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Bloodshed Motors dropped two electric motors into a 1968 Ford Mustang shell and built Zombie 222 — a car that hits 60 mph in 2.4 seconds and finishes the quarter mile in 10.7, outrunning nearly every gas-powered muscle car ever built. Not everyone in the comments is convinced electric conversions belong in classic bodies. The debate is as much a part of the story as the numbers.
A Ford Explorer launched full-speed into a pond described as snake-infested makes for one of the more chaotic backyard stunts you will see this year, sending both spray and actual snakes flying on impact. Viewers in the comments turned surprisingly technical, debating whether the submerged engine hydrolocked and what a rod-knock repair bill from something like this might look like. It is equal parts slapstick and cautionary tale about what water does to an internal combustion engine. Watch the clip and see the splash for yourself.
RamblinAround takes this 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS out for an honest test drive instead of just walking around it, and with a performance-built 396 big-block, Edelbrock aluminum heads, and a four-speed manual under Cortez Silver paint, there’s plenty to put through its paces. Filmed at Fast Lane Classic Cars in St. Charles, Missouri, the drive shows exactly why this often-overlooked Nova still has a following. Watch to see how a fifty-year-old four-speed muscle car actually feels on the road.
Builders Davin and Matt spent ten months and shot more than 40,000 photographs to document every stage of rebuilding a Chrysler Hemi FirePower V8 for Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild series, and by their own account, this one was trickier than anything they’d tackled before. The finished time-lapse has drawn over 16 million views, proof that watching an engine come back to life one bolt at a time still has an enormous audience. See exactly what made this particular Hemi rebuild harder than the rest.
Two years before the Charger body style most people recognize even existed, Dodge released a genuinely different fastback, and this rare, 426 Hemi-powered 1966 example, pulled from the respected Brothers Collection, makes the case for why that first-generation car deserves more credit. V8TV’s Muscle Car Of The Week reaches episode 116 with a car one commenter already calls ‘the most underrated Charger.’ See what made Dodge’s original Charger formula work before the more famous redesign took over.
A bright red 1971 Dodge Challenger is easy to admire and surprisingly hard to read, because 1971 was the year Dodge quietly began dismantling the option sheet that made the car famous. It was the final season for the 426 Hemi, the final season for the R/T badge, and the final season for the convertible. Fewer than a hundred buyers took the biggest engine on offer. Read on for what made this the Challenger’s last complete year.
Doug Cook and the team at Motion Raceworks skipped the well-worn LS platform for something almost nobody had real data on: GM’s Gen V LT4. With virtually no seat time on the new combination, they walked straight into Hot Rod’s Drag Week 2017 chasing a record, and immediately ran into wiring harness gremlins that nearly derailed the entire attempt. See how a team with no playbook turned a fresh, largely undocumented engine build into record-setting territory.
A sticker on every radiator cap warns against opening it hot, and this short clip shows exactly why that warning exists. What happens next has become one of the most-cited cautionary tales in car maintenance videos, with commenters sharing their own scalding near-misses and a five-second test that would have prevented the whole thing. Watch what happens when pressurized coolant meets an unprepared hand.
This isn’t a replica — it’s a genuine 1970 Dodge Charger R/T with real Fast and Furious production history, now owned by a collector who built his career sourcing and preserving movie cars. Bob Hartwig’s path from pilot to Picture Car Warehouse to running his own MovieMachines collection explains exactly how a car this recognizable ended up in private hands. The launch alone is violent enough to shift a mounted camera. Watch to see why this specific Charger matters to an entire generation of car fans.
Buick rarely gets a seat at the muscle car table, but Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey has spent decades proving that’s a mistake — and this second installment of a Buick-versus-muscle-car grudge series, shot trackside in August 2017, is no exception. One commenter’s blunt reminder that “there would be no Chevrolet, GM, or Chrysler” without Buick sums up why this rivalry keeps getting rematches. Watch to see if the Buick backs up the talk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.