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This is not a review or a history lesson. It is a rolling compilation of American muscle from the 1960s and 70s doing exactly what it was built to do. Big blocks bark, tires smoke, and one exhaust note stacks on the next until the whole thing becomes an argument for why this era still owns the imagination. There is no narration and no filler, just car after car making its own case. Watch to see which one steals the reel.
A single option on the 1957 Chevrolet order form turned a mild Bel Air into a car NASCAR banned within months. Rochester fuel injection pushed the 283 small-block to exactly one horsepower per cubic inch, a first for General Motors. This is the story of the Black Widow-era Chevy and the engine that got it kicked out of stock car racing.
The 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AAR was never really built for the street. It was a homologation special created so Plymouth could go Trans-Am racing, and only a single model year of them ever left the factory. This EB5 Blue example wears the signature strobe stripe, blacked-out nose, and a 340 Six-Pack that no other ‘Cuda could be ordered with. Filmed during a tour of the V8 Speed & Resto Shop, it is a close look at one of the most distinctive muscle cars Detroit ever homologated.
Roll racing ditches the standing start entirely: two cars pace together at speed, then floor it from a rolling launch, leaving nothing to decide the winner but raw power and traction. At Street Car Takeover in Topeka, muscle cars and street machines lined up under that format. Urban Hillbilly Videos puts the camera in the thick of it. Watch to see which builds actually deliver.
By 1973 the muscle car era was supposed to be over, yet here is a 1973 Buick Century Gran Sport GS Stage 1 in Harvest Gold with a 455 V8 that ignored the memo. Owner Phil Roitman has kept it since 2005, and judges scored it a perfect 1000 out of 1000 for correctness. Lou Costabile tells its story at the MCACN show. Watch to see a survivor from muscle darkest year.
Hagerty took a tired stock 289 small-block Ford out of a totaled 1964 Fairlane and spent three months turning it into a GT350-inspired bruiser. Forty thousand photos compress into a five-minute time-lapse rebuild that has drawn nearly eight million views. The factory rating was 195 horsepower; the finished build aims far higher. Watch to see the humble V8 reborn.
Chevrolet built only 201 examples of the 1965 Malibu SS 396 Z16, a car so rare most enthusiasts have never seen one. It hid a Corvette-adjacent 375-horse big block under a plain Chevelle body and came loaded with nearly every option Chevy offered. V8TV features a pristine Rally Red survivor from the Brothers Collection. Watch to see why this Z16 is a true collector holy grail.
How much does it really cost to paint a car? Refinish Network says it is the question they hear most, and the honest answer disappoints almost everyone. The surprise is where the money actually goes, and it is not the paint. For anyone restoring a muscle car, this changes how you budget the whole project. Watch to find out why quality costs what it does.
A 1969 Plymouth Road Runner versus a 2006 Lotus Exige is a clash of two opposite religions: American brute force against British featherweight precision. One was built to go straight, the other to carve corners, and the matchup revives an argument muscle fans never settle. Which philosophy actually wins? Watch to see the two ideas collide.
Oldsmobile spent four years selling the 4-4-2 as just another options box before finally giving it a model of its own in 1968. Riding on an all-new Coke-bottle body with a torque-heavy 400-cubic-inch V8 underneath, this Cutlass 4-4-2 quietly outran plenty of more famous rivals. Here’s why it deserves a bigger spot in muscle car history than it usually gets.
Chevrolet had two and a half years to prepare an answer to the Mustang GT, and the 1967 Camaro SS delivered it in its very first model year. A 350 or 396-cubic-inch V8, aggressive styling, and just 34,000 Super Sports built out of 220,917 total Camaros made this a genuine rarity from day one. Here’s the story of Chevy’s first real pony car.
This 1970 Plymouth Superbird reportedly sat unsold in a dealership for nineteen years before being discovered, a reminder that the outlandish winged Mopars were a tough sell when new. It survived with just 674 original miles, its factory B5 blue paint, and its original 440 Super Commando engine intact. With only 1,920 Superbirds ever built, this untouched survivor is about as close as it gets to seeing one leave the 1970 assembly line. Watch the full Road Test TV feature to take it in.
A perfectly hooked-up launch is fast, but it is the front wheels leaving the earth that brings a crowd to its feet. This nitrous-fed V8 Torana obliges at APSA with massive wheelstands, hoisting its nose skyward the instant the light drops. Feeding an already potent V8 a shot of nitrous unleashes torque the physics simply cannot contain. Watch to see a high-wire act performed at full throttle, where only two wheels stay on the track.
The Coronet R/T only ever came with two engines — Dodge would not let anything softer wear the badge. One was the standard 440 Magnum, rated at 375 horsepower; the other was the far rarer 426 HEMI that turned an unassuming B-body into one of the era’s most feared street cars. By 1970, with just 2,615 R/Ts built out of over 114,000 Coronets, the model was already on its way out in favor of the Charger. Here’s what made this quiet-looking Mopar such a serious machine.
The muscle car was supposed to be extinct by now, but Dodge never got the memo, and the 2018 Challenger T/A 392 is loud proof. It revives the Trans Am tuning heritage of the original 1970 Challenger and packs the 6.4-liter HEMI V8 behind that 392 badge. In this AutoTrader Canada test drive, Justin Pritchard weighs whether the T/A is real substance or just nostalgic stripes. Watch to judge whether the throwback earns its heritage name on real roads.