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A homeowner comes home to find a stranger’s car blocking his driveway, decides not to wait for a tow truck, and instead relocates the vehicle to the middle of the street himself. What happens when the actual owner returns — and police show up in the meantime — has made this one of the most-watched neighborhood parking disputes online, mostly because nobody can agree on who was actually in the wrong. Watch the confrontation unfold.
The Horsepower Monster wraps up its three-part documentary on reviving a genuine Chrysler 426 Hemi — the engine Mopar fans still call the ‘Elephant’ — with the moment every rebuild ultimately comes down to: a dyno pull. After months of teardown, machining, and reassembly on one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built, the crew finally finds out whether their work paid off. The full dyno sheet is published alongside the video for anyone chasing the exact numbers.
Marspeed’s rundown of forgotten Dodge and Chrysler SRT models digs up five performance cars that history left behind — a turbocharged economy car, a German-flavored coupe, a Hemi-powered family wagon, and a full-size pickup running a Viper’s V10 under the hood. Each one carried real performance credentials in its day, yet all five have faded from the SRT conversation entirely. Some command real money today; others remain surprisingly affordable bargains. See which one you’d forgotten existed.
Shelby put the words King of the Road on a 1968 Mustang, which is the kind of claim that requires backing up. It got a different engine than the GT500 it replaced, a reinforced chassis, and for one single model year, a convertible body. Finding one of those droptops under decades of barn dust is the sort of discovery that ends with a phone call to a registry. Here is why it matters.
A routine vehicle repossession in Jackson, Mississippi turned into a dive for cover when gunfire broke out mid-hookup — and the agent’s own description of the incident to a local news crew is more unsettling than the video itself. He calls it a typical day. The debt, the law, and the split-second decisions that define one of the more dangerous jobs almost nobody thinks about are all part of the story. Watch the full account below.
This 1968 Ford Torino GT arrived at the exact moment Ford finally stopped chasing the GTO and started genuinely competing, pairing aggressive SportsRoof styling with an available 428 Cobra Jet V8 that quietly embarrassed cars with flashier reputations. The redesign helped push the Torino to sales-leader status in its segment that year. Find out what made this underrated Ford one of the smartest muscle car buys of its era.
Chevrolet needed a name for its answer to the Mustang, and when a reporter finally asked what it meant, the general manager did not consult a dictionary. He described a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs, and car people have been repeating it ever since. The real story involves two thousand rejected words, a French term that does not quite exist, and a codename that got thrown away.
Ben calls his 1976 Ford Cortina “overkill,” and it’s hard to argue: a twin-turbo, supercharged Ford Cleveland V8 stuffed into a compact Australian sedan, built specifically to chase his own personal best burnout time at Summernats. A mechanical issue cut the record attempt short, but not before the car vaporized its tires and earned genuine respect from a crowd that expected a lot less from a Cortina.
Troy Hawkes fires up his numbers-matching 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona for a rev and a quick burnout, but the real story is what that towering wing and 18-inch nose cone were built to solve: a NASCAR aero war that pushed Chrysler to build only 503 street versions just to legalize the race car. Watch to see the homologation special that helped Dodge become the first manufacturer to top 200 mph in NASCAR competition.
On paper, a Whipple-supercharged Terminator Cobra should have walked away from a manual-transmission 1969 Camaro without much drama. On the track, the Cobra’s driver spent half the run fighting to keep the car pointed straight while the old-school Camaro refused to fall back. Commenters are calling it one of the best “driver’s races” they’ve seen in a long time.
Grid Banter’s cameras catch the Dodge Demon’s first public test run at the 2017 Gator Nationals — footage tied directly to NHRA’s unusual decision to ban the production car from its own sanctioned events. A Dodge rep confirms on camera that it’s a real Demon mule, then declines to discuss specs. Even a Corvette Z06 owner in the comments admits Dodge deserves credit for building something this extreme.
A twin-turbo Mustang, a supercharged Hellcat, a BMW M6, and — improbably — a four-door Cadillac CTS-V all lined up on the same stretch of Mexican freeway for a night of unsanctioned street racing. Nearly two million viewers have tuned in since, and the comment section still can’t agree on which car actually deserved bragging rights. Watch to see which one earns the loudest reaction.
Plymouth gave the ‘Cuda its quad-headlight face and fender gills for exactly one model year, and that year happened to be the one where insurance companies and emissions rules finally caught up with the muscle car business. Order it with three two-barrel carburetors on a 440 and you were buying the last of something. Barely two hundred and fifty people did. Read on for why 1971 closed the book.
Dave Murawski has owned this 1972 Buick GS Stage 1 — Arctic White paint, 455 CI engine — since 2010, fulfilling a fascination that started when he was thirteen. Lou Costabile catches up with him at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, and even commenters loyal to other GM muscle cars admit the GS is winning them over. Watch to hear the full story behind the N-25-optioned Stage 1.
This 1960 Ford Thunderbird sat in storage from the 1970s until 2002, then spent thirteen more years in restoration before finally starting up again at the World of Wheels show in West Allis, Wisconsin. Owner Mike Adam’s wife Lynne learned to drive on this exact car decades ago, which makes its Monte Carlo Red return to running condition a family milestone as much as an automotive one. The third-generation ‘Squarebird’ rarely gets this kind of spotlight. Watch the full engine start-up and hear the whole story.