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Lou Costabile tracks down Jeff Battaglia and his 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback GT 390 at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, where the car — restored over seven years at Platinum Custom Cars — makes its very first show debut. It’s not the Bullitt car, and nobody involved is pretending otherwise. This is a family restoration with its own story to tell. Watch to see how it all came together.

A 2016 Camaro, Challenger, and Mustang went through the same violent small overlap crash test, and the three modern pony cars did not come out looking anywhere close to equal. A physics teacher breaks down exactly why using a whiteboard, a test track, and the wreckage itself, while the comments argue over whether the test format even reflects real-world driving. Watch to see which of Detroit’s three headline muscle cars held up best.

Ryan Brutt, The Auto Archaeologist, returns for a third visit to a private warehouse hiding a stunning run of aero-era Mopars, Daytonas, a Superbird, and more, parked alongside far more ordinary iron. Not every car here is a survivor ready to drive, and one viewer’s own Superbird memory adds a layer the video alone could not. Watch to see what three visits still has not fully uncovered.

Flowmaster’s own breakdown of its muffler lineup tackles a question that trips up nearly every muscle car owner shopping for an exhaust upgrade: which series actually fits your car? With over a dozen options ranging from the raw, track-ready 10 Series to the daily-driver-friendly 50 Series, picking based on name recognition alone is a common and costly mistake. This video walks through exactly what separates each series — and why drone matters more than volume.

Tom Lembeck has spent decades building one of the more serious MOPAR collections around, so when he calls this 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Convertible one of his favorites, it’s worth paying attention. The car wears a rare Triple Black specification — paint, top, and interior all finished in black — paired with the potent 440 Six Pack engine, and Tom has owned it since 1999. Lou Costabile sat down with him in Chicago to find out why.

Muscle Vs Tuner built an entire parody character around one very specific kind of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 owner — and gave him a mangled catchphrase about a German racetrack that somehow relocated itself to Kansas. A cameo from a real Z06-focused channel adds an extra layer to the joke, and the comment section has spent years piling on new one-liners of its own. Watch to see how many of the stereotypes you recognize.

A 1974 Nova SS body sitting on a Dodge Ram 3500 Dually 4×4 chassis shouldn’t work — but at the Pigeon Forge Rod Run, it did. Commenters shared their own diesel-swap build specs, debated the wheel fitment, and one claimed to have spotted the exact truck at Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan. Is it a show car, a work truck, or both?

A homeowner comes home to find a stranger’s car blocking his driveway, decides not to wait for a tow truck, and instead relocates the vehicle to the middle of the street himself. What happens when the actual owner returns — and police show up in the meantime — has made this one of the most-watched neighborhood parking disputes online, mostly because nobody can agree on who was actually in the wrong. Watch the confrontation unfold.

The Horsepower Monster wraps up its three-part documentary on reviving a genuine Chrysler 426 Hemi — the engine Mopar fans still call the ‘Elephant’ — with the moment every rebuild ultimately comes down to: a dyno pull. After months of teardown, machining, and reassembly on one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built, the crew finally finds out whether their work paid off. The full dyno sheet is published alongside the video for anyone chasing the exact numbers.

Marspeed’s rundown of forgotten Dodge and Chrysler SRT models digs up five performance cars that history left behind — a turbocharged economy car, a German-flavored coupe, a Hemi-powered family wagon, and a full-size pickup running a Viper’s V10 under the hood. Each one carried real performance credentials in its day, yet all five have faded from the SRT conversation entirely. Some command real money today; others remain surprisingly affordable bargains. See which one you’d forgotten existed.

A routine vehicle repossession in Jackson, Mississippi turned into a dive for cover when gunfire broke out mid-hookup — and the agent’s own description of the incident to a local news crew is more unsettling than the video itself. He calls it a typical day. The debt, the law, and the split-second decisions that define one of the more dangerous jobs almost nobody thinks about are all part of the story. Watch the full account below.

This 1968 Ford Torino GT arrived at the exact moment Ford finally stopped chasing the GTO and started genuinely competing, pairing aggressive SportsRoof styling with an available 428 Cobra Jet V8 that quietly embarrassed cars with flashier reputations. The redesign helped push the Torino to sales-leader status in its segment that year. Find out what made this underrated Ford one of the smartest muscle car buys of its era.

Ben calls his 1976 Ford Cortina “overkill,” and it’s hard to argue: a twin-turbo, supercharged Ford Cleveland V8 stuffed into a compact Australian sedan, built specifically to chase his own personal best burnout time at Summernats. A mechanical issue cut the record attempt short, but not before the car vaporized its tires and earned genuine respect from a crowd that expected a lot less from a Cortina.

Troy Hawkes fires up his numbers-matching 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona for a rev and a quick burnout, but the real story is what that towering wing and 18-inch nose cone were built to solve: a NASCAR aero war that pushed Chrysler to build only 503 street versions just to legalize the race car. Watch to see the homologation special that helped Dodge become the first manufacturer to top 200 mph in NASCAR competition.

On paper, a Whipple-supercharged Terminator Cobra should have walked away from a manual-transmission 1969 Camaro without much drama. On the track, the Cobra’s driver spent half the run fighting to keep the car pointed straight while the old-school Camaro refused to fall back. Commenters are calling it one of the best “driver’s races” they’ve seen in a long time.

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