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After seventeen years sitting in a Texas barn, this rare 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais – factory four-speed manual, factory Power Astro-roof – gets a shot at running again from the team at Classic GBody Garage. It’s the first chapter of a build they’ve dubbed ‘Project Ratlass.’ Watch to find out if the engine still turns over.

This unrestored 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 has covered under 8,000 original miles and stayed with the Leszczynski family since 1998. Finished in the uncommon Deep Water Blue and carrying matching numbers, it’s the kind of survivor collectors specifically hunt for rather than stumble across. Watch the full walkaround to see why this one rarely makes it to market.

The 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 paired aggressive styling with the legendary 428 Cobra Jet or Super Cobra Jet V8, undercutting rival big-block muscle cars on price while matching or beating their performance. It remains one of the more underrated variants in the first-generation Mustang lineup. Watch to see exactly what made this combination such a giant-killer in 1969.

Regular Car Reviews asks Mustang owners at a car show one simple question: why is your Mustang the best Mustang? The answers range from a bowl of oranges balanced on an intake to an actual P-51 fighter plane crashing the party, with a scene-stealing Thunderbird cameo along the way. Watch to see which answer the comments still can’t stop quoting.

Two father-and-son 1957 Chevys, twin-turbocharged and pushing over 6,000 combined horsepower, went head to head across all five brutal days of Drag Week 2014. The newer, lighter build known as ‘The Evil Twin’ edged out its heavier stablemate ‘The Beast’ despite similar power. Watch to see exactly how much an 800-pound difference mattered.

A multi-part build series following a Chrysler 426 Hemi from bare block to running engine turned its comment section into a genuine history debate, with viewers tracing the Hemi’s roots back through the 1956 Chrysler 300B and, according to one claim, all the way to a WWII-era aircraft engine. Between the technical assembly detail and the borderline-religious reverence in the comments, this build says as much about Hemi mythology as the engine itself. Watch the full build.

Shelby never officially built a 1967 GT500 convertible — except, according to owner and Shelby historian Brian Styles, this one. Backed by his own research group dedicated to documenting that exact model year, Styles walks through the paper trail behind a car that reportedly sold for $775,000 at auction, stunning a room that expected far less. Watch to see the evidence for one of the more compelling ownership stories in Shelby history.

The Shaker hood scoop on this Dodge Challenger looks like pure nostalgia, but it is a functional intake mounted directly to a 375-horsepower HEMI, engineered to feed cooler air while visibly shaking independently of the hood around it. Owners in the comments detail everything from built engines to weatherproofing myths to exactly what the factory Shaker package included. Watch to see the feature — and the questions it still generates — explained in full.

A 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertible surfaced after roughly thirty-five years in storage, and its VIN tells a story most barn finds cannot back up: it is one of only 17 factory 440-6 Barrel convertibles Plymouth ever built. Viewers immediately started arguing over what a car this rare is actually worth, with estimates ranging from six figures unrestored to well over a million dollars fully restored. Watch to see the car — and the debate — for yourself.

A shop left a car raised on a two-post lift overnight because of incoming bad weather, and by morning it had crashed to the ground — footage that has since racked up more than 1.6 million views. Nobody was hurt, but the incident is a real reminder of how a routine service visit can turn into a five-figure nightmare for owners of collector and muscle cars specifically. Watch to see exactly what went wrong.

A Dodge Challenger Scat Pack and a Ford Mustang GT 5.0 line up for one more round in a rivalry that has never really ended, this time with nothing but a phone camera and a single blunt verdict in the comments to show for it. The Scat Pack brings 485 horsepower and a 6.4-liter HEMI; the 5.0 brings a 500-pound weight advantage. Watch to see which one actually mattered more this time.

This 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible carries two rare distinctions at once: it is one of only 108 Judge ragtops Pontiac built that year, and it wears Verdoro Green, a color legend says traces back to an executive’s wife and her favorite ashtray. Owner Evelyn has driven it since 2017 and calls herself exactly what you would expect. Watch to find out how a sketch-comedy catchphrase and a design-office ashtray shaped one of muscle car history’s most talked-about color choices.

A straightforward primer on Oldsmobile V8 engines has spent years quietly becoming a gathering place for Olds owners — 455 Rocket testimonials, a detailed home-built 400-horsepower Cutlass 350, and warnings about the engine family’s well-known low oil pressure. One commenter’s story about a Rocket 350, a forced sale, and a divorce he half-jokes he regrets more than losing the car sums up why this channel keeps pulling people back.

MotorWeek’s 1985 Retro Review pits a Ford Mustang GT, Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z, and Pontiac Trans Am against each other in a head-to-head that now doubles as a time capsule — sticker prices around 10 to 12 thousand dollars, barely 200 horsepower, and a carbureted-engine punchline that’s become a running joke in the comments. Watch to see which of the three came out on top, and why Pontiac fans still mourn its absence.

A mechanic demonstrates removing carbon buildup from piston crowns and the block deck using nothing more than WD-40 and a Scotch-Brite pad — and the comments turn into a genuine debate over the right way to do it. Viewers share a grease-dam trick for trapping debris, argue over scratch marks left by the scraper, and weigh in on when a rebuild needs a machine shop instead of a garage floor. The technique applies just as well to a muscle car big-block as it does here.

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