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An ordinary commute turned into an extraordinary sighting when this creator passed a warehouse full of exotic and muscle cars being seized by the DEA and U.S. Marshals — combined value pushing toward four million dollars. From a Diablo Roadster to a heavily modified American muscle car, see what was inside before it scattered to auction forever.
Everyone assumes Pontiac invented the mid-size muscle car formula and the rest of Detroit just copied the homework — except Buick found a clever way around GM’s own displacement rules and almost nobody gives the brand credit for it. The result, culminating in the 1970 GSX and a quarter-mile time Motor Trend called the fastest they’d ever tested, remains one of the most underrated muscle cars of the entire era. Read on to find out which loophole Buick exploited first.
At the Goodguys West Coast Nationals, a fully functional miniature blown V8 — 6.3 cubic inches, 16 horsepower, built by Ken Hurst and Dwight Giles of the Bay Area Engine Modelers — draws a crowd as dedicated as any full-size muscle car. Every system of a real supercharged engine is here, just scaled down. Watch to see it come to life.
The Ford F-100 spent thirty-five years quietly rewriting what a half-ton truck could do, from its 1953 fiftieth-anniversary naming to the bumpside and dentside generations that fill classic truck shows today. Along the way it became the first Ford pickup to offer factory-built four-wheel drive in 1959 and introduced the Twin I-Beam suspension that lasted three decades. Read on to discover the party trick that left Chevrolet and Dodge playing catch-up for years.
A stock 1969 Charger, an authentic Charger Daytona, and a modern Hellcat go through identical wind-tunnel testing to answer a question most muscle car fans get wrong: the Daytona’s towering wing wasn’t primarily about cutting drag, it was about solving a dangerous rear-lift problem at superspeedway speeds. Watch to see smoke trails and pressure data confirm exactly what Chrysler’s engineers were fighting in 1969 — and how differently Dodge’s modern Hellcat was ever meant to be used.
Legendary Motorcar’s Dream Car Garage tracked down a pristine 1969 Plymouth Road Runner for a segment that still draws comments from people who owned one the first time around. The story behind the car runs deeper than its cartoon-licensed horn: a no-frills muscle car built to undercut its own siblings on price, and the rare A12 “Six Barrel” package that made it one of the most feared cars at any stoplight. Watch to see why the Road Runner still commands this kind of loyalty decades later.
A plain-looking yellow two-door hides one of Mopar’s best-kept secrets: 1966 was the only year Plymouth let ordinary buyers order the legendary 426 Street Hemi in a Belvedere. Born out of a NASCAR homologation fight and rated at 425 horsepower, it turned a mid-size family car into a genuine street terror — and did it in staggeringly small numbers. Whether this particular car is running the real thing or just wearing the look, it’s a reminder that some of the era’s wildest engineering hid behind the most modest badges.
A 1972 Plymouth GTX and Road Runner running a modified 318 small block, re-sleeved to accept 340 pistons, takes on a 1994 Impala SS riding on chrome 20s and a factory 260-horsepower LT1. Comments from nearly two decades of viewers confirm the budget build held up long after the cameras stopped rolling. Watch to see why the Impala’s driver stopped smiling by the end of the run.
RamblinAround tracks down one of only 503 original 1969 Dodge Charger Daytonas ever built, still running its factory 440 V8 and finished in correct T5 Copper paint. The Daytona’s nose cone and rear wing were built to break NASCAR speed records, and did, forcing the sport to change its rules. Watch to see the winged Mopar that inspired decades of dream-car regret in the comments.
A Camaro built for over 1,000 horsepower, backed by nitrous, takes on a tuned Nissan GT-R in a straight-line grudge race — and the outcome hinges less on horsepower than on which car can actually put its power to the pavement. Commenters call the GT-R “hell on wheels” while sympathizing with the Camaro’s traction problems. Watch to see whether raw American muscle or all-wheel-drive precision wins the day.
Cars Garage skips the dyno-pull theatrics and shows the entire assembly of a Chevrolet Corvette 6.2L supercharged LS9 — the engine that once made the ZR1 the fastest production car GM had ever built. Every torque spec, every forged component, every step from bare block to finished 638-horsepower engine is on camera. Watch to see what actually separates a factory-grade rebuild from a shortcut.
Tom Lembeck’s 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda 426 Hemi convertible isn’t hiding in a climate-controlled garage — it’s driving Chicago streets, top down, in Winchester Gray. Lou Costabile’s “My Car Story” catches the owner firing up one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built and talking candidly about what it’s like to actually live with a seven-figure Mopar. Watch to hear the Elephant motor come alive.
This Candy Apple Red 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback 2+2 carries an engine that had only been on sale for a few months when it left Dearborn, paired with a GT package that skipped a feature most people assume every GT got. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week caught up with it at The Brothers Collection, and the car makes a case that not every great Mustang needs a big-block name to matter. Watch to see what viewers are still arguing about in the comments.
An Estonian builder captures the exact moment a freshly assembled, supercharged 440 big-block fires for the first time, destined for a 1973 Dodge Charger R/T. It’s the moment that either validates months of build work or reveals a costly problem, and the aggressive idle that follows makes clear which one this was. Hear what a genuinely blown Mopar big-block sounds like before it’s even been tuned.
CarsFX’s countdown of 2018’s most anticipated muscle cars mixes the expected — the Dodge Demon, the Viper, the supercharged Camaro ZL1 — with one entry almost nobody saw coming: the hand-built EQUUS Bass 770, which commenters say out-styles anything currently built by Ford. The list isn’t perfect (a few older models slipped in), but the reaction proves one car stole the whole show. Watch to see which upcoming muscle car has fans arguing the most.