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A blue Chevelle sitting in a used-car lot doesn’t look like much until you check what’s under the hood. Chevrolet’s 1970 SS454 came in two flavors, and only one of them, the solid-lifter LS6, earned real muscle car legend status. Fewer than 4,500 Chevelles ever left the factory with this engine, out of over 62,000 SS models built that year. Here’s why that scarcity still makes collectors stop in their tracks.
Flinty460 spent a full year collecting the burnouts that didn’t go according to plan — tire fires, rods punched clean through engine blocks, and wall hits caught in the moment things went wrong. It’s less a highlight reel than an honest record of how thin the margin is between a great burnout and a very bad one. Watch to see exactly where each of these went sideways.
This 1969 Dodge Charger R/T pairs the factory-rated 425-horsepower 426 Hemi with a rare 3-speed automatic transmission, a combination found in only a few hundred of the more than 20,000 Charger R/Ts built that year. Part of the Brothers Collection, it carries just over 50,000 original miles. Watch to see what made this specific combination so unusual.
Superchargers and turbochargers both force more air into an engine, but they get there in fundamentally different ways — one mechanically driven off the crank, the other spinning on exhaust gas that would otherwise go to waste. That difference shapes everything from throttle response to how much horsepower a build can realistically chase. Watch the breakdown of exactly where each one wins.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon left the factory with 840 horsepower, a front-wheel lift kit, and an NHRA-certified 9.65-second quarter-mile at 140 mph — numbers that made it the quickest production car ever built at the time. Getting the engine’s full power required a separate $1 unlock. Watch to see exactly what Dodge built when the brief was simply: fastest, no compromises.
A gutted Tesla P100D put up serious money against a field of built Mustangs — a Whipple-blown Terminator Cobra, a twin-turbo coyote swap, two nitrous Foxbodies, and an E85 Nissan GT-R — for a $3,200 pot. Then the track prep became its own argument before a single run went down. Watch to see which combination actually took the money.
Myron Vernis’s car collection isn’t built around icons — it’s built around the cars everyone else passed on: a French sports car with a very specific seating arrangement, a proto-SUV wearing a plywood roof, and a convertible repeatedly nominated as the ugliest ever built. This uncut follow-up digs into the cars too strange for the first cut. Watch to see what didn’t make it the first time around.
A Dodge Hellcat Charger and a Chevy ZL1 Camaro both rolled into Byron Dragway looking to take down the same Shelby Mustang in one night, and neither one could close the gap. The Shelby answered both challenges with trap speeds over 122 mph, leaving two of Detroit’s most hyped factory muscle cars searching for an explanation. Watch to see how close it actually got.
NHRA’s 50 Greatest Drivers list wasn’t slapped together as clickbait – it came out of a genuine blue-ribbon panel debate for the sanctioning body’s 50th anniversary, weighing everything from national event wins to the sport’s technological history. Don Garlits sits at number one, with John Force, Don Prudhomme, Bob Glidden, and Shirley Muldowney rounding out a top five that basically built modern drag racing. Decades later, NHRA even expanded it into a Top 75 list for its 75th anniversary. So who’s your pick for the top spot?
Filmed at Maryland International Raceway’s Import vs Domestic World Cup Finals, this ProCharged Challenger ran deep into 6-second quarter-mile territory, a time that used to belong exclusively to Top Fuel cars. Viewers were just as impressed by how clean the launch looked as by the number itself. Watch the full pass.
It doesn’t look like much on Nick’s dyno — until the numbers start climbing. This small block Chevy proves you don’t need 600-plus horsepower to earn a following, and the comments underneath prove it. Nick’s Garage built a channel around builds like this one: honest, approachable, and capable of putting up a fight against engines twice its size. Watch to see why viewers keep coming back to this one.
Nth Moto’s built Viper ACR ran an 18-inch street tire, an H-pattern manual gearbox, and enough power to make viewers question whether AWD supercars even matter anymore during TX2K18. That Racing Channel called it the most savage street car they’d ever ridden alongside — and the comments back it up. Watch the 50-to-180 pull that left even seasoned viewers stunned.
A YouTube deep dive into V8 performance under $10,000 turned up an unexpected headliner — a depreciated Mercedes-Benz SL500 Roadster — and just as quickly turned the comment section into its own shopping list. Viewers countered with everything from BMW 5-Series and Audi S6 rivals to a genuine sleeper pick: the Magnum-powered Dodge Dakota R/T pickup. The result is less a definitive ranking than a crowdsourced argument about where real horsepower-per-dollar still hides in the used market. Watch to see which picks made the cut.
This 1970 Ford Torino King Cobra prototype was built to fight Chrysler’s aerodynamic NASCAR cars, wrapping an extended nose around the race-bred Boss 429 V8 before NASCAR’s rule changes killed the entire program. Only a handful of these prototypes were ever built, making this one of the rarest Fords in existence. Take a detailed look at a car that came remarkably close to reaching Ford showrooms before the aero wars ended.
This 1968 Camaro claims 1000 horsepower with zero turbo, supercharger, or nitrous — just massive displacement, 14:1 compression, and a camshaft aggressive enough to make it idle like it’s fighting itself. Freshly restored and cruising the streets of Houston at roughly 2,950 pounds with the driver, it’s the kind of build commenters say they’ve replayed a thousand times just for the sound. Watch to hear it for yourself.