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Vanguard Motor Sales has listed a 1972 Chevrolet Nova built as a tribute to Don Yenko’s legendary big-block Novas, backed by a genuine 454 with real ZL-1 Snowflake heads, an explosion-proof bell housing, and Wilwood brakes on all four corners. One commenter says he built and sold a nearly identical car years ago — and still regrets it.
Lebanon Ford Performance is selling a purpose-built Mustang capable of mid-10-second quarter miles for $59,995, straight off the dealer lot. The comments split between buyers doing supercharger math and one self-described Mopar loyalist grudgingly admitting the car earns its reputation — sleeper looks, no fender flares, and a question about the warranty that nobody quite answers.
A decades-old Plymouth GTX commercial resurfaces, and its comment section turns into something more than nostalgia — a detailed 0-to-60 report from a former owner, an argument over which B-body Plymouth actually looked best, and one story about a nearly identical burnt orange GTX destroyed in a 1980 drag race that one viewer calls almost too painful to watch.
Vintage Mopars and brand-new Hellcats and Demons line up at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, and the spec-sheet advantage isn’t as decisive as it looks on paper. Commenters argue over bracket racing, debate whether a modern car’s electronics can really out-drive fifty-year-old cubic inches, and settle in for an old-versus-new fight that a timing slip, not brand loyalty, ultimately decides.
Vanguard Motor Sales has listed a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T SE with a 440, a Dana 60 rear end, and the factory Track Pack option — plus a decoding letter from Mopar historian Galen Glover to back it all up. One commenter remembers buying an almost identical car for $2,500 back in 1973, when muscle cars like this one were, in his words, “everywhere cheap.”
MotorWeek’s John Davis takes Dodge’s 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon to the one place it was actually built for — a drag strip — and comes away with a Guinness World Record-setting wheelie on camera. Commenters call it a milestone episode, tracing Davis’s career all the way back to a very different MotorWeek review: a 1992 Pontiac Firehawk once described as “barely street legal” with 340 horsepower.
Pontiac planned to build nearly 5,000 examples of the 1977 LeMans Can Am before a spoiler mold problem cut the run short at just 1,377 cars — a fraction of them fitted with a different engine entirely. RamblinAround tracks down one of the survivors, and the comments fill in details even longtime Pontiac fans admit they’d never heard before, from quarter-mile times to a rare column-shift option.
Tim Hall says he bought his 1971 Buick Riviera because he “liked the backend on it” — a reference to the polarizing “boattail” design GM design chief Bill Mitchell pushed through against dealer skepticism. Lou Costabile catches up with Tim and the Sandpiper Beige coupe at a small-town Illinois car show, where decades-old opinions about the shape are still being argued out in the comments. The 455 under the hood is almost an afterthought.
In 1988, one manufacturer quietly cut the mechanical cable connecting a driver’s foot to the engine and replaced it with a sensor and a computer. Every automaker eventually followed, and the muscle car world still argues about whether that was progress or a loss. Read on to find out how drive-by-wire actually works, and why some purists refuse to trust it.
A compilation of Plymouth Road Runner and GTX commercials spanning 1967 to 1971 has resurfaced online, and the comments underneath it turn into an oral history of Mopar’s golden age — a CHP officer’s 440-powered police package, a viewer who bought a used Road Runner for $1,200 in 1974, and an ongoing argument about whether 1968 was truly the brand’s best year ever. Watch to see which ad plays entirely without dialogue.
Not every video in this rotation is about horsepower – this one is a 2008 Christmas alcohol-awareness campaign built like a police dashcam comedy sketch, starring a very impaired Santa Claus. It pulled over 500,000 views almost immediately, with one specific moment past the one-minute mark still getting quoted in the comments nearly two decades later. It is a strange fit and a memorable one. Watch to see why the officer’s reaction gets almost as much love as Santa’s.
Lee Ernst calls his 1971 Plymouth Road Runner the “Big Orange Car” because of how it entered his life — on Halloween night, 2013. Lou Costabile catches up with Lee and the car at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville, Illinois, where a fired-up 440 and a nickname straight out of the comments section, “Speed Pumpkin,” tell you everything about this car’s personality. Nine years in, the Halloween story is still how Lee introduces it to strangers.
Lou Costabile visits the 2016 Burr Ridge Car Show to find a 1970 Chevy Nova in Green Mist paint, kept 80 percent original by owner Don Dames despite running only a six-cylinder engine. The comments fill in the rest: a driver’s ed car from 1977, a family Nova that survived a windshield-shattering explosion and ran past 280,000 miles, and viewers who owned nearly identical cars decades ago. Watch to see why an ordinary six-cylinder Nova is pulling out more personal stories than most muscle cars ever could.
Chip Foose unveils the Mach Foose Mustang at SEMA 2017, a build that grafts 1971 Mustang body panels and 1970 rear quarter panels onto a modern 2011 Mustang GT chassis. Viewers call the muted gray paint and subdued stripes seductive precisely because it isn’t loud, a rare restrained choice for a SEMA reveal. Comments pour in from across the world praising Foose’s decades of work, while at least one lifelong Mustang fan says this is the exact car he’d want to own. Watch to see the reveal that stopped the show floor.
V8TV profiles the very first A12 Road Runner Plymouth ever built, the Wayward Beeper, tested by Super Stock Magazine in 1969 and driven into the 12-second zone by legendary drag racer Ronnie Sox. Its 440 Six Pack, 4-speed manual, and stripped interior were all built for one purpose, and the comments fill in the rest with period tire-pressure tricks and owners’ own Road Runner stories. Watch to see the car Chrysler itself called the fastest A12 ever built.