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2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 in bright red showcased outdoors.

History/Breakdown: 2012 Ford Mustang BOSS 302

by Wes

Muscle Car Of The Week usually reaches decades into the past for its features. This week it barely reaches back at all, spotlighting a 2012 Ford Mustang BOSS 302 carrying a designation most viewers have never encountered, Tooling Tryout Number 1, a label reserved for cars used to validate factory production tooling before a model reaches dealers. Built as a direct descendant of the original 1969-1970 BOSS 302, this modern revival turns out to be faster than nearly everything else in the collection. Watch to find out why.

1950s classic blue Pontiac Grand Prix car on display.

Great Cars Review and History: GTO

by Wes

Before the Pontiac GTO existed, corporate policy at General Motors made it impossible: no mid-size car could carry an engine over 330 cubic inches, period. John DeLorean and a small team of engineers built one anyway, testing it in nighttime street races before their bosses even knew it existed. This archival documentary traces how that quiet act of rule-breaking, plus a name borrowed from Ferrari, turned into the car that saved Pontiac and launched an entire era of American muscle. Watch to find out how close it came to never happening at all.

Vintage car with bold 'COOL IT' text in red.

Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like A Superbee

by Pat C

Dodge’s Super Bee ran a full four-year spread of engine options, from a stout 383 all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi, but the rarest combination of them all was the mid-1969 A12 Six-Pack. Only 1,907 of those 440 Six-Pack cars were built, and the Hemi option was even scarcer at just 125 units. It’s a lineup that proves not every muscle car icon needed a household name to earn its reputation.

Golden 1969 Buick Riviera GS Gran Sport showcased at a car event.

1969 Buick Riviera GS Gran Sport in Embassy Gold

by Wes

Don Adams sold a Buick once and spent years regretting it before spotting a 1969 Riviera GS Gran Sport in a magazine ad and, with his wife’s encouragement, finally buying it back in 2002. This all-original Embassy Gold example has never been restored — just preserved. It’s a rare survivor from a personal luxury coupe that traded some of Buick’s usual comfort focus for real performance. Watch to hear the full story behind how this car found its way home twice.

Two muscle cars racing on a drag strip under a cloudy sky.

2016 V-8 Muscle Car Challenge: Acceleration

by Wes

Cars.com brought the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS, Ford Mustang GT, and Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack to Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park for a week of head-to-head quarter-mile testing. Three different engineering philosophies — high-revving small-displacement, independent-rear-suspension balance, and big-displacement torque — went up against the same stopwatch. The result wasn’t the simple horsepower-wins story some viewers expected. Watch to see which pony car actually got there first.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon driving on a road at sunset.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon | Road Test

by Wes

MotorWeek’s John Davis takes the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon straight to a drag strip, testing a car SRT engineered from the ground up rather than simply retuning the Hellcat it’s often mistaken for. Four decades into hosting the show, Davis treats it as a milestone episode, and the comments make clear plenty of longtime viewers agree. It’s a car built almost entirely around one number. Watch to see what that number actually is.

Blue Plymouth Superbird with iconic rear wing at a car show.

1970 Plymouth Superbird Petty Blue Survivor

by Wes

340″ /> Engine: 440 Six Pack Mileage: 48,010 Current bid: $105,300.00 BUY NOW ON EBAY. If there’s one vehicle that epitomises the huge loud and proud era of muscle cars, it’s the Plymouth Superbird and Dodge Daytona Aero cars. […]

Man working on a complex engine in a workshop.

1968 Charger 440 on the dyno! (pt.1)

by Wes

Nick Panaritis takes on a build with a deceptively simple goal: 600 horsepower from a 1968 440, on pump gas, reliable enough to drive every day. Part one follows the teardown and reassembly of an engine pulled straight out of a client’s own Charger, with commenters pointing to real-world proof the target is achievable. Watch to see how the build starts.

Classic red 1972 Buick Gran Sport parked outdoors on a driveway.

