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A junkyard Chevy 350 small block gets torn down step by step in this video, the opening chapter of a five-part rebuild series that follows the engine from core to fully running. Chris Duke walks through exactly what to check, what to save, and what a genuine teardown requires before any machining begins. He even corrects an early misidentification of the donor truck along the way. Follow along before moving on to the machine shop stage.
A dealer rarely gets sentimental about a car passing through their lot, but the team at Retro Classic Car mounted a GoPro for one last POV drive through this 1979 Camaro Z28 before handing it to its new owner. By their own account, it was one of the best examples of the model they had ever stocked. The sound alone, they say, never gets old. Ride along for the last lap before it changed hands for good.
A soft yellow 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a gold interior looks built for grocery runs, not for embarrassing faster cars off the line. Underneath sits a 426 Hemi paired with a four-speed stick, the kind of factory sleeper combination Chrysler quietly offered to buyers who wanted serious power without the attention. This documented example comes from the Brothers Collection by way of V8 Speed and Resto Shop. See what is hiding under that unassuming hood.
Compression ratio sounds simple until you actually try to calculate it for your own engine build — and getting it wrong can mean the difference between reliable power and an engine that pings itself apart. David Freiburger breaks down the theory and the practical math in this Roadkill Extra segment. Watch before you order your next set of pistons.
The AMC AMX never had Detroit’s marketing muscle behind it, but it had something more important: a real power-to-weight advantage over cars that cost more and weighed more. This /DRIVE+ segment finally gives one of muscle car history’s most overlooked cars its due. Watch to see why it deserved better the first time around.
Ed Wheeldon — known around Eddyville Dragway as Fast Eddie — once turned down a ,000 offer for his 1968 Dodge Dart Hemi Special, one of the rarest factory drag package cars Mopar ever built. Instead of selling, he still runs it in exhibition passes for a appearance fee. Watch to see why some cars are worth more than the check.
The Ford Falcon XB GT that became Mad Max’s V8 Interceptor is more than a movie prop — to Australians, it’s a cultural icon on the level of the Millennium Falcon. Big Sonny & Co traces the car’s full story, from its role opposite Mel Gibson to a present-day campaign to bring it home to Melbourne. Watch to learn why one modified Falcon still means so much to an entire country.
One of the actual Dodge Chargers driven by Dominic Toretto in the Fast and Furious films now belongs to an Italian muscle car collector, and for one event, he decided to find out what it could really do. Rather than keep it as a static piece of movie history, the car got taken to an Italian dragstrip for a run most owners of a car this valuable would never risk. Watch to see how a genuine piece of franchise history performs when it’s not on a movie set.
A motor without a home found one in this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, when Quality Custom Rides took on a V12 LS build that had been sitting without a project car attached to it. The result debuted quietly, missed by most fans at SEMA before finally surfacing at the 2017 NSRA Street Rod Nationals. Its owner had held onto the Camaro since he was nineteen, waiting for the right build to come along. Watch to see what finally made it happen.
Before the SRT Viper wore a V10 and became an American icon, the very first Viper roadster ran a V8 — a detail most fans never learn. TFLcar sat down with the powertrain engineer who has been with the Viper program since 1989, back when it existed only as a mule, to trace how the car got its name and its identity. Watch to hear the origin story straight from someone who lived every bit of it.
1970 was the last year GM could build genuinely high-compression V8 engines before emissions rules changed everything — and Buick’s GS Stage 1 455 used that final window to build one of the era’s most underrated muscle cars. With torque figures that outmatched flashier rivals from Chevrolet and Pontiac, the Stage 1 quietly earned the “top of the heap” title this video argues for.
Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
Overshadowed for decades by its flashier sibling the Road Runner, the 1969 Plymouth GTX quietly offered the same 440 or optional 426 HEMI power with a more refined trim level buyers rarely talk about. The Drive’s Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of this rare gem to show exactly why serious collectors are starting to pay attention. It’s the kind of muscle car whose reputation is only now catching up to its performance.
Erika Perrye says she became a car girl for one simple reason: “Dolls don’t move.” Riding shotgun with her brother’s Camaro and motorcycles as a kid set her on a path that eventually led to owning one of Buick’s rarest muscle cars — a 1970 GSX in Saturn Yellow with a 455 under the hood. She and her husband Bob had just picked up the car when this ride-along was filmed.
Wheel alignment sounds like one of those things only mechanics need to understand, but ignoring camber, caster, and toe is one of the fastest ways to burn through a set of tires without knowing why. CNET’s Brian Cooley breaks down what each angle controls and how a small deviation compounds into expensive tire wear over time. It matters even more for muscle cars running lowered suspension or wider wheels.