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Carburetor or fuel injection? It’s one of the oldest arguments in the hobby, and Summit Racing’s Dave cuts through the noise. He walks through two-barrel, spread-bore, and race carbs before comparing them fairly to modern EFI — covering what each actually does well. It’s a practical primer for anyone planning an engine build. Watch to finally understand the difference for yourself.
This twin-turbo Chevrolet Nova packs a 406 cubic inch small block making over 800 horsepower — and it took that firepower to the street against a Nissan GT-R and a supercharged Camaro. Then boost, heat, and physics caught up with it in dramatic fashion. 1320Video captured the whole thing as the little Chevy pushed past its limit. Watch to see how fast things can go wrong.
A genuine 1969 Yenko 427 COPO Camaro — one of just 201 built — turned up parked in rural Indiana, untouched since the 1970s. Rarer still, it’s one of only 30 with an automatic transmission and one of just seven finished in Fathom Green. Patrick Glenn Nichols documents the discovery of a true muscle car unicorn hiding in plain sight. Watch the moment its identity becomes clear.
This EvolutionPerformance-built Shelby GT500 makes a staggering 2,000 horsepower — enough to earn owner Brian Devilbiss the nickname “Wheelie King” as it lifts its nose pass after pass. But the real story is what it does on the runs when the front wheels stay down. BigKleib34 caught a full weekend of the car owning the strip. Watch to see 2,000 horsepower fight physics and mostly win.
Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars and dismissing American muscle — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind for good. Over twenty-three years of ownership he’s fitted a Tremec 5-speed, a 340 V8, and nitrogen shocks, turning it into a corner-carver that leaves Porsches behind on the right road. Petrolicious captures both the car and the conversion story beautifully. Watch to hear why he was wrong about muscle cars.
Stuffing a Viper’s V10 into a Dodge Charger isn’t a bolt-in job — Dodge itself only pulled it off with a one-off factory concept making 650 horsepower. Everyone chasing that swap since has fought custom front suspension work and impossible packaging just to make ten cylinders fit where eight used to live. This 1968 Charger is the latest to take on that fight.
This 1964 Chevrolet Corvair pickup looks like a survivor from Detroit’s strangest experiment — original paint, original body, and the walk-through Rampside styling that made it an oddball when new. But its air-cooled flat-six is long gone, replaced by a 350 Chevy small block and an automatic that make it genuinely drivable today. It is for sale by the owner who built it. Watch to see how it runs.
By 1971, emissions rules and falling compression were strangling Detroit’s muscle cars, and most manufacturers were backing away. On Muscle Car Of The Week, V8TV’s Kevin Oeste argues the 1971 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am refused to go quietly. Behind one of the best-looking shapes of the era, Pontiac engineers did real homework to preserve performance against the incoming regulations. See how the Trans Am held the line as the era wound down.
The classic Mustang is the car that launches countless first-time collectors, and also the one that teaches plenty of them an expensive lesson. In this CJ Pony Parts buyer’s guide, Bill and the crew lay out what really matters when you catch your first pony: structure and rust over shiny paint, driver versus project, and how to spot a car that was painted over rather than properly restored. Get the fundamentals before you buy.
This blue 1970 Buick GS convertible proves Detroit’s most unlikely division built one of the era’s fiercest muscle cars. Standard power came from a 455 cubic inch big-block making 350 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque, with the Stage 1 package pushing a factory-tested 13.38-second quarter mile. Buick’s engineers were happy to let the torque numbers do the talking while the rest of Detroit assumed GS meant golf clubs, not quarter-mile times.
That ‘442’ badge on this convertible stands for more than most people realize: 4-barrel carb, 4-speed manual, dual exhaust, and Oldsmobile’s answer to the GTO catching every other GM division off guard in 1964. By 1968 it had grown from an option package into its own model, and the W-30 performance package turned it into a genuine muscle car legend. A drop-top wearing this badge is rarer than most people assume.
The Drive heads to Jay Leno’s Garage to hear the comedian and lifelong gearhead pick his favorite American muscle cars, and the choices say a lot about how his mind works. Alongside a 1971 Dodge Challenger and a seven-liter Ford Galaxie 500 sit two wild cards: a 1,000-horsepower rear-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Toronado and a crate-engined Buick Roadmaster. When you can own anything, these are the ones that earn a spot. See what made the cut.