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Jay Leno ordered this 1966 Ford Galaxie as a sixteen-year-old, reportedly behind his father’s back, and decades later he’s calling its restoration ‘finally’ complete for the third time. Along the way, one exchange about a muffler and a rocketship has become, according to his own fans, one of the best stories Jay has ever told on the show. Watch to see what took the Ultimate Edition build so long to get right.
A 1970 Chevelle sitting inside one of Delaware’s largest private car collections turned out to be hiding a factory LS6 454 — GM’s rarest and most powerful big-block option that year, built for just over 4,000 Chevelles nationwide. Chevelle Magazine gave it a nickname that stuck: the ‘Fossil From Flint.’ Watch to see how a cowl tag turned an overlooked coupe into a magazine-featured discovery.
Nick and Vasilis chase 400 horsepower out of a freshly built Oldsmobile Rocket 350, comparing an Edelbrock intake against the factory cast iron piece on the dyno. Years later, viewers are still asking whether they actually hit the number — and debating whether a restrictive carburetor adapter plate held the engine back. Watch the full pull, then see what the comments say really happened.
Car News TV counts down the eight highest-horsepower classic muscle cars, and viewers spent the comment section correcting nearly every figure on the list. Between disputed top speeds, mismatched engine badges, and overlooked contenders like the AMX, the pushback ends up telling a more accurate and more interesting story than the countdown itself.
Nik Miles set out to answer a simple question — what actually makes a muscle car — and instead sparked one of the most contentious debates in the channel’s comment section. Viewers argued over V8 requirements, two-door bodies, missing sway bars, and whether the category has even existed for the past two decades. No two definitions fully agree. Watch the video, then see which side of the argument you land on.
Raybestos Brakes and Schwartz Performance built this 1969 Mustang Fastback as a SEMA Show giveaway car, spending fourteen hundred hours making it look completely stock while quietly replacing almost everything underneath. From the curb it reads as an unmodified Fastback. Underneath, it drives nothing like the car it appears to be, and that gap is entirely the point.
A car left parked directly in front of a fire hydrant became the subject of a full CNN segment after firefighters responded in the most theatrical way possible. Correspondent Jeanne Moos turns the moment into a lesson on why hydrant clearance rules exist — and what a professional-grade hose can do to an unattended vehicle. The clip has quietly racked up nearly four million views. Watch to see exactly what was waiting for the driver when they got back.
Ford built exactly 100 examples of the 1964 Thunderbolt, a factory-only drag racer disguised as an ordinary Fairlane, and handed every buyer a glovebox plate warning them the car didn’t meet normal quality standards. Underneath sat a 427-cubic-inch V8 unofficially estimated at 600 horsepower, fiberglass body panels, and a compression ratio closer to a diesel engine than a street car. The Thunderbolt secured Ford’s 1964 NHRA Super Stock title and still sparks arguments about how it would have fared against a stock Shelby Cobra. Read on for the numbers behind the legend.
A lineup of stock Hellcat Chargers and Challengers line up for straight-line bragging rights in this drag racing compilation, settling the question of whether the four-door Charger gives up anything against its two-door sibling. Comments range from jokes about spouse-approved practicality to a driver’s cautious launch technique. Watch to see which body style, and which driver, actually crosses the line first.
Joe Pieroni has owned his 1964 Chrysler Imperial Crown Coupe since 1989 — and in thirty-five years, he says he has seen exactly one other one. The two-door Crown Coupe was always the rarer choice within Chrysler’s already low-volume luxury division, and survivors from this era are scarcer still. Commenters call it the most beautiful car they’ve ever seen. Watch the full walkthrough to see why this Imperial has stayed in one owner’s hands for over three decades.
Richard Schmidt’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible sat untouched for forty years after he and his late wife Kitty stopped using it as their everyday cruiser. His kids brought it back — not for the horsepower, but in her memory. Hagerty named the finished restoration its 2016 Classic of the Year, beating eleven other finalist stories. Watch the full story and see why one viewer called it ‘how to make a car guy cry 101.’
Tom Lembeck’s 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T packs a numbers-matching 426 Hemi, a factory Pistol Grip 4-speed, and fewer than 12,000 original miles, plus an interior option, a factory Dictaphone, that most Mopar fans have never actually seen in person. Lou Costabile sat down with Tom to walk through what makes this all-original survivor so rare. Watch to see the details that left even viewers stunned.
Rust doesn’t ask permission before it eats through a Mustang’s rear quarter panel, and fixing it properly is slower and more exacting than most people assume. This video follows Greg cutting and welding a patch panel into a 1967 Mustang coupe, doing the kind of careful sheet metal work that separates a repair that lasts decades from one that fails in five years. Watch the process and see why commenters call this a dying craft.
Buying a muscle car is rarely as simple as signing the paperwork — insurance, storage, resale value, and repair costs all factor into whether the purchase makes sense long-term. Some models appreciate with proper care; others lose value the moment you drive them home. Read on for the questions worth answering before you commit to a purchase you can’t easily walk back.
This vintage road test of a well-optioned 1971 Dodge Charger SE 440 comes from an era when television, not YouTube, brought muscle cars to audiences. Viewers in the comments identified the tester as the late Gordon Bud Lindemann, a hall-of-fame figure in automotive broadcasting. The footage doubles as both a car review and a piece of television history. Watch to see the Charger and the man who tested it.