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Various carburetors displayed with text on choosing one.

How To Choose A Carburetor

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.

Red classic car with Henry Ford quote on wall background.

“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.

Classic car undergoing restoration in a workshop.

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.

Classic black muscle car parked indoors under an American flag.

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.

Video thumbnail showing a car engine assembly line with multiple engines in a factory.

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.

A lime green classic car maneuvers on a street near parked vehicles.

An Idiot Tried To Load A Car Over Improvised Ramp Made Of Cans And Failed Miserably

by Wes

A homemade loading ramp built from paint cans, boards, and scrap metal was never going to survive contact with a real car, and this clip shows exactly what happens when it doesn’t. What the comments eventually revealed made the failure sting more than the slapstick suggests: the car underneath the wreckage was a genuine vintage Fiat 124 Spider. Between the laughs is a real lesson about why proper loading equipment matters for anything you actually care about. Watch the clip and see how fast a good idea falls apart.

Driver's hand on steering wheel inside a car cockpit with dashboard in view.

POV: 69 plymouth roadrunner 12.9 @ 176 Hills Race 11

by Wes

Raw POV footage puts you inside a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner as it rips off a 12.9-second pass at a grassroots event called Hills Race, complete with a scream from whoever’s riding along and shift work clean enough that commenters are still praising it years later. One longtime Mopar owner even chimed in with his own pistol-grip-shifter memories. It’s the kind of unfiltered footage professional broadcasts never capture. Watch the run that’s still turning heads.

Severe collision damage on two red vehicles after a side-impact crash.

Shelby GT500 Burnout Crash

by Wes

A car show burnout in South Carolina turned into a four-second chain-reaction crash when a supercharged Shelby GT500 lost traction, slammed into a brand-new Ram 1500, and kept sliding into a New Edge Mustang GT parked nearby. Nobody was hurt, but two other cars and a lot of expensive sheet metal took the hit. The footage has racked up over 456,000 views since 2015, and the comment section still can’t decide whether to laugh or wince. See exactly how fast it all went wrong.

Classic silver 1960s muscle car parked outdoors.

The 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air 396: GM’s Big-Block Sleeper Nobody Saw Coming

by Kiril

This 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air looks like an anonymous fleet special, but buyers could order it with the RPO L35 396 Turbo-Jet V8 — rated 325 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque — the same engine family turning heads in the Impala SS and Corvette that year. Skip the badges and bright trim, and a Bel Air with a 396 and four-speed became one of the fastest sleepers on the street. Read on to find out why so few dealers ever built one this way.

1967 Shelby Cobra sports car in dark green with white stripes.

Breakdown/Review: 1967 Shelby Cobra

by Wes

This all-original 1967 Shelby Cobra is a Street Car variant, nicknamed the Gentleman’s Cobra by enthusiasts, built with a smoother 428 big block instead of the legendary 427 side-oiler that powered its track-focused siblings. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week breaks down what separates it from the side-piped, roll-barred Competition Cobras most fans picture, while commenters debate its value, its rarity, and whether it even counts as a muscle car at all. Watch the full breakdown.

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