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Ron Smith bought this 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona — one of only 503 built — for a road trip before shipping out to Vietnam. He drove it for over a decade after coming home, then parked it in his father’s lockup for more than twenty years. Restorer Marshall Woolery brought it back, and the finished car has since been featured in Hemmings Muscle Machines. Watch to see the Daytona that waited two decades for its second life.
A driver takes a 2017 Camaro ZL1 out for their first-ever laps on track, sharing the session with a Ford GT — one of the most exclusive supercars Ford has built in decades. With a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4 V8 and a chassis engineered specifically for road-course work, the ZL1 was built for exactly this moment. Watch how a first-timer handles a car with this much capability.
A 2008 Shelby GT500 running a smaller supercharger pulley, a custom tune, and drag radials for roughly 650 horsepower takes on a completely stock 2013 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and its factory 556 horsepower LSA V8 in a heads-up quarter mile. The Cadillac’s showing against a 100 horsepower deficit drew real respect in the comments, and the channel even responded to a viewer’s question about the included density altitude data. Watch the run to see just how close a modified car and a stock one can actually be.
V8TV’s “Muscle Car of the Week” spotlights a Rally Red 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AAR — the numbers-matching, 340 Six-Barrel-powered homologation special built for exactly one model year. Housed today in The Brothers Collection, this AAR carries the tighter steering ratio and unmistakable strobe stripe that set it apart from every other ‘Cuda on the road. Watch to see why collectors call it the sharpest example they’ve found.
1967 was the year Ford stopped playing it safe with the Mustang. A wider engine bay, beefed-up frame rails, and the debut of the 390-cubic-inch GT390 package turned Ford’s pony car into a legitimate muscle car contender almost overnight. Only a small fraction of 1967’s 472,000-plus Mustangs left the line with the 390, and clean survivors get harder to find every season. Here’s what made 1967 the Mustang’s turning point.
Car News Central counts down six of the biggest engines General Motors ever built, from cross-divisional big blocks to modern crate motors capable of 500-plus horsepower. Along the way, longtime GM owners weigh in with their own builds — including a stroked 541 cubic inch monster and a 455 doing duty in a boat. Watch to see which engine tops the list.
According to its uploader, this 1985 Camaro IROC-Z28 was showing just 4.3 original miles before it eventually sold at a Mecum auction for ,000 — a genuine time-capsule survivor of the year Chevrolet introduced Tuned Port Injection and borrowed suspension tuning tricks from the Corvette. Watch to see what a virtually unused third-generation IROC-Z looks like decades later, and why collectors treat single-digit mileage as its own distinct category of provenance.
A buyer thought he was picking up a straightforward pre-owned Camaro — until he pressed a remote he didn’t know the car even had. What followed revealed hidden underglow lighting and modifications the listing never mentioned, turning a routine purchase into a cautionary tale enthusiasts still share. See the exact moment the surprise hits.
The fifth installment in this crash-and-fail series promises exactly what its title claims: pure sound, no music layered over the engine notes, tire squeal, and impact sounds that usually get buried in similar compilations. A Corvette takes the hardest hit of the bunch according to the comments, while a running joke compares imagined British and American reactions to the same crash. Watch to see which moment gets called out by timestamp as the funniest of the bunch.
Barn Find Hunter’s Tom Cotter pulls off an Arizona highway for a cinder-block motorcycle shop and finds a pair of Mopars for sale in the desert — then discovers a set of original big-block Camaros parked nearby. Both Camaros sold quickly after the episode aired, and the comments add their own barn-find stories, from a numbers-matching Impala to a first-gen El Camino fans can’t stop talking about. Hagerty’s series keeps proving how much original muscle is still hiding in plain sight. Watch to see what else Tom finds.
Every driver assumes they know what happens inside an engine at high RPM — pistons hammering up and down faster than the eye can track. Colin Furze decided to actually show it, rigging a sacrificial four-cylinder engine to run flat out at 10,000 RPM in front of a high-speed camera on an empty backroad. What the footage reveals about a completely ordinary engine is more unsettling than anyone expected.
This bright yellow 1971 Dodge Dart could be anything from a budget-minded Swinger to a genuine Demon 340 sleeper – Dodge built both on nearly identical sheet metal that year. Only 10,098 Demon 340s left the factory with their 275-horsepower small-block, making a real one a rare find among the 100,000-plus Swingers Dodge sold. Find out what made the Dart one of Mopar’s most underrated performance bargains.
CNN doesn’t usually cover classic cars, but this 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake earned a rare mainstream feature built around its extreme rarity and a documented, unusual ownership history. Built in famously small numbers by Carroll Shelby’s shop, the Super Snake pushed the already fearsome 427 Cobra platform to its absolute limit with almost no concession to comfort. One commenter’s father sold Cobras from a 1960s Ford dealership and had stories to match. Watch to see why this one earned its nickname honestly.
At the 25th Annual Indian Uprising, an all-Pontiac-only show in St. Charles, Illinois, owner Richard Larabee’s Tyrol Blue 1967 Catalina 2+2 stood out enough to take home an award. Lou Costabile records the factory 428 cold-starting on camera, while the comments fill with viewers recalling their own history with the model going back to 1967 showroom brochures. Watch to hear the big block come alive and see why this specific combination of options makes the car so desirable.
Rick Schmidt and Jeff Ford head to a real auction in Raleigh, North Carolina to test whether the intimidating reputation classic car auctions have with first-time buyers actually holds up. Along the way they demonstrate a ‘little things’ philosophy: treating small overlooked details as warning signs about a car’s overall condition. One viewer says they watched the whole episode without skipping around, calling Rick’s expertise genuinely informative. Watch to see what actually happens once the bidding starts.