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Owner Tom Lembeck has something almost no other collector can claim: a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona in Spring Green Metallic and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird in Vitamin C Orange, both factory 426 Hemi cars, parked side by side in the same collection. Host Lou Costabile walks through exactly what separates NASCAR’s two winged Mopars once you see them together. Watch to see both aero legends compared directly, nose cone to nose cone.
This 1969 Pontiac GTO began life in Arizona before undergoing a genuine nut-and-bolt restoration finished in 2015, retaining its numbers-matching 400ci V8 and original carburetor, backed by PHS documentation and build receipts. Fully optioned with air conditioning, power windows, and power disc brakes, it’s about as complete a factory-correct GTO as you’ll find for sale. See the full spec breakdown and photos.
When the National Corvette Museum’s Skydome collapsed into a sinkhole in February 2014, it swallowed eight Corvettes, including the one-millionth ever built, a white 1992 convertible that existed because of its serial number alone. Rather than write it off, GM undertook a full restoration, compressed here into a time-lapse from Everyman Driver. Watch the car go from wreckage to finished in just a few minutes.
The unmistakable shriek of twin superchargers comes from a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle, a car Chevrolet redesigned that year specifically to out-muscle the GTO and 4-4-2. Decades later, someone stuffed a pair of blowers under that long hood and turned a factory legend into a full drag-strip monster. Read on to find out what it takes to push a Chevelle past everything GM originally engineered.
The Auto Archaeologist tracked down a hidden Mopar collection split between two unlikely locations, a defunct auto parts showroom and a barn built partially into a hillside, housing rare Chrysler products, plus one lone Ford, that had sat untouched for decades. The find was significant enough to earn its own Hot Rod Magazine feature. This is part two of the search, picking up where the mystery deepens.
A routine motorcycle pursuit turns into a rollover crash after the rider rams the pursuing cruiser, leaving the officer’s K9 partner knocked out in the wreckage. The chase captures exactly the kind of split-second escalation that turns a traffic stop into a felony case. Watch to see how a single decision changes everything for both the rider and the officer.
A YouTube uploader going by zlumlord is not chasing polish with this one – just a title that promises tire smoke and an inside joke about NHRA class codes. Behind the joke sits a real explanation of what Super Stock racing actually involves, and why a car shredding its tires this hard is telling you something about its setup. Watch to see the smoke, and stick around for what it actually means.
Plymouth’s Sport Fury GT nameplate has always confused people — is it a full-size cruiser or a genuine muscle car? Owner Bill Hanzlik has had this 440-powered, Alpine White 1970 example since 1996, and at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals he explains to host Lou Costabile exactly what sold him on it. The answer has less to do with horsepower than you’d expect. Watch to hear the full story.
This 1970 Ford Torino Cobra fastback pairs a built 429 Cobra Jet big block with an aggressive .772-lift solid cam for a claimed 650 horsepower, and an exhaust note that’s turned this clip into a near 1.5-million-view favorite. The Torino often gets overlooked next to Chevelles and Road Runners of the same era, but this build makes the case for why it shouldn’t be. Watch to hear exactly what that cam sounds like under throttle.
A Kansas City “Run What Ya Brung” meet brought out heavy hitters most street races never see, including the nitrous-fed FR8TRAIN Fox-body Mustang and a twin-turbo third-generation Camaro running boost through a decades-old chassis. With no track prep and no class rules, this 1320Video-filmed night mixed built cars and street cars in the same rotation. Watch to see which combination actually held up.
A crowded parking lot, a driver trying to show off with donuts, and a split-second mistake that turned a car meet into chaos. Two two steele’s footage of a Mustang plowing into spectators captures the exact moment car meet culture’s biggest ongoing safety problem stops being a hypothetical and starts being a Mustang headed straight for a group of people who came to watch, not to run.
Fiat Chrysler’s decision to renew its trademark on the Cuda name reignited a rumor that has refused to die for the better part of a decade: that Dodge might resurrect one of Mopar’s most storied nameplates. The renewal alone proves nothing, since automakers routinely protect names they have no plans to use. Read on to find out what the paperwork actually reveals, and why the speculation keeps coming back.
A 5,300-pound SUV hitting 60 mph in the time it takes to read this sentence sounds like a typo, but Patrick Rall’s in-car footage of a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk running its Launch Control system proves the number is real. Two runs, two nearly identical times, and a supercharged engine borrowed straight from a Hellcat explain how a family hauler ended up embarrassing sports cars at stoplights.
A deep-sea fishing trip and a concept car with no top somehow combined to produce one of the most recognizable silhouettes in American automotive history. King Rose Archives traces the origin of the second-generation Corvette Sting Ray, and the design fight between two GM legends that decided whether you could actually see out the back window.
Only two of these were ever built, and this 1957 Ford Ranchero hides one of the most unlikely muscle car secrets of the entire decade under its work-truck sheet metal. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week goes looking for the story behind a supercharged engine nobody expected to find in a Ranchero, and the NASCAR connection that explains how it got there.