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Todd Bluhm has owned this 1969 Chevrolet Camaro since 2005 and hasn’t stopped developing it since — the car now runs a 427 cubic-inch engine making over 700 horsepower, enough to lift the front wheels under nitrous. On the strip, it covers the quarter mile in 10 seconds at 140 miles per hour. Seen up close at the 2018 World of Wheels show, it’s a Pro Street build that backs up every bit of its aggressive stance with real numbers.
For nearly three decades, Canadian buyers could drive a Pontiac that was almost pure Chevrolet underneath — a deliberate strategy, not a shortcut. The Parisienne wore genuine Pontiac styling and prestige while running Chevrolet’s cheaper, more fuel-friendly chassis and drivetrain, a formula so successful it eventually got imported into the U.S. in the 1980s. Here’s the story of the full-size Pontiac that wasn’t really a Pontiac at all — and why a clean survivor deserves more attention than it gets.
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner with the legendary 426 Hemi — one of only 287 built that way — lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Six Pack in a quarter-mile pass that settles very little on paper. The Hemi’s factory rating gives it a 35-horsepower edge, but both cars were built in numbers so small that finding either one, let alone both together, is remarkable on its own. What happens off the line is the argument Mopar fans have been having since 1970.
Miguel Perez’s turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Chevy Silverado ‘Lady Bug’ doesn’t look like a race truck, which is exactly the point when it lined up against El Memo’s 700-horsepower Ford Lightning on a Texas street. Sleeper trucks with AWD have become their own subgenre of grudge-match content, trading factory horsepower numbers for the element of surprise. Texas street culture has a reputation for producing exactly this kind of no-notice matchup — and this one delivered.
The 1969 Mustang Mach 1 wore its performance intentions on its sleeve with a shaker-style hood scoop and racing stripes, but the real story was under the hood. Ford dropped two very different versions of the 351 Windsor into that engine bay — a mild 250-horsepower two-barrel and a genuinely punchy 290-horsepower four-barrel with a compression bump most buyers never noticed. One made the Mach 1 comfortable, the other made it fast. Here’s what separated them, and what to look for if you’re chasing a real four-barrel survivor today.
This 1969 Plymouth Barracuda isn’t fast — a mild 318 four-barrel and an automatic see to that — but its factory Mod Top roof and interior option make it one of the more distinctive cars in the Brothers Collection. Chrysler’s short-lived Mod Top package chased the late-’60s youth market with bold patterns most owners deleted during restoration decades later. Surviving examples like this one are rarer today than the 440s and Hemis parked around it.
A simple, almost trick question asked somewhere on a highway has racked up nearly 14 million views — not because of the math, but because of the reaction it got. The actual answer is straightforward once you think about it, but the joke lives entirely in how long it takes to get there out loud. It’s the kind of unscripted moment every long road trip eventually produces, caught on camera by accident.
This 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback started life as a real, Marti Report-documented S-code GT with a factory 390 — then got rebuilt from the ground up into a full Shelby GT500 tribute, inside and out. A Tremec 5-speed, 9-inch rear with Traction Lok, subframe connectors, and a Flowmaster exhaust suggest this one was built to be driven hard, not just shown. Fast Lane Classic Cars put it through a full test drive to prove exactly that.
“Thermoquad!” became a running joke on Roadkill after the crew dropped a motorhome-sourced 440 into their notorious ’68 Charger, General Mayhem, and discovered the carburetor’s brutal quirks the hard way. Years later, David Freiburger finally explains what a Thermoquad actually is, why Chrysler engineered it that way, and why it earned a reputation for punishing anyone who goes to wide-open throttle. It’s a masterclass wrapped in an inside joke. Watch to find out what the crew got wrong the first time.
Long before infotainment screens and built-in phones were standard equipment, one enthusiast crammed a television, a telephone, and a working mini bar into a customized 1959 El Camino and called it the Ultimus. Built by hand for a fraction of what a factory concept would cost, its gold metalflake paint and double bubble top made it one of the strangest show cars of its era. Here’s the story behind the build.
Studebaker was closing its factory doors when it built this 1964 Avanti, yet somehow found the will to fit it with a supercharged R2 289 — one of the most advanced forced-induction engines any American manufacturer offered that year. This low-mileage example from the Brothers Collection is a rare survivor from a company that didn’t live to see the muscle car era it helped anticipate. It rarely gets called a muscle car, but the numbers say otherwise. Watch to see why.
Filmed at the legendary Old Bridge Township Raceway Park — long known simply as Englishtown — this Street Wars grudge-race video pits big-inch American V8s against turbocharged import tuner cars on one of the East Coast’s oldest and most storied drag strips. It’s a rivalry that goes back decades, revived here for a single November afternoon in 2014. Bragging rights, not trophies, were on the line. Watch to see which side actually backed up their talk on the timing slips.
Pontiac built just 697 Firebird Trans Ams for 1969 — including only eight convertibles — making the white-and-blue debut year one of the rarest genuine muscle cars Pontiac ever built. Standard power came from a 335-horsepower Ram Air III 400, but 55 buyers paid extra for the even punchier 345-horsepower Ram Air IV. It flopped commercially at the time. Decades later, that same scarcity is exactly why collectors chase a numbers-matching example so hard.
Regular Car Reviews built a cult following by refusing to take car journalism seriously — an anonymous, sunglasses-wearing host reviewing minivans with the same reverence other channels save for supercars. This time, the channel skips the single hero car and heads straight for a full car show, wandering the rows of owner-built oddballs and overlooked machines that never make an auction stage. It’s muscle car culture at its most unfiltered. Watch to see what catches the host’s eye this time.