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Sherwin M. found his 1970 Ford XL through a classified ad with photos so bad the car was barely recognizable, which is probably why nobody else called first. What he found in person was a sixteen-year-dormant, numbers-matching survivor with its original 429 engine still intact. Read on to find out how a factory-correct rebuild turned this rare full-size Ford into both a daily driver and a genuine 14-second track car.
Italian drifter Federico Sceriffo takes a General Lee-liveried Dodge Charger R/T sideways in his first video with a new camcorder — no modern drift setup, just a heavy, decades-old muscle car chassis and a driver willing to find its limits. Commenters call it more exciting than watching an import do the same maneuver with more precision. Watch the full drift and hear that big-block V8 under load.
This 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback wears the GT500 look down to the stripes, but its VIN tells a more complicated story than the badge on the fender does. A 390-cubic-inch FE V8, Edelbrock heads, and a limited-slip 3.73 rear end back up the build, while a push-button C6 transmission has viewers picking sides in the comments. Watch to see the full walkthrough.
For the show’s 200th episode, V8TV sat down with three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser next to the exact 1969 Ford Torino he drove to victory at Pikes Peak — a car built by Bill Stroppe, Holman & Moody, and powered by a Smokey Yunick-built Boss 429. Unser hadn’t seen it since 1969. Watch to hear him tell the story of a car, and a win, he clearly hasn’t forgotten.
In Queens, one owner has spent decades keeping his 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass alive, running, and racing through exactly the kind of environment that kills most classic cars: rock salt, potholes, and a driving culture built on aggression. MotorTrend’s House of Muscle profiles Eddie and the car locals call “AY OOH,” a nickname earned through years of street racing rather than a paint shop decal. Watch to see how a car this old survives New York City.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.