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Chevrolet redesigned nearly every panel on the 1969 Camaro and still pushed production to 243,085 units, the highest the first generation would ever see, thanks in part to an SS lineup offering four genuinely different engines — plus a separate, non-SS COPO 427 special order for buyers willing to skip the badge entirely. Read on to find out what’s likely hiding under this hood.
1968 was a one-year-only moment for the Dodge Charger: its dual circular taillights and reworked fastback body never appeared again after that model year. Under the hood of this R/T sits a 440 Magnum V8 good for 375 horsepower and a sub-6.2-second run to 60 mph. That same body style would go on to chase Steve McQueen through Bullitt just months later.
Jay Leno had one thing left on his automotive bucket list: a ride in the Hurst Hemi Under Glass with legendary stunt driver Bob Riggle at the controls. What happened on that run turned a routine exhibition into one of the most-watched clips in Jay Leno’s Garage history, with nearly eight million views and a comment section full of people who could not believe what they had just watched. Watch the video and see for yourself.
An estate sale, a numbers-matching V8 sitting on a stand in a garage, and a certified appraiser willing to put a hard number on all of it — that’s the setup behind this 1968 Buick GS 400 out of Port Huron, Michigan. AutoAppraise’s Jason Phillips values the car at $35,000 after tallying over $20,000 in documented drivetrain work alone, but it’s the low, bellowing idle that keeps pulling viewers back years later. Is a scarce, correctly-matched GS400 actually the smartest buy in 1968 muscle?
Chevrolet skipped Detroit and flew straight to Dubai to launch the 2019 Corvette ZR1, the most powerful Corvette GM had built at the time, packing a supercharged 755-horsepower LT5 V8. The location wasn’t an accident: it put the ZR1 directly in front of buyers who cross-shop European exotics costing several times as much. See what 755 horsepower and a six-figure price tag looked like next to Dubai’s supercar scene.
Every scene featuring the two Mopars from Joe Dirt, the 2001 comedy starring David Spade, gets stitched together in this compilation, his battered Charger Daytona replica and a convertible dressed up as a Plymouth GTX. Sharp eyed Mopar fans in the comments have spent years picking apart which details are accurate and which give the movie car away. Watch the film’s most memorable machines without sitting through the rest of the plot.
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.
Dashcam footage from Interstate 70 in Kansas captured a Mustang losing control at over 100 miles per hour and rolling over, a stark reminder of how little margin for error exists at triple-digit highway speeds. The clip’s comment section responded with dark humor, but the physics behind why flat, straight highways still produce rollovers is worth understanding. Here’s what actually happens in the seconds before a high-speed loss of control.
Vanguard Motor Sales walks through a 1957 Chevy pickup that its previous owner restored twice over fifteen years — first to driver quality, then torn down to bare metal for a full show-quality rebuild. A supercharged 383 stroker, custom ghost-flame paint, and a hidden fuel cell in the bed are just the start of what he built himself. Few restomods come with this much documented history behind them.
A modestly modified 2003 SVT Cobra lines up against a brand-new, completely stock 2016 Corvette Z06 in this DirtySS street pull, and the result has split comment sections for years. Longtime Mustang owners argue the horsepower math doesn’t add up for a bolt-on Terminator to hang with a factory-supercharged Z06, which only fuels the debate over what’s really under that hood. The footage keeps circulating precisely because nobody can fully agree on the answer.
A 970-horsepower turbocharged Mustang gets caught running well past 140 miles per hour on an open Texas street in this clip from 1320video’s Texas Streets series. What happens after the lights come on isn’t the ticket or arrest viewers expect — it’s an officer whose response has kept this footage circulating for over a decade. The reason he lets the driver off with a warning says as much about him as it does about the car.
When a stolen car barreled back toward a crowded park, one father in a lifted diesel truck did not wait for police — he drove straight into its path. The split-second collision, caught on multiple cell phones and picked up by HLN, ended a dangerous chase involving a 14-year-old joyrider in seconds flat. Online, the internet split between calling it reckless and calling it heroic, while comment sections debated whose vehicle came out looking better. Watch to see exactly how close it came to going wrong.
AMC built exactly 2,501 Javelins in one specific configuration for 1970, and the number was not a marketing decision. SCCA rules required 2,500 street cars before the Trans-Am racing version could run its new ducktail spoiler, so AMC built one extra to make the point. Roger Penske brought Mark Donohue over from Chevrolet that year, and the pairing put a company most people had written off onto the podium.
A 2009 Chevrolet Malibu and a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air were aimed straight at each other at the same speed as part of an IIHS fiftieth anniversary demonstration, and the result hit viewers harder than a routine crash test had any right to. One car crumpled the way engineers designed it to. The other barely moved at the nose, and that was exactly the problem. Watch to see why a fifty-year-old safety statistic still makes people flinch.
A friend’s Dodge 440-powered pickup, affectionately nicknamed the smiley truck, gets driven hard enough on a rough road that something underneath finally lets go — live, on camera, with a passenger along for the ride. Viewers have spent years debating exactly what failed, with rusty U-bolts and worn mounting hardware the leading theories. It’s raw, unscripted, and exactly the kind of big-block Mopar mishap owners swap stories about.