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Classic Muscle Cars Weren’t Actually All That Fast

A 1970 Dodge Coronet with a six-cylinder and a stock rear end really was pretty pedestrian by today’s standards – but that’s not the whole story. Order the same car as a Super Bee with the 426 Hemi and the right gearing, and documented runs put it in the 12-second quarter mile bracket at well over 100 mph. Factory horsepower ratings from that era were also notoriously conservative, hiding just how much these engines actually made. Here’s the case for why “muscle cars were slow” doesn’t hold up once you look past the average car.

A boy watches a red Camaro burn rubber on a suburban street.

Kid Gets Tooth Pulled by Dad’s Chevy Camaro !!

by Wes

A father’s driveway trick turned a loose tooth and a Chevy Camaro into one of the most-replayed home videos on YouTube, racking up nearly 3 million views and a comment section that has been arguing about it for a decade. The method is simple — a length of string, a slow reverse, and a kid who barely has time to react — but the family behind it insists it was never as risky as it looks. Watch to see just how fast it really happens.

Two men test a Ford Coyote engine with focus and tools.

Dyno Testing a Ford Coyote Engine with Borla Stack Injection

by Wes

Mike Finnegan trades his own garage for a seat at Kaase Racing Engines, where a 5.0L Coyote wearing a Borla individual throttle body stack gets strapped to the dyno with Holley’s Robin Lawrence on tuning duty. The pull produces serious torque and a number that has commenters guessing all over the place. Watch to see what the Coyote made, and what it cost to get there.

A classic light blue Ford Mustang convertible from the 1960s.

The First Mustang Sold Ever!!!

by Wes

Two days before Ford officially unveiled the Mustang at the 1964 World’s Fair, a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Gail Wise drove one off a Chicago dealer’s lot – making her, by documented record, the very first retail Mustang owner in history. Six decades later, she still owns the car. Watch to find out how a Chicago dealership beat Ford’s own launch date.

A sleek blue 1968 Dodge Charger on a car carrier trailer.

A 1968 DODGE CHARGER ROARS ON THE DYNO

by Wes

A 383-cubic-inch engine putting down almost exactly 383 horsepower is the kind of coincidence that doesn’t happen often enough for anyone to plan around it — but that’s exactly what this blue 1968 Dodge Charger did on the dyno at a Mopar show in Avondale, Arizona. Three pulls, real numbers, and an exhaust note commenters called worth hearing all the way to redline.

Front view of a heavily modified, armored vehicle with multiple mounted guns.

War Camaro & Hero Helge Meyer Ran Supplies To Bosnia Children

by Pat C

During the Bosnian War, a Danish Special Forces veteran ran humanitarian supplies into a war zone in a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro modified with aircraft-grade stealth paint, armor plating, and thermal imaging, but no weapons at all. Helge Meyer made over 100 runs where UN convoys couldn’t get through, carrying medicine and toys to children instead of ammunition. It’s one of the most extraordinary true stories to ever involve a Camaro, and the car survives to this day.

Mad Max-themed black vehicle displayed indoors with signage and barriers.

Mad Max V8 Interceptor 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT & Engine Sound

by Wes

At the Volo Auto Museum, a tribute build of the Mad Max Interceptor draws crowds who never grew up with the Australian Ford Falcon XB it’s based on. Director Brian Grams sits down to explain exactly what it takes to replicate a car most builders have only seen in movie stills, and why a themed tribute earned a permanent museum home. Watch to see what details give the build away.

Rusty 1968 Dodge Charger R/T engine parts outdoors.

Barn Find: 1968 Dodge Charger R/T “barn find”

by Wes

This 1968 Dodge Charger R/T gets billed as a barn find, but the video’s own update note and a skeptical comment section tell a different story. Between a viewer’s $500-to-$50,000 ownership tale and a debate over whether this car was ever really neglected at all, the video says as much about Mopar culture today as it does about the car itself. Watch to see which side of the argument holds up.

A yellow Ford Mustang GT with 1000 horsepower on display.

What It’s Like to Drive a 1000HP Mustang [4K]

by Wes

Ryan’s Mustang looks like an ordinary, clean S550 until you learn it’s making 930 wheel-horsepower through a fully built motor and Procharger supercharger, built for everything from weekend blasts to half-mile racing. Gears and Gasoline rides along to find out what that much power actually feels like from the passenger seat — fuel economy be damned, by the driver’s own admission. Viewers have called it one of the best sleeper builds they’ve seen on the platform. Watch to find out what 1000 horsepower is really like.

Car lifted on a hoist with smoke and sparks during a dyno test fail.

Top 5 Worst Dyno Fails

by Wes

This decade-old compilation from HighSpeedManiaNET catalogs five dyno runs that went sideways — literally, in at least one case — from a Shelby with enough power to break the machine itself to an engine viewers could hear drop from eight cylinders to six mid-pull. Commenters have spent years timestamping the chaos down to the second, arguing over which fail is the worst of the bunch. It’s a reminder that strapping a car down doesn’t always mean it’s staying put. Watch to see all five.

2018 Super-Challenger Demon SRT Adds Factory Trans Brake

by Pat C

In spring 2017, Dodge fitted a factory production Challenger with hardware normally reserved for professional dragsters – a trans brake capable of building 534 lb-ft of launch torque via its Torque Reserve system. With 840 horsepower on 100-octane fuel, a driver’s seat as the only seat that came standard, and a production cap of just 3,300 units, the Demon reportedly ran too quick for NHRA certification without a roll cage. Read on to find out how the technology actually works.

Classic blue muscle car with aggressive front design.

1973 Ford Mustang: The Last Word on a Legend Before Everything Changed

by Kiril

By 1973, Ford already knew a smaller, fuel-conscious Mustang was coming the following year, making this the last chance to buy the car everyone still pictures when they hear the name. It was the final year for the convertible until 1983, the last for the Grande trim, and the closing chapter for the 351 Cobra Jet before federal regulations reshaped the entire lineup. Read on to find out what actually survived onto the order sheet before everything changed.

High-speed footage of a Chevrolet Camaro racecar crash in a workshop.

1968 Chevelle SS – Complete Restoration Time-lapse

by Wes

A seven-week, frame-up restoration of a 1968 Chevelle SS gets compressed into a short timelapse – bare-metal grinding, a full teardown, and a finished orange-striped result that has Chevelle purists arguing it’s historically inaccurate. One viewer says the video inspired them to start restoring their own 1971 Chevelle. Watch to see the transformation, stripes and all.

High-speed car chase and crash scene from The Fate of the Furious.

The Fate of the Furious (2017) – Harpooning Dom’s GTX Car Scene

by Wes

In this scene from The Fate of the Furious, Dom Toretto tries to escape with a stolen nuclear football while an enemy truck launches actual harpoons into his GTX-style muscle car and drags it down the street. It’s one of the most-watched clips Movieclips has ever posted, and the internet has spent years mining it for jokes about Dom’s mythical Family gear. Ridiculous as the physics are, the scene keeps a Mopar muscle car in front of tens of millions of viewers. Watch the clip that launched a thousand memes.

Classic silver muscle car with racing stripes and fog lights.

1967 Shelby GT500: The Mustang Built to Scare the Cobra Concept

by Kiril

The 1967 Shelby GT500 traded the GT350’s twitchy small-block for a detuned police-spec 428 big-block, wrapped in the most aggressive bodywork a Mustang had worn to date. Ford’s official horsepower number fooled almost nobody who actually drove one, and the fastback body that carried it was no accident either. Read on to find out why the underrating happened in the first place.

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