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A 1969 Mustang Mach 1 sank into the dirt of a Colorado junkyard for 37 years, filling with raccoon droppings and looking like the kind of car that should stay exactly where it is. David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Roadkill disagree, and set out to get the ‘Disgustang’ running and driving anyway. The junkyard itself has its own history, tied to a family known for wild builds of its own. Watch to see just how far gone a car can be before Roadkill calls it unsalvageable.
Forty thousand original miles, matching numbers, and paint that’s never been touched — this 1970 Plymouth Superbird spent decades as a barn find before Randy’s 66 Garage pulled it out of the winter cold to see what was really underneath the grime. A 440 four-speed and a Dana 60 rear end confirm this is no ordinary survivor. Only the battery has ever been replaced. Watch to see the car emerge from years of neglect looking almost exactly as it left the factory.
GM spent decades quietly dropping Corvette-derived V8s into cars nobody expects, from a Buick Roadmaster wagon to a WS6 Firebird and a badge-shy Impala SS. Each one delivers genuine sports-car performance for a fraction of what the same engine costs wrapped in a Corvette body. The list is longer, and stranger, than most buyers realize. Watch to see which everyday-looking cars are hiding a Corvette heart under the hood.
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman set out to answer a question most gearheads would laugh off: can a square wheel ever ride smooth? Their MythBusters build pairs genuinely square wheels with a custom-curved roadway to test the math for real, not in theory. The result reframes a stunt as a lesson in ride-quality engineering that still gets shared more than a decade later. Watch to see if the impossible actually works.
Jumping from a naturally aspirated big block to a twin-turbo 427 is a big enough change on its own. Doing it right before RPM Magazine’s Rocky Mountain Race Week — seven days, 1,300 miles, minimal support — is another thing entirely. This Ford Fairlane surprised everyone by averaging 18-20 mpg thanks to its six-speed T56, even while its 60-foot times stayed a work in progress. Watch how the fresh combination held up.
Nobody expects to lose a drag race to a Smart Car — let alone twice in a row. This one hides a supercharged 1.5-liter Toyota engine under 28 pounds of boost, and it used that power-to-weight advantage to put a modified Shelby Mustang on the trailer at a Route 66 Raceway test-and-tune night. Watch both runs, wheelstands included.
Chris Duke starts this Motorz episode the way most real engine rebuilds actually begin: with a junkyard small block Chevy 350 and a full teardown to prep it for rebuild. It’s the first of a five-part series that follows the engine all the way through machine work, assembly, and a finished result. Watch the teardown that kicks it all off.
Long before hot rodding had a name, guys with more ambition than money were already cutting up cars just like this one. The 1934 Ford 3-window coupe was cheap, common, and light enough to make backyard speed possible on a budget, a formula that built an entire subculture from the ground up. Here’s why builders are still reaching for this exact body style nearly a century later.
It looks like just another clean white 1971 Pontiac GTO convertible — until the wing, the stripes, and the Judge badge register. This is one of only seventeen 1971 GTO convertibles ever built with the Judge package, straight from The Brothers Collection. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week breakdown digs into what makes this survivor so rare, and why Pontiac collectors take that number seventeen very seriously.
Chevrolet had less than two years to answer Ford’s Mustang, and the 1967 Camaro convertible — dropped top, fully retractable canvas roof and all — turned out to be worth the rush. We look at what made that first model year matter: the platform it shared with the brand-new Firebird, the six-cylinder cruiser most buyers skipped, and the SS and big-block options that turned a rushed pony car into a legend.
Modern muscle cars like the Hellcat twins hit numbers the original 1960s and 1970s era never touched, but they get there through supercharging and computer control instead of big cubic inches and low compression. Here’s a closer look at how Detroit’s horsepower war came back in the 2010s, and what changed in the engineering between the original muscle car boom and its modern revival.
Ford and Chevy have been trading blows since 1964, when the Mustang beat the Camaro to market by two full years and forced Chevrolet to play catch-up ever since. From COPO Camaros and Cobra Jet Mustangs on the drag strip to Trans-Am road racing and modern-day Friday night grudge matches, the Mustang-vs-Camaro fight has never actually ended.
A bolt-on 560-horsepower GT-R out of the Bay Area came to a daytime street race in the California backcountry with a reputation for taking on anyone, any time. 1320video was there to document it, and an inconsistent, unprepped track surface turned out to be the wildcard that decided who went home with bragging rights against the muscle cars willing to line up. Watch to see how the all-wheel-drive advantage played out.
A 174-day strike at Pontiac’s Norwood plant cut 1972 Firebird production almost in half and nearly ended the nameplate outright — which makes every surviving ’72 rarer than its price tag ever let on. We look at what makes this model year identifiable at a glance, from the honeycomb grille to the detuned-on-paper 455 H.O., and how a Firebird built during a strike still resulted in one of the era’s rarest Trans Ams.
Some cars earn a passing mention in a documentary. The 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda earned its own dedicated segment on Legendary Motorcar’s “Dream Car Garage” television series — and once the Hemi fires up on camera, it’s easy to understand why. This archival footage captures one of the rarest muscle car combinations Plymouth ever built, from a shop that still restores and sells cars at this level today. Watch to hear what made it worth the airtime.