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Gold paint, a high-revving 302 small-block, and a decade-long restoration — this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, filmed at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, turns out to be the very first Z/28 Chevrolet ever produced. Owner Jon Mello spent ten years getting it right after discovering exactly what he had. Watch the full story behind Chevrolet’s original Trans-Am homologation special.
A countdown of the six largest production engines General Motors ever built draws exactly the kind of comment section you would expect from a genuinely technical audience, including one commenter’s joke that working on a 496-cubic-inch big-block requires a mandatory cigarette dangling from the mouth at all times. Beneath the humor sits real engineering history, including a detailed explainer on how GM’s divisions once each built their own competing V8 platforms. Watch the full countdown to see which engines made the cut.
Doug Cline drove his twin-turbo, roughly 3,000-horsepower big-block Camaro over 1,300 miles to reach Rocky Mountain Race Week. On the event’s final day, fuel buildup off the line turned into a 190-mph excursion off the racing surface, and a split-second decision not to pull the chutes ended up filling both turbochargers with sand and gravel. See exactly how a week of extreme mileage and extreme horsepower came down to one costly moment.
This 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS convertible rolls out of The Brothers Collection in a deep Madeira Maroon with a four-speed manual and bucket seats — and it has already split opinion among viewers over whether its 327 small-block earns it a true muscle car badge. Featured on V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series, this no-frills ragtop raises a question that’s been debated in Chevelle circles for decades. Watch to see which side of the argument you land on.
A Dodge Demon, a Hellcat, and a new ZL1 line up against a ’69 Charger, a Nova, a Chevelle, a Shelby GT500, and a classic Mustang in this old-vs-new drag racing compilation, and the results split viewers right down the middle. One camp insists nothing beats old-school cool factor; the other concedes technology always wins in the end. A 1970 Chevelle SS 454 turns in a pass that neither side saw coming. Watch the full lineup face off.
A five-horsepower correction shouldn’t matter much in a world of 700-horsepower crate engines, but when Driving Sports TV’s Ryan revisits his own numbers mid-review of the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Premium, it turns into a lesson in what actually separates this car from its closest rival. Between desert-road sound testing, a new ten-speed automatic smart enough to nail its own launches, and a Cobra Jet intake swap pulled straight from viewer mod lists, this GT Premium raises a real question: is 460 factory horsepower still the whole story?
This 1963 Plymouth Sport Fury doesn’t look like a race car — and that’s the point. Under a conservative full-size body sits Chrysler’s factory 426 Max Wedge, a 415-horsepower dual-quad engine serious enough to have impressed drag racing legend Don Garlits himself. One commenter called it “the Hellcat of its time,” a sleeper built a full year before Pontiac’s GTO popularized the muscle car formula. Watch to see what’s hiding under that Sport Fury badge.
Dodge builds an all-wheel-drive Challenger, but the only engine you can get with it is a V6 — so EddieX asks the obvious, slightly provocative question: does that still count as a muscle car? The answer that comes back from actual GT owners in the snowbelt has almost nothing to do with horsepower, and everything to do with why they bought this exact car in the first place. What does “muscle car” even mean once winter tires enter the conversation?
A junkyard Chevy 350 gets torn down on camera, one bolt at a time, in an episode that’s quietly racked up nearly two million views. Between a self-issued correction about the engine’s origin, a flood of hard-won rebuild tips in the comments, and a teenager crediting the series with teaching him to wrench, there’s a reason this teardown has outlasted flashier build videos. What is it about a simple disassembly that keeps drawing people back years later?
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske breaks down what a hemispherical combustion chamber actually is — the dome-shaped design behind Chrysler’s legendary 426 Hemi, and the reason the name became shorthand for raw American power. The real story involves valve geometry, spark plug placement, and a genuine engineering tradeoff most casual fans never learn about. Watch to see why modern Hemi-badged engines aren’t quite what the original name promised.
This 1968 Dodge Charger was hidden so deep in an old junkyard it wasn’t even visible from the road — and it might still be sitting there if a family hadn’t decided to buy it on the spot. The car’s condition surprised viewers, but the real standout was a young kid confidently correcting an adult’s Super Bee trivia. Watch to see the find and the moment that had everyone talking.
A dealership straps a brand new GoPro to the dash for one final drive in a 1979 Camaro Z28 before it leaves for a new owner the next morning — and the internet can’t decide what to focus on first. Is it the exhaust note commenters say gives them goosebumps, or the boldly colored interior that’s already become a running joke? One story buried in the comments about a similar Camaro’s tragic fate suggests there’s more riding on this handoff than anyone watching realizes.
Barefoot Ronnie Pace’s Nova backfires through its nitrous system mid-race against Flacco’s Tuning, sending a fireball out of the engine bay close enough that a nearby bystander’s lit cigarette becomes its own punchline in the comments. One viewer corrects the record on nitrous chemistry; another questions whether the car is really a genuine Yenko. Watch to see just how dramatic the explosion really gets.
A soft yellow 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a warm gold interior looks like the mildest car on the lot — until you learn it’s hiding a genuine 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual transmission underneath. Sourced from The Brothers Collection for Muscle Car of the Week episode 178, this true sleeper is exactly the kind of factory oddity serious Mopar collectors chase. Find out why the comments call it a favorite.
In 1969, Plymouth paid Warner Bros. for the rights to a cartoon bird, its signature meep-meep horn, and an entire ad campaign built around outrunning a coyote. This commercial captures that gamble at its peak, arriving the same year the Road Runner won Motor Trend Car of the Year over cars that cost far more. It is proof that a genuinely fast car could still afford to be a little ridiculous. Watch the pitch that convinced a generation of buyers.