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1320Video spent Drag Week’s five days and four tracks chasing something most race coverage never bothers to capture: what 1,000 to 3,000 horsepower actually looks like leaving the line in slow motion. Wrinkling tires, compressing suspensions, and wheelies frozen mid-air turn out to be far stranger and more violent than they ever look at full speed. Watch to see what an iPhone caught that the naked eye never could.
A Louisiana State Trooper positioned himself on the highway shoulder to intercept a swerving Dodge Ram before it could hurt anyone else. Two sisters driving to surprise their father for his birthday had already called 911 after watching the truck clip a median guardrail, but it kept going. What happened when it reached the trooper waiting up ahead was caught entirely on dashcam, and it explains why this ViralHog clip has been watched more than 1.4 million times.
KFCOrBust heads to Houston for a night of street and roll racing that reads like a fantasy matchup — an 840 horsepower Hellcat, boosted Coyote-swapped Mustangs, a twin-turbo Camaro, a 1300 horsepower GT-R, and a 1200 horsepower Trans Am, all lining up on the same stretch of road. These are the kind of numbers that usually only meet at a sanctioned drag strip. Here, they met on Lone Star Street Racing’s turf instead.
Only 71 buyers checked the box for a 426 Hemi in a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T — the final year before emissions rules and insurance surcharges ended the muscle car era’s no-compromise stretch. This triple-black example comes from The Brothers Collection, and MuscleCarOfTheWeek’s 136th episode breaks down exactly what made it, and its production number, so significant.
Turbo blankets are one of those mods everyone swears by and almost nobody actually measures. Rob Dahm put one to the test with an infrared camera, comparing a turbo’s thermal signature with and without the wrap installed. The short answer is that it works — but where that heat actually goes, and what trade-offs come with containing it, turned out to be more complicated than expected.
Jim Isherwood takes Robert Fedyk’s channel for a ride in his Hemi Satellite GTX Belvedere — a genuine Super Stock build from Plymouth’s mid-1960s NHRA drag racing program, stripped of weight and built around the legendary 426 Hemi. It’s not a street car with a swapped engine; it’s the real thing, built from the factory to dominate the strip. Riding along captures what a car like this actually sounds and feels like under power.
Richard Rawlings and Michael track down a car hoarder whose property spans decades of American automotive history — from an original Ford Model A to a four-speed manual Corvette — in this Fast N’ Loud clip from Discovery UK. The collection is the kind most gearheads only dream of stumbling onto. Whether its owner can actually be talked into selling any of it is a different question entirely.
This 1968 Corvette — the first year of the C3 generation’s dramatically restyled body — didn’t survive a crash or decades of neglect. It went down in flames during a photography and film shoot in 2013, in the kind of controlled setting where a classic like this is supposed to be safest. What happened, and how quickly a fiberglass-bodied classic can be lost once fire takes hold, is captured in full.
At Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, a 17-year-old driver took a Shelby Mustang GT350R up against a brand-new Ford GT on the track’s technical 2.2-mile layout — and posted a 1:49 lap on tires that had already covered 500 road miles that same weekend. The GT costs several times what the Shelby does. On this track, on this day, that gap in price didn’t translate to a gap in lap time.
A 1962 Corvette and a 1974 Corvette — two completely different eras of America’s sports car — turned up in the same barn-find hunt, each with its own story about why it got left behind. One is the final year of the original C1 body before the Sting Ray redesign; the other survived one of the toughest stretches in Corvette history. Neither is a pristine garage queen, but both are the kind of find that keeps people searching abandoned buildings in the first place.
In 1971, Ford stopped playing it safe with the Mustang and built the biggest, widest Mach 1 yet — three inches wider just to fit the monstrous 429 big block under that twin-scooped hood. Buyers had their pick of a 302 Windsor, three flavors of 351 Cleveland, or the top-shelf 429 Cobra Jet, and nearly a quarter of all ’71 Mustang buyers wanted the Mach 1’s attitude. It’s the last truly big, truly intimidating Mustang Ford built before the muscle car era ran out of road.
The 1957 Plymouth Fury’s dual-quad 318 was Plymouth’s only true factory high-performance A-block engine, offered for just two model years before vanishing from the lineup. Sold in a single body style and a single factory color, Sand Dune White, the Fury was instantly recognizable and genuinely rare from the day it left the showroom. Here’s the engineering and marketing story behind a car distinctive enough that one family shipped theirs across the Atlantic.
This 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AAR isn’t just another muscle car feature — it’s finished in FT6 Burnt Tan, a color Plymouth applied to only five AAR ‘Cudas, and only two are known to survive today. Built to homologate Plymouth’s Trans Am racing program, it carries a high-revving 340 Six-Pack setup built for the road course rather than the drag strip. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week caught up with one of the last ones standing.