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Not every Dodge Charger lived a pampered life under a car cover. Some spent their best years sideways on dirt ovals, banged up and patched together by owners who cared more about lap times than paint. This one looks like it’s got that kind of story behind it. Here’s how Mopar’s most famous fastback found its way from Rose Bowl commercials to bullring dirt tracks.
DragTimes lines up a Dodge Demon running in street trim, all seats in, 93-octane pump gas, against a McLaren 720S for two roll races. Strip away the Demon’s drag-prepped extras and the fight gets a lot more honest than the spec sheet suggests. It is exactly the kind of factory-versus-supercar matchup Dodge had in mind when it built the Demon in the first place. Watch to see which advantage actually wins the day.
Nobody buys a muscle car for its crash test rating, but that is exactly what the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety decided to measure, putting a trio of iconic sports coupes through its full battery of tests in 2016. Not one of them earned a TOP SAFETY PICK award. Watch the full IIHS release to see how speed and safety stacked up against each other.
“Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you move it” might be the most repeated car meme there is — and according to Engineering Explained host Jason Fenske, it is almost entirely wrong. Using real dyno plots and a diesel-versus-gasoline comparison, this video breaks down what horsepower and torque actually mean without leaning on a flawed shortcut. Watch to finally understand the difference for good.
Brand-new cars are not supposed to break on day one, but that is exactly what happened when JMC Rides took delivery of a 2018 Widebody Hellcat Challenger. With over 700 factory horsepower and flared fenders straight from Dodge, this is a car built to turn heads — even when it is sitting in a service bay instead of on the road. Watch the full first-day story to see what went wrong and how it got handled.
Forty-four years apart, Chevrolet tried to answer the same weird question: what happens when you cross a sports car with a pickup bed? The first answer became a three-decade icon. The second answer looked incredible, packed real horsepower, and still only lasted about three years on the sales floor. Here’s how the El Camino and the SSR actually stack up against each other.
Mercury built the Cougar to be the well-mannered alternative to the Mustang — quieter, plusher, and dressed up with European-flavored trim. Then somebody at Mercury got ambitious and started stuffing 428 Cobra Jet V8s under the hood. The result was one of the most underrated muscle cars of the era, hiding in a nameplate nobody expected to bite. Here’s how the Cougar went from Motor Trend’s darling to street brawler in just two years.
Pulled from storage after sitting untouched for years, this 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A is one of only 2,399 built with the factory 340 Six Pack engine, making it one of the rarest Challengers of its era. Road Test TV walks through the original survivor and poses a question every Mopar fan has an opinion on: original T/A, or new Hellcat? Watch the full barn find walk-around to decide for yourself.
Picking up right where the bottom end left off, this fourth chapter of a five-part Chevy 350 rebuild series tackles the top end — the cylinder heads, valvetrain, and intake work that determines whether an engine merely runs or actually performs. Chris Duke walks through the precision work that separates a rebuild built to last from one built to fail. Watch to see the small block get one step closer to its first start.
Pulling the valve covers off an engine nobody has opened in years always turns up a story, and this teardown starts that process on a Chevy LS — the small block family that quietly became one of the most respected V8 platforms in modern history. Part 1 of the series focuses on getting the engine down to its core components before any rebuild decisions get made. Watch to see what years of use left behind.
Buick didn’t build the Riviera to be a stoplight bully — it built it to be effortlessly elegant. Then in 1965, the Gran Sport package snuck a 360-horsepower dual-quad 425 big block underneath that velvet-glove exterior. The result was a genuine sleeper that could run with dedicated muscle cars while looking like it belonged at a country club. Here’s what made the first Riviera GS such a contradiction on wheels.
A tip led one of the best-known barn-find hunters to a rural Kansas property where a 1965 Z16 396 Chevelle — one of only 200 ever built — had sat untouched since 1971. Known among collectors as “The Godfather” of the big block Chevelle, this original survivor predates the more famous 1970 SS396 by five years. Watch the full walk-around to see what fifty years in a field actually left behind.
When one collector ran out of room for his growing car collection, he skipped the storage unit and bought an entire former Walmart instead. The scale alone makes the story worth a look — a massive retail shell converted into private car storage, built on the kind of open floor plan most collectors can only dream about. It’s an extreme example of a growing trend among serious collectors. Watch to see just how far one owner went to finally have enough space.
James sold his 1970 AAR ‘Cuda for $500 decades ago, not fully realizing he was letting go of a genuine SCCA Trans-Am homologation special built in just five weeks. Its 340 Six Pack small-block was underrated at 290 horsepower and could run 0-60 in under six seconds. It’s a story every muscle car fan half-recognizes, and a reminder of how many legends slipped away for pocket change.