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Filmed at Raceway Park’s Street Wars event in Englishtown, New Jersey on November 2, 2014, this compilation lines up American muscle against import tuner cars run after run down the quarter mile. One entrant, a compact SUV nobody expected to take seriously, turned in a number that still has commenters arguing years later. Watch to see which side actually earned bragging rights that day.
White paint, blue stripes, a scooped hood, and a name that would eventually define Pontiac performance for two decades. Almost nobody bought one in 1969. The Trans Am option cost $1,083 on an already expensive Firebird and found fewer than 700 takers, of which only eight were convertibles. Read on for what the first-year Trans Am actually included, why Pontiac paid a royalty on every one, and what makes the Ram Air IV cars nearly unobtainable.
A group of friends buys a Camaro with a known-knocking LT1 V8, decides doughnuts are worth the risk, and captures the exact moment the small block’s bottom end finally gives out. Beyond the viral laughter in the comments, the failure lines up with one of the Gen II LT1’s well-documented weak points — and the engine’s return of a legendary GM badge name in 1992 makes the whole clip more interesting than a simple blown motor. Watch to see how it ends.
Gregg Hamilton’s Pontiac Trans Am started as a childhood dream inspired by Smokey and the Bandit — and turned into something no one expected. Trained by top World Rally Championship teams, Hamilton skipped the traditional big-inch V8 in favor of a GM 5.3-liter truck engine, then applied rally-derived suspension knowledge to give this Firebird handling most muscle cars never get close to. It’s a build defined by engineering judgment over budget. Watch to see how rally-car thinking reshaped an American icon.
Edmunds editors James Riswick and Mike Monticello go head-to-head over the 2015 Ford Mustang GT and Dodge Challenger R/T, debating performance, comfort, and interior quality without ever fully agreeing on a winner. Nearly a decade later, the comments are still split down the middle between Mustang’s sharper handling and Challenger’s back-seat practicality. It’s a rivalry that’s only grown more entrenched with time. Watch to see which side of the debate you land on.
The IROC-Z name is back — not as a factory Camaro trim, but as a modern revival project unveiled at SEMA by builder Mark of Lethal Garage. In this interview, he walks through full pricing, what buyers actually get, and clears up one big misconception: there’s no race series returning, just driving classes and a yearly charity race among owners. It’s a deep dive into what it takes to responsibly resurrect a nameplate with this much history behind it. Watch to hear the full story straight from the person building it.
A 1071-horsepower Donovan aluminum big block sits under the hood of this Chevelle SS, and it’s clean enough to look like a show car — until it launches. Wheels up, running deep into the nine-second quarter mile, this build proves a car can be spotless and brutally fast at the same time. Viewers keep coming back to how uncluttered the engine bay looks for the power it’s making. Watch to see exactly what it takes to build a nine-second Chevelle that still looks this good.
This numbers-matching-caliber 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T meets a rough end in the original 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds, towed and crushed by a period-correct Ford F-350 wrecker for a movie stunt. VIN research confirms it was genuinely a 1970 car dressed up with later clips to look newer on screen. See why this brief scene still sparks debate among Mopar collectors decades later.
Every carbureted muscle car ever built ran on a fuel-delivery system with no computer, no sensors, and no electric pump doing the metering — just air pressure exploiting simple physics. This explainer breaks down exactly how a venturi, float bowl, and calibrated jets work together to keep an engine fed at idle, cruise, and wide-open throttle. It’s the same principle behind every Holley, Quadrajet, and Thermoquad ever bolted to a big-block. Watch to see why a technology this simple ran the automotive world for most of a century.
Chevrolet’s sixth-generation Camaro SS hides its real performance decision inside a single options box, not a trim badge. The 1SS and 2SS share the same 455-horsepower LT1 V8 and differ mainly in interior equipment, while the 1LE package layers track-tuned suspension, Brembo brakes, and a shorter final drive on top of either trim. This comparison breaks down exactly what separates a base 1SS from a loaded 2SS, and why the 1LE badge matters more than either one. Watch to see which combination actually fits how you’d drive it.
This vintage road test puts the 1969 AMC AMX through its paces exactly as period buyers would have seen it — no nostalgia, no hindsight, just a genuine two-seater posting a 6.3-second 0-60 time that still holds up today. Viewers can’t decide what stands out more: the numbers, the styling, or the unmistakably late-1960s marketing. Watch the full period test.
The airbag was patented in the early 1950s, yet not one classic muscle car ever left the factory with one. General Motors tried offering it in the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz finally made it work on the 1981 S-Class, and dual front airbags did not become mandatory in the United States until 1998. Read on to find out why an idea that existed before the GTO took nearly three decades to reach a dashboard, and what that means for anyone driving a classic today.
Don Yenko’s dealership built a reputation on turning ordinary Chevrolets into insurance nightmares, but by 1970 rising premiums on his Camaros and Chevelles pushed him toward an unlikely candidate: the humble Nova. The result was the ’70 Yenko Deuce, an entry-level performance model built to dodge underwriting red flags without losing the Yenko name. This example, pulled from the respected Brothers Collection, headlines Muscle Car Of The Week’s milestone 150th episode. See what makes this overlooked Yenko worth the attention.
A modern Corvette Z06 riding on upgraded BBS wheels lines up against a Shelby Cobra in this roll race capture from upyersbuddy’s channel, and the title alone hints that things didn’t go the way most spec-sheet arguments would predict. Viewers in the comments were quick to reference Top Gear’s Richard Hammond and the kind of shock only an unexpected result can produce. Watch to see which of these two very different approaches to speed comes out on top.