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Gord Nelson had a Cougar Eliminator on his bucket list for years before his wife Kelly spotted the right ad and told him to go get it. The car that resulted is a 1970 Cougar Eliminator CJ 428 in Competition Orange — one of Mercury’s rarest pony car packages, shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch to see what made the Nelsons’ hunt worth it.
Most Dodge Chargers on the show circuit are preserved for their paint and their numbers-matching pedigree. This orange number 01 Charger takes the opposite approach, built specifically to slide sideways through dirt track corners against a field of competitors with the same obsession. Read on to find out what it actually takes to turn a classic Mopar into a dedicated dirt racer.
A Dodge Demon running on pump gas, street tires, and every seat still installed lines up against a McLaren 720S — twice — in a roll race that is closer than the spec sheets suggest it should be. Drone footage captures both runs from directly overhead, the angle that best shows exactly when one car starts pulling away. Watch both races to see whether the Demon’s raw power can make up for giving away every other advantage.
In 2016, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put three iconic American muscle coupes through its full crash test battery — and none of them earned a Top Safety Pick award. The results reignited a debate that’s still running in the comments years later: is muscle car styling fundamentally at odds with occupant protection, or is the real problem driver behavior and lax licensing standards? Watch to see exactly where each car came up short.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you move it — a line quoted constantly in car culture and rarely questioned. One engineer decided to actually test the claim against real physics instead of letting the metaphor stand, adding a direct power-to-weight versus torque-to-weight comparison to answer the towing questions the idea always raises. Watch to find out whether the wall analogy holds up at all.
A brand-new 2018 Widebody Hellcat Challenger ran into trouble before its first day of ownership was even over, and the reaction from viewers split fast between sympathy and skepticism about how serious the problem actually was. Long Island commenters recognized the neighborhood from the footage and turned the replies into an impromptu regional meetup thread. Watch to see exactly what went wrong, and how big a deal it really turned out to be.
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.
A false tip about drugs being thrown in a trash can brought police straight to a parked Mustang GT — and instead of a citation, the stop ended with officers asking to hear the 5.0-liter V8 for themselves. The comments can’t agree on whether it was a genuinely friendly encounter or a low-key inspection. Watch to see how it played out.
Mercury built the Cougar as a plusher, quieter alternative to the Mustang, and it won Motor Trend Car of the Year honors in 1967 for exactly that reason. Two years later, the Eliminator trim hid a 428 Cobra Jet V8 rated at 335 horsepower under the same badge. Read on to find out how a luxury-focused pony car turned into one of Detroit’s most underappreciated muscle cars.
A barn find 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A has been sitting untouched for years, its original 340 cubic inch Six Pack engine still intact under the hood. Dodge built only 2,399 T/A Challengers that year, and viewers can’t even agree on the factory paint color, some call it Panther Pink, others Plum Crazy Purple. The video poses a pointed question: would you trade this original for a modern Hellcat? Most commenters say no.
Episode 67 of the Motorz rebuild series picks up the Chevy 350 build at its most consequential stage — the top end, where a single missed torque step or skipped sealant can undo three prior episodes of careful work. Viewers with decades of small block experience have weighed in throughout, flagging two specific mistakes worth avoiding and trading tricks that never make it into a written manual. Watch to see exactly where a home rebuild can go right, or wrong.
This LS engine teardown starts with the same uncertainty every rebuild does — you never quite know what years of neglect actually did until the first bolts come loose. Viewers ranging from lifelong diesel technicians to first-time builders have weighed in on the technique, debating everything from head bolt removal order to a cheap salvage-yard 6.0-liter with an oddball factory quirk. Watch to see exactly what comes out of this engine, one bolt at a time.
Buick’s 1965 Riviera Gran Sport hid genuine muscle behind personal luxury styling, and the $450 option box was the only clue. It brought the 360-horsepower Super Wildcat 425 with dual four-barrel carburetors, a 3.42:1 Positraction axle and a low-restriction dual exhaust, good for 0-60 in about 7.7 seconds in a car weighing just under 4,000 pounds. Buick built 34,586 Rivieras that year. Read on to find out why so few people know this option existed.
A tip from a stranger led a well-known barn-find hunter to a rural Kansas shop, where a 1965 Chevelle Z16 — one of only 200 ever built — had sat untouched for roughly 48 years. The car’s owner, a local racing legend named Cliff, reportedly received it directly from Chevrolet decades ago, and it still carries the specific factory details that separate a real Z16 from an ordinary 396 Chevelle. Watch to see what half a century of stillness actually looks like.
One Florida collector ran out of garage space and solved it in the most literal way possible — by buying an entire former Walmart in Punta Gorda and turning it into a private car storage building. Locals driving by on US 41 can catch a glimpse of a baby blue 1964 Impala parked behind the fence, but that is only a fraction of what is reportedly inside. Watch to see just how much car a big-box building can actually hold.