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Dodge builds an all-wheel-drive Challenger, but the only engine you can get with it is a V6 — so EddieX asks the obvious, slightly provocative question: does that still count as a muscle car? The answer that comes back from actual GT owners in the snowbelt has almost nothing to do with horsepower, and everything to do with why they bought this exact car in the first place. What does “muscle car” even mean once winter tires enter the conversation?
A junkyard Chevy 350 gets torn down on camera, one bolt at a time, in an episode that’s quietly racked up nearly two million views. Between a self-issued correction about the engine’s origin, a flood of hard-won rebuild tips in the comments, and a teenager crediting the series with teaching him to wrench, there’s a reason this teardown has outlasted flashier build videos. What is it about a simple disassembly that keeps drawing people back years later?
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske breaks down what a hemispherical combustion chamber actually is — the dome-shaped design behind Chrysler’s legendary 426 Hemi, and the reason the name became shorthand for raw American power. The real story involves valve geometry, spark plug placement, and a genuine engineering tradeoff most casual fans never learn about. Watch to see why modern Hemi-badged engines aren’t quite what the original name promised.
This 1968 Dodge Charger was hidden so deep in an old junkyard it wasn’t even visible from the road — and it might still be sitting there if a family hadn’t decided to buy it on the spot. The car’s condition surprised viewers, but the real standout was a young kid confidently correcting an adult’s Super Bee trivia. Watch to see the find and the moment that had everyone talking.
A dealership straps a brand new GoPro to the dash for one final drive in a 1979 Camaro Z28 before it leaves for a new owner the next morning — and the internet can’t decide what to focus on first. Is it the exhaust note commenters say gives them goosebumps, or the boldly colored interior that’s already become a running joke? One story buried in the comments about a similar Camaro’s tragic fate suggests there’s more riding on this handoff than anyone watching realizes.
Barefoot Ronnie Pace’s Nova backfires through its nitrous system mid-race against Flacco’s Tuning, sending a fireball out of the engine bay close enough that a nearby bystander’s lit cigarette becomes its own punchline in the comments. One viewer corrects the record on nitrous chemistry; another questions whether the car is really a genuine Yenko. Watch to see just how dramatic the explosion really gets.
A soft yellow 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a warm gold interior looks like the mildest car on the lot — until you learn it’s hiding a genuine 426 Hemi and a 4-speed manual transmission underneath. Sourced from The Brothers Collection for Muscle Car of the Week episode 178, this true sleeper is exactly the kind of factory oddity serious Mopar collectors chase. Find out why the comments call it a favorite.
In 1969, Plymouth paid Warner Bros. for the rights to a cartoon bird, its signature meep-meep horn, and an entire ad campaign built around outrunning a coyote. This commercial captures that gamble at its peak, arriving the same year the Road Runner won Motor Trend Car of the Year over cars that cost far more. It is proof that a genuinely fast car could still afford to be a little ridiculous. Watch the pitch that convinced a generation of buyers.
A single property outside Vancouver, Washington is packed with 1967-1969 Camaros left to rust in rows, and the comment section can’t agree on whether that makes it a graveyard or a goldmine. Some see hidden RS trim and numbers-matching Z/28 potential buried under the grime; others see owners holding out for auction money while the cars quietly rot past saving. KFLY67 just points the camera and lets viewers argue it out. How many of these cars are actually still worth saving?
Only about 19,000 were ever built, it was the only American two-seater besides the Corvette for three straight years, and it once beat a GTO off the line badly enough that the loser still remembers it fifty years later. The Drive’s /DRIVE+ team goes looking for why AMC’s smallest, lightest muscle car never got its due — and finds a fiercely loyal handful of owners who never stopped arguing it deserved better. What made this car so easy to overlook and so hard to forget?
A Porsche 911 GT3 lined up against a Shelby Cobra and lost the launch so badly its clutch started smoking before the tires ever got the chance — and the comments haven’t let it go since. Buried in the thread is a genuinely wild fact about how fast an original 427 Cobra actually was in period. Watch to see the launch that started it all.
A Lowe’s delivery truck, quite possibly loaded with someone’s new washer and dryer, gets broadsided by a small red car that blows straight through a red light — and one alert driver in a white van manages to avoid becoming the third vehicle involved. Both drivers were hospitalized; neither injury turned out to be severe. Watch the dashcam footage that has viewers still arguing about which vehicle actually came out worse.
Ed Wheeldon, known on the drag strip as Fast Eddie, once turned down a $250,000 offer for his 1968 Dodge Dart, a genuine factory Hemi Super Stock he still races at Eddyville Dragway for a $200 appearance fee. Mopar Max Magazine later put him on its cover after the car ran a best pass of 6.501 seconds. Few six-figure Hemi drag cars still see the strip today. Find out why Wheeldon insists on keeping his in the game.
The Ford Falcon XB coupe that became Mad Max’s V8 Interceptor was built from improvised parts, including a worn-out drag car supercharger with its compressor vanes removed just to make it spinnable. Decades later, a mechanic who worked on the build showed up in the comments to explain exactly how close the whole thing came to falling apart during filming — and Australia is still campaigning to bring the car home. Watch to see why this scrappy, homemade build became one of the most beloved movie cars ever built.
Ford built exactly one hundred Fairlane Thunderbolts for 1964, sold every one at a loss, and never built another. Fiberglass panels, plexiglass glass, a 427 High Riser wedged into a mid-size engine bay, and final assembly farmed out to an outside contractor made it one of the most extreme cars ever sold through a dealership. Here is what went into them, what they ran, and why a single season was all they got.