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1970 marked the high point for the Ford Torino nameplate — Motor Trend had just named it Car of the Year, and the Torino Cobