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Fifty years of dust could not hide what was parked in this rural Indiana barn: a 1969 COPO Camaro powered by the legendary 427 L72, one of the 201 COPO cars Don Yenko claimed out of roughly 1,015 built. This particular car goes further still — one of only 30 built with an automatic transmission, and one of just seven finished in Fathom Green. Watch to see how a car this rare stayed hidden in plain sight for half a century.
Doug DeMuro barely had time with the new 2019 Corvette ZR1 before filming, but touring it at its Dubai debut still turned into a look at the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built. Commenters could not resist joking about an American supercar getting its unveiling in a city built around European exotics. Watch to see the quirks DeMuro found anyway, and why this first look still gets rewatched years later.
Long before customers ever saw a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, Road Runner, or GTX on a showroom floor, Chrysler’s own salesmen were trained on exactly how to sell them — using this internal film from the Master Technician Service Conference series. It breaks down engine options from economical slant six to the 440 Six-Barrel, explains what separated the budget Road Runner from the upscale GTX, and captures Plymouth’s B-body lineup right at the peak of the muscle car era. Watch to find out what Chrysler wanted its own people to know.
Tim Allen’s 1968 Camaro isn’t a movie prop — it’s a 505-horsepower 427 COPO build from Bodie Stroud, constructed to be exactly the car Allen wanted as a teenager and couldn’t afford. Jay Leno gets behind the wheel to see if it lives up to the hype, and Allen’s face during the burnout says everything words couldn’t. This is car-guy comfort food.
Before the 2018 model year, a rendering claiming to reveal a revived three-door Chevrolet Chevelle spread online, complete with invented horsepower figures and a suspiciously plausible price tag. It never happened — Chevrolet never built it, and the Camaro remained the brand’s only performance coupe. Read on to find out what the rumor actually claimed, and why fans wanted a modern Chevelle badly enough to believe it.
Pontiac built fewer than 700 first-year Trans Ams in 1969, and this white-with-blue-stripes example, restored by a specialist shop and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, is one of the survivors. Owner John Steger walks through what made the earliest Trans Am different from everything that came after. It’s a rare look at where the nameplate actually began.
When Dodge announced the Viper’s production would end after 2017, it closed out twenty-five years built almost entirely around one uncompromising idea: a V10 engine with no substitute. This video makes the case for what could have kept America’s last V10 sports car alive. The comment section is still arguing about whether it would have worked.
A 1969 Dodge Daytona and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird — two of NASCAR’s most extreme aero-warrior street cars — sit side by side in one Jacksonville owner’s garage. Both wear the wing and nosecone combination that solved a real aerodynamic problem at 120-plus miles per hour, not just a styling flourish. Find out which one the owner says deserves the edge.
A Procharger-blown C7 Stingray and a nitrous-fed, stroked 455 C6 Z06 lined up on a public street in Mexico for a 60-to-190-mph roll race, and the gap between them stayed close for nearly the entire run. Built and driven by 1320video regular StangKiller, the C7 represents the newer chassis and forced-induction school of Corvette tuning, while the C6 leans on raw cubic inches and instant nitrous torque. Watch to see which small-block philosophy actually crosses the line first.
Ringbrothers built their 1969 Camaro ‘G-Code’ with a supercharged 416 cubic inch V8 making a claimed 1,000 horsepower, Detroit Speed suspension, one-off IROC-inspired wheels, and an interior one commenter compared to a Pagani. TheSmokingTire took it out to find out if a SEMA showstopper like this could actually be driven — and the reaction in the comments is split down the middle. Watch to see which side you land on.
Most roadside tire tools demand brute strength or an air compressor you do not have with you. The torque multiplier lug wrench changes that equation with a 1:78 gear ratio that makes even the most stubborn lug nut manageable by hand — no power source required. Whether you drive a truck, a muscle car, or anything with oversized hardware, this is the kind of tool that earns its place in the kit. Watch the demonstration and decide for yourself.
Project Farm’s Todd runs a test no responsible mechanic ever would: deliberately starving a running engine of oil, once treated with Lucas Oil Stabilizer and once with STP, to see which additive actually buys more time before the engine seizes completely. It’s the latest entry in a channel built entirely on settling exactly this kind of gearhead argument with real destructive testing instead of marketing claims. Watch to see which product actually wins.
Episode 184 of Muscle Car of the Week features a showroom-fresh, triple-black 1971 Buick GS 455 Stage 1 convertible — one of the highest-torque muscle cars Detroit built that year, wrapped in a color combination viewers still call ‘sweet’ decades later. Commenters are already asking whether a Buick Grand National might be hiding in the same collection. Watch to see what else made this car Buick’s cleanest case for muscle and luxury coexisting.
Most drivers pick up their license without ever learning why a car understeers, how to recover from a skid, or what heel-toe downshifting actually accomplishes — skills that separate merely operating a car from truly controlling one. This rundown breaks down the driving techniques rarely taught in standard instruction, from defensive driving fundamentals to handbrake turns, and explains which ones are worth practicing and which belong on a closed course only. Read on to find out where the real gaps in most drivers’ education actually are.
Plymouth only offered this exact combination for a few months before moving on, which is precisely why the A12 Road Runner remains one of the most talked-about mid-year muscle cars ever built. Wearing Vitamin C Orange paint straight from The Brothers Collection, this particular 440 Six Barrel car represents a stopgap Chrysler engineered on the fly to answer a very specific rival. Watch to find out what problem this car was actually built to solve.