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HOT ROD put a $699 small-block turbo kit through real-world testing to answer the question every budget builder asks: does it actually work? The kit’s wastegate turned out to be the weak link — confirmed by a viewer who swapped in a real 50mm external wastegate and pushed a similar kit past 1,000 horsepower on a completely different engine. Watch to see what held up, what didn’t, and what it takes to fix it.
This compilation strings together real quarter mile drag races between the modern muscle car era’s biggest names — Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, a Shelby GT500 Super Snake, a Corvette ZR1, and more — with results that do not always match what the spec sheets promise. One Hellcat driver appears to fall asleep at the line and still nearly catches a Super Snake by the finish. Watch to see which factory-built legend actually comes out on top.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
Fifty years is long enough for a car to outlive the reasons someone parked it in the first place. This 1961 Corvette finally rolled back into daylight after five decades in storage, and the timing matters: 1961 was the last year Chevrolet built the Corvette exclusively around the 283 small-block, including a rare fuel-injected option. Here’s what makes a survivor like this one worth a second look.
Inside Line pits a 2010 Dodge Challenger against its 1970 ancestor in this Edmunds.com comparison test — but the vintage car is not stock. It is a Hotchkis-modified Trans Am platform car, and viewers who have ridden in it firsthand explain exactly what was changed and what was not. Watch to see how a well-rounded modern Challenger stacks up against fifty-year-old muscle built for the road course.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.
A creator known as MrOffAndOn set out to document a complete teardown and rebuild of a Dodge 5.9-liter 360 Magnum V8 — an engine with real Mopar small-block heritage that spent most of its life under truck hoods instead of muscle car fenders. Viewers have called it one of the most thorough rebuild videos they’ve found for this specific engine, with several thanking the creator directly for making it. Watch to see what a full rebuild actually involves, start to finish.
My Classic Car’s Dennis finds two of 1970’s rarest survivors in the same Indiana town: the only Ram Air III GTO Judge built in Orbit Orange, and a 440-Six Barrel Plymouth Road Runner convertible, one of roughly thirty ever made. See the factory details behind both cars, how the Six Pack carburetor setup actually worked, and a commenter’s vivid memory of seeing one new at a mall in 1970.
I4NI’s “Muscle Car” music video turned a studio single into a neighborhood event — extras rolling up in a lifted Chevy truck, a full production crew credited on-screen, and a comment section split between subwoofer builds, Gran Torino nostalgia, and fans still asking about a documentary years later. See the video, and the car-audio culture running underneath its title.
CGP Grey’s explainer opens on a traffic jam with no accident, no construction, and no visible cause — then spends ten minutes building the case that the real problem was never on the road at all. It’s the reasoning behind phantom jams, the two-car-length rule nobody follows, and why self-driving cars might fix what decades of new lanes never could. Watch to see if the argument changes your mind.
An eight-minute bidding war inside Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Event Center ended with a numbers-matching, four-speed 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertible selling for $3.5 million — the highest price ever paid for one at public auction. Viewers in the comments do the math on what the car cost new, debate where collector values go next, and imagine the seller’s mixed emotions. See the sale that redefined what a Mopar convertible could be worth.
Jay Leno ordered this 1966 Ford Galaxie as a sixteen-year-old, reportedly behind his father’s back, and decades later he’s calling its restoration ‘finally’ complete for the third time. Along the way, one exchange about a muffler and a rocketship has become, according to his own fans, one of the best stories Jay has ever told on the show. Watch to see what took the Ultimate Edition build so long to get right.
A 1970 Chevelle sitting inside one of Delaware’s largest private car collections turned out to be hiding a factory LS6 454 — GM’s rarest and most powerful big-block option that year, built for just over 4,000 Chevelles nationwide. Chevelle Magazine gave it a nickname that stuck: the ‘Fossil From Flint.’ Watch to see how a cowl tag turned an overlooked coupe into a magazine-featured discovery.
Nick and Vasilis chase 400 horsepower out of a freshly built Oldsmobile Rocket 350, comparing an Edelbrock intake against the factory cast iron piece on the dyno. Years later, viewers are still asking whether they actually hit the number — and debating whether a restrictive carburetor adapter plate held the engine back. Watch the full pull, then see what the comments say really happened.
A Ford Raptor built for chewing through the desert at speed meets its match on a stretch of ordinary wet pavement, and the resulting slide ends against a concrete sign with the kind of precision the internet has been joking about ever since. The footage — captured by a fixed security camera rather than a dash cam — has become a go-to reference for how quickly a high-clearance truck can lose control in standing water. Watch to see exactly how far it slides before it stops.