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Road Test TV lines up a small block Dodge Demon against a big block Camaro for a quarter-mile showdown, and the launches alone are worth the price of admission. The Demon nearly puts its front bumper on the ground under violent weight transfer, while the Camaro answers with a serious 8.69 pass. Two very different engine philosophies chase the same clock. See how the small block and big block settle it.
This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 hides one of the most underrated engines Chevrolet ever built – a 302 cubic inch small-block designed purely to satisfy a racing rulebook, officially rated at 290 horsepower but widely believed to make closer to 375. Backed by a close-ratio Muncie 4-speed and built only as a coupe, it’s the car Trans-Am racing accidentally turned into a legend. Here’s the story behind the numbers Chevrolet never fully admitted to.
1970 should have been the year Plymouth played it safe with the Road Runner, as insurance surcharges gutted sales and buyers fled toward smaller, cheaper muscle. Instead, Plymouth kept the 426 Hemi on the order sheet, even though only a tiny handful of buyers actually checked that box. This bright yellow survivor, photographed at a car show decades later, is a reminder of just how far Plymouth was willing to go before the muscle car era finally ran out of road.
John Wischmann rolled into Rocky Mountain Race Week with a black twin turbo big block Camaro and a brutal two-part goal: run seven-second quarter miles at every track and finish the entire event without a single vehicle failure. On a race week that forces cars to drive public roads between drag strips, that is a genuine test of both speed and survival. 1320Video captures whether a car this violent can hold together for a week. See if he pulls it off.
1969 was the biggest production year the Pontiac GTO ever had, but hiding inside that record-setting run were some genuinely rare combinations — including the fire-breathing Ram Air IV that only a fraction of GTO buyers ever ordered. This piece breaks down how many GTOs Pontiac actually built that year, why the Judge package matters, and what separates a common GTO from a true unicorn.
At the World of Wheels show in West Allis, Wisconsin, Dennis Ermi’s 1968 Plymouth Road Runner wears a stunning Pearlescent Orange and black finish and answers to a modest name: ‘Old Runner.’ Behind that humble badge sits a 472 cubic inch big block built for roughly 1,000 horsepower. Lou Costabile gets the story of a decade-long transformation and lets the engine do some of the talking. Hear what a four-figure-horsepower Road Runner sounds like.
Building a budget small block Chevy and staring down a swap-meet table full of cylinder heads? Myvintageiron7512 breaks down exactly which 350 castings are worth your money and which ones will quietly strangle your engine and drain your wallet. The answer hides in the numbers stamped on the casting, and most buyers never read them. Find out which heads to grab and which to leave behind.
Ocean City, Maryland, spring 2015: a crowd, a camera, and a lesson in exactly what not to do behind the wheel. This widely shared clip earned more than a million views by capturing the moment a bit of showing off goes sideways in front of everyone. It’s equal parts cringe and cautionary tale. Watch to see why the title says it all.
The 1970 Plymouth Superbird’s 24-inch wing and stretched nose weren’t styling choices, they were wind-tunnel mandates built to win NASCAR races at over 200 mph. Fewer than 2,000 were sold to the public, only 135 got the 426 Hemi, and Richard Petty drove one to 18 victories in its only production season. Here’s the full walk-around on what made it work.
That Edelbrock intake bolted to your engine started as raw material poured white-hot in a Southern California foundry — and this video follows the whole journey. Edelbrock opens the doors on its two American facilities to show how a legendary speed part goes from molten metal to finished casting. It’s the side of hot-rodding most enthusiasts never get to see. Watch how the magic actually gets made.
“Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” wasn’t a slogan in the late 1960s — it was a business model, and it produced some of the wildest street cars Detroit ever built. MotorWeek’s Retro Review gathers the Torino, Cyclone, Charger and the winged Superbird to trace how NASCAR shaped the showroom. These were race cars wearing license plates. Watch to see how they earned their reputations.
Two big-block heavyweights, one strip of Florida asphalt, and a margin of victory measured in a couple of tenths of a second. Road Test TV lines up a 1967 Ford Fairlane GT against a 1969 Plymouth GTX at Palm Beach International Raceway and lets the timing lights settle the argument. Both cars run deep into the elevens. Watch to see which badge takes the win.
This classified ad is hunting for any 1968-1972 Plymouth Road Runner or GTX, project or finished, which raises the question of what actually separates the two. Built on the same platform a year apart, one was Plymouth’s stripped-down budget muscle car and the other its dressed-up performance flagship. Here’s how to tell a real GTX from a Road Runner at a glance.
Before CGI, a movie car chase meant real steel, real speed and a stuntman betting on his own reflexes. This clip pulls a classic sequence from 1973’s “White Lightning,” starring Burt Reynolds at the height of his good-ol’-boy fame and a 1971 Ford Custom 500 doing the heavy lifting. Full-size Fords weren’t supposed to move like this. Watch to see what a big sedan could really do.
Ask ten enthusiasts for the ten greatest muscle cars ever built and you’ll start eleven arguments. This countdown from the Next Level Channel takes a swing anyway, hand-picking the heavy hitters of the American performance era and calling out the real power behind each one. Some picks are obvious. A few will have you talking back to the screen. See whether your favorite made the cut.