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A Texas tuning shop put a bone-stock 2017 Camaro ZL1 and its brand-new 10-speed automatic through a real 0-180 mph pull, and the data logger caught it still upshifting at the top end. Viewers argued over everything from the fuel gauge to a short-shifted launch. Hennessey teased something far more extreme was coming next. Watch the full run to see it.
A cheap paint thickness gauge can expose what a passing inspection completely missed, and restoration shop owner Pete of SWRNC shows exactly how to use one on a classic car or truck. One commenter’s story drives the stakes home: his wife nearly bought a car with three crushed, actively rusting structural points, discovered less than a week after it “passed” an official inspection. Pete also breaks down why body filler shows up even on cars that never rusted, and why one specific seam tells you almost everything. What is that gauge actually catching that your eyes can’t?
Gold paint, a high-revving 302 small-block, and a decade-long restoration — this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, filmed at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, turns out to be the very first Z/28 Chevrolet ever produced. Owner Jon Mello spent ten years getting it right after discovering exactly what he had. Watch the full story behind Chevrolet’s original Trans-Am homologation special.
A grandfather who sold used cars for 60 years, a mom who beat the neighborhood Corvette owner in a full-size Pontiac, and a dad who won a drag race at 69 — this is a family where muscle cars run three generations deep. From a Mach 1 Mustang to a Dodge Super Bee to a 2016 Mustang GT painted in a nod to Steve McQueen’s Bullitt car, the cars change but the obsession never has.
A countdown of the six largest production engines General Motors ever built draws exactly the kind of comment section you would expect from a genuinely technical audience, including one commenter’s joke that working on a 496-cubic-inch big-block requires a mandatory cigarette dangling from the mouth at all times. Beneath the humor sits real engineering history, including a detailed explainer on how GM’s divisions once each built their own competing V8 platforms. Watch the full countdown to see which engines made the cut.
Doug Cline drove his twin-turbo, roughly 3,000-horsepower big-block Camaro over 1,300 miles to reach Rocky Mountain Race Week. On the event’s final day, fuel buildup off the line turned into a 190-mph excursion off the racing surface, and a split-second decision not to pull the chutes ended up filling both turbochargers with sand and gravel. See exactly how a week of extreme mileage and extreme horsepower came down to one costly moment.
This 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS convertible rolls out of The Brothers Collection in a deep Madeira Maroon with a four-speed manual and bucket seats — and it has already split opinion among viewers over whether its 327 small-block earns it a true muscle car badge. Featured on V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series, this no-frills ragtop raises a question that’s been debated in Chevelle circles for decades. Watch to see which side of the argument you land on.
While Chevrolet spent its advertising budget on the Camaro and the Chevelle, the Nova SS was quietly available with the same 396 big-block in a body several hundred pounds lighter. In 1968 only a few hundred buyers checked that box, which is why genuine big-block cars are so scarce today. Here is what the SS package actually included, how the weight advantage worked, and why proving a car is real matters more than how it looks.
The 1956 Buick Centurion replaced its rearview mirror with a television camera in the tail and a screen in the dashboard, at a time when television itself was still new in most American homes. It worked, and then nothing happened for thirty-five years. The gap between that Motorama show car and the backup camera in every new vehicle sold today is one of the longest idea-to-adoption stretches in automotive history.
A Dodge Demon, a Hellcat, and a new ZL1 line up against a ’69 Charger, a Nova, a Chevelle, a Shelby GT500, and a classic Mustang in this old-vs-new drag racing compilation, and the results split viewers right down the middle. One camp insists nothing beats old-school cool factor; the other concedes technology always wins in the end. A 1970 Chevelle SS 454 turns in a pass that neither side saw coming. Watch the full lineup face off.
The Hennessey Venom GT hit 270.49 mph at NASA’s old Space Shuttle runway in February 2014, a speed that should have made it the fastest production car ever built. It isn’t official: Guinness requires at least 30 units, and the small Texas shop built far fewer, on top of running in only one direction. Read on for how a 1,244-horsepower twin-turbo LSX, a 2,743-pound Lotus-based chassis, and a Ford GT gearbox produced America’s fastest car, official or not.
This 1963 Plymouth Sport Fury doesn’t look like a race car — and that’s the point. Under a conservative full-size body sits Chrysler’s factory 426 Max Wedge, a 415-horsepower dual-quad engine serious enough to have impressed drag racing legend Don Garlits himself. One commenter called it “the Hellcat of its time,” a sleeper built a full year before Pontiac’s GTO popularized the muscle car formula. Watch to see what’s hiding under that Sport Fury badge.
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.