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Underneath the vintage 1970 Mustang bodywork on this SEMA 2016 showstopper, called ‘Vicious,’ sits a Nissan GT-R chassis and drivetrain — a body swap precise enough that even close-up video had commenters asking what they were actually looking at. It shared the spotlight with a wide-body Dodge Charger one viewer described as ‘a mile wide, two miles long, and six inches tall,’ plus a custom ‘Shomad’ Nomad wagon. See the build that fooled an entire comment section.
Born during the worst years for American performance cars, the second-generation Pontiac Trans Am somehow became a genuine pop culture icon, starring as KITT in Knight Rider and stealing scenes in Smokey and the Bandit. Commenters add their own chapters, from a family that helped build them at Fisher Body Norwood to an owner who restored a $2,000 example with parts still in the trunk. See all eleven reasons — and the one detail commenters say the list missed.
Kevin Callahan’s restomodded 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible, finished in a custom shade its builders named St. Patrick’s Day Green, turned heads at Chicago’s World of Wheels show — but the real story is why he built it. Named Irish Eyes, the car doubles as a tribute to his two daughters, built by Hot Rod Auto’s Mark Klopack. Watch to find out what makes this particular Judge more than just another show car.
A 1970 Dodge Super Bee test drive from Joyriderestorations turned into something more than just a walk-around when the driver got behind the wheel and the Hurst pistol-grip shifter had other plans. Viewers piled into the comments with equal parts car envy and friendly ribbing about missed gears. One longtime Mopar fan even shared the story of the identical Super Bee he drove at 17 and still remembers to this day. Watch to see what makes this pistol-grip icon so unforgiving.
This quiz-format rundown of Dodge trivia mixes real automotive history with one deliberately planted lie, daring viewers to separate fact from fiction across seven claims — from the 1968 Charger’s controversial “Coke bottle” styling to a Lamborghini connection behind the Viper’s V10. Some of it is common knowledge among Mopar fans. At least one claim is designed to catch even serious enthusiasts off guard. Watch to the end to see which fact doesn’t hold up.
Jason Fenske’s Engineering Explained video takes a skeptical premise — can a motor oil really go a full year, or 20,000 miles, without a change — and turns it into a two-day tour of Mobil 1’s actual testing facility in Paulsboro, New Jersey. It’s detailed enough that even the video’s own top comment from an engineer viewer admits marketing claims and engineering data don’t always tell the same story. Watch to see exactly what convinced Fenske, and what one sharp-eyed commenter thinks the testing still left out.
Often called the car that started the entire muscle car genre, this 1965 Pontiac GTO rolls in wearing Tiger Gold paint, a 389 V8, and the close-ratio four-speed and limited-slip rear end that made it more than just a big engine in a mid-size body. Former GTO owners flooded the comments with their own stories, from decade-long daily-driver ownership to heated debates over the single best factory color combination. Watch the breakdown of the car that made John DeLorean’s rule-bending idea a legend.
A reviewer who’s owned both a Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a Camaro SS 1LE gets behind the wheel of a 2018 Camaro ZL1, and by his own admission, it’s the closest anything has come to matching his Hellcat’s thrill since he sold it. Between a digital speedometer that skips numbers under hard acceleration and a stranger leaning out of traffic to snap a photo, this review captures exactly why one commenter summed the ZL1 up in three words: smiles per gallon. Watch to see what won him over.
MotorWeek puts the 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE through its high-speed track test at Roebling Road Raceway, and even loyal BMW M3 owners in the comments admit this might be the car GM should have built decades ago. Between the factory exhaust note, the Multimatic dampers, and lap times that rival cars costing twice as much, this segment became a rallying point for Chevrolet, BMW, and Pontiac fans alike. Watch the corner-by-corner test that convinced skeptics.
The 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 ditched the screaming, race-homologated 302 V8 that defined its first two years for something radically different: a torquier, street-tuned LT-1 350. Some fans call it the best Z28 Chevrolet ever built; others say it lost the racing soul that made the nameplate special in the first place. Decades later, original owners are still driving these cars daily, and the argument over which engine, and which era, got it right hasn’t cooled off one bit. Watch to see the case for 1970.
King Rose Archives’ vintage newsreel-style profile of the Ford Thunderbird traces the car from its 1955 two-seat debut through the decades when Ford kept redefining what a “Thunderbird” even was. The comments underneath it read like their own oral history — a 427-powered 1962 bought as a $2,000 wedding present, a 1966 428 Q-code picked up for $600 from a woman who called it ugly, and a Sammy Davis Jr. sighting from decades ago. Watch the original piece, then read what four generations of T-Bird owners had to add.
Chrysler built roughly 9,137 street Hemi cars between 1966 and 1971, and only a sliver of them left the factory as convertibles. The 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi convertible is widely considered the rarest of the bunch at just two built, with Hagerty pegging a top example near $1.3 million. A numbers-matching 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible brought $3.5 million at Mecum in 2014. Read on for why the drop-tops are so scarce and what separates a real one from a clone.
This special report confidently explained why and when FCA was about to retire its legendary Hemi V8, and years of comments posted underneath it tell a very different story. Owners with hundreds of thousands of miles on their 5.7-liter Hemis, buyers racing to purchase one before it’s gone, and even an enthusiast writing in from Italy all showed up to correct the timeline. Watch the original case for the Hemi’s death, then see why the internet never let it stick.
A Chevy Monte Carlo’s wheels detach mid-burnout at Track Mania Car Show 2K17 in Memphis, spinning freely on the pavement while the car itself grinds to a stop. Commenters point to oversized 24-inch wheels and stock supporting hardware as the likely culprit. Watch the moment that turned a routine burnout run into one of the scene’s most-replayed clips.
In 1984, a dare on a dirt road outside Kingman, Arizona taught Vicki how to drive a stick shift in her sister’s black 1967 Camaro RS/SS — and planted a want that took nearly thirty years to satisfy. In 2013, she finally found her own, an almost perfectly restored example listed on Craigslist in Brooklyn, Michigan. Read on for how one proving-them-wrong moment turned into a lifelong Camaro obsession, complete with a matching-numbers engine still waiting for its turn.