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AMC built its reputation on affordable cars, not horsepower wars, but its V8 architecture turned out to be tougher than anyone at the Big Three expected. Take a guess at what’s under the hood of this blue AMC, then find out why drag racers still build these engines to 700-plus horsepower decades after AMC itself stopped building anything at all.
Somewhere on a rural property, a collection of Mopars has been sitting untouched for decades — fenders oxidizing, interiors drying out, engine bays growing dusty over VINs that collectors would pay serious money just to verify. This is Part 2 of that discovery, and it picks up right where the last one left off. The question is not whether these cars are worth saving. The question is how many of them actually are what they appear to be.
There’s a reason photos of absurdly lifted trucks circulate endlessly through car culture, and it goes back further than most people realize. From WWII-era necessity to Baja desert racing to today’s SEMA showstoppers, here’s how raising a truck off the ground turned into one of the most recognizable movements in the automotive hobby, one dangling passenger at a time.
A motorcycle with a significant speed advantage, a pursuing police cruiser pushing its limits, and a crash nobody saw coming — this pursuit video covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time. The physics of what happens when a high-horsepower bike meets traffic and a determined officer in a sub-optimally configured interceptor are on full display here. Some of what unfolds is shocking even for a genre known for dramatic footage.
Some cars are built for the track, some for the show field, and some for exactly one purpose: putting as much tire smoke in the air as physically possible for as long as humanly sustainable. This machine falls firmly into the third category, and it is very, very good at its job. Turn your volume up before you hit play.
Plymouth offered the Sport Fury GT with a 440 and a 426 Hemi in 1970, and almost nobody ordered one. That makes finding a real survivor in Alpine White — with this engine note — something genuinely rare. Full-size muscle cars have always been the underdog of the collector world, but cars like this one are starting to change that conversation in a hurry.
The 1970 Ford Torino Cobra is the muscle car that almost everyone overlooked in period — and the one that serious collectors are quietly buying up while nobody is paying attention. With 429 cubic inches, a SportsRoof body that still looks aggressive fifty years later, and 650 horsepower in this build, it is long past time to give the Torino its due. Watch this and then try to explain why people still pay Mustang money.
Bring whatever you want, run whoever shows up, let the clock decide. That is the entire philosophy of Run What Ya Brung, and Kansas City takes it seriously. Twin-turbo trucks, nitrous Camaros, built street cars on radials — everything is welcome, and nothing is guaranteed. This is grassroots American drag racing exactly as it should be.
The moment a Mustang leaves a car meet sideways into a crowd is the moment everyone stops having fun. This video captures one of the most dramatic examples of exactly that, and while it is difficult to watch, it is even more important to understand. What went wrong here, and what does it mean for the future of car culture events?
When Fiat Chrysler quietly renewed its trademark on the ‘Cuda name, it reignited a rumor that had simmered for nearly a decade: a modern successor to one of Mopar’s most legendary nameplates. The Cuda and Barracuda trademarks have a messier history than most fans realize, and the renewals have kept coming for years without a production car to show for it. Here’s the real story behind the paperwork.
What happens when a field full of vintage Mopars lines up at a small Michigan dragstrip with nothing to prove and everything to gain? Absolute chaos, perfect noise, and some of the most satisfying quarter-mile action you will find anywhere. The Ubly strip has seen a lot — but not many nights like this one.
Ford built exactly two of these in 1957 — a factory-supercharged Ranchero with a 312 V8 that was never supposed to exist. This one survived. It runs. And when you hear what it sounds like under full throttle, you will understand immediately why the Brothers Collection hunted it down. Hit play before you read another word.