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1320Video followed a freshly built twin-turbo 427 Ford Fairlane through RPM Magazine’s grueling Rocky Mountain Race Week, seven days of driving and five days of racing across 1,300 road miles. Between tire troubles, an 18-20 mpg cruising surprise, and an eventual 9.69-second pass, the build turned into a genuine proving ground. Watch to see how a brand-new combination held up under real endurance pressure.
An ’08 Smart Car running a boosted Toyota Paseo engine lined up against a Shelby Mustang on a Colorado test-and-tune night, and the first run nearly ended in a wheelstand before the car even left the line. By the second pass, the tiny hatchback had cut its time to 12.53 at 107 mph and put the Mustang on the trailer. Drag racing regulars in the comments call it one of the purest sleeper builds they have seen. Watch to see exactly how a car this small pulls it off.
A junkyard Chevy 350 doesn’t look like much until Chris Duke starts tearing it down for Motorz’s full rebuild series, and sharp-eyed viewers caught something he got wrong about the donor truck within minutes of the upload. Along the way, hands-on commenters share the exact reverse-torque trick that prevents a warped head and the fuel-line-and-dowel method for pulling pistons without scarring the cylinder walls. One teenager even credits the channel with teaching him to rebuild his own Monte Carlo’s engine. What else does this teardown get right that most tutorials skip?
Pontiac built just 17 examples of the 1971 GTO Judge convertible, and this white, unassuming-looking survivor from The Brothers Collection is one of them. Sharp-eyed viewers spotted honest rust on its rear quarter panel, proof this is a preserved original rather than a show-polished restoration. Commenters still debate why so few were ever built. Watch Muscle Car Of The Week’s 202nd episode take a close look at one of Pontiac’s rarest configurations.
A bolt-on, 560-horsepower Nissan GT-R from the Bay Area takes on American muscle at an impromptu California street meetup, where imperfect pavement ends up mattering more than raw horsepower. Viewers came away praising the mutual respect between import and domestic camps more than the actual results. Watch to see how the all-wheel-drive advantage plays out on a street that refuses to hook up.
Legendary Motorcar’s Dream Car Garage put a genuine 1970 Hemi Cuda through its paces for a segment that still draws passionate comments from Mopar fans years later. The car’s reputation as a straight-line weapon comes directly from Chrysler cramming its most extreme racing engine into a chassis never quite built to handle the weight, yet one detailed comment pushes back, praising the torsion bar suspension’s composure on paved circuits. Watch the full segment to see why viewers still mourn the show that filmed it.
In February 2013, Lars Skroder challenged his brother to find an unrestored 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda with a build sheet, a four-speed, and its original owner still attached. Three weeks later, a YouTube video led him to Greg Peterson, who had owned the Hemi Orange car since he was sixteen. Read on to find out how a graduation gift became one of the most original ‘Cudas on the planet.
MotorTrend paired three muscle car legends with their modern descendants — a ’69 Camaro SS396 against a 2011 Camaro SS, a ’70 Challenger against a 2011 SRT8, and a ’69 Shelby against a modern GT500 convertible — to settle whether nostalgia holds up against real engineering progress. The results aren’t as simple as newer-is-better. Watch to see which era actually wins the argument.
This 1980 AMC AMX Spirit has under 8,000 original miles and has stayed with owner Bud Brick, unmodified, since 2011 — a remarkable survival story for a car built by the smallest of Detroit’s automakers. Its straight-six engine draws real praise in the comments from owners who gave up only about 10 horsepower compared to the V8 option. My Car Story host Lou Costabile continues his search for overlooked American survivors. See how well this AMC has held up.
Saabkyle04 gives the 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 the same in-depth, first-person treatment he brings to everything from vintage Impalas to Lamborghinis — start-up, exhaust note, and a full walkthrough of what changed when Ford swapped in the 351 Cleveland V8. One commenter’s memory of staring at his brother-in-law’s Mach 1 for hours in 1972 says as much about this car’s legacy as any spec sheet could. Watch the full review to hear that exhaust note for yourself.
A 1964 Pontiac Catalina Safari that started life as a police wagon now runs a 468-cubic-inch Nelson Racing Engines big-block under the hood, turning the least glamorous body style in Detroit’s lineup into what The Drive’s BIG MUSCLE crew calls a tire-shredding monster. The comment section is already campaigning for a full season of wagon builds. Watch to see what convinced them.
Only 201 of these 1969 Yenko Camaros were ever built, and this one’s owner hoped it would clear $300,000 at auction. When the gavel fell at roughly $240,000, the comment section split over whether that was a fair price or a steal. Commenters also debated which of the 201 cars are truly the most desirable, and warned future buyers just how much paperwork it takes to prove a Yenko is real. Watch the sale and the debate it sparked.
Frank Soldridge’s pass at the No Mercy radial-tire event puts a Dodge on its rear wheels at a speed most cars never reach on all four. The front end stays up, the car keeps accelerating, and by the finish line the timing slip shows a number that still stops viewers mid-scroll years later. Watch how a wheelie bar, a dialed-in launch, and a driver who refused to lift turned a potential disaster into one of drag racing’s most replayed passes.
A green Dodge Challenger running a genuine 426 Hemi hits a half-mile stretch of track with nothing held back, and the resulting sound has kept this clip circulating in Mopar circles for years. Car Acceleration TV captured both the numbers and the unmuffled roar of one of Detroit’s most legendary big-blocks doing exactly what it was built to do. This is the elephant engine, unleashed.
Drag racing legend Don Garlits personally introduces the HellScat, a one-of-a-kind Dodge Challenger engineered past 1,000 horsepower and built specifically to be given away for charity. The name mashes up two existing Dodge trims, but the build goes well beyond anything either one offered from the factory. See why a figure as credible as Garlits was the right person to tell this car’s story.