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Detroit Speed dropped a blown modern HEMI into a 1969 Charger and built out 830 wheel horsepower, a number so high that TheSmokingTire had to publicly correct its own original estimate. Viewers immediately compared it to Roadkill’s notorious General Mayhem, just cleaned up and sent to finishing school. Watch the full build.
Tim Allen’s 1956 Ford pickup hides a genuine Chrysler Hemi under the hood, a build the shop dialed in across sixty-plus dyno pulls until it settled at 640 horsepower and 670 pound-feet of torque. It is a cross-brand swap that breaks every rule of Ford-versus-Mopar loyalty and turns a basic work truck into something that can embarrass purpose-built muscle cars. Watch to see exactly how this unlikely combination came together.
The same owner puts his Dodge Demon and Hellcat on the same dyno, on the same day, to finally settle which supercharged Hemi actually makes more power at the wheels. The numbers confirm Dodge’s engineering gap between the two cars, and the video hints there’s still more locked away in the Demon’s factory race-fuel mode. Demonology’s channel built its following on exactly this kind of head-to-head test.
An Army aircraft mechanic stationed overseas bought this rust-free 1971 Dodge Charger sight-unseen, with plans to drop in a 572-cubic-inch Hemi built for over 800 horsepower. Before the media blasting and undercoating are even finished, one question remains unresolved: stick with factory-correct yellow, or go full restomod with flat black and bold stripes? The build taps into a growing wave of big-block Charger restomods that trade numbers-matching originality for modern muscle and serious street presence.
At Street Car Takeover OKC, a Procharged C7 Corvette running just 7 psi of boost — around 570 whp on a manual transmission — takes down a Nitrous Outlet Viper running without spray, all over a sandwich bet. The driver, known in the comments as Miss Stangkilr, wasn’t who the crowd expected to win. Watch the full Roll Race and see the bet get settled.
Ryan Brutt, The Auto Archaeologist, finds a Midwest barn holding not one but several rare NASCAR aero cars — a Superbird, a Charger Daytona, a Charger 500, and a Cale Yarborough-linked Cyclone — all sitting in decades of dust and neglect. Nearly two million viewers have watched, and more than a few admit the Superbird alone brought them close to tears. These cars were built in the hundreds, not thousands. See what’s been hiding behind closed doors.
Alan Robinson’s Chevrolet Impala wagon weighs 4,720 pounds with its 26-inch street wheels and four JL Audio subwoofers still bolted in, runs a stock-bottom-end 6.0-liter engine at just 10 psi of boost, and still posts mid-11-second quarter miles at Hot Rod’s Drag Week. Getting to the line means swapping two of those 98-pound wheels for drag radials first. It wasn’t even the car Robinson planned to bring. Watch a wagon nobody expected to be fast prove exactly the opposite.
Coy Harvey opened a garage door in Lubbock, Texas expecting ordinary clutter and found a 1966 Shelby GT350 buried underneath years of garden tools and Christmas decorations. It’s not just any GT350 — it’s a rare “carry-over” example, built during the transition between the 1965 and 1966 model years using earlier-spec components. Harvey’s own background restoring classic Mustangs meant he knew exactly what he’d found the moment he saw it.
This twin-turbo, nitrous-fed Corvette showed up to Texas Invitational wearing two 88mm turbochargers that punch straight through the hood, backed by a 2,400-horsepower rating that its own team hasn’t even been able to confirm yet. A dead fuel pump capped boost at roughly 1,500 horsepower on this outing, leaving another 1,000 horsepower and a promised 200 mph pass still on the table. Fans can’t agree whether to call it a unicorn or a bull. Watch to see just how much of that power actually made it to the ground.
BigBlockNova468 hands the wheel of his freshly completed 500-horsepower big block Nova to a friend who normally drives a Lexus IS350 — and spends the entire clip visibly more nervous than she is. Commenters can’t decide what’s better: her composure behind the wheel of a solid-axle muscle car, or his face every time she blips the throttle. Watch to see how a Lexus driver handles 500 horsepower on the first try.
A stock Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a stock Dodge Viper lined up at the WannaGoFast half-mile event at Sulphur Springs Airport, Texas, with barely over a mile per hour separating their best trap speeds. Peter Dunn’s footage reignited the long-running debate over supercharged V8 power versus the Viper’s lighter, more aerodynamic chassis. See which car actually posted the higher number across multiple runs.
TFLtalk’s Emme, Roman, and Nathan rank their picks for the worst American cars of the last 40 years, and the comment section immediately pushes back. Viewers defend the AMC Gremlin’s bulletproof inline six, question whether a rebadged Suzuki or Daewoo even belongs on an American cars list, and make the case for AMC’s forgotten performance models. Watch the list, then see why longtime owners are not ready to accept it.
Only five 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AARs were ever finished in FT6 Burnt Tan, and only two are known to survive. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week profiles the rare homologation special built so Plymouth could legally race the ‘Cuda in SCCA Trans Am — complete with a triple-carbureted 340, side-exit exhaust, and a rulebook-driven design most casual fans never notice.
Richard Petty’s own 1970 Plymouth Superbird hadn’t turned a wheel on the road in over forty years — until Goodwood convinced him to drive it again. The winged, 200-mph NASCAR homologation special that helped make Petty’s name (and inspired Pixar’s The King in Cars) gets a rare public outing, engine roaring for the first time in a generation. Fans in Petty’s hometown of Randleman, North Carolina still stop him for photos to this day. Watch to hear what a real Hemi sounds like waking up after forty years.