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1967 was the year Ford stopped playing it safe with the Mustang. A wider engine bay, beefed-up frame rails, and the debut of the 390-cubic-inch GT390 package turned Ford’s pony car into a legitimate muscle car contender almost overnight. Only 13,852 GT390 fastbacks rolled off the line that year, and clean survivors get harder to find every season. Here’s what made 1967 the Mustang’s turning point.
Car News Central counts down six of the biggest engines General Motors ever built, from cross-divisional big blocks to modern crate motors capable of 500-plus horsepower. Along the way, longtime GM owners weigh in with their own builds — including a stroked 541 cubic inch monster and a 455 doing duty in a boat. Watch to see which engine tops the list.
According to its uploader, this 1985 Camaro IROC-Z28 was showing just 4.3 original miles before it eventually sold at a Mecum auction for ,000 — a genuine time-capsule survivor of the year Chevrolet introduced Tuned Port Injection and borrowed suspension tuning tricks from the Corvette. Watch to see what a virtually unused third-generation IROC-Z looks like decades later, and why collectors treat single-digit mileage as its own distinct category of provenance.
A buyer thought he was picking up a straightforward pre-owned Camaro — until he pressed a remote he didn’t know the car even had. What followed revealed hidden underglow lighting and modifications the listing never mentioned, turning a routine purchase into a cautionary tale enthusiasts still share. See the exact moment the surprise hits.
The fifth installment in this crash-and-fail series promises exactly what its title claims: pure sound, no music layered over the engine notes, tire squeal, and impact sounds that usually get buried in similar compilations. A Corvette takes the hardest hit of the bunch according to the comments, while a running joke compares imagined British and American reactions to the same crash. Watch to see which moment gets called out by timestamp as the funniest of the bunch.
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS LS6 454 carried a factory rating of 450 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, the highest gross horsepower GM ever officially assigned a muscle car. This feature breaks down exactly why that number happened in 1970 specifically, and why regulatory changes the following year made sure no muscle car would ever match it again in the same way. Even Mopar loyalists show up in the comments to give credit where it’s due. Watch to see the case laid out in full.
Barn Find Hunter’s Tom Cotter pulls off an Arizona highway for a cinder-block motorcycle shop and finds a pair of Mopars for sale in the desert — then discovers a set of original big-block Camaros parked nearby. Both Camaros sold quickly after the episode aired, and the comments add their own barn-find stories, from a numbers-matching Impala to a first-gen El Camino fans can’t stop talking about. Hagerty’s series keeps proving how much original muscle is still hiding in plain sight. Watch to see what else Tom finds.
Every driver assumes they know what happens inside an engine at high RPM — pistons hammering up and down faster than the eye can track. Colin Furze decided to actually show it, rigging a sacrificial four-cylinder engine to run flat out at 10,000 RPM in front of a high-speed camera on an empty backroad. What the footage reveals about a completely ordinary engine is more unsettling than anyone expected.
This bright yellow 1971 Dodge Dart could be anything from a budget-minded Swinger to a genuine Demon 340 sleeper – Dodge built both on nearly identical sheet metal that year. Only 10,098 Demon 340s left the factory with their 275-horsepower small-block, making a real one a rare find among the 100,000-plus Swingers Dodge sold. Find out what made the Dart one of Mopar’s most underrated performance bargains.
CNN doesn’t usually cover classic cars, but this 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake earned a rare mainstream feature built around its extreme rarity and a documented, unusual ownership history. Built in famously small numbers by Carroll Shelby’s shop, the Super Snake pushed the already fearsome 427 Cobra platform to its absolute limit with almost no concession to comfort. One commenter’s father sold Cobras from a 1960s Ford dealership and had stories to match. Watch to see why this one earned its nickname honestly.
At the 25th Annual Indian Uprising, an all-Pontiac-only show in St. Charles, Illinois, owner Richard Larabee’s Tyrol Blue 1967 Catalina 2+2 stood out enough to take home an award. Lou Costabile records the factory 428 cold-starting on camera, while the comments fill with viewers recalling their own history with the model going back to 1967 showroom brochures. Watch to hear the big block come alive and see why this specific combination of options makes the car so desirable.
Rick Schmidt and Jeff Ford head to a real auction in Raleigh, North Carolina to test whether the intimidating reputation classic car auctions have with first-time buyers actually holds up. Along the way they demonstrate a ‘little things’ philosophy: treating small overlooked details as warning signs about a car’s overall condition. One viewer says they watched the whole episode without skipping around, calling Rick’s expertise genuinely informative. Watch to see what actually happens once the bidding starts.
A factory 6.1 liter Challenger SRT8 ran six quarter-mile passes against a numbers-matching 1970 Challenger T/A powered by its original 340 Six Pack engine, then the drivers swapped cars for the final two runs. One viewer said the old T/A ran a 12-second pass despite missing a gear, while another swore they’d never seen the modern SRT8 run that slow. A commenter who owns both cars revealed his girlfriend was driving the new Challenger in her first-ever stick shift track session. So which car actually won?
A 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 running a factory Turbo Hydramatic 400 automatic squares off against a modified 1951 Henry J nicknamed the Green M&M in this quarter mile nostalgia drag race. Kaiser-Frazer built the Henry J as a stripped-down economy car decades before drag racers discovered its featherweight unibody made it a natural straight-line weapon. Viewers praised the channel’s consistent camera work and asked for more up-close burnout footage. Does decades of muscle car engineering really beat a proper weight-to-power ratio down the strip?
Barn-find hunter Ryan Brutt tracked down a Midwest barn holding several of the rarest cars in muscle car history — a Plymouth Superbird, Dodge Charger Daytona, Charger 500, Ford Torino Talladega, and Mercury Cyclone, all products of NASCAR’s brief and furious late-1960s aero wars. Most haven’t moved in decades. See exactly what’s sitting behind that barn door.