1971 Buick Riviera GS Gran Sport in Vintage Red & 455 Engine Sound

by Wes

Debbie Powless’s love of Buicks started with her grandfather’s Electra 225, a gift that planted a seed years before she ever owned a Buick herself. After spotting a Riviera at a car show, she searched until she found this exact 1971 Buick Riviera GS Gran Sport in Vintage Red, then restored it from the ground up. Under the hood sits the 455 cubic inch V8 that gives the car its signature sound. Watch to hear it, and to hear how a family hand-me-down turned into a decade-long search.

A classic red 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS driving on a winding road.

Carb’d 461 Big Block – 1965 Oldsmobile

by Wes

Robert McGaffin’s 1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 has been cloned into a 442 and fitted with a carbureted 461 cubic-inch big-block, built specifically to handle autocross duty rather than just straight-line bragging rights. Featured in The Drive’s BIG MUSCLE series, it’s a deliberate argument for a brand that rarely gets its due next to Chevrolet and Pontiac. The comments turn into a genuine defense of Oldsmobile power, praising McGaffin for skipping the easy LS-swap route. Watch to see what a serious Olds big-block build actually looks like.

Engine bay of a classic car with detailed mechanical components.

How to Install Nitrous on Your Small Block V8 (1972 Challenger)

by Wes

A plate-style NOS nitrous kit, a Mopar small-block, and a set of suspiciously modern Dodge Challenger wheels come together in this Horsepower Wars install video, but the dyno numbers sparked more debate than the wrench work. While the crew walks through fuel enrichment, timing retard, and purge-line basics on a project car that might be running a stroked 402 cubic inch small-block, one commenter wasnt buying the horsepower gain shown on the Dynojet pulls. Is the modest bump proof that plate nitrous has limits, or is there more going on under that hood than the numbers let on?

Rusty vintage car parked outdoors with snow around it.

Top 5 Pitfalls to Avoid when Buying a Classic Car Preview

by Wes

Buying a classic car sounds romantic until the bills start arriving, and TFL Classics built an entire spinoff series around exactly that gap between expectation and reality. Episode 2 of “Load Bearing Paint” counts down the top five pitfalls to avoid, but it’s the comment section that delivers the real lessons, including one viewer’s $250 junkyard find that became a $13,000 project he still doesn’t regret. What separates buyers who finish their projects from the ones who don’t?

Video thumbnail questioning if wider tires provide more grip.

Do Wider Tires Actually Have More Grip? Testing 27 Cars

by Wes

Wider tires mean more grip — or so every car enthusiast has been told. Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske put that assumption to the test at NWAPA’s 2017 Mudfest, running sixty-to-zero braking tests across twenty-seven different AWD and 4×4 trucks and SUVs with a Vbox data logger. The results complicate the simple version of the story muscle car owners repeat about tire width, weight, and stopping distance. Commenters, including more than one physics teacher’s former student, dig into exactly why. Watch to see what the data actually says.

1966 Plymouth Belvedere II 426 HEMI convertible car with classic design.

Breakdown/Review: 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II Convertible 426 Hemi

by Wes

Exactly ten 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II convertibles were built with the factory 426 Hemi, and this one, from The Brothers Collection, is Episode 228 of V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series. Most comments focused on the car’s rarity and color — but a few sharp-eyed viewers flagged a driver’s door that doesn’t sit quite right where it meets the rocker panel. On a car built in single-digit numbers, that kind of scrutiny comes with the territory. Watch the full walkaround.

Classic red Chevrolet Chevelle in a sleek showroom setting.

Chevrolet Chevelle | Buyer’s Guide

by Wes

Hagerty Executive Editor Stefan Lombard opens with a dare: you really can’t go wrong with a Chevelle, true or false? What follows is a rundown of exactly where Chevelle buyers get burned, from cloned SS badges to rust hiding under a straight-looking floor pan. Watch before you go looking for one yourself.


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