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A Kelly Bise Racing twin-turbo Corvette attempted a 200-mph pass at the WannaGoFast Texas Half Mile packing an estimated 3,000 horsepower from twin 88mm turbos and a 427-cubic-inch engine — and lost the fight for traction over 300 feet before going airborne above a public road. The parachute tore loose mid-spin, leaving the driver to save the car with nothing but reflexes and a well-built chassis. Watch to see how close this run came to a very different ending.
Kyle from Saabkyle04 skips the usual 0 to 60 numbers and spends his time with the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon doing one thing, listening. Between the supercharger’s mechanical whine and 840 horsepower on tap, the video turns into an open question: is this the best sounding muscle car ever made? The comment section has been arguing about it ever since, split hard between two very different definitions of muscle.
V8TV pulled six cars from The Brothers Collection for this Muscle Car of the Week episode, each one chosen specifically because it does not look like what it actually is — including a supercharged Studebaker Avanti and a four-door, four-speed 1965 Galaxie R-Code 427. Viewers responded by sharing their own sleeper stories, from a grandfather’s 421 Super Duty Catalina to a Corvair packing a 327 small block in the back seat. Watch to see all six.
Car News TV counts down the eight highest-horsepower classic muscle cars, and viewers spent the comment section correcting nearly every figure on the list. Between disputed top speeds, mismatched engine badges, and overlooked contenders like the AMX, the pushback ends up telling a more accurate and more interesting story than the countdown itself.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX running the legendary 426 Hemi lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Six Pack in this quarter mile drag race from Road Test TV — two of the rarest muscle cars Mopar ever built, going head to head. The Six Pack jumps out front early, but the Hemi has a plan for the second half of the run. One viewer’s story about his own father predicted exactly how it would end. Watch to see who takes it.
Nik Miles set out to answer a simple question — what actually makes a muscle car — and instead sparked one of the most contentious debates in the channel’s comment section. Viewers argued over V8 requirements, two-door bodies, missing sway bars, and whether the category has even existed for the past two decades. No two definitions fully agree. Watch the video, then see which side of the argument you land on.
Raybestos Brakes and Schwartz Performance built this 1969 Mustang Fastback as a SEMA Show giveaway car, spending fourteen hundred hours making it look completely stock while quietly replacing almost everything underneath. From the curb it reads as an unmodified Fastback. Underneath, it drives nothing like the car it appears to be, and that gap is entirely the point.
Jim Kolich has owned this 1966 Buick Riviera since 1991, the same year his daughter was born, and more than thirty years later he is still showing it off at events like Wisconsin’s World of Wheels. Finished in gold with Buick’s distinctive 425 Nailhead V8 underneath, the car draws comparisons to some of the cleanest American designs of its decade. Watch to hear Jim’s full story behind three decades of ownership.
A Chevy Camaro fled a GameStop robbery scene in Houston with police already closing in, and ABC13 cameras caught the entire pursuit unedited. The chase reveals exactly what a modern factory V8 can do under real pressure, and exactly why that performance rarely favors the driver trying to outrun it. Watch to see how far a straight-line advantage actually gets you once the turns start.
A car left parked directly in front of a fire hydrant became the subject of a full CNN segment after firefighters responded in the most theatrical way possible. Correspondent Jeanne Moos turns the moment into a lesson on why hydrant clearance rules exist — and what a professional-grade hose can do to an unattended vehicle. The clip has quietly racked up nearly four million views. Watch to see exactly what was waiting for the driver when they got back.
Filmed in a rushed twenty-minute window before sunset on a friend’s brand-new Canon 5D Mark II, this orange 426 Hemi Cuda clip captures both genuine wheelspin and an unusually honest behind-the-scenes account of its own making. Tags hint at a wider garage of Mopar and Pantera builds behind the uploader. See the footage, and the small piece of early car-video history it represents.
CBC Marketplace sent hidden cameras into a chain oil change shop advertising a nineteen-dollar service, and what their investigation caught on the hoist has real implications for anyone trusting a shop with a classic engine. The gap between what gets billed and what actually gets done is bigger than most owners assume, and the checklist it produces is worth keeping.
A lineup of stock Hellcat Chargers and Challengers line up for straight-line bragging rights in this drag racing compilation, settling the question of whether the four-door Charger gives up anything against its two-door sibling. Comments range from jokes about spouse-approved practicality to a driver’s cautious launch technique. Watch to see which body style, and which driver, actually crosses the line first.
Joe Pieroni has owned his 1964 Chrysler Imperial Crown Coupe since 1989 — and in thirty-five years, he says he has seen exactly one other one. The two-door Crown Coupe was always the rarer choice within Chrysler’s already low-volume luxury division, and survivors from this era are scarcer still. Commenters call it the most beautiful car they’ve ever seen. Watch the full walkthrough to see why this Imperial has stayed in one owner’s hands for over three decades.
Richard Schmidt’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible sat untouched for forty years after he and his late wife Kitty stopped using it as their everyday cruiser. His kids brought it back — not for the horsepower, but in her memory. Hagerty named the finished restoration its 2016 Classic of the Year, beating eleven other finalist stories. Watch the full story and see why one viewer called it ‘how to make a car guy cry 101.’