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Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
A vintage Dodge Dart with a Chrysler 340 under the hood lines up against a modern C5 Corvette, and the comment section had already decided who wins before the video even loaded. One viewer calls it over before it started; another shares the story of nearly buying a 340 Duster for $1,000 back in 1975. Watch to see if old-school Mopar muscle really does settle the argument.
A routine traffic stop — a driver dusting off his own car while he waits, an officer running a records check — takes a sudden turn when an out-of-control pickup truck crashes into the scene, all caught on dashcam. Viewers have spent years picking apart the driver’s exact reaction in the moment it happens. Watch the footage and see how fast an ordinary roadside wait can turn into something else entirely.
Lou Costabile catches up with Dave OMalley and his red 1966 Pontiac GTO at a small car show in Batavia, Illinois, a car OMalley has owned since 2002. The taillights get singled out as the cars best feature, sparking a comment-section debate over whether the 66 or 67 GTO actually looks better. One viewers story about selling an almost identical car during the 1970s oil crisis says more about muscle car ownership than any spec sheet could. Watch to hear OMalley explain what has kept him holding on.
Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of a genuinely rare 1969 Plymouth GTX for BIG MUSCLE, a car that wears its chips and scratches instead of hiding them under fresh paint. It is the kind of survivor that pulls personal stories out of the comment section, including one from a viewer whose brother came home from Vietnam to a car just like it. The GTX was Plymouth’s upscale answer to the muscle car boom, and this one still carries every mile of its history. Watch to see what Musto finds under the hood.
Erika Perrye had only owned her 1970 Buick GSX for a few months when Lou Costabile caught up with her and husband Bob in Lake Zurich, Illinois — but she already had strong opinions on why Buick’s most overlooked muscle car beats the obvious choices. Finished in bold Saturn Yellow with the torque-heavy 455 V8, this GSX is one of the rarest performance cars Buick ever built. Find out how a rare yellow Buick turned her into a genuine muscle car fan.
Frank and Tina Ayres spent about five years turning a 1958 Chevrolet shortbed Fleetside into something that rides and stops like a modern vehicle while looking like it never left 1959. The build passed through a now-defunct trade school campus and a Sacramento custom shop, picked up a Heidts Mustang II front end and a 350 small-block along the way, and ends on Coker wide whitewalls. It also starts an argument about what year it actually is. Read on for the details.
A car that quietly pulls to one side or wears through a set of tires years too early usually isn’t a tire problem at all — it’s an alignment problem hiding behind three angles most drivers have never heard of. CNET’s Brian Cooley breaks down camber, caster, and toe in plain language, and more than one viewer went out to check their own wheels after watching. Watch to find out which of the three you’re most likely feeling every time you drive.
Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger sit down to plan a small-block rebuild for a 1970 Dodge Challenger after its factory 318 got wrecked in a prior Roadkill Garage episode, and the conversation turns into a full history lesson on Chrysler’s LA-series V8. Viewers in the comments call it some of the best pure engine-nerd talk on the channel, right down to warnings about mixing cast and forged cranks. It is dense, it is technical, and Mopar fans cannot get enough of it. Watch to see what they land on for the rebuild.
A stock street Mustang meets its match against a 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner GTX built and sponsored by Intellitec College, packing a methanol-burning, supercharged 440 good for 1,100 horsepower and a 9.20-second quarter mile at 150 mph. Viewers have spent over a decade arguing in the comments about whether it even counts as a fair race. It does not, and that is exactly the point. Watch the numbers do the talking once the tree drops.
The Fast Lane Car lines up a 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat against a 306-horsepower Honda Civic Type R for a drag race, then does something more interesting: takes both cars onto a road course. The quarter-mile goes about how the horsepower gap suggests, but the track segment stirred up a comment section debate over which car actually won, complete with accusations that traction control skewed the result. Nearly 1.5 million viewers have weighed in since. Watch to see where the numbers stop telling the whole story.
Behind a collapsing barn door sits a 1969 Pontiac GTO nobody has moved in years, and the comment section cannot agree on what should happen to it. Some want it stripped for restoration parts; one viewer wants it left exactly as found, rust and all. Several offer surprisingly specific advice on how to legally claim an abandoned car like this one for yourself. Watch to see the full discovery inside the barn.
Brian Makse takes the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody out for a first drive built around one real question: does borrowing the Demon’s flared fenders actually make the Hellcat better, or just meaner-looking? Commenters overwhelmingly say Dodge finally got the Challenger’s proportions right — and at least one viewer credits this exact review with convincing them to buy one. Watch to see whether the width lives up to the hype.
A numbers-matching Hemi ‘Cuda and a modern supercharged Hellcat don’t usually end up in the same driveway, let alone the same video — but that’s exactly what happens here, thanks to a Mopar owner named Daryl who trusted a stranger with his classic muscle car for an afternoon. What starts as an old-school-versus-new-school comparison turns into something more personal about who these cars actually belong to. The horsepower gap is real, but it’s not the whole story.
Long before YouTube reviewers existed, TV host Bud Lindemann was putting cars through genuinely aggressive road tests — and this 1971 AMC Javelin SST got one of his more pointed reviews, directly comparing its styling to the Corvette before insisting “the Javelin is a handler.” Between AMC’s shared-block engine strategy and its little-known Group 19 racing parts program, this vintage clip explains why AMC loyalists remain some of the most devoted voices in muscle car culture. Watch the full vintage test.