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This 1976 Ford Gran Torino carries one of television’s most recognizable paint jobs, a red-and-white coupe that fans nicknamed Zebra 3 during its run on the original Starsky & Hutch series. Decades later, the 2004 feature film revived the look for a new audience, building fresh stunt cars for jumps the original TV budget could never have attempted. The video traces both eras side by side. Watch to see which version fans think got the tribute right.

Street Wars at Raceway Park in Englishtown mixed muscle, import, and tuner cars into the same lineup on March 13, 2016 — and the pass everyone still talks about wasn’t a muscle car win. A car nobody expected to touch a Nissan GT-R ran a clean 10-second pass and caught the whole crowd off guard, while a Hemi-powered entry went home with a loss one fan still can’t forgive. Watch to see exactly how the lineup shook out.

Ford built fewer than 20 examples of this exact combination: a 429 Super Cobra Jet, the factory drag pack, a four-speed manual, bench seating, and a convertible body, all wrapped in black paint with a red laser stripe. This 1970 Torino GT is exactly the kind of low-production oddity that Muscle Car of the Week was built to spotlight. Longtime Ford enthusiasts rarely get to see a build sheet this unusual restored and running. Watch to see why this convertible stands apart from every other Torino GT.

Jeff says he’d never seen this rusted-bolt removal method demonstrated properly on camera, and a comment section full of working mechanics agrees it’s the clearest version of the technique online. Heat, rapid cooling, and a little patience solve a problem that torches, sockets, and days of penetrating oil couldn’t touch on one Wisconsin viewer’s rusted exhaust manifold. For anyone restoring a car that spent decades outdoors, this is essential knowledge.

A 1969 SC/Rambler and a 1968 AMX, both built by American Motors Corporation and both packing the exact same 315-horsepower 390 V8, meet in a quarter-mile race decided almost entirely by rear gearing. AMC loyalists in the comments are still defending both cars against decades of being overlooked by bigger Detroit names. Watch two underdog muscle cars settle an argument that started the same year they were built.

Curiosity Incorporated filmed this junkyard tour outside Edmonton in the snow, walking rows of rare muscle cars that include a blue Mustang in the opening minutes and a convertible Challenger tucked in right behind another find. No music, no filler — just a host viewers call knowledgeable and passionate, wandering a field of forgotten classics. One commenter said it reminded him of watching American Graffiti with his late father. Watch to see what’s buried under the snow.

A close-up of chrome-laden headlights doesn’t give away the model year on its own, but it does tell you this is a Ford Thunderbird built during the era when brightwork sold cars. Ford built the T-Bird to beat the brand-new Corvette at its own game — and it worked, generation after generation, from lean two-seaters to big-block four-seaters that broke sales records. Which chapter of that story is parked in this garage?

Todd Bluhm’s 1969 Camaro doesn’t just look like a Pro Street build — it backs it up with over 700 horsepower, a documented 10-second quarter mile at 140 miles per hour, and a wheelie bar that sees regular use. Bluhm has owned the car since 2005 and hasn’t stopped adding performance since. Captured at the 2018 World of Wheels show in Wisconsin, this Camaro represents everything Pro Street culture is built around. Watch to see what happens when the throttle actually opens up.

For nearly three decades, Canadian buyers could drive home a Pontiac that was mechanically almost entirely Chevrolet, running the same frame, the same body shell, and the same small block or big block under the hood. The Parisienne was not a lazy shortcut; it was a deliberate market strategy that let Canadian Pontiac dealers sell a full-size car at all. It finally came south of the border for 1983. Read on to find out why collectors still argue about whether it counts.

Miguel Perez’s turbo AWD Chevy Silverado — nicknamed “Lady Bug” for how rough it looks — was built around a stock 5.3 pulled from a junkyard two weeks earlier and an eBay turbo running 35 pounds of boost, for a total cost around $750. His opponent’s Ford Lightning was built for real money and rated at 700 horsepower. Texans have a hashtag for exactly this situation. Watch to see who actually crossed the line first.

The 1969 Mustang Mach 1 offered four different engines under the same blacked-out hood, and two of them wore identical 351 badges while making figures forty horsepower apart. The M-code four-barrel Windsor produced 290 horsepower on 10.7:1 compression; the two-barrel version made 250. The stripe kit looks the same either way. Ford built 72,458 Mach 1s that year. Read on to find out how to tell which one you’re standing in front of.

This 1969 Plymouth Barracuda isn’t fast, and it was never meant to be — its mild 318 and automatic transmission sit well below the muscle car standard. What makes it worth a feature is the factory Mod Top option overhead, a rare floral vinyl roof and interior package that turned a base-model car into one of the most distinctive survivors from the era. Few enthusiasts have ever actually seen one in person. Watch to find out why this quiet Barracuda earned its own spot in the Brothers Collection.

Someone asks a simple question: if you are driving 80 miles per hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles? The answer that comes back has nothing to do with speed, distance, or time. The confused pause afterward is what turned a fifteen-second Jukin Media clip into a comment-section phenomenon with nearly 14 million views. See exactly where the math falls apart.

This 1967 Mustang fastback isn’t a real Shelby GT500 — it’s something arguably more interesting: a meticulously built tribute running a 390 V8, five-speed Tremec, correct Shelby wheels, and a documented Marti Report confirming its original California sale. Every detail, from the subframe connectors to the fiberglass Shelby hood, was chosen to replicate the real thing without the real-thing price tag. One viewer called it a screaming deal even years ago. Watch the full test drive and walkaround to see why.


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