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Ford bet big on a total redesign for the 1972 Torino, and the Gran Torino Sport wore that gamble best — longer hood, bolder grille, and a hood scoop that meant business. Buyers could step up from the base 302 V8 all the way to a 429 big-block. The payoff: Ford outsold Chevrolet’s Chevelle for the first time since the Torino nameplate launched in 1964.
Six clean dyno pulls, then a seventh that ends in a bang, a flinch, and a very memorable shot of the shop floor. This stroked “Boss 557” build — a heavily reworked Ford Boss 429 — had already made 850 horsepower before a rushed decision to run a stock flywheel instead of a billet one caught up with it. The internets verdict is split between sympathy for the expensive loss and jokes about the cameramans reflexes. Watch to see exactly what a flywheel failure looks like up close.
Enzo Morales took a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu, a trim level Chevrolet never intended to be anything special, and built it into something viewers compare to a Mercedes CL63 or a Bentley Continental GT. The result raises a genuinely odd question: can an American mid-size sedan earn the nickname ‘American Aston Martin’? Watch to see the build, and the burnout, that convinced a crowd of onlookers the answer is yes.
This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS 396 carries the rare L89 aluminum-head option and a four-speed manual, sourced from the respected Brothers Collection and finished in LeMans Blue. Muscle Car Of The Week’s 112th episode puts it through its paces on camera. One commenter’s story of buying a similar Camaro for in 1987 — and wrecking it three hours later — shows just how far values have climbed since. Watch the full feature.
A 2016 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 and a 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T 5.7L line up for a Los Angeles street race that reignites the manual-versus-automatic fairness debate. Modern Muscle’s host takes on car owner @chefyork_s550 across several runs, including one unscripted moment in a tunnel that’s been quoted in the comments for years. Viewers remain split on which car actually deserves the win. Watch to see how the runs play out.
Helsinki holds its own muscle car cruising night every month from April through October, and the July 2012 edition proves American iron has fans far outside the United States. A matte black 663-horsepower Shelby GT500 convertible shares the lot with a Bullitt tribute Mustang, a fleet of Mopar muscle, and even a 1930s Auburn Speedster. It is proof that horsepower obsession does not stop at the American border. See which car steals the show.
A rolled-up newspaper drops as the starting signal, and a 1993 Mustang coupe lines up against a 1968 Nova SS — two completely different eras of Detroit performance settling things the old-fashioned way in a parking lot. The CLUNKER channel’s comment section has been arguing about the result for years since it first posted. Watch to see which one actually gets the better launch.
A Hyundai Veloster appears to climb a vertical wall, hold the line, and come back down — and the comment section has spent nearly a decade split on whether the footage is real. Tire-track evidence says one thing. A suspicious six seconds around the fourteen-second mark says another. Watch the clip and decide which side of the debate you land on.
A crew filming for “Texas Streets” set out to capture a real test hit from Kamikaze, the big-block, nitrous-fed El Camino known to Street Outlaws fans — no barriers, no safety net, no staged police cameo. What they got instead was a nasty, fiery pass followed by an unscripted visit from actual police after the noise woke up the neighborhood. See how a supposedly routine test hit turned into one of the rawest moments the channel has caught on camera.
SS Shaun’s LSX-powered Chevelle and Big Matt’s nitrous-and-methanol Camaro lined up for a straightforward proposition: a thousand dollars, one run, no excuses. The race itself settled the question of which car hooked better off the line. What happened after — when it came time to actually hand over the money — turned out to be the more interesting part.
A routine buying trip turns into a masterclass in stubbornness when the Fast N’ Loud crew meets a lifelong car hoarder sitting on a private collection spanning a Ford Model A to a four-speed Corvette. The owner’s refrain — some version of ‘I like cars, a fella can’t have too many’ — became the segment’s most quoted line years after it aired. Whether Richard walks away with a deal is the real question.
Cruisin’ Morro Bay Car Show started with two friends and a running conversation over coffee in 1993. Three decades later, it draws 500-plus entrants a year, gets covered by Car Craft Magazine, and still features founder Stephen Carnes’ own 1964 Corvette Stingray Roadster among the entries. Read on for how a small-town idea turned into one of California’s enduring classic car gatherings.
Owner Mike Fitzgerald has kept this 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird since 1972, but it took restorer Mark Sekula sixteen months to bring its numbers-matching 426 Hemi and Limelight Green paint back to factory spec. Along the way, the car nearly met a very different fate at the hands of a relative who had no idea what a Hemi Superbird was worth. See what a homologation special built to chase NASCAR wins looks like fifty years later.
1970 was the year Ford finally let the Torino nameplate flex real muscle. Motor Trend had just named it Car of the Year, and buyers could order a Torino Cobra with a Ram Air 429 and a Hurst-shifted four-speed instead of the usual family-hauler running gear. Only 7,675 took the offer. Here is what separated a Cobra Jet from a Super Cobra Jet, and why clean original interiors like this one are harder to find than the engines.