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A 1965 Ford F100 sat forgotten under a stand of trees for years before its new owners realized what they’d inherited with the property. No brakes, a stubborn shifter, and decades of neglect should have meant a dead truck — instead, the old six-cylinder fired right up. Find out what kept it alive for half a century.
A split-bumper 1970 Camaro rolls onto the dyno wearing a set of Flowmasters, and the numbers on the screen end up mattering less than what comes out of the exhaust. Viewers keep coming back to this clip years later, some just for the sound and others hunting for tire specs. There’s more to this build than a routine pull.
At the infamous I-15/78 interchange in San Diego County, one driver tried to force her way into traffic not once but three times, ignoring two warning honks from the unmarked vehicle behind her. The dashcam footage, captured on a Yi Dashcam Generation 1, shows exactly how the encounter unfolds once she realizes who she cut off. Viewers have praised the uploader for keeping the twist out of the title. Watch to see how it plays out.
Tom Bright had owned his Tor Red 1970 Plymouth GTX for all of three weeks when he pulled it into the Belvidere MOPAR Happening and fired up the 440 Six-Barrel for the camera. It’s a rare 440-6, four-speed combination finished in one of Mopar’s loudest High Impact colors, complete with the functional Air Grabber hood fans still talk about today. Watch the engine start and hear why he calls it his bucket-list car.
Pontiac built fewer than 700 first-year Trans Ams in 1969, and this white-with-blue-stripes example, restored by a specialist shop and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, is one of the survivors. Owner John Steger walks through what made the earliest Trans Am different from everything that came after. It’s a rare look at where the nameplate actually began.
Everyone knows the GTO and the Chevelle SS, but Car News TV went looking for the muscle cars history left behind — and found seven, including a Buick Wildcat whose custom wheels have viewers arguing in the comments to this day. One commenter even jumped in to defend his own 401-cubic-inch, four-speed AMC Javelin AMX as faster than half the cars on the list. Watch to see which forgotten machines made the cut.
Fast Lane Classic Cars in St. Charles, Missouri turned driver Tom Abbett loose on a rotating lineup of Ford, Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, and Plymouth muscle for nearly fifteen straight minutes — no superchargers, no turbos, just big American V8s including a 572 Hemi and a 427 Corvette viewers still praise for its sound alone. It’s less a single car review than a moving soundtrack of what Detroit and Fast Lane’s shop floor sound like together. Watch to hear which engine note sticks with you longest.
Hector Fraire was 19 when Oklahoma Highway Patrol clocked his 2011 Mustang GT at a jaw-dropping 208 miles per hour on a turnpike, turning a refused traffic stop into a pursuit, an arrest on reckless driving and eluding charges, and a viral story. Comment sections have spent years dissecting exactly what kind of build gets a street Mustang to that speed. The build details are more impressive than the headline.
When Dodge announced the Viper’s production would end after 2017, it closed out twenty-five years built almost entirely around one uncompromising idea: a V10 engine with no substitute. This video makes the case for what could have kept America’s last V10 sports car alive. The comment section is still arguing about whether it would have worked.
In 1967, Chevrolet borrowed a primetime sitcom witch to help sell a brand-new Camaro that, ironically, was mostly bought with a base inline-six and a three-speed. The commercial folds Bewitched’s magic into GM’s era-defining options culture, where practically everything on the car was a paid extra. It’s a strange, charming piece of Detroit advertising history.
A 1969 Dodge Daytona and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird — two of NASCAR’s most extreme aero-warrior street cars — sit side by side in one Jacksonville owner’s garage. Both wear the wing and nosecone combination that solved a real aerodynamic problem at 120-plus miles per hour, not just a styling flourish. Find out which one the owner says deserves the edge.
A Camaro-versus-Corvette street race isn’t just two fast Chevys, it’s the latest chapter in a rivalry that goes back to 1966, when the Camaro was built specifically to compete for buyers cross-shopping a Mustang while the Corvette stuck to its sports-car mission. Who’s faster has flipped more than once over the decades, and it’s closer today than ever.
A Procharger-blown C7 Stingray and a nitrous-fed, stroked 455 C6 Z06 lined up on a public street in Mexico for a 60-to-190-mph roll race, and the gap between them stayed close for nearly the entire run. Built and driven by 1320video regular StangKiller, the C7 represents the newer chassis and forced-induction school of Corvette tuning, while the C6 leans on raw cubic inches and instant nitrous torque. Watch to see which small-block philosophy actually crosses the line first.
At Stephens Performance in Alabama sits a field of B-body Mopars deep enough that Auto Archaeology needed more than one video to cover it — this first installment alone spans Chargers, Road Runners, Coronets, GTX, and Super Bees in various states of decay. One commenter recognized the exact fence line from his grandfather’s old backyard; another admitted a rusting Mopar in this yard still looked fast enough to beat his Chevrolet. Watch to see what’s survived and what hasn’t.