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Ranking eight classic muscle cars purely by horsepower sounds simple until you have to correctly identify which engine is actually under each hood — and this silent, subtitle-only countdown ran straight into that problem. One sharp-eyed commenter flagged what looks like a 440-badged Mopar mislabeled as a 426 Hemi. Watch the full ranking and see if you can spot the mix-up yourself.
Dodge built just 628 convertible versions of its 1967 Coronet R/T, and owner Glen Kellmann says that in more than twenty years of attending car shows, he has never once come across another one. See his factory 440-powered survivor and hear the story of a car that, as far as its own owner can tell, has no twin.
Drag racing looks like the simplest form of motorsport there is — two cars, a green light, first to the finish line wins. A pair of road-racing enthusiasts attended their first-ever drag event to test that assumption, and quickly discovered how much nuance hides behind 60-foot times, reaction times, and track prep. Watch to find out what actually separates a winning run from a losing one.
AMC never had the budget of Ford, GM, or Chrysler, but its Trans-Am racing program with driver Mark Donohue gave the underdog manufacturer real credibility — and this 1970 AMX Javelin in factory Big Bad Blue is the street-legal result. Owner Roger Nelson has driven and shown the car since 2007, and he knows every detail of what makes it different from a standard Javelin. Watch to find out what a factory 390 and a racing pedigree add up to.
A 1960 Ford Falcon doesn’t look like the kind of car that inspires cult devotion, yet Regular Car Reviews’ take on Robert McNamara’s “love-letter to bean-counting” has fans quoting its closing line years later. Between an Argentine cousin racing to 600 horsepower and an Australian descendant that became a turbocharged legend, this humble compact’s story reaches far beyond its stock inline-six. One viewer’s family memory of a steering wheel coming off on the Beltway says the rest.
A four-minute, music-only tribute to the 1964-1974 muscle car era has turned its own comment section into a decade-spanning argument, about when the era actually started, which cars deserved a spot, and whether America ever built anything this good again. See the cars, then see what the community had to say about them.
Jay Leno bought this rare, fuel-injected split-window 1963 Corvette Sting Ray sight unseen, then handed it to master restorer Mike McCluskey to bring back to full factory-stock condition. The split rear window appeared on the Corvette for exactly one model year before Chevrolet dropped it, making this one of the most collected variants in Corvette history. Longtime fans in the comments share decades-old memories of the cars, from a father’s 427 coupe to college-era cruises in a friend’s Stingray. Watch what makes this one-year-only design still so obsessed over today.
Ford built roughly 1,350 examples of its modern GT, and this one, build number H043, in white with blue racing stripes, has had a single owner since new. Randy Smalley sat down with My Car Story host Lou Costabile in Florida to talk through the 650-horsepower V6 twin-turbo under the hood and why he actually drives it.
TwinRodders returns to the Fairplex in Pomona for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine & Muscle Car Nationals, capturing everything from a Pro Street 1968 Camaro to a blown-Hemi 1963 Dodge Polara to an Oldsmobile 442 fresh off the burnout contest. A slight chance of rain didn’t keep the fairgrounds from filling with muscle car history. Watch the full walkthrough to see what else made the cut.
A hood scoop can be pure decoration or it can be the single hardest-working part of a muscle car’s engine bay — and in the late 1960s, Chrysler, Ford, and Pontiac each answered that question differently. This episode of Muscle Car of the Week walks through some of the wildest cold-air intakes in The Brothers Collection, including the shaker scoops that visibly move with the engine underneath them. Watch to see which manufacturer’s approach still gets the most respect from muscle car fans today.
Mike Hall listed his five-acre British Columbia property for $1.45 million in 2017 — house, shop, and more than 300 vintage cars included in one package deal. Instead of a quiet sale, the listing went viral and turned into Rust Valley Restorers, the TV show that made Hall’s ever-growing junkyard famous. Here’s how a guy who couldn’t count his own car collection ended up on television because of it.
Long before Pontiac built the GTO and started the muscle car era in earnest, Chevrolet was already chasing serious horsepower out of a small-block V8 — and doing it with fuel injection instead of a carburetor. This 1959 Corvette from The Brothers Collection wears its rare Rochester Ramjet system under a crown sapphire hood, a full decade ahead of the cars usually credited with starting the muscle car story. Watch to see what a factory fuelie 283 actually looks like in person.
A 1969 Corvette with the ultra-rare L88 427 — one of only 116 built — lines up against a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W30, one of just 772 made, in a quarter-mile race between two factory options that were both deliberately underrated on paper. A former 442 owner in the comments insists his car’s true output was well beyond its listed 300 horsepower. Watch the run and the trap speeds that back him up.
For years, collectors traded rumors about an untouched, low-mileage 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 without ever confirming it was real. My Car Story host Lou Costabile tracks down the car — all-original, with just 4,305 miles and even its factory tires still on it — and the chain of connections that finally brought it to owner David Beem. Commenters are calling it a genuine Holy Grail of muscle car survivors. Watch the moment its LS6 fires up for the first time in years.
Chevrolet officially rated the 1968 Camaro Z/28’s 302 small-block at 290 horsepower, a number this episode of Muscle Car Of The Week puts to the test on the dyno, with results considerably higher. Built around SCCA Trans-Am rules, the Z/28 paired that underrated engine with a stiffened chassis and the only 15-inch Rally wheels ever fitted to a first-gen Camaro. Watch to see how far off the factory number really was.