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A 1939 Buick sits silent for forty years, and John Haelig finally turns the key on camera. The handful of viewers who watched are split between a simple, all-caps reaction and a sharper question about whether the engine cranked slower than it should have. Behind that single detail is a real, high-stakes revival process, dried seals, gummed-up fuel, and an engine that could be damaged in seconds if brought back to life the wrong way. Was this prewar straight-eight actually ready to run again?
Ranking eight classic muscle cars purely by horsepower sounds simple until you have to correctly identify which engine is actually under each hood — and this silent, subtitle-only countdown ran straight into that problem. One sharp-eyed commenter flagged what looks like a 440-badged Mopar mislabeled as a 426 Hemi. Watch the full ranking and see if you can spot the mix-up yourself.
Dodge built just 628 convertible versions of its 1967 Coronet R/T, and owner Glen Kellmann says that in more than twenty years of attending car shows, he has never once come across another one. See his factory 440-powered survivor and hear the story of a car that, as far as its own owner can tell, has no twin.
This 1955 Pontiac Star Chief arrived the same year Pontiac retired its straight-eight engine for good, replacing it with the new Strato Streak V8 that would define the brand for the next two decades. Wrapped in twin Silver Streak hood trim and a light-up Indian-head ornament, it was also a genuine volume seller, with Pontiac building over 200,000 of them that year alone. Here’s the story behind the engine switch that reshaped Pontiac’s flagship.
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner dealer commercial, built for the drive-in and packed with 440 Six Pack, pistol-grip shifter, and Air Grabber hood details, has been quietly making grown adults tear up in the comments more than fifty years after it first aired. One owner has kept his original example running for thirty-seven years. Another still remembers exactly who lost a street race to one in 1972. Watch to see why a two-minute car ad refuses to be forgotten.
Drag racing looks like the simplest form of motorsport there is — two cars, a green light, first to the finish line wins. A pair of road-racing enthusiasts attended their first-ever drag event to test that assumption, and quickly discovered how much nuance hides behind 60-foot times, reaction times, and track prep. Watch to find out what actually separates a winning run from a losing one.
A 1960 Ford Falcon doesn’t look like the kind of car that inspires cult devotion, yet Regular Car Reviews’ take on Robert McNamara’s “love-letter to bean-counting” has fans quoting its closing line years later. Between an Argentine cousin racing to 600 horsepower and an Australian descendant that became a turbocharged legend, this humble compact’s story reaches far beyond its stock inline-six. One viewer’s family memory of a steering wheel coming off on the Beltway says the rest.
A four-minute, music-only tribute to the 1964-1974 muscle car era has turned its own comment section into a decade-spanning argument, about when the era actually started, which cars deserved a spot, and whether America ever built anything this good again. See the cars, then see what the community had to say about them.
A supercharged 707-horsepower Jeep Trackhawk should have no trouble against an electric SUV in a straight line — at least, that is what the horsepower numbers suggest. At Palm Beach International Raceway, a Tesla Model X P100D set a new quarter-mile record for production SUVs against exactly that Hemi-powered Jeep. Watch to see how close the gap actually was, and why the Trackhawk needed a few runs to catch up.
Jay Leno bought this rare, fuel-injected split-window 1963 Corvette Sting Ray sight unseen, then handed it to master restorer Mike McCluskey to bring back to full factory-stock condition. The split rear window appeared on the Corvette for exactly one model year before Chevrolet dropped it, making this one of the most collected variants in Corvette history. Longtime fans in the comments share decades-old memories of the cars, from a father’s 427 coupe to college-era cruises in a friend’s Stingray. Watch what makes this one-year-only design still so obsessed over today.
A maroon 1966 Chevelle SS looks every bit the numbers-matching survivor sitting under dealership lights, chrome and stance exactly as expected. Pop the hood, though, and a 565-cubic-inch supercharged big-block making a claimed 750 horsepower rewrites the whole story, doubling what the factory L78 ever put out. It’s proof that the best sleepers in the muscle car hobby don’t always hide behind plain bodywork; sometimes they hide in plain sight, wearing exactly the look you’d expect from an original.
Behind an unassuming barn door in the Midwest sits a collection most muscle car fans only dream of finding: a Plymouth Superbird, a Dodge Charger 500, a Torino Talladega, and a Cale Yarborough-edition Mercury Cyclone, all from NASCAR’s brief and legendary aero-war era. Ryan Brutt, “The Auto Archaeologist,” documents the find in full. Watch to see exactly what’s been sitting quietly, forgotten, since the height of stock car racing’s strangest arms race.
Chevrolet’s 2018 NASCAR Cup Series entry borrowed its ZL1-inspired styling from the street car but almost nothing else, running a purpose-built racing V8 instead of the supercharged engine buyers could actually order. The switch came after the Chevrolet SS, its predecessor, was discontinued with little warning. Read on to find out what makes the Cup car’s engine so different from anything on a showroom floor.
Ford built roughly 1,350 examples of its modern GT, and this one, build number H043, in white with blue racing stripes, has had a single owner since new. Randy Smalley sat down with My Car Story host Lou Costabile in Florida to talk through the 650-horsepower V6 twin-turbo under the hood and why he actually drives it.
Ford’s Mustang and Chevrolet’s Camaro have been trading blows in garages and on race tracks for almost sixty years, ever since Ford’s 1964 debut caught Detroit completely off guard. What started as a sales race turned into genuine motorsport warfare through the Boss 302, Z/28, and COPO era, and neither side has ever fully settled the argument. Read on to find out how this rivalry has survived two near-death experiences and counting.