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George and Carol Edwards spent part of their honeymoon drag racing this 1968 Yenko Super Camaro — and more than fifty-one years later, George still owns it. Lou Costabile caught up with the original owner and his numbers-matching 427 at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois. Watch to hear the engine run and find out how a Camaro became part of a marriage.
A 1969 GTO Ram Air IV, one of only 759 built that year, takes on a 1970 Chevelle SS454 LS6, Chevrolet’s most powerful factory big block of the era, in a quarter-mile pass that ends in a burnout as memorable as the race itself. An original LS6 owner in the comments confirms the car’s biggest weakness was never power, it was getting that much torque to the pavement. The Ram Air IV gives up 80 horsepower on paper but does not give up the fight. Watch the full run to see how it closes the gap.
A routine Coffee and Cars meet turns chaotic in seconds when a Mustang driver revs aggressively toward a crowd of spectators, captured live by High Tech Corvette’s Facebook feed. Two small children were knocked aside in the scramble to get clear, though no one was seriously hurt — a near-miss that reignited debate about the unwritten safety rules car meets depend on. Watch the unedited footage that has viewers siding firmly with the crowd.
Tom Cotter tracks down a car so rare only 85 were ever built in Episode 16 of Hagerty’s Barn Find Hunter — one carrying a seven-figure valuation despite needing a full restoration. Hagerty’s own description dares viewers to guess what it is before watching. What makes the find real, rather than just valuable, is a detail casual viewers might miss: most of the original parts are apparently still there.
The 1971 Trans Am and the 1973 Corvette Stingray both appear in the 1978 film Corvette Summer, and the chase sequence featuring both earned a four-star rating from Car Chase Wonderland 2 — a channel that applies that standard carefully. Two of the more significant American GT cars of their era, on real locations, at real speed. For anyone who takes 1970s movie car chases seriously, this one belongs in the conversation.
Ken Katarynchuk drove his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE hundreds of miles from Canada to Carlisle Events wearing a factory Panther Pink paint job most Mopar buyers never dared to order. Under the pink and magenta stripes sits a 383 four-barrel V8 and a 4-speed manual — a combination that has kept this car light, quick, and unmistakably his for nearly two decades. Watch to see why a stuffed Pink Panther riding shotgun might be the most honest tribute this Challenger could get.
Fifty years of dust could not hide what was parked in this rural Indiana barn: a 1969 COPO Camaro powered by the legendary 427 L72, one of the 201 COPO cars Don Yenko claimed out of roughly 1,015 built. This particular car goes further still — one of only 30 built with an automatic transmission, and one of just seven finished in Fathom Green. Watch to see how a car this rare stayed hidden in plain sight for half a century.
Doug DeMuro barely had time with the new 2019 Corvette ZR1 before filming, but touring it at its Dubai debut still turned into a look at the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built. Commenters could not resist joking about an American supercar getting its unveiling in a city built around European exotics. Watch to see the quirks DeMuro found anyway, and why this first look still gets rewatched years later.
A muscle car channel took every stereotype the Civic scene has ever earned and turned it into a single, quotable sketch: disc brakes swapped for drums, turbos ripped for straight pipes, roof racks bolted on for weight reduction. It has since pulled in over 10.4 million views and a comment section that keeps adding new lines to the bit. Watch to see which side of the muscle-versus-tuner divide gets roasted hardest.
AV Boys’ small-block Mustang gave a built, turbocharged Porsche 911 a full car-length head start in a five-thousand-dollar grudge race — and still caught it with the front wheels off the ground. The clip has circulated for years as proof that a well-built pushrod small-block Ford can embarrass six-figure German engineering. See exactly how close it actually was.
Long before customers ever saw a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, Road Runner, or GTX on a showroom floor, Chrysler’s own salesmen were trained on exactly how to sell them — using this internal film from the Master Technician Service Conference series. It breaks down engine options from economical slant six to the 440 Six-Barrel, explains what separated the budget Road Runner from the upscale GTX, and captures Plymouth’s B-body lineup right at the peak of the muscle car era. Watch to find out what Chrysler wanted its own people to know.
Regular Car Reviews poses a deliberately unanswerable question at the Carlisle Ford Nationals, wandering a field that spans everything from Model A-era classics to a modern carbon-fiber GT. Host MrRegularCar’s deadpan commentary turns a simple car show walkthrough into a running bit about what ‘best’ even means across nearly a century of the same badge. Watch to see which Ford nearly breaks the host’s trademark cynicism.
The 2019 Corvette ZR1 brought 755 horsepower to a fight the 2010 ZR1 started with 638 — but horsepower on paper and horsepower at the drag strip are two different conversations. RaceProvenMotorsports took both cars to Cecil County Raceway to find out exactly how much nine years of engineering progress was worth in the quarter mile. This is the kind of head-to-head you rarely get to see done properly. Watch to find out which ZR1 came out on top.
Tim Allen’s 1968 Camaro isn’t a movie prop — it’s a 505-horsepower 427 COPO build from Bodie Stroud, constructed to be exactly the car Allen wanted as a teenager and couldn’t afford. Jay Leno gets behind the wheel to see if it lives up to the hype, and Allen’s face during the burnout says everything words couldn’t. This is car-guy comfort food.
On a closed airstrip outside Mosjoen, Norway, a tuned modern Hemi Challenger lined up against a Lamborghini for one of the country’s grassroots Street Legal drag events. The crowd’s loyalties were obvious before the lights even dropped. What happened next explains why American V8 muscle still draws a following six thousand miles from Detroit. Watch to see if the Hemi lived up to the hype.