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Mike Finnegan steps outside his own garage to watch the pros at Kaase Racing Engines dyno-test a 5.0L Ford Coyote fitted with Borla stack injection, with Holley’s Robin Lawrence handling the tune. The session pushes the engine to nearly 500 horsepower through careful, iterative tuning rather than a single flashy pull. Watch to see what this Coyote actually likes.
Ford planned a carefully staged Mustang debut for the 1964 New York World’s Fair — but two days before that unveiling, twenty-two-year-old school teacher Gail Wise walked into a Chicago-area dealership and drove one home anyway. It remains one of the most famous accidents in automotive launch history, turning an ordinary car purchase into the story of the very first Mustang ever sold. Here’s how it happened, straight from Hagerty.
A dyno room strips away every distraction and lets an engine speak for itself, and this classic blue 1968 Dodge Charger 383 had plenty to say at a Mopar show in Avondale, Arizona. Hosted by Mopars Unlimited of Arizona at a UTI Phoenix car show, the pull turned a routine dyno session into a genuine crowd moment. Turn the volume up before you watch this one.
AV Boys’ built Mustang lined up against a VRT-tuned 2012 Porsche 911 from Izzy Performance for a five-thousand-dollar street race, with the Porsche given a full car length head start as a nod to its own serious pedigree. Only one car crossed the line first, and the margin says a lot about which build actually delivered under pressure. Watch the full run to see whether that head start was anywhere near enough.
During the Bosnian War, a Danish Special Forces veteran ran humanitarian supplies into a war zone in a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro modified with aircraft-grade stealth paint, armor plating, and thermal imaging, but no weapons at all. Helge Meyer made over 100 runs where UN convoys couldn’t get through, carrying medicine and toys to children instead of ammunition. It’s one of the most extraordinary true stories to ever involve a Camaro, and the car survives to this day.
Long before Mad Max became a Hollywood franchise, its most famous car started life as a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe — a model Ford never even sold in America. This tribute build, housed at the Volo Auto Museum in Illinois, recreates the Interceptor’s black paint, hood-mounted supercharger, and menace right down to the engine note. Lou Costabile sat down with museum director Brian Grams to find out what it takes to bring a fictional icon this close to real life.
A tarp comes off, and the first reaction to this 1968 Dodge Charger R/T barn find is optimistic: pretty good shape, all things considered. Then the video’s own caption walks that back — turns out it wasn’t. Whatever the true extent of the damage, a Charger wearing the R/T badge and its 440 Magnum heritage is worth saving regardless of condition. See exactly how far this one has to come back from before the work can even begin.
Ryan’s Mustang isn’t built for a dyno sheet and a bragging thread — it’s a fully built motor paired with a Procharger centrifugal supercharger producing 930 horsepower at the wheels, driven hard on both back roads and the half-mile strip. The team at Gears and Gasoline rode along to find out what nearly a thousand horsepower actually feels like once the tires hook up. It’s a rare look at a build extreme enough to impress and streetable enough to actually enjoy.
At sixteen, Adam Martin spent his pizza-delivery earnings on a primer-gray 1968 Chevrolet Camaro that had clearly seen better days — and taught himself bodywork, paint, and engine building on it that same winter. Decades later, the coat-hanger imprint in the decklid paint and the hammer-dented exhaust headers are still there, proof of exactly how a rough teenage project became a lifelong obsession. This is the story of the one car that actually changes a person’s path.
Every engine builder knows the dread that comes right before a dyno pull — the moment where months of work either gets validated or violently disproven. This compilation rounds up five of the worst dyno failures on record, the fireballs and blown rods that circulate through car culture as equal parts cautionary tale and communal wince. Watch to see exactly where each build went wrong.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon didn’t just add horsepower to the Challenger lineup — it handed street buyers a piece of drag-strip-only technology that had never been offered on a production car before. Between its Trans Brake, Torque Reserve system, and a horsepower figure that flirted with four digits, the Demon turned heads before it ever left the showroom floor. Here’s a closer look at the numbers and technology that made it one of the most talked-about muscle cars of the decade.
The 1973 Mustang closed out the first generation’s entire run, carrying the final convertible for a decade and the last of the Grande trim before a smaller, fuel-focused redesign took over for 1974. Federal bumper rules and tightening emissions regulations had already reshaped what the car could offer, engine by engine. This was the version buyers got right before the Mustang became something completely different.
A 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS earned the nickname Gunk long before it earned its shine back — buried under rust, grime, and years of neglect until a restoration crew took it down to bare frame and rebuilt it from the ground up. Seven weeks later, the same car that looked like a lost cause was ready for cruise nights again. The full frame-up process, condensed into a fast-moving time-lapse, shows just how much work separates a forgotten Chevelle from a finished one.
A harpoon gun, a Manhattan blizzard of remote-hacked cars, and Dom Toretto behind the wheel of a blacked-out muscle car — this clip from The Fate of the Furious captures one of the franchise’s most quoted set pieces. Nearly 50 million views and counting prove the scene still lands nearly a decade later. Watch to see just how close the harpoon comes to actually working.