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priceman141’s rundown of six supposedly strange muscle car facts turned into an unplanned classification debate the moment it hit the comments, with viewers arguing that only the Plymouth Superbird actually qualifies as a muscle car among the cars featured. Whether or not the video gets the categories right, it surfaces a genuinely rare piece of Detroit history in the Ford Boss 429 along the way. Watch and decide which side of the muscle car versus pony car argument you land on.
Ron Hoeft bought this 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS Super Sport new, let it go at some point over the following decades, and then — against long odds — tracked it down and bought the exact same car back. Host Lou Costabile sits down with Ron at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals to hear the full story behind the big-block 427, the rare factory vinyl top, and a reunion most owners never get.
After 122 episodes of Muscle Car Of The Week, V8TV pulled the actual play-count data to rank which individual cars fans watched the most. Two Ford Boss Mustangs claim the top spots, with a Hemi Superbird, a Mr. Norm’s Challenger, and a Dodge Daytona rounding out the list. The hosts even challenge viewers to guess what’s conspicuously missing from the countdown.
The Dodge Charger debuted in 1966 as a two-door-only muscle car with V8 power and a distinctive rotating-headlight grille, a formula it kept until the nameplate went dormant in the late 1970s. When Dodge revived it in 2006, the Charger came back as a four-door sedan, a shift that still splits opinion among Mopar loyalists decades later.
Long before anyone treated it as historically significant, this was just a used Chevrolet Camaro passing between owners. Marque historians eventually traced its chassis back far enough to confirm what it actually was: the first Camaro Chevrolet ever built, GM’s answer to the Ford Mustang. It’s now preserved as entry No. 15 on the National Historic Vehicle Register, permanently archived at the Library of Congress. Watch to see how a first-year pony car earned a place among America’s most historically significant vehicles.
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.
George and Carol Edwards spent part of their honeymoon drag racing this 1968 Yenko Super Camaro — and more than fifty-one years later, George still owns it. Lou Costabile caught up with the original owner and his numbers-matching 427 at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois. Watch to hear the engine run and find out how a Camaro became part of a marriage.
Fifty years of dust could not hide what was parked in this rural Indiana barn: a 1969 COPO Camaro powered by the legendary 427 L72, one of just 201 ever built. This particular car goes further still — one of only 30 built with an automatic transmission, and one of just seven finished in Fathom Green. Watch to see how a car this rare stayed hidden in plain sight for half a century.
Doug DeMuro barely had time with the new 2019 Corvette ZR1 before filming, but touring it at its Dubai debut still turned into a look at the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built. Commenters could not resist joking about an American supercar getting its unveiling in a city built around European exotics. Watch to see the quirks DeMuro found anyway, and why this first look still gets rewatched years later.
Long before customers ever saw a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, Road Runner, or GTX on a showroom floor, Chrysler’s own salesmen were trained on exactly how to sell them — using this internal film from the Master Technician Service Conference series. It breaks down engine options from economical slant six to the 440 Six-Barrel, explains what separated the budget Road Runner from the upscale GTX, and captures Plymouth’s B-body lineup right at the peak of the muscle car era. Watch to find out what Chrysler wanted its own people to know.
Tim Allen’s 1968 Camaro isn’t a movie prop — it’s a 505-horsepower 427 COPO build from Bodie Stroud, constructed to be exactly the car Allen wanted as a teenager and couldn’t afford. Jay Leno gets behind the wheel to see if it lives up to the hype, and Allen’s face during the burnout says everything words couldn’t. This is car-guy comfort food.
Pontiac built fewer than 700 first-year Trans Ams in 1969, and this white-with-blue-stripes example, restored by a specialist shop and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, is one of the survivors. Owner John Steger walks through what made the earliest Trans Am different from everything that came after. It’s a rare look at where the nameplate actually began.
When Dodge announced the Viper’s production would end after 2017, it closed out twenty-five years built almost entirely around one uncompromising idea: a V10 engine with no substitute. This video makes the case for what could have kept America’s last V10 sports car alive. The comment section is still arguing about whether it would have worked.
A 1969 Dodge Daytona and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird — two of NASCAR’s most extreme aero-warrior street cars — sit side by side in one Jacksonville owner’s garage. Both wear the wing and nosecone combination that solved a real aerodynamic problem at 120-plus miles per hour, not just a styling flourish. Find out which one the owner says deserves the edge.