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A mechanic demonstrates removing carbon buildup from piston crowns and the block deck using nothing more than WD-40 and a Scotch-Brite pad — and the comments turn into a genuine debate over the right way to do it. Viewers share a grease-dam trick for trapping debris, argue over scratch marks left by the scraper, and weigh in on when a rebuild needs a machine shop instead of a garage floor. The technique applies just as well to a muscle car big-block as it does here.
Two Dodge Challenger Hellcats, same 707-horsepower supercharged V8, different transmissions — one automatic, one manual. The Fast Lane Car crew lines them up for a straight quarter-mile shootout to settle which one actually gets down the track faster. The results split the comment section, with some viewers questioning a suspiciously slow run and others defending the manual on principle rather than elapsed time. Watch to see which transmission wins.
A stroker build video that started as a simple garage update turned into something bigger once the comments filled up — viewers sharing their own battles with the same aftermarket parts supplier, technical debates over cylinder sleeving, and one builder’s blunt verdict that the 440 is the most powerful wedge in the world. Part one covers only the beginning of this Mopar big-block project. Watch to see where it starts.
Pontiac was not supposed to build the 1964 GTO at all. A corporate rule banned engines over 330 cubic inches from the compact Tempest, so three engineers found a loophole in the option book and dropped a 389 in anyway. Management approved 5,000 units as a hedge against failure. Buyers ordered more than six times that number in the first year, and Detroit spent the next decade chasing what Pontiac started by accident.
Vanguard Motor Sales has listed a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T SE with a 440, a Dana 60 rear end, and the factory Track Pack option — plus a decoding letter from Mopar historian Galen Glover to back it all up. One commenter remembers buying an almost identical car for $2,500 back in 1973, when muscle cars like this one were, in his words, “everywhere cheap.”
MotorWeek’s John Davis takes Dodge’s 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon to the one place it was actually built for — a drag strip — and comes away with a Guinness World Record-setting wheelie on camera. Commenters call it a milestone episode, tracing Davis’s career all the way back to a very different MotorWeek review: a 1992 Pontiac Firehawk once described as “barely street legal” with 340 horsepower.
Pontiac planned to build nearly 5,000 examples of the 1977 LeMans Can Am before a spoiler mold problem cut the run short at just 1,377 cars — a fraction of them fitted with a different engine entirely. RamblinAround tracks down one of the survivors, and the comments fill in details even longtime Pontiac fans admit they’d never heard before, from quarter-mile times to a rare column-shift option.
Tim Hall says he bought his 1971 Buick Riviera because he “liked the backend on it” — a reference to the polarizing “boattail” design GM design chief Bill Mitchell pushed through against dealer skepticism. Lou Costabile catches up with Tim and the Sandpiper Beige coupe at a small-town Illinois car show, where decades-old opinions about the shape are still being argued out in the comments. The 455 under the hood is almost an afterthought.
Lou Costabile visits the 2016 Burr Ridge Car Show to find a 1970 Chevy Nova in Green Mist paint, kept 80 percent original by owner Don Dames despite running only a six-cylinder engine. The comments fill in the rest: a driver’s ed car from 1977, a family Nova that survived a windshield-shattering explosion and ran past 280,000 miles, and viewers who owned nearly identical cars decades ago. Watch to see why an ordinary six-cylinder Nova is pulling out more personal stories than most muscle cars ever could.
Chip Foose unveils the Mach Foose Mustang at SEMA 2017, a build that grafts 1971 Mustang body panels and 1970 rear quarter panels onto a modern 2011 Mustang GT chassis. Viewers call the muted gray paint and subdued stripes seductive precisely because it isn’t loud, a rare restrained choice for a SEMA reveal. Comments pour in from across the world praising Foose’s decades of work, while at least one lifelong Mustang fan says this is the exact car he’d want to own. Watch to see the reveal that stopped the show floor.
V8TV profiles the very first A12 Road Runner Plymouth ever built, the Wayward Beeper, tested by Super Stock Magazine in 1969 and driven into the 12-second zone by legendary drag racer Ronnie Sox. Its 440 Six Pack, 4-speed manual, and stripped interior were all built for one purpose, and the comments fill in the rest with period tire-pressure tricks and owners’ own Road Runner stories. Watch to see the car Chrysler itself called the fastest A12 ever built.
Lou Costabile visits Roanoke Motor Co. in Illinois to see a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird 426 Hemi in Alpine White, pulled straight from dealership owner John Gastman’s personal collection. The car’s 53-pound cast aluminum wing and NASCAR-driven aerodynamics tell only part of the story; according to Gastman, the horn has never even been used. Built to homologate Chrysler’s aero package for racing, fewer than 2,000 street Superbirds exist today. Watch to see why this one has barely been touched since it arrived.
Chris Duke closes out his five-part Chevy 350 rebuild series with Motorz’s Finale episode, capping a build that started with Tear Down and worked through Machine Shop, Bottom End, and Top End. Viewers praise his careful technique but are still asking, years later, for the dyno numbers and start-up sound this episode never shows. One 15-year-old fan says the series alone taught him how a small block actually goes together. Watch to see how a nearly year-long rebuild gets buttoned up.
A factory-built 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst Convertible with no sibling cars anywhere in the world sits at the center of this one – and according to one commenter, it may have once served as Hurst’s own display car for glamour mascot Linda Vaughn. Owner Trev Dellinger shares the full story at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch to hear exactly what makes this Chrysler one of one.
Only 2,399 Dodge Challenger T/As were built for a single model year, and this one is one of just 1,410 finished with an automatic transmission and roughly 50 wearing its triple-black paint scheme. V8TV breaks down exactly what made the T/A a street-legal homologation special rather than just another Challenger trim. Watch to see the numbers that make it genuinely rare.