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An independent appraiser spent three to four hours crawling under this 1968 Buick GS 400 before signing off on it — magnet-testing the body, photographing the underbody, and confirming its numbers-matching engine and original Turbo 400 transmission. Pulled from an estate with the original engine included on a stand, it’s the kind of documented survivor that rarely surfaces at ,000. Watch to see what a professional inspection actually finds.

Chevrolet chose Dubai, not Detroit, to introduce the most powerful Corvette it had ever built for public sale — a supercharged, 755-horsepower ZR1 aimed squarely at cars wearing far pricier badges. The launch put the C7 Corvette’s ultimate expression in front of a market that treats American horsepower as a legitimate status symbol, not a novelty. Watch to see what happens when Chevrolet’s halo car gets judged on Ferrari and Lamborghini turf.

The GT350 badge has been stamped on wildly different Mustangs across six decades – from a 306-horsepower 1965 race-bred original to a modern flat-plane-crank monster pushing past 800. Without a VIN in the shot, pinning an exact year on this one from color alone is a genuine challenge. Here’s the story behind the nameplate that makes even guessing worth the argument.

A Mustang running well over 100 miles per hour on I-70 in Kansas loses control and rolls, all caught on dashcam in real time. It’s the kind of footage that spreads because it shows exactly how fast things go wrong at highway speeds most drivers never actually test. Watch what happens when the margin for error runs out.

Most people restore a classic truck once. The owner of this 1957 Chevy pickup did it twice over fifteen years, taking it from driver quality to a full show-quality build with a supercharged 383 stroker, ghost-flame paint, and a custom interior he built himself. Vanguard Motor Sales has it on the lot in Michigan now. See what fifteen years and two ground-up rebuilds actually produces.

A stock, paper-tag-fresh 2016 Corvette Z06 lines up against a 2003 SVT Cobra running nothing but bolt-ons, a pulley, and a 93-octane tune — and DirtySS put it on camera to settle the question everyone assumes they already know the answer to. The factory numbers say one thing. The run says something else. Watch to see which one actually holds up.

A 970-horsepower turbo Mustang burying the throttle on the Texas streets was always going to end one of two ways — and this time, it ended with red and blue lights at over 140 miles an hour. Pulled straight from 1320video’s Texas Streets: THE HUNT DVD series, this clip captures one of the more memorable street racing busts on tape, helped along by an officer viewers still talk about. Watch how it plays out.

When a 14-year-old’s joyride in a stolen car turned into a high-speed police chase tearing through a crowded park, cell phone video shows children scrambling to get out of the way. One father didn’t wait for police to catch up — he used his own truck to end the chase himself. HLN’s coverage of the moment has been viewed more than fourteen million times. Watch what he did.

AMC built exactly 2,501 Javelins for 1970 for one reason: SCCA rules said they needed 2,500 street cars sold before the Trans-Am racing version could legally run its new ducktail spoiler. Roger Penske brought driver Mark Donohue over from Chevrolet that year, and the pairing delivered three race wins and a second-place finish in the manufacturer’s championship. Buyers could option the Signature Edition with a 360 or 390 cubic-inch V8, both wearing the same Ram Air hood and homologated spoiler as the race cars. It’s one of the most overlooked factory-racing connections in the whole muscle car era.

When Consumer Reports crashed a 2009 Chevy Malibu head-on into a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air, the assumption going in was that the heavier, steel-bodied classic would fare just fine. The eleven-million-view result proved the opposite, and it’s become one of the most cited crash tests in automotive safety history. See exactly what fifty years of engineering changed — and why it matters for anyone who still drives a classic.

A back-road cruise in a friend’s 440-powered Mopar truck takes an unexpected turn when a pothole exposes exactly how much torque the drivetrain was dealing with. What started as a casual ride for a passenger ends with a driveshaft failure caught in real time — and it’s part of why this clip has pulled in over a million views. Watch how quickly things go sideways.

Gassers earned their nose-high stance from straight-axle front ends built purely to shove weight onto the rear tires at the drag strip, a look that had mostly faded from NHRA’s own rulebook by the early 1970s. This 1969 Chevelle wears that stance anyway, trading its factory SS poise for something closer to a Tri-Five drag racer’s attitude. It’s a deliberate throwback, not an accident, and it says plenty about who built it and what they cared about. Here’s what actually goes into pulling off a look this aggressive.

No traction compound, no dedicated dragstrip — just street-driven cars racing on Kansas Speedway’s pit road as part of WYCO Racing’s Operation Octane event. The Daily Driver class strips away the advantages purpose-built race cars usually get, leaving grip entirely up to the driver’s feel for the throttle. Full coverage captures every launch, good and bad, across the entire class. See who actually knows how to manage wheelspin when the pavement offers nothing.

Steam power was a genuine rival to internal combustion in the earliest days of the automobile, and Leon Serpollet’s flash boiler was central to that fight. His design generated usable steam almost instantly instead of requiring a long warm-up, and in 1902 it helped him set a 75 mph land speed record. His death in 1907 left flash-boiler technology as one of the automobile’s more fascinating dead ends.


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