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A 2017 Camaro ZL1, built around a supercharged LT4 V8 borrowed nearly wholesale from the Corvette Z06, takes on a BMW and a Bentley worth roughly $200,000 in this street matchup from Liel Levy. Luxury and comfort don’t always translate to straight-line speed, and this video sets out to prove exactly that gap. The price tags suggest one outcome; the spec sheets tell a very different story. Watch to see just how badly the mismatch plays out.
This LS-swapped Willy’s Jeep already had a reputation on 1320video, and now it’s showing up with a nitrous shot added on top — enough to pull the front wheels off the street against genuinely fast local competition, including a Corvette ZR-1. A lightweight, home-built Jeep humbling GM’s most track-focused Corvette sounds backwards until you watch it happen. Nitrous changes the math faster than the numbers on paper suggest. Watch to see exactly how much of a mismatch this really is.
A turbocharged 1987 Buick GNX and a deceptively plain-looking 1969 Chevelle line up in this episode of MotorTrend’s Generation Gap, and neither car is what it first appears to be. The GNX’s 245-horsepower V6 built a reputation on boost, not displacement, while the Chevelle hides a genuine 427-cubic-inch COPO big-block under its unassuming trim. Tied to Ken Lingenfelter’s support of the Ronald McDonald House, this matchup has stakes beyond the stripe. Watch to see which reputation holds up.
Ten drag strip wheelstands, ranging from clean and controlled to genuinely brutal, make up this compilation from Urban Hillbilly Videos — and with nearly 12 million views, it’s clearly struck a nerve. Some of these cars bring the front end down like nothing happened. Others do not, and the difference between the two is the whole point. Which landing did the most damage is left for viewers to decide. Watch all ten and judge for yourself.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T can look identical to a base car from across a parking lot, but the difference in what’s underneath is significant enough to matter to your wallet. Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard walks through a genuine R/T from the Lingenfelter Collection, pointing out exactly where sellers tend to gloss over problems and where real R/T hardware should be. Some of what separates a good buy from a bad one isn’t where you’d think to look first. Watch before you shop for one yourself.
From the original 1970 R/T and T/A homologation cars through a strange multi-decade disappearance and back into the Hellcat and Demon era, the Dodge Challenger’s history is stranger and more compressed than most fans realize. Cars Evolution animates nearly five decades of the nameplate in one continuous sequence, tracing every major trim along the way. The jump from muscle car revival to 800-horsepower factory drag car happens faster than you’d think. Watch the full evolution to see exactly where it turns.
A nineteenth-century French physicist’s glass jar of lead and acid still powers every muscle car on the road today. Gaston Plante’s 1859 lead-acid battery set the template that Delco and Detroit’s big-block engines would come to depend on for reliable starts. Here is how a decades-old invention quietly shaped the cars in this trivia list.
This 1967 Chevrolet Camaro wears its black-and-houndstooth restoration well, but the real story is under the hood — a crate-built ZZ502 big-block making 502 horsepower and 567 lb-ft of torque, backed by a four-speed manual and 12-bolt rear built to handle it. Front disc brakes and modern speed-rated tires mean this isn’t just a numbers exercise. Filmed at Fast Lane Classic Cars in Missouri, it’s a first-year Camaro built to be driven the way its new engine deserves. Watch the full walkaround to see what else went into the build.
A 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda — one of just 652 built — lines up against a 1967 Hemi Coronet R/T, rarer still at 772 examples, both powered by Chrysler’s fearsome dual-quad 426 Hemi. Three years and two different platforms separate these cars, but the family resemblance under the hood is unmistakable. Road Test TV puts two of Mopar’s rarest street weapons on the same quarter mile to settle it the only way that counts. Watch to see which era of Hemi engineering comes out ahead.
A modified Shelby GT500 with a stick shift and roughly 650 horsepower lines up against a Dodge Charger Hellcat that never left the factory floor at 707. On paper the Hellcat should win outright — but a manual transmission adds a variable no spec sheet can capture. Ford versus Dodge has been a fight since 1969, and this round of it is no less contested. Watch to see which side of the aisle gets bragging rights this time.
This black 1967 Shelby GT500 tribute chases the exact look of Eleanor, the fictional Mustang from Gone in 60 Seconds that never actually existed as a real factory Shelby. Building a convincing replica means matching wide fender flares, driving lights, and a paint scheme that became instantly iconic despite its Hollywood origins. Watch to see how close this build gets to the movie car itself.
When Marcus Anghel of Anghel Restorations brought a freshly restored 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 into Jay Leno’s garage, even Leno’s decades of experience with rare cars couldn’t hide his enthusiasm. Built purely to legalize a massive 429 V8 for NASCAR competition, this Mustang required serious structural surgery just to fit the engine under its hood. Watch to find out what made this restoration worth the trip.
Tire smoke, sideways muscle cars, and crowds pressing in close: this compilation captures some of the wildest burnout and drifting moments from muscle car meets. Behind the chaos is a real skill, holding a multi-ton classic sideways without losing control or the crowd’s approval. Watch to see which cars in this lineup pull it off, and which ones nearly don’t.
Ford’s official history says the Boss Mustang program ended after 1970. This 1971 Boss prototype, discovered through an eBay listing and pulled out of obscurity, suggests otherwise. It is a car that, according to the record books, should not exist at all, found by a host whose entire career is built on tracking down exactly these kinds of forgotten machines. Watch to find out how a factory prototype like this slipped through the cracks for decades.