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Grid Banter’s cameras catch the Dodge Demon’s first public test run at the 2017 Gator Nationals — footage tied directly to NHRA’s unusual decision to ban the production car from its own sanctioned events. A Dodge rep confirms on camera that it’s a real Demon mule, then declines to discuss specs. Even a Corvette Z06 owner in the comments admits Dodge deserves credit for building something this extreme.
A twin-turbo Mustang, a supercharged Hellcat, a BMW M6, and — improbably — a four-door Cadillac CTS-V all lined up on the same stretch of Mexican freeway for a night of unsanctioned street racing. Nearly two million viewers have tuned in since, and the comment section still can’t agree on which car actually deserved bragging rights. Watch to see which one earns the loudest reaction.
Tom Lembeck has owned this 1970 Plymouth Superbird — one of roughly 135 built with the 426 Hemi — since 2007, and Lou Costabile catches up with him in Chicago for ‘My Car Story.’ Finished in Plymouth’s High Impact Vitamin C orange, the car draws no shortage of comments calling it the most memorable muscle car of the 1970s. Watch to hear Lembeck’s decade-plus history with one of Mopar’s rarest homologation specials.
Dave Murawski has owned this 1972 Buick GS Stage 1 — Arctic White paint, 455 CI engine — since 2010, fulfilling a fascination that started when he was thirteen. Lou Costabile catches up with him at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, and even commenters loyal to other GM muscle cars admit the GS is winning them over. Watch to hear the full story behind the N-25-optioned Stage 1.
This 1960 Ford Thunderbird sat in storage from the 1970s until 2002, then spent thirteen more years in restoration before finally starting up again at the World of Wheels show in West Allis, Wisconsin. Owner Mike Adam’s wife Lynne learned to drive on this exact car decades ago, which makes its Monte Carlo Red return to running condition a family milestone as much as an automotive one. The third-generation ‘Squarebird’ rarely gets this kind of spotlight. Watch the full engine start-up and hear the whole story.
A 1967 Chevrolet Impala sat untouched for thirty-three years before anyone dared turn the key again — and when it finally caught, it sounded less like a car and more like something waking up angry. Viewers have compared the ragged idle to everything from a sputtering biplane to Stephen King’s Christine clearing her throat. Watch to hear exactly what three decades of silence sounds like breaking.
A green Chevelle had barely rolled off the show field before its driver decided to give the crowd one more moment to remember. Seconds later, a mistimed stab of the throttle mid-turn sent the car sideways and into a roadside ditch in front of hundreds of phones. More than two million views and over a decade later, it’s still one of the internet’s favorite reminders of what happens when a muscle car’s power outruns its driver’s patience.
This 1968 Buick Skylark runs an 11-second quarter mile thanks to a stall converter and valve train work — but the real story showed up in the comments, where a man claiming to be the car’s first owner describes getting it from his parents in 1975, catching air on gravel roads, and sliding it into an impossibly tight parking spot while showing off for a girl he later married. It is a joyride video that accidentally became a decades-long love story. Watch the full clip and read the comment for yourself.
Auto Archaeology returns to a hidden Mopar collection split between an abandoned auto parts showroom and a barn buried into a hillside — a find significant enough that Hot Rod magazine covered it separately. One commenter adds real depth on Chrysler’s High-Impact color program, explaining how Plymouth’s Moulin Rouge, In Violet, and Vitamin C matched Dodge’s differently-named Panther Pink, Plum Crazy Purple, and Go Mango. See what else the second visit uncovers.
Garage 54’s mechanics have built a channel out of answering questions nobody else bothers to ask, and this time the question was whether a torn tire could survive a full concrete pour instead of compressed air. The build gets messy fast, the shop cat makes an appearance, and the result says more about unsprung weight and tire engineering than most people expect from a shop-floor experiment. Watch to see exactly how the concrete held up once the wheel actually had to roll.
Nick’s Garage rebuilds the 440 big-block pulled from a rare 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T convertible, reassembling it piece by piece before pushing it to redline on the dyno. Comments praise the channel for teaching the process rather than just showing results — one viewer even shares finishing their own 440 stroked to 506 cubic inches. Watch to see whether the rebuild holds up under full load.
This video ranks five of the greatest V8 engines from the golden era of American muscle cars, opening with a key distinction: the 426 Street Hemi’s factory-warrantied 10.25:1 compression versus its race-only cousin. One commenter adds real-world proof of the era’s staying power — a 1970 Mustang Mach I he’s owned since 1977, now making 425 horsepower after a 351 Cleveland rebuild. See which five engines made the list.
Roadkill’s David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan take delivery of a 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat, a 707-horsepower Charger Hellcat, and a 645-horsepower Viper GT straight from Dodge, then head for a motocross track with zero regard for what any of these cars were actually built to do. With guest appearances from Motor Trend, Dirt Every Day, and a professional drifter, this episode marked the start of Dodge’s sponsorship — and it shows exactly why the partnership worked. Watch to see 2,059 combined horsepower meet terrain built for dirt bikes.
A brand new Challenger build from Craven Performance in St. Peters, Missouri had been running for only a couple of days when RamblinAround caught up with it at Mega Mopar weekend. Under the hood sits a fuel injected, 10-71 supercharged 572 Hemi the shop expects to clear 1200 horsepower once it hits a dyno. No numbers yet, no track pass logged, just a blower poking through the hood and a sound that already turned heads in the parking lot.
Mikey V has owned his 1972 AMC Javelin SST since it left the factory, the result of a question his American Motors employee father once asked him: Hornet or Javelin? Lou Costabile found the car, now packing roughly 900 horsepower, at Wisconsin’s World of Wheels show. Weather permitting, it is still his daily driver. Watch to see what happens when a car built for grocery runs gets pushed this far past stock.