a decade later. The driver’s explanation afterward has become a running joke in its own right. Watch to see how close the smoke actually gets to that cop car.
ChrisFix’s guide to restarting a car that’s been sitting for months has racked up more than eleven million views, and the checklist inside it explains why — oil, fuel, locks, and cooling systems all degrade in ways that can wreck an engine if you just turn the key. Along the way, ChrisFix and his crew stumbled onto something in the engine bay nobody expected to find. Watch to see what it takes to bring a long-dormant car back safely — and what was waiting under the hood.
Chevrolet officially rated the 1968 Camaro Z/28’s 302 small-block at 290 horsepower, a number this episode of Muscle Car Of The Week puts to the test on the dyno, with results considerably higher. Built around SCCA Trans-Am rules, the Z/28 paired that underrated engine with a stiffened chassis and the only 15-inch Rally wheels ever fitted to a first-gen Camaro. Watch to see how far off the factory number really was.
A 2017 Camaro SS and a brand-new Dodge Charger Scat Pack lined up for a straight-line grudge match that should have come down to horsepower. Instead, it turned into a lesson about factory tire widths that muscle car owners are still citing years later. The comment section didn’t blame the driver – they blamed Dodge. Watch to see exactly where it went wrong.
A countdown of “8 of Chevrolet’s Greatest Engines” left off the small-block 350 entirely, and muscle car fans in the comments are not having it. From the 1955 original 265 that started the whole small-block family, to the 409, the high-output 327, the 450-horsepower LS6 454, and a stock numbers-matching 427 nearly lost to a Jeep swap for under , the real list of Chevy greats might look nothing like the video’s. Which engines actually deserve the crown?
For years, Street Outlaws’ The Reaper raced anonymously behind a nickname alone. At the PRI trade show, he pulled the cover off a new Procharged Camaro, trading his prior combination for a centrifugal-blower setup that no-prep racers often favor for its more manageable power curve. Fans in the comments, who know him by his real name, James Goad, flooded in with support for the new build’s debut on Oklahoma City’s notorious 405 list. Watch the reveal that has longtime fans debating what it means for his next run.
At the 2017 Wide Open Spring National in Rivanazzano Terme, Italy, a grid of American muscle — Plymouth ‘Cudas, Chevy Novas, Pontiac Firebirds, and more — ran quarter-mile times as quick as nine seconds flat in front of a crowd of Italian fans. Comments poured in from viewers across Europe praising the rare sight of so many Mopars racing together, and at least one fan asked for a future USA-versus-Europe showdown. Watch to see American iron holding court a world away from Detroit.
A first-generation Ford Mustang fastback shouldnt be able to disappear into silence, yet the build nicknamed the Zombie 222 does exactly that, hiding a reported 800-plus horsepower behind a fully electric powertrain. Shown on the GoodGuys Rod & Custom circuit years before EV conversions became a mainstream corner of the classic car world, it split viewers between purists mourning the missing V8 and converts stunned by what they saw in person. Was this the moment the electric muscle car stopped being a joke?
V8TV does not re-run the quarter-mile for this countdown, it pulls the quickest elapsed times magazines actually published in 1970 and pairs each ranking with a real survivor from the Brothers Collection. Hemi Challengers, an LS6 Chevelle, a 455 Stage 1 Buick GSX, and a stripped-down Road Runner all make the cut. Watch to see which car actually topped the list, it is not the one most people assume.
Pontiac built only eight 1969 Trans Am convertibles, and V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week caught up with the very first one ever produced — RAIII 400 power, a rare blue interior, and options like power windows that were unusual for a car built primarily as an SCCA homologation special. Restorer Gary Riley walks through the car’s history from the floor of the 2015 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Even in the comments, collectors still disagree on the exact production numbers. Watch to see what makes this one of the rarest Trans Ams ever built.