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Two Dodge Challenger Hellcats, same 707-horsepower supercharged V8, different transmissions — one automatic, one manual. The Fast Lane Car crew lines them up for a straight quarter-mile shootout to settle which one actually gets down the track faster. The results split the comment section, with some viewers questioning a suspiciously slow run and others defending the manual on principle rather than elapsed time. Watch to see which transmission wins.
This 1969 Camaro ZL-1 isn’t just rare — it’s chassis number one, the very first of only 69 ever built, delivered to Fred Gibb Chevrolet on New Year’s Eve 1968 and turned into a drag-strip record setter almost immediately. Host Charley Lillard walks through its all-aluminum 427, its competition history, and why fewer than 40 ZL-1s are believed to survive today. One commenter calls it simply the Holy Grail of all Camaros.
A stroker build video that started as a simple garage update turned into something bigger once the comments filled up — viewers sharing their own battles with the same aftermarket parts supplier, technical debates over cylinder sleeving, and one builder’s blunt verdict that the 440 is the most powerful wedge in the world. Part one covers only the beginning of this Mopar big-block project. Watch to see where it starts.
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.
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.”
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.