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Overshadowed for decades by its flashier sibling the Road Runner, the 1969 Plymouth GTX quietly offered the same 440 or optional 426 HEMI power with a more refined trim level buyers rarely talk about. The Drive’s Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of this rare gem to show exactly why serious collectors are starting to pay attention. It’s the kind of muscle car whose reputation is only now catching up to its performance.
Erika Perrye says she became a car girl for one simple reason: “Dolls don’t move.” Riding shotgun with her brother’s Camaro and motorcycles as a kid set her on a path that eventually led to owning one of Buick’s rarest muscle cars — a 1970 GSX in Saturn Yellow with a 455 under the hood. She and her husband Bob had just picked up the car when this ride-along was filmed.
Wheel alignment sounds like one of those things only mechanics need to understand, but ignoring camber, caster, and toe is one of the fastest ways to burn through a set of tires without knowing why. CNET’s Brian Cooley breaks down what each angle controls and how a small deviation compounds into expensive tire wear over time. It matters even more for muscle cars running lowered suspension or wider wheels.
What starts as a routine engine rebuild turns into a full history lesson on Chrysler’s small-block Mopar V8 family, as Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger pull a wrecked 318 out of their off-road 1970 Dodge Challenger and start talking through decades of LA-series changes and hands-on rebuilding tips. It’s practical, hands-on Mopar knowledge delivered the way only two people who’ve actually built dozens of these engines can deliver it. Watch the full breakdown before you attempt your own rebuild.
A freshly restored, numbers-matching 1965 Oldsmobile 442 sat in Houston floodwater with barely 1,000 miles on its frame-off rebuild, forcing its owner to choose between an insurance payout and a teardown-and-rebuild fight to save it. The 442’s 400 cubic inch V8 turned it into a genuine muscle car the year this one was built, which is exactly why flood-damaged examples like this one still draw collectors willing to gamble on a full recovery.
A modern Mustang runs into a buzzsaw in this drag race against Intellitec College’s supercharged 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner GTX — a methanol-burning, 1,100-horsepower big-block monster capable of 9.20 seconds at 150 miles per hour. Built as a real-world project for automotive students, this Roadrunner proves the old Mopar platform had far more left in it than anyone expected. Watch the run and see the gap for yourself.
A Honda Civic Type R and a Dodge Challenger Hellcat shouldn’t be in the same conversation — one makes roughly double the horsepower of the other. The Fast Lane Car runs them head-to-head anyway in a drag race and fast lap comparison, and the result says more about weight, traction, and chassis tuning than it does about raw horsepower. Watch to see whether the spec sheet actually predicts the outcome.
SupBradJW wasn’t hunting for a car when he and his crew explored an abandoned farmhouse property — he was just documenting the site. What they found in a forgotten barn on that same land was a genuine 1969 Pontiac GTO, sitting untouched after decades of neglect. Watch the discovery unfold in real time, no advance scouting required.
Studebaker’s story starts in 1852 as a South Bend, Indiana blacksmith shop that grew into the world’s largest builder of horse-drawn wagons, decades before it ever touched a car. When it finally entered the automobile business in 1902, its first vehicle ran on electricity, not gasoline. By 1966 the automaker was gone, folded a year later into an industrial conglomerate with no connection to cars at all.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody borrows its aggressive fender flares straight from the drag-strip-only Demon, but bolts them onto a car built for everyday driving instead. Brian Makse takes it out for a real first drive to find out whether the extra width and grip actually change how the car feels behind the wheel, or if it’s just a styling exercise. Watch the full review to find out.
Tall Guy Car Reviews settles the old-school-versus-new-school muscle car argument the only fair way — lining up a genuine Hemi Cuda against a modern Dodge Hellcat, using his friend Daryl’s actual classic rather than a stunt car. One represents peak naturally-aspirated engineering from muscle car’s golden age; the other represents what that same philosophy looks like with a supercharger and decades of extra engineering. Watch to see which one wins the argument.
This vintage road test puts the 1971 AMC Javelin SST through its paces the way period reviewers actually experienced it — no nostalgia, no hindsight, just a genuine pony car contender being judged against Mustangs, Camaros, and Challengers on equal footing. AMC never had the marketing muscle of the Big Three, and the Javelin’s sales numbers show it, but the styling and driving impressions here explain why collectors have quietly come back around to it. Watch the full period test to see how it holds up.
Hagerty’s Davin Reckow put his own 396 big-block 1966 Chevelle through a full test battery — butt dyno, eighth-mile strip, chassis dyno, and gas mileage — after swapping its carburetor for a Holley Terminator EFI system. The results settle an argument that’s split classic Chevelle owners for years: does fuel injection actually make a big-block Chevelle better, or does it just make it different? Watch the full breakdown to see which side wins.
Jeff Battaglia’s 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback GT 390 gets mistaken for a famous movie car more often than not, and the family never bothers to argue. What they don’t mention is the seven years it spent inside Platinum Custom Cars before its debut at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois. Watch to see the finished result.
Horsepower wars get all the attention, but the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Challenger, and Ford Mustang face a very different test here: what actually happens to the car and its occupants in a crash. Award-winning physics teacher Griff Jones breaks down real crash test footage, translating inertia, momentum, and impulse into concepts any driver can follow. It’s the side of the muscle car rivalry the spec sheets never show.