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A street-driven, twin-turbo Pontiac Trans Am takes on a big-block 1969 Chevrolet Camaro in an unscripted head-to-head run from Road Test TV, with the Trans Am finding traction while the Camaro’s torque spins its tires off the line. The Trans Am crosses at 7.89 seconds and 180 miles per hour, numbers that hold up against sanctioned strip runs. Watch to see exactly where the Camaro loses ground before either engine ever reaches full potential.
Royce Peterson wired the full asking price for a rare 1968 Cobra Jet Cougar XR7 after just thirty minutes of thought, convinced the car might be connected to a personal encounter with drag racing legend Don ‘Dyno Don’ Nicholson fourteen years earlier. Only 10 to 12 Cobra Jet Cougars from that model year are known to exist. Read on for how a chance trackside conversation became a decade-spanning provenance mystery.
This twin-turbo Ford Falcon, nicknamed the Dirty Bird, runs a stroked 449 cubic inch small-block through a pair of 88mm turbochargers to claim roughly 2,600 horsepower, all while competing on 275-millimeter drag radials at North Star Dragway. Nearly seven million viewers have watched the small-block Ford hold its own in a class often dominated by LS-swapped builds. Watch to see the run that turned this Falcon into a following of its own.
Tom Cotter’s Barn Find Hunter uncovers a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 Long-nose Alloy coupe and a 1967 Shelby Cobra 427 sitting together in a condemned Charlotte garage scheduled for demolition, with no local tow company willing to move them. Both cars were extracted and consigned to Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island Auction. Watch to see how a rescue this dramatic actually comes together before the wrecking crew arrives.
Mike bought a disassembled, engine-less Mustang shell in a small Pennsylvania town on nothing more than a seller’s claim that it was a genuine Super Cobra Jet Drag Pack car. A Marti Report later confirmed something neither of them suspected: this was the first Super Cobra Jet Mustang ever ordered with 4.30 gears. Read on for how a risky overnight decision uncovered a documented piece of Ford history.
While working on unrelated 1956 and 1957 Napco trucks, CarGuyLuke stumbles onto a back lot holding five late-1960s Mopars, including two Hemi Chargers, a 1969 model built in fewer than 1,000 units and a four-speed 1968 example limited to just 467. VIN-by-VIN decoding on camera confirms exactly what each car is and how rare it really is. Watch to see all five cars broken down in detail.
At the 2015 Good Guys West Coast Nationals, two members of the Bay Area Engine Modelers set up something that stopped people mid-stride: a fully functional overhead-valve V8 displacing 6.3 cubic inches, wearing a supercharger, producing a documented 16 horsepower, and sounding like nothing its size has any right to. The whole V8 displaces roughly an eighth of what one cylinder of a 426 Hemi does. Here is why that is far harder than it looks.
A 2008 teen comedy nobody expected to matter produced a chase scene between a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge and a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse, and that sequence has quietly outlived the film that contained it. It works because it stages an argument American car culture has been having for thirty years. Read on for the story behind the Judge, the Eclipse, and why 1.3 million people keep coming back to two minutes of film.
Street Car Video’s August Top 10 pulled its best clip of the month from a boosted 850-horsepower Camaro squaring off with a heavily built Nissan GT-R at 180 miles per hour. This piece digs into what an LS platform needs to reach that power level, why the GT-R’s all-wheel-drive layout makes it such a stubborn equalizer, and what it actually takes to build and film a race at highway-plus speeds.
Most engine builds hide their best work under a pair of stamped steel covers. This 1964 Chevelle Super Sport does the opposite, running clear valve covers over an all-COMP valvetrain so the roller rockers and the Thumpr camshaft’s handiwork are visible to anyone who opens the hood. The result is a small block built to be watched as much as heard. Read on for what that hardware actually does, and what it costs in daily driving.
The full-size Impala rarely makes anyone’s mental list of great muscle cars, which usually starts with Mustangs, Camaros, Chevelles, and Chargers. But before the Chevelle existed, the Impala SS was where Chevrolet kept its performance program, and the engines available in it were serious enough that the Beach Boys wrote a hit song about one. The case for reassessing the Impala is stronger than the hobby generally admits.
The eighth episode of Fatal Motorsports’ ongoing compilation series lands in familiar territory for anyone who has spent time on car forums or at local meets – the kind of footage that generates strong opinions across every category it covers. Over a million people watched this particular installment. What actually makes a car a “ricer,” and why do fail compilations keep pulling in audiences that produced automotive content struggles to match? Read on to find out.
Dale and Phyllis bought their Boss 429 Mustang new on March 18, 1969, from a dealer in Memphis, and then did something almost nobody does: they kept every piece of paper that came with it. Nearly five decades and 21,400 miles later, the car crossed the block at Barrett-Jackson in Las Vegas still wearing its original drivetrain and carrying its window sticker. Read on for why that documentation is worth as much as the engine.
Road confrontations between motorcyclists and car drivers have a way of escalating faster than either party expects, and the outcomes are rarely what the footage suggests from the opening frames. This viral clip from MonthlyFailz captured a confrontation that drew over 1.7 million views specifically because what unfolds doesn’t follow the expected script. The title promises something unbelievable – does the footage actually deliver? Read on to find out what happened and why it matters for anyone who drives something that draws attention.
The 1969 Camaro shows up at nearly every car show in America, which makes it easy to forget how enormous the gap is between a base six-cylinder car and a COPO 427. Same body, same year, wildly different money. Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard walks through what actually separates them and where the traps are hiding. Read on to find out what to check before you write a deposit on one.