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Owner Curt Richards restored this 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am back to its original prototype specification, and the comments confirm why it matters: only two of these were ever built, and the other one no longer exists. Commenters call it the holy grail of Pontiac collecting. Watch the full walkaround with Lou Costabile.
Jamboolio’s 2018 muscle car sound reel skips the reviews and interviews entirely, letting eight cars speak for themselves — from a nitrous-fed 1,000-horsepower 1967 Camaro to a supercharged 572 Hemi Challenger. It is pure cold-start-to-redline audio, the kind that racked up more than 4.4 million views without a single word of narration. Viewers call it the best kind of white noise. Watch to hear what all the fuss is about.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T nicknamed “Street Shaker” showed up at Detroit Autorama 2013 with a spoiler most ’70 Chargers never wore from the factory — and somehow made it look right. Commenters argued color combinations, debated originality, and one self-described Chevy fan admitted the Mopar won him over. See what tipped the scale.
Muscle Car Of The Week usually reaches decades into the past for its features. This week it barely reaches back at all, spotlighting a 2012 Ford Mustang BOSS 302 carrying a designation most viewers have never encountered, Tooling Tryout Number 1, a label reserved for cars used to validate factory production tooling before a model reaches dealers. Built as a direct descendant of the original 1969-1970 BOSS 302, this modern revival turns out to be faster than nearly everything else in the collection. Watch to find out why.
Before the Pontiac GTO existed, corporate policy at General Motors made it impossible: no mid-size car could carry an engine over 330 cubic inches, period. John DeLorean and a small team of engineers built one anyway, testing it in nighttime street races before their bosses even knew it existed. This archival documentary traces how that quiet act of rule-breaking, plus a name borrowed from Ferrari, turned into the car that saved Pontiac and launched an entire era of American muscle. Watch to find out how close it came to never happening at all.
Dodge’s Super Bee ran a full four-year spread of engine options, from a stout 383 all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi, but the rarest combination of them all was the mid-1969 A12 Six-Pack. Only 1,907 of those 440 Six-Pack cars were built, and the Hemi option was even scarcer at just 125 units. It’s a lineup that proves not every muscle car icon needed a household name to earn its reputation.
A 540-inch stroker build in a 1969 Camaro squares off against a 427-powered 1966 Chevelle in a straight-line battle between two very different paths to big-block muscle. One car leans on raw displacement, the other on GM’s factory racing bloodline, and the launch alone has viewers debating suspension setups more than a decade after this race first hit YouTube. Watch to see which classic comes out ahead.
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.