 |
This compilation strings together muscle cars left to rot — under caved-in barn roofs, in overgrown fields, forgotten by owners who always meant to restore them someday. One car in the footage, a Dodge Daytona, is reportedly worth a million dollars once restored. Commenters argue over which cars are truly beyond saving and which ones just need an owner willing to finally start. Watch to see just how far gone these cars really are.
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.
The narrator can’t quite settle on how to pronounce GTX, but there’s no confusion about what this 1969 Plymouth can do. This vintage road test pushes the 440-powered GTX through acceleration runs and cornering that surprised even the crew filming it, backed by a factory pedigree tied to Sox and Martin’s NHRA racing program. Watch to find out exactly how fast the quarter-mile route to Squeelsville really was.
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.
Auto Archaeology found this 1966 Shelby GT350H not in a barn but parked beside a suburban home, where owner Judy revealed it had simply been one of her and her husband’s ongoing projects. The GT350H was born from a real collaboration between Carroll Shelby and Hertz Rent-A-Car, letting everyday renters take home a genuine performance Mustang for the weekend. Watch the full story to see the car and hear directly from the owner who’s had it all along.
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.
A heavily tuned Corvette ZR1 lined up against two of Mercedes-AMG’s most respected performance coupes on a Russian drag strip, and the numbers alone couldn’t predict who’d win. Years after DragTimes filmed the matchup, the comment section is still arguing about reaction times, tuning philosophy, and whether an American small-block had any business beating two AMG builds in one afternoon. Watch to see how close it actually was.
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.
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 stranger’s dashcam happened to be rolling at exactly the wrong moment for this 1969 Dodge Dart GT, catching a violent rear-end failure loud enough that viewers say they had to rip their headphones off. The comments dug up two competing, detailed theories for what actually broke — and both are worth knowing before modifying your own muscle car’s rear end. Watch to see it happen.
The third-generation Camaro does not get much respect, dismissed as the awkward middle child of Chevrolet’s muscle car lineage. One owner spent years proving that reputation wrong, building an IROC-Z so subtly refined it looks nearly stock at a glance, no loud stripes, no attention-seeking mods, just years of careful work reserved for how the car actually drives. The Drive tracked it down for a proper test drive. Watch to see whether it lives up to the title.
An editor spent hours splicing together the greatest car chases from more than a dozen films, Bullitt, The French Connection, Vanishing Point, Mad Max, and beyond, into one continuous five-minute sequence. The result plays like an entire decade of practical stunt driving compressed into a single unbroken chase. Watch to see how many of these iconic films you can spot.
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.
Ford barely touched the Thunderbird for 1963, and that was the point: a design that was still selling strong even with a brand-new Buick Riviera gunning for the same buyers. Underneath, a 300-horsepower 390 V8 or an optional 340-horsepower tri-power version gave the personal-luxury cruiser real muscle, while just 455 ultra-rare Sports Roadsters rolled off the line that year. It’s the kind of confident, understated machine that still turns heads at shows today.