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This 1969 Ford Ranchero GT carries a 428 Cobra Jet Ram Air rated at 335 horsepower, the same engine Ford dropped into its fiercest Mustangs, wrapped in factory Brittany Blue with white GT stripes and chrome wheels. Sourced from the Brothers Collection, it’s the kind of correctly optioned survivor that’s grown rarer than most people realize. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series tracked this one down as entry number 79. See what makes this Cobra Jet truck worth a second look.
The pink slip race from 2 Fast 2 Furious put three builds on the line: a nitrous-fed Evo VII wearing the wrong taillights, an Eclipse Spyder dressed to look far faster than its stock engine could deliver, and a Yenko/SC Camaro replica built by Year One standing in for a car too rare to risk on set. Two decades later, fans are still picking apart exactly what went into each one. See the full breakdown of what’s real and what’s movie magic.
A 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator built with the rare 428 Cobra Jet and 4-speed combination lines up against a 1969 Chevelle SS396 packing the solid-lifter L78 396, two genuinely scarce muscle cars that collectors spend years trying to find, let alone see race each other. Road Test TV brought both to the same quarter mile to settle an argument that started in dealership showrooms over fifty years ago. Watch which rare survivor comes out ahead.
A genuine Ford GT-40 doesn’t often leave the show circuit, let alone line up against a modern Dodge Hellcat on an airstrip. At Omega Motorsport’s NoFlyZone Midwest event, that’s exactly what happened, and the result had little to do with which car had more horsepower on paper. The GT-40 was built in the 1960s to beat Ferrari at Le Mans, and some of that engineering still translates six decades later. See how a Le Mans legend handled a fight nobody expected it to win.
A dashcam rolling in Grand Prairie, Texas caught a Ford Mustang challenging a Pontiac GTO to an impromptu street race — and only one of them decided to go through with it. The GTO’s driver stayed put. The Mustang driver didn’t, and wet pavement made sure the decision came with consequences. The footage, picked up by Jukin Media and viewed well over half a million times, has become a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks a stoplight is the same thing as a dragstrip. Watch to see exactly how it played out.
Cadillac’s 2017 CTS-V borrows its supercharged 6.2-liter engine straight from the Corvette Z06, packing 640 horsepower into a four-door built to out-muscle BMW, Mercedes, and Audi’s best. Redline Reviews puts the numbers, the pricing, and the not-quite-German polish under the microscope to see whether raw power was ever enough to win this fight. With the CTS-V nameplate now retired for good, every one of these cars left on the road is part of a shrinking, oddly overlooked slice of American performance history. Watch to see what the walkaround reveals.
A numbers-matching 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda with its factory 440 Six Pack drivetrain still intact is rare enough on its own, but Auto Appraiser Jason Phillips took it a step further, riding along on a Maryland back road to see if the rotisserie restoration actually holds up in motion. One nervous Toyota ahead of them apparently didn’t want to find out the hard way. It’s a close look at what separates a genuinely correct restoration from one that just looks the part. Watch the full inspection unfold.
In 2012, a spectator at St Thomas Dragway caught a Plymouth ‘Cuda losing control at the top end of a Test and Tune quarter-mile pass, flipping in shaky handheld footage that missed the initial impact but captured everything after. The raw, unedited clip has stuck around for over a decade as a rare piece of grassroots drag racing footage. It’s a reminder of how unforgiving the quarter mile can be, even on a routine test night. See what the footage caught.
Does a louder exhaust actually make more horsepower, or is it mostly noise? ChrisFix answers with real data instead of an opinion, dyno-testing a car before and after installing a full high-flow exhaust system with an X-pipe and new catalytic converters. The results aren’t quite the simple ‘yes’ most viewers expect going in. Nearly ten million views later, it’s still one of the more honest answers to a question every car owner eventually asks. See what the dyno actually showed.
Long before regular buyers ever saw a 1967 Dodge Charger on a dealer lot, this particular car was built for one purpose: representing the best-optioned Charger money could buy at the 1967 International Auto Show. Loaded with a 426 Hemi and options most customers skipped to save money, it’s a rare surviving example of Detroit’s own idea of automotive perfection. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week traces its story from show floor to The Brothers Collection. Watch to see what made it worth building this way.
The 1966 Dodge Charger looked like a sharp fastback commuter to most buyers, but tucked into the order sheet was an $880 option that transformed it into a genuine street terror. Only 468 of the roughly 37,300 Chargers built that first year left the factory with the 426 Street Hemi, and just 218 of those came with an automatic transmission. That combination of rarity and raw power is exactly why first-year Hemi Chargers are some of the most valuable Mopars in existence today. Here’s the story behind Dodge’s best-kept 1966 secret.
A beautiful paint job can hide a body full of filler and rust, and most buyers only find out after the money’s already spent. D.I.Y. Auto School demonstrates a simple, inexpensive paint thickness gauge that reveals exactly how much Bondo is hiding under fresh paint and where rust has already started eating through metal that looks fine from a few feet away. It’s a five-minute check that can save a five-figure mistake. See how the tool actually works.
Jon Mello bought his gold 1967 Camaro in 2000 with no idea it was the very first Z28 Chevrolet ever produced. Once he found out, it triggered a ten-year, period-correct restoration aimed at returning the car to exactly the way it left the factory the first time. Lou Costabile catches up with Mello and the car at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals to hear how the discovery happened. Watch to hear Jon tell the story himself.
A grandfather who sold used cars for 60 years, a mom who beat the neighborhood Corvette owner in a full-size Pontiac, and a dad who won a drag race at 69 — this is a family where muscle cars run three generations deep. From a Mach 1 Mustang to a Dodge Super Bee to a 2016 Mustang GT painted in a nod to Steve McQueen’s Bullitt car, the cars change but the obsession never has.