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One of the actual Dodge Chargers used on screen by Dominic Toretto in the original Fast and the Furious now belongs to an Italian collector — and in 2015, he did something most owners of movie-used muscle cars never risk. He ran it down a real quarter-mile at Rivanazzano’s dragstrip in Italy. The pass has racked up nearly six million views since, mostly from people who can’t believe he actually did it.
A heavily built 2017 Camaro ZL1 — upper pulley, E85, methanol, custom headers — lined up against a Dodge Demon running nothing but pump gas and the factory tune. On paper, the built car had every advantage. Dodge’s from-the-factory drag weapon had other plans. The race has kept circulating for years, and the comment section still can’t agree on who really should have won. See how the numbers stack up.
Everyone associates the Dodge Viper with its brutal V-10 engine, but TFLcar’s Viper Week dig into the car’s origin uncovers a detail that surprises even longtime Mopar fans: the very first Viper concept wasn’t built around a V-10 at all. The name almost went a different direction too. This origin story traces exactly how a stripped-down concept car became one of America’s most uncompromising sports cars.
It is one of the most repeated lines in business and car culture: if Henry Ford had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. The trouble is that nobody can find him saying it. Not in his autobiography, not in his own museum’s authenticated quote database, and not anywhere in print until decades after his death. Read on to find out where the line actually came from and why it refuses to die.
American police cars didn’t always look the part — before purpose-built pursuit packages existed, departments were just bolting bigger engines into whatever full-size sedan Detroit was selling that year. This rundown traces the path from 1960s Mopar police packages through the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 to the car most people still picture when they hear ‘squad car’: the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. Viewers immediately argued about who got left off the list.
Tom Nelson’s crew doesn’t warn everyone in the room to keep a fire extinguisher handy for no reason — this blown, methanol-burning alcohol rail engine turns the dyno room into a genuine fire show before the pull even finishes. Between the flames shooting from the headers and the torque numbers only methanol fueling can deliver, Nelson Racing Engines built an episode viewers are still calling a torque monster years later. Watch to see exactly how close this dyno room came to needing that extinguisher.
Scotty Kilmer built his channel on talking people out of bad car decisions, so when he turns his camera on a classic and starts asking whether it is actually worth buying, longtime viewers braced for a hard no. What he actually concludes, and the driveway inspection method he uses to get there, surprised even his own audience. Watch to see whether fifty years of mechanic experience says yes or no to owning a classic.
A Cummins-powered diesel truck runs a legitimate 9.18 seconds at 147.46 mph at a Pinks All Out event at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, numbers that would embarrass plenty of sports cars. The uploader even had to clarify it was a full quarter-mile pass after skeptical commenters assumed it was the shorter eighth-mile. Viewers in the comments cannot decide whether to be impressed or defensive about a truck running these numbers. Watch the launch and see why fifteen to twenty psi of boost changes everything.
1970 marked the final year of high-compression muscle before emissions regulations and an unleaded fuel mandate changed everything — and this breakdown argues the real winner of that last great year came from an unexpected place. The Buick GS 455 Stage 1 quietly out-torqued nearly every rival on the market, backed up by a factory performance package most people never associated with Buick. One recent owner’s comment about a first ride with his daughter says it all.
Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
A vintage Dodge Dart with a Chrysler 340 under the hood lines up against a modern C5 Corvette, and the comment section had already decided who wins before the video even loaded. One viewer calls it over before it started; another shares the story of nearly buying a 340 Duster for $1,000 back in 1975. Watch to see if old-school Mopar muscle really does settle the argument.
A routine traffic stop — a driver dusting off his own car while he waits, an officer running a records check — takes a sudden turn when an out-of-control pickup truck crashes into the scene, all caught on dashcam. Viewers have spent years picking apart the driver’s exact reaction in the moment it happens. Watch the footage and see how fast an ordinary roadside wait can turn into something else entirely.
Long before the Hemi, Dodge started as a bicycle-parts patent and a Detroit machine shop making stove parts. Horace and John Dodge built their fortune as Henry Ford’s exclusive parts supplier, sometimes paid in stock instead of cash, before striking out to build cars under their own name in 1914. Their story ends almost as fast as it began.
Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of a genuinely rare 1969 Plymouth GTX for BIG MUSCLE, a car that wears its chips and scratches instead of hiding them under fresh paint. It is the kind of survivor that pulls personal stories out of the comment section, including one from a viewer whose brother came home from Vietnam to a car just like it. The GTX was Plymouth’s upscale answer to the muscle car boom, and this one still carries every mile of its history. Watch to see what Musto finds under the hood.
Erika Perrye had only owned her 1970 Buick GSX for a few months when Lou Costabile caught up with her and husband Bob in Lake Zurich, Illinois — but she already had strong opinions on why Buick’s most overlooked muscle car beats the obvious choices. Finished in bold Saturn Yellow with the torque-heavy 455 V8, this GSX is one of the rarest performance cars Buick ever built. Find out how a rare yellow Buick turned her into a genuine muscle car fan.