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Four of Australia’s most powerful 1970s road cars were meant to settle their rivalry in one magazine comparison test — and then the test never happened. Decades later, Shannons Insurance reunited the Falcon XA GT Hardtop, Valiant Charger E55 and Holden Monaro GTS 350 with the rarest survivor of them all: a Leyland Force 7V that was never allowed to reach showrooms. Watch to see the shootout Australian muscle car fans have argued about for fifty years.
Not every fast car from the muscle era became a household name — some got buried under a flashier sibling’s shadow, others simply never built the following their performance deserved. This rundown digs past the usual Hemi ‘Cudas and Boss 429s to the machines that quietly held their own in period road tests and are only now starting to get their due. Watch to see which overlooked muscle cars deserve a second look.
Two vehicles, one supercharged 707-horsepower engine, and completely different ideas about who should get to use it. The Fast Lane Car pits the widebody Dodge Challenger Hellcat against Jeep’s family-hauling Grand Cherokee Trackhawk to see whether raw drag strip credibility beats all-wheel-drive launch traction. The results are closer than the spec sheets suggest. Watch to find out which Hellcat platform actually wins.
Decades before anyone connected the dots, a one-off 1967 Camaro convertible was already wearing styling details that would not reach a production Corvette until the following year. Built under GM design chief Bill Mitchell and known as the ‘Cherokee’, the car vanished from public view for years before customizer Charley Hutton brought it back to its original glory. Watch the full breakdown from the 2013 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals.
A Plymouth Superbird built to chase NASCAR speed records has no business at a stoplight-style drag race — and yet here it is, lined up against a modified street Mustang with a reputation of its own. The Worlds Fastest Street Car List brings two completely different philosophies of speed to the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which one actually gets to the stripe first.
Randy Pobst has hot-lapped six-figure exotics for Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car competition, so his reaction to a dealer-available Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE at Laguna Seca means something. The track package strips the ZL1 down to its essentials — stiffer springs, aggressive aero, and a chassis tuned for exactly this kind of punishment. Watch the full hot lap to see how it stacked up against far pricier company.
Coy Harvey wasn’t hunting for classic cars when he opened that garage door in Lubbock, Texas — he was just doing his pest control route. Buried under garden tools, storage baskets and years of forgotten Christmas ornaments sat a genuine 1966 Shelby GT350, and his restoration background told him immediately exactly what he’d found. Watch the full story of an accidental discovery most enthusiasts only dream about.
The Dodge Charger Daytona’s towering rear wing and pointed nose cone weren’t styling choices — they were an engineering fix for a NASCAR problem Chrysler couldn’t afford to lose. This particular example, a 440-powered car from the respected Brothers Collection, represents the more common choice buyers actually made over the flashier Hemi. Watch V8TV’s full history and breakdown of one of muscle car history’s strangest, most purposeful designs.
No CGI, no green screen — just a Dodge Charger and a Ford Mustang tearing through San Francisco’s steepest streets at speeds that sent both cars airborne on camera. This clip captures one of the most influential car chases ever filmed, the kind stunt coordinators still study more than fifty years later. Watch to see why real steel at real speed still hits harder than anything a computer can generate.
Before enclosed trailers, guys hauled their race cars behind trucks like this 1942 cab-over-engine hauler, a stubby-nosed workhorse built right at the edge of WWII civilian production. COE trucks packed the driver over the front axle to squeeze more cargo into a legally-limited overall length, and that same shape makes them a favorite base for a dedicated car hauler today. Restoring one is its own project, often tougher than restoring the muscle car it’s built to carry.
Chrysler built only fourteen 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles, and this Rallye Red example was the very first one off the assembly line. Under its shaker hood scoop sits the 425-horsepower 426 Hemi, feeding through dual four-barrel carburetors built for straight-line violence rather than comfort. Now part of The Brothers Collection, it remains one of the rarest and most significant muscle cars Chrysler ever produced. See what makes car number one worth chasing more than fifty years later.
Behind a fence in Northern California sits a lineup most Mustang collectors only dream about — four fastbacks and convertibles that have spent years in a storage yard instead of a showroom. One of them is a numbers-matching 1969 Mach 1 built with the 428 Super Cobra Jet, a 4-speed, and the factory Drag Pack, a combination serious enough to turn heads at any major auction. MustangConnection1 tracked down the owner to talk about what comes next: full restoration, or leaving history exactly as it is. See the full lineup and decide for yourself.
Ashley Gracile has inspected enough classic cars to know that the ones that photograph best are not always the ones worth buying. In this walkthrough, she shows the exact spots sellers hope buyers skip over — from hidden rust pockets to mismatched engine stampings to paperwork that does not match the seller’s story. It is the kind of five-minute check that can save a buyer thousands of dollars, or cost them just as much if they skip it. Watch before you sign anything.
Charley Lillard’s 1970 Chevrolet Camaro has just 1,130 original miles, parked in a heated garage for nearly 40 years after the original owner dinged it and simply never drove it again. V8TV caught up with Lillard at the Muscle Car & Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, to hear the full story — right down to the original air still in the tires. This is as close to a time capsule as muscle cars get. Watch to hear how it survived four decades untouched.