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A dealership straps a brand new GoPro to the dash for one final drive in a 1979 Camaro Z28 before it leaves for a new owner the next morning — and the internet can’t decide what to focus on first. Is it the exhaust note commenters say gives them goosebumps, or the boldly colored interior that’s already become a running joke? One story buried in the comments about a similar Camaro’s tragic fate suggests there’s more riding on this handoff than anyone watching realizes.
A soft yellow 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a warm gold interior looks like the mildest car on the lot — until you learn it’s hiding a genuine 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual transmission underneath. Sourced from The Brothers Collection for Muscle Car of the Week episode 178, this true sleeper is exactly the kind of factory oddity serious Mopar collectors chase. Find out why the comments call it a favorite.
Only about 19,000 were ever built, it was the only American two-seater besides the Corvette for three straight years, and it once beat a GTO off the line badly enough that the loser still remembers it fifty years later. The Drive’s /DRIVE+ team goes looking for why AMC’s smallest, lightest muscle car never got its due — and finds a fiercely loyal handful of owners who never stopped arguing it deserved better. What made this car so easy to overlook and so hard to forget?
Ed Wheeldon, known on the drag strip as Fast Eddie, once turned down a $250,000 offer for his 1968 Dodge Dart, a genuine factory Hemi Super Stock he still races at Eddyville Dragway for a $200 appearance fee. Mopar Max Magazine later put him on its cover after the car ran a best pass of 6.501 seconds. Few six-figure Hemi drag cars still see the strip today. Find out why Wheeldon insists on keeping his in the game.
The Ford Falcon XB coupe that became Mad Max’s V8 Interceptor was built from improvised parts, including a worn-out drag car supercharger with its compressor vanes removed just to make it spinnable. Decades later, a mechanic who worked on the build showed up in the comments to explain exactly how close the whole thing came to falling apart during filming — and Australia is still campaigning to bring the car home. Watch to see why this scrappy, homemade build became one of the most beloved movie cars ever built.
One of the actual Dodge Chargers used on screen by Dominic Toretto in the original Fast and the Furious now belongs to an Italian collector — and in 2015, he did something most owners of movie-used muscle cars never risk. He ran it down a real quarter-mile at Rivanazzano’s dragstrip in Italy. The pass has racked up nearly six million views since, mostly from people who can’t believe he actually did it.
Everyone associates the Dodge Viper with its brutal V-10 engine, but TFLcar’s Viper Week dig into the car’s origin uncovers a detail that surprises even longtime Mopar fans: the very first Viper concept wasn’t built around a V-10 at all. The name almost went a different direction too. This origin story traces exactly how a stripped-down concept car became one of America’s most uncompromising sports cars.
1970 marked the final year of high-compression muscle before emissions regulations and an unleaded fuel mandate changed everything — and this breakdown argues the real winner of that last great year came from an unexpected place. The Buick GS 455 Stage 1 quietly out-torqued nearly every rival on the market, backed up by a factory performance package most people never associated with Buick. One recent owner’s comment about a first ride with his daughter says it all.
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.
Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of a genuinely rare 1969 Plymouth GTX for BIG MUSCLE, a car that wears its chips and scratches instead of hiding them under fresh paint. It is the kind of survivor that pulls personal stories out of the comment section, including one from a viewer whose brother came home from Vietnam to a car just like it. The GTX was Plymouth’s upscale answer to the muscle car boom, and this one still carries every mile of its history. Watch to see what Musto finds under the hood.
Erika Perrye had only owned her 1970 Buick GSX for a few months when Lou Costabile caught up with her and husband Bob in Lake Zurich, Illinois — but she already had strong opinions on why Buick’s most overlooked muscle car beats the obvious choices. Finished in bold Saturn Yellow with the torque-heavy 455 V8, this GSX is one of the rarest performance cars Buick ever built. Find out how a rare yellow Buick turned her into a genuine muscle car fan.
A car that quietly pulls to one side or wears through a set of tires years too early usually isn’t a tire problem at all — it’s an alignment problem hiding behind three angles most drivers have never heard of. CNET’s Brian Cooley breaks down camber, caster, and toe in plain language, and more than one viewer went out to check their own wheels after watching. Watch to find out which of the three you’re most likely feeling every time you drive.
Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger sit down to plan a small-block rebuild for a 1970 Dodge Challenger after its factory 318 got wrecked in a prior Roadkill Garage episode, and the conversation turns into a full history lesson on Chrysler’s LA-series V8. Viewers in the comments call it some of the best pure engine-nerd talk on the channel, right down to warnings about mixing cast and forged cranks. It is dense, it is technical, and Mopar fans cannot get enough of it. Watch to see what they land on for the rebuild.
The Fast Lane Car lines up a 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat against a 306-horsepower Honda Civic Type R for a drag race, then does something more interesting: takes both cars onto a road course. The quarter-mile goes about how the horsepower gap suggests, but the track segment stirred up a comment section debate over which car actually won, complete with accusations that traction control skewed the result. Nearly 1.5 million viewers have weighed in since. Watch to see where the numbers stop telling the whole story.
Long before YouTube reviewers existed, TV host Bud Lindemann was putting cars through genuinely aggressive road tests — and this 1971 AMC Javelin SST got one of his more pointed reviews, directly comparing its styling to the Corvette before insisting “the Javelin is a handler.” Between AMC’s shared-block engine strategy and its little-known Group 19 racing parts program, this vintage clip explains why AMC loyalists remain some of the most devoted voices in muscle car culture. Watch the full vintage test.