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Long before the 1968 Corvette reached showrooms, GM design chief Bill Mitchell used a one-off 1967 Camaro convertible called the Cherokee to test styling ideas that would define it. Muscle Car Of The Week talks with restorer Charley Hutton about bringing the car back, including bumper and color details subtle enough that even longtime Camaro owners miss them. Watch to see the concept even collectors rarely know exists.
Pro driver Randy Pobst put the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE through a hot lap at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as part of Motor Trend’s 2017 Best Driver’s Car competition — a field normally dominated by six-figure exotics. Built with track-tuned suspension and aerodynamics beyond the standard ZL1, the 1LE was Chevrolet’s answer to anyone who doubted a Camaro belonged on the same list as genuine supercars.
V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week spends time with a 440-powered 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona from The Brothers Collection, breaking down the aerodynamic nose cone and towering rear wing that made it the first car to officially top 200 mph on a NASCAR superspeedway. Comments dig into the engineering, the Daytona-versus-Superbird confusion, and even a family drag-racing memory from the car’s original era. It’s a deep look at Detroit’s wildest aero experiment. Watch to see the full breakdown.
This 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible isn’t just rare — it’s the very first of only fourteen ever built, wearing Rallye Red paint, a black top, and the Shaker hood scoop that came standard on every Hemi ‘Cuda. Underneath sits the legendary 426 Hemi V8, rated at 425 horsepower and fed by dual four-barrel carburetors. Decades later, it remains one of the most sought-after Mopars in existence. See what makes serial number one worth more than the other thirteen.
A seven-minute Steel Dreams walkthrough on inspecting a classic car before you buy sparked a comment section debate bigger than the checklist itself. Viewers point out that the host is sharing only a fraction of what he knows, and one reply frames a real collector’s dilemma: save five affordable classics or pour everything into one or two done right, since these cars will outlive any single owner. Other commenters zero in on a single pinch weld that supposedly tells you everything. Is a quick checklist really enough to protect a buyer?
Charley Lillard’s 1970 Chevrolet Camaro carries just 1,130 actual miles — parked in a heated garage nearly forty years ago after a minor ding and untouched ever since, right down to the original air still sealed in its tires. He debuted it at the first-ever Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, where it stood out even among a field of other rare survivors. Finds this undisturbed almost never happen.
Ted Stephens owns all five surviving screen-used Dodge Challengers from the 1997 TV remake of Vanishing Point — the only ones left, since every car from the original 1971 film has been destroyed. His favorite of the five, a white 1970 Challenger RT, hides a detail almost no movie car ever gets: a genuine HEMI under the hood instead of a stunt-friendly substitute. It’s a piece of film history most fans don’t even know exists.
Randy Clark of Hot Rods and Custom Stuff brought his 1966 Buick Riviera to Jay Leno’s Garage wearing a gold paint job that took his team fifteen hundred hours to complete — longer than most full restorations take start to finish. The Riviera’s clean, GT-inspired lines gave Clark’s crew the perfect canvas for that level of obsession. Even Leno, who has seen thousands of custom builds, wanted to know how anyone justifies that kind of time.
The Fast Lane Car set out to verify Dodge’s claim that the 2018 Challenger Demon was the world’s fastest-accelerating production car — and watched it run the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds, bone stock. Getting there required a factory transbrake, adjustable launch control, and a supercharged Hemi V8 pushing well past 800 horsepower. Commenters call it the last true American muscle car for a reason. Watch the full run and hear that supercharger whine for yourself.
This 1965 Chevrolet Impala had been sitting in a field, quietly rusting, before BigKleib34 stepped in to bring it back. What came out the other side wasn’t a numbers-matching restoration — it was a heavy, weathered full-size Chevy that one commenter clocked at an estimated 9.2-second quarter mile despite weighing over 4,100 pounds. See what it takes to turn a car left for dead into something that can still put a smile on your face.
A concise Chevrolet centennial timeline, tracing the brand from its 1911 founding by race car driver Louis Chevrolet through a full century of evolution, has quietly become a magnet for genuine nostalgia in its comments. One viewer’s request for a modern, tech-updated Suburban revival shows exactly how brand history functions for real enthusiasts: not as a closed chapter, but as an ongoing argument about what should come next. Watch the full timeline to see how the muscle car era fits into Chevrolet’s much longer story.
Pontiac built just over one hundred genuine Ram Air IV engines before the option disappeared, and this freshly restored 1969 Firebird — deliberately basic, with no power steering and a four-speed — is wearing one of them. One commenter rebuilt an entirely different Pontiac to the same specification decades later just to chase that reputation. From a birthday gift remembered fifty years later to a debate over the vinyl roof, this Firebird’s comment section says as much as the car itself. Watch the full walkaround.
Before any Chevy V8 makes a sound, it starts as a bare block on a stand — and this video walks through every step most build videos skip past: crankshaft installation, Plastigage clearance checks, ring and piston fitment, torque specs, and the small rear main seal that causes big problems if it’s rushed. It’s the unglamorous half of engine building that determines whether the glamorous half actually works. Watch the full assembly process from block to moving motor.
A 2014 Camaro SS and a 2015 Dodge Challenger RT go head to head in this Los Angeles street race, but the real story is the setup — the host studies the Camaro’s 6.2-liter LS3 before racing it against his own daily-driven, 5.7-liter HEMI Challenger. The displacement gap suggests an easy winner. Real pavement doesn’t always agree. Watch the pull to see which V8 actually gets there first.
Ford has only built two generations of its GT supercar, and Kelley Blue Book’s Karl Brauer — who owns one himself — puts the 2005 original against the 2017 successor to see exactly how far the engineering moved in twelve years. From a supercharged V8 to a twin-turbo V6 and an all-new carbon monocoque, the changes go well beyond styling. Owning one shapes how Brauer sees both cars, and it shows throughout the comparison. Watch how differently a decade of engineering plays out.