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1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona Sells for $900,000

A 1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona from the Wellborn Museum Collection just sold for $900,000 at Mecum, and the sale says as much about NASCAR’s aerodynamic wars as it does about horsepower. Fewer than 100 Hemi Daytonas were ever built, and this one carries a documented, numbers-matching pedigree that pushed it into seven-figure territory. Its wing and nose cone exist purely because Chrysler needed to build enough street cars to race the shape. Watch to see what turned a once-unwanted oddity into one of the most valuable Mopars in existence.

1989 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 in black with red accents.

Breakdown/Review: 1969 Oldsmobile 442 W-30

by Wes

Oldsmobile’s 442 rarely gets mentioned alongside the GTO or the Road Runner, but the W-30 package hiding under this 1969 example held its own against anything Pontiac or Plymouth built. This particular car adds a documented Canadian-market history and a place inside the Brothers Collection, a pairing of rarity and provenance that few surviving 442s can claim. Its Outside Air Induction hood and factory specs tell a story most muscle car fans have never heard. Watch to see why this quiet performer deserves more credit than it’s ever gotten.

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1971 Chevrolet Camaro: The Year Muscle Had to Prove Itself With Smaller Numbers

by Kiril

The 1971 Chevrolet Camaro is the model year enthusiasts skip on their way back to 1969, and the horsepower figures are the reason why. But the Z28’s LT-1 didn’t lose nearly as much as the window sticker suggested, because a compression cut and a brand-new way of measuring power landed on the same order sheet in the same twelve months. With only 4,862 Z28s built, it may also be the most overlooked second-generation Camaro there is. Read on to find out what actually changed.

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What year is this Camaro?

by Kiril

Chevy sold over 220,000 Camaros in its debut 1967 season, but only 602 of them wore the Z/28 option code — Vince Piggins’ quietly-introduced, race-ready package that turned an ordinary pony car into one of GM’s rarest muscle machines. Add in a 396-powered Indy 500 pace car pedigree from that same first year, and the ’67 Camaro didn’t just answer the Mustang, it arrived swinging. A six-cylinder base car and a numbers-matching Z/28 both wear the same badge — but only one of them is a genuine unicorn.

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The Last Hemi Challenger: Inside Dodge’s Rarest 1971 R/T

by Kiril

Adding the 426 Hemi to a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T meant an extra $892 on an already expensive car, and only around 71 buyers agreed to it. No convertibles were built. It was the last model year Dodge would sell a street Hemi at all, which makes the survivors among the scarcest cars wearing a Mopar badge. Read on for what that option really bought and why the 1971 cars close out an era.

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How To Choose A Carburetor

by Wes

Holley’s carburetor selection guide tackles the argument every muscle car owner has had at least once — what size carb actually belongs on this engine — with real CFM math instead of bigger-is-better folklore. The video breaks down why oversizing kills drivability, how vacuum and mechanical secondaries serve completely different kinds of builds, and where street and race carburetors part ways. It is aimed squarely at classic muscle cars and daily-driven builds. Watch the full guide before your next trip to the parts counter.

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“Don’t find fault, find a remedy, anyone can complain” Henry Ford

by Ross Mills

‘Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain’ is one of Henry Ford’s most repeated quotes, and it reflects the same pragmatic mindset that built the modern assembly line. Ford wasn’t just a businessman with a knack for slogans, he was solving one of the hardest manufacturing puzzles of his era. Here’s the story behind the man and the philosophy that built Ford Motor Company.

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The Sleeper Nobody Expects: 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport

by Kiril

Buick rarely comes up first in muscle car conversations, which is exactly what made the 1966 Skylark Gran Sport so effective. Its 401-cubic-inch Wildcat 445 nailhead put 445 lb-ft of torque underneath a body wearing fake hood scoops and a luxury badge, and the mid-year 340-horsepower version ran with GTOs and 4-4-2s. Buick built only 13,816 of them, and most people never noticed.

Old cars and parts stored in a dusty barn.

Two Rare Mopar Aero Warriors Found Hidden in a Hay Barn!!!!

by Wes

Deep inside a Wisconsin barn, under a stripe of bird droppings and a small mountain of collapsed hay, sat two of Mopar’s rarest aero warriors: a 1969 Dodge Charger 500 and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird, untouched for the better part of thirty years. Their owner found each one through a different stroke of luck, a vague classified ad and a tip from a wing car club, decades before either car ever left the barn. Read on to find out how both cars ended up parked together, and why one of them still wears its original barn hay to car shows.

Two large exhaust pipes on a vehicle, emphasizing power and performance.

The Power of 2.5- vs. 3-Inch Exhaust. Is bigger better?

by Wes

Engine Masters puts a stubborn garage myth to the dyno: does a 3-inch exhaust really outperform a 2.5-inch system, or does it depend on what’s bolted to the other end of the pipe? Real back-to-back testing, presented by AMSOIL, replaces forum arguments with actual horsepower curves. Over six million viewers have watched the results, and builders are still citing them years later. See what the numbers actually show.

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The $17-a-Day Race Car: Inside the 1966 Shelby GT350H

by Kiril

This 1966 Shelby GT350H was born from an unlikely deal between Hertz and Shelby American — rent a genuine race-bred Mustang for $17 a day, then return it with a roll bar welded in if you were one of the many weekend racers who couldn’t resist. Read on to find out how a rental-counter experiment became one of Shelby’s most collectible cars.

Intricate mechanical setup with fiery sparks and glowing tubes inside a dark workshop.

Fire Engulfs Mopar Small-Block at Engine Masters

by Wes

During Buck Hinkle’s Vintage-class dyno pull at Engine Masters Challenge 2016, a cracked oil filter gasket sprayed pressurized oil onto red-hot headers and turned a routine run into an open flame in seconds. Host Steve Dulcich’s unbothered reaction became almost as memorable as the fire itself. It’s a reminder of how quickly a small, cheap part can end a competitive engine build’s day. Watch the moment a dyno cell nearly became a bonfire.

Red sports car with a driver holding a phone, stopped near police vehicles.

Guy Blows Up His Friend’s LT1 Camaro In Front Of Police Station!

by Wes

A friend’s already-knocking LT1 Camaro gets one last job — doughnuts in a parking lot within view of a police station — before the engine gives out for good. The owner, already building a replacement motor in a machine shop, knew exactly what he was risking. Viewers have kept coming back to laugh at the timing and the location for years. Watch the LT1’s final, dramatic act.

Two exotic sports cars, McLaren and Chevrolet, showcased side by side.

McLaren MP4-12C vs 1970 Chevelle SS 396 – Joke Comparison & 1/4 Mile Drag Race

by Wes

A $240,000 McLaren MP4-12C and a forty-year-old Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 line up for a quarter-mile grudge match that starts as a joke and ends as a real argument about value. The Chevelle’s 13.7-second pass impressed viewers enough that the comments turned into a debate about depreciation instead of horsepower. One of these cars has held its worth. The other hasn’t. Watch which one wins where it actually counts.

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Why is the LS so GOOD??

by Wes

Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines has built some of the most respected high-horsepower LS combinations in the business, and in this Drive feature he spends twenty minutes explaining exactly what makes the platform special — knowledge dense enough that commenters started calling him “Motor Yoda.” One viewer even backed up his points with a 130,000-mile Camaro SS that never missed a beat. Watch to find out what separates a good LS build from a great one.

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