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This vintage road test puts Ford’s flagship 1968 Shelby GT500KR — the “King of the Road” — through its paces, complete with a narrator whose catchphrases are still being quoted in the comments decades later. Viewers reacted to a 6.2-second acceleration figure with genuine disbelief, while others noted the era’s characteristic brake fade after repeated hard stops. One commenter even claims The Doors’ Jim Morrison owned one. Watch to hear “happy time” for yourself.
Chevrolet’s first-generation Chevelle ran for just four model years on one basic body shell, which means telling a 1964 from a 1965, or a 1966 from a 1967, comes down to details as small as a taillight lens or a grille shape. One spotting-guide video turned into a comment-section deep dive on exactly what those tells are – and a debate over which year actually looks best that nobody could settle. Watch to see if you can spot the differences yourself.
Mark Hassett already owned a Yenko Camaro, Chevelle, and Nova, all painted the same shade of orange, before a Yenko Stinger Vega came up for sale and completed the set. My Car Story with Lou Costabile catches up with the car at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, where decades of Vega rust jokes in the comments collide with a genuinely rare piece of Yenko performance history. Watch to see the car most people forget Yenko ever built.
Ford didn’t just reveal the 2019 Mustang Bullitt at the Detroit Auto Show — it brought Steve McQueen’s granddaughter and restaged his famous parking-deck chase scene before pulling the cover off. Underneath sat 475 horsepower, Highland Green paint, and a manual-only drivetrain built for purists, plus a first look at the upcoming Shelby GT500. Fans in the comments called the reveal itself “pure marketing genius.” Watch to see why a fifty-year-old movie scene still sells Mustangs today.
From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, street racers ruled the boulevard, the drive-in, and the local dragstrip, marking their best times in shoe polish on the windshield for the whole school to see. Crashes, license suspensions, and new laws eventually ended the era, but a surprising number of cars survived, quietly passed down to children and grandchildren who still race them today. Read on to find out where this culture actually played out.
An estate sale, a numbers-matching V8 sitting on a stand in a garage, and a certified appraiser willing to put a hard number on all of it — that’s the setup behind this 1968 Buick GS 400 out of Port Huron, Michigan. AutoAppraise’s Jason Phillips values the car at $35,000 after tallying over $20,000 in documented drivetrain work alone, but it’s the low, bellowing idle that keeps pulling viewers back years later. Is a scarce, correctly-matched GS400 actually the smartest buy in 1968 muscle?
Chevrolet skipped Detroit and flew straight to Dubai to launch the 2019 Corvette ZR1, the most powerful Corvette GM had built at the time, packing a supercharged 755-horsepower LT5 V8. The location wasn’t an accident: it put the ZR1 directly in front of buyers who cross-shop European exotics costing several times as much. See what 755 horsepower and a six-figure price tag looked like next to Dubai’s supercar scene.
Vanguard Motor Sales walks through a 1957 Chevy pickup that its previous owner restored twice over fifteen years — first to driver quality, then torn down to bare metal for a full show-quality rebuild. A supercharged 383 stroker, custom ghost-flame paint, and a hidden fuel cell in the bed are just the start of what he built himself. Few restomods come with this much documented history behind them.
This Granada Gold 1967 Camaro SS396 convertible, built for V8TV’s 50th-anniversary Camaro coverage, marks the exact mid-year moment Chevrolet finally let the 396 big block into the Camaro — a full two years after it debuted in the Impala SS. Host Kevin Oeste and The Brothers Collection dig into why the engine was late, and viewers’ own decades-old ownership stories fill in the rest.
The Brothers Collection’s 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible carries a claim few muscle cars can match: it’s believed to be the last drop-top Judge Pontiac built for the entire model year. Host Kevin Oeste digs into the Ram Air III 400, the correct late-production color, and the small originality details that back up the story. One viewer’s decades-old memory of spotting this exact color as a kid says just as much about the car as the spec sheet does.
DragTimes pits a 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat against a Tesla Model S P100D at a StreetCarDrags.com event — the latest round in what the channel calls a rivalry that ‘won’t stop racing.’ One detail catches viewers off guard: the Tesla actually weighs more than the Hellcat, making its edge purely about how instantly electric torque arrives. Multi-angle GoPro coverage means nothing at the stripe goes unseen. Watch to see whether the V8 finally closes the gap.
Plymouths fuselage-era Fury, produced from 1969 through 1973, gets its own spotlight here, and the comment section has turned into something like a family reunion. Viewers trade specific memories of mothers Autumn Copper Sport Furys, grandmothers 440-powered two-doors, and drivers ed cars with back seats “like a limousine.” Its proof that not every beloved Mopar had to be built for the dragstrip. Watch the full styling breakdown and see which detail — including that famous hidden headlamp option — sparks your own memory.
This reel of vintage 1968 television commercials puts Ford’s Shelby Mustang GT and Pontiac’s Firebird side by side, capturing exactly how Detroit sold raw horsepower to television audiences before lifestyle marketing took over. Jingles, drag strip footage, and confident announcers do all the selling. Watch to see how differently automakers pitched performance more than half a century ago.
This 1969 Ford Ranchero GT hides a 335-horsepower 428 Cobra Jet Ram Air V8 under its Brittany Blue hood, wrapped in white GT stripes and chrome wheels courtesy of The Brothers Collection. One former owner of a nearly identical example says he used to beat 454-powered Chevelles with it. Watch to see what made this coupe utility a genuine muscle car in disguise.
This Redline review digs into the 2017 Cadillac CTS-V, a 640-horsepower sedan built around a supercharged LT4 V8 shared with the Corvette Z06 — and a car that a former Cadillac salesperson in the comments calls a genuine monster to drive. It’s American muscle wearing a suit, aimed squarely at Germany’s best. Watch the full review to see why so few people talk about it.