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Most aero-warrior muscle cars from the NASCAR homologation era at least got to race. This 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II never did — built to challenge the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird on the high banks, then sidelined by a rule change before it ever turned a competitive lap. Owner Steve Honnell explains the story behind the only one of its kind on Lou Costabile’s My Car Story.
Nick’s Garage spent nine years waiting for this rare 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A to get another chance, and when the moment finally came, he made sure nobody else was around to see it fail. The car’s factory 340 Six Pack has sat silent since long before this shop visit, and a lot can go wrong when an engine that old finally gets asked to run again. Nick stayed late, locked the doors, and turned the key alone. What happened next has drawn over 600,000 views.
This blue 1973 Dodge Challenger is not just a mystery for guess-the-year games — it is a snapshot of the final model year Dodge fitted the legendary 340 V8 before replacing it with the torque-focused 360. Only 8,435 of the 32,596 Challengers built that year got the 340. Here is why this often-overlooked model year deserves a second look.
A rare 1970 Yenko Nova built around a solid-lifter 360-horsepower small block lines up against an even rarer opponent: a supercharged 1964 Studebaker Challenger R3, from a brand that stopped building cars years before this race happened. Road Test TV put two of the most collectible names in American performance on the same quarter-mile, and only one crossed the stripe first. Watch to see which legend held up under pressure.
Decades before muscle car road tests meant polished YouTube reviews, Bud Lindemann was putting cars through full-throttle runs and hard braking tests that period magazines never dared attempt. Here he turns that treatment on a 1969 Dodge Charger 500 — Dodge’s flush-nosed answer to NASCAR aerodynamics — powered by the legendary 426 Hemi. The footage is grainy, the driving is not gentle, and the result says more about the car than any spec sheet could.
Rick Campbell spent fifteen years restoring this 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 in Grabber Blue, a car built around a NASCAR-homologated engine that barely fit the Mustang’s engine bay in the first place. It’s one of only two Boss 429s ever recognized with an Authenticity Award, and it still carries its original California emissions equipment. That kind of patience is rare even among dedicated restorers.
Only fifty of these will ever be built, and Trans Am Worldwide is reviving one of Pontiac’s most respected performance badges — the 455 Super Duty — to do it. This behind-the-scenes look at the build, directed by Ash von Chamier, has racked up over three million views from fans curious how a modern shop tackles a name with this much history attached. The finished car is only half the story.
Dick Boneske found this 1964 Pontiac GTO Post Coupe sitting in a farmer’s field, exposed to the weather with no garage or barn to protect it. When he finally came to haul it away, the farmer wasn’t sentimental about it — he was just glad to have his field back. It’s a rarer body style than the hardtop most GTO fans picture, and its road back from a field is part of what makes it worth a second look.
1957 was the last year Ford built a Thunderbird for two — and the rarest version of that final year hid a genuine secret weapon. Buried in the option sheet was a supercharged 312 V8 good for roughly 300 horsepower, built in only about 200 examples before Ford quietly let it go. The following year, the two-seat Thunderbird disappeared for good, replaced by a four-seat family cruiser. Here’s the story behind Detroit’s shortest-lived personal luxury car.
Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard tackles a popular claim in the muscle car world: that you really can’t go wrong with a Chevrolet Chevelle. Between clone SS models, a decades-long production run, and wildly varying condition in the used market, the reality is more complicated than the saying suggests. This buyer’s guide breaks down exactly what to check before handing over money for one.
Does bolting on headers actually make more power than stock manifolds, or is it forum folklore? Nick Panaritis put a 426 Hemi stroker on the dyno to find out, running both configurations back to back so the numbers could speak for themselves. With nearly 300,000 views, plenty of gearheads clearly wanted a real answer instead of another argument. The dyno chart settles it.
Tim Allen’s on-screen persona built a career out of pretending to be a tool guy, but his real garage tells a different story. This 1956 Ford F-100, fitted with a Hemi that Ford never intended for the platform, is the kind of serious build his actual car collection has quietly been known for among enthusiasts. With over 600,000 views, plenty of people wanted to see whether the truck backs up the reputation.
Put a Hellcat, a Demon, a Shelby Super Snake, and a ZL1 against a vintage Charger and Challenger on the same quarter mile and you get more than a race — you get a referendum on fifty years of muscle car engineering. This lineup pits raw, mechanical torque against forced-induction modern horsepower in a down-and-back drag battle. The results say a lot about how far the genre has come, and how much of its original appeal never left.
Most Batman fans never knew George Barris built a Batmobile purely for drag racing, powered by a blueprinted Holman & Moody 427 side-oiler and driven by ‘Wild Bill’ Shrewsberry. It ran the quarter-mile in about 12 seconds at nearly 117 mph while touring dragstrips across North America from 1966 to 1968. Here’s the real racing story behind Batman’s other car.