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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.
Tom Lembeck’s Mopar collection includes two of the rarest muscle cars ever built: a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona in Spring Green and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird in Vitamin C Orange, both packing factory 426 Hemi engines. Filmed side by side in Chicago, the pairing even fooled a passerby who walked right past without noticing. Fans in the comments are split on which winged Mopar deserves the edge. Watch to see which one Tom calls his favorite.
This 1971 Dodge Challenger looks almost stock — no R/T badge, no scoop, nothing to give away what’s underneath. That’s exactly the point. Built to dodge 1971’s brutal muscle car insurance surcharges, it hides a 383 four-speed combination with a Hurst pistol-grip shifter under an unassuming exterior, and this vintage road test puts it through real acceleration and braking runs to prove the disguise. Watch to see why some of the smartest muscle car builds were the ones that never announced themselves.
This Redline review puts the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody through its paces, tackling the question every 707-horsepower muscle car eventually has to answer: how do you actually put that much power down on the street without spinning the tires at every stoplight? The fix borrows parts straight from the Demon’s playbook. Watch the full review to see whether the Widebody package actually delivers.
A twin-turbo, supercharged, nitrous Ford GT pushing an estimated 1200 horsepower lined up against a supercharged, nitrous Dodge Viper putting down roughly 1050 — and the race came down to who left the line clean, not who had the bigger number. High Tech Corvette caught the whole exchange, reaction-time jokes and all. Watch to see whether raw horsepower or a perfect launch wins the day.
A Cadillac CTS-V owner ripped out the factory supercharger and replaced it with a 106 millimeter turbo, roughly tripling the car’s horsepower and putting it into low 7-second quarter mile territory. This run was the setup’s maiden voyage, bugs and all, and the video does not hide that. Comments have zeroed in on the turbo’s jet-engine presence and the fact that the interior is still mostly intact despite the radical power increase. Watch the run and see what 1,600-plus horsepower looks like in a car that still has a back seat.
A single photo captioned ‘Hit speedbump…’ next to a lowered muscle car needs no explanation for anyone who has owned one. Dropping a car’s ride height creates a stunning stance, but it comes with a ground-clearance tax that catches out even experienced owners. Read on to find out what’s really happening underneath the car in that moment.
Orange 1969 Road Runners had a way of disappearing over the decades, wrecked, parted out, or simply worn down long before anyone thought to call them collectible. This one survived, but what’s actually under its hood, a base 383, a rare 440 Six Pack, or something even more valuable, isn’t something the paint color can answer. Read on to see how a fender tag settles the question a glance never could.
Bob Welling served as a Marine in Vietnam, came home a died-in-the-wool Chevy guy, and still ended up chasing down a piece of 1968 Mopar history decades later. What started as a simple fix for an engine rattle turned into a full supercharged Hemi build — one so powerful that hitting the throttle at highway speed sends the rear end sideways. Read on to find out how a tribute to Dodge’s rarest factory drag cars became Bob’s daily street cruiser.
Muscle car owners joke about it, but the math behind a full restoration is no laughing matter. Between labor rates that average $125 an hour, parts bills that can top $10,000, and paint jobs running into five figures, a frame-off build can quietly climb past $100,000. The single biggest budget-buster is usually the one nobody sees coming: rust hidden beneath the surface. Here’s where the real money actually goes.
This barn-find 1970 Chevelle SS396 L78 became what its own uploader calls a national phenomenon — and the comment section proves why. A former GM Van Nuys assembly-line worker shows up to confirm engine codes and casting numbers firsthand, while other commenters trade stories about factory build sheets hidden inside seat cushions. The walkaround is technical by design, built for buyers who need to tell a genuine numbers-matching SS396 from a clone.
Ford bet big on a total redesign for the 1972 Torino, and the Gran Torino Sport wore that gamble best — longer hood, bolder grille, and a hood scoop that meant business. Buyers could step up from the base 302 V8 all the way to a 429 big-block. The payoff: Ford outsold Chevrolet’s Chevelle for the first time since the Torino nameplate launched in 1964.
Six clean dyno pulls, then a seventh that ends in a bang, a flinch, and a very memorable shot of the shop floor. This stroked “Boss 557” build — a heavily reworked Ford Boss 429 — had already made 850 horsepower before a rushed decision to run a stock flywheel instead of a billet one caught up with it. The internets verdict is split between sympathy for the expensive loss and jokes about the cameramans reflexes. Watch to see exactly what a flywheel failure looks like up close.
Enzo Morales took a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu, a trim level Chevrolet never intended to be anything special, and built it into something viewers compare to a Mercedes CL63 or a Bentley Continental GT. The result raises a genuinely odd question: can an American mid-size sedan earn the nickname ‘American Aston Martin’? Watch to see the build, and the burnout, that convinced a crowd of onlookers the answer is yes.