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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.
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.
James sold his 1970 AAR ‘Cuda for five hundred dollars decades ago — a genuine SCCA Trans-Am homologation special that Plymouth built only 2,724 of. Under the hood sat a 340 Six Pack officially rated at 290 horsepower but widely believed to make considerably more. Read on to find out what the car is worth today, and why that sale still stings.
Car and Driver spent the 1960s testing everything from factory Corvettes to a road-going Ford GT40, all reduced to the same simple number: 0-60 mph. Two Shelby Cobras claimed the top two spots, one of them clocked at a scarcely believable 4.3 seconds, while a small-block Mustang GT snuck onto the list ahead of genuine big-block muscle. Read on to see how all twelve cars stacked up — and why the testing methods behind these numbers deserve an asterisk.
A 548-cubic-inch billet-block V8 with twin 88mm turbos, built to campaign a 1969 Camaro through the 2008 NMCA season, gets strapped to a dyno and makes a number most viewers assumed was a typo: 2,200 horsepower. The camera’s own microphone couldn’t handle what happened next. Watch to see why fans still call this the best clip the channel has ever posted.
Those towering tailfins and bullet taillights leave no doubt about what this black convertible is — a 1959 Cadillac, built during the single most dramatic model year of Detroit’s entire fin era. Read on to find out whether this one is the volume Series 62 or the flagship Eldorado Biarritz, and why 1959 still gets the last word in collector circles.
This yellow Chevy C10 wears a badge with nearly three decades of Chevrolet truck history behind it, spanning three distinct generations from 1960 through 1987. Depending on the year, it could be running anything from a modest inline-six to a genuine big-block V8, and that range is a big part of why the trucks have such a devoted following. Read on to find out what separates a good C10 from a great one, and why these former work trucks keep climbing in value.
A plain red 1967 Mustang doesn’t look like it’s hiding much, until you check under the hood and find Ford’s FE-series S-code 390, the big-block that finally gave the pony car a genuine performance option. Read on to find out why this overlooked engine option still counts as one of the smarter buys in the classic Mustang market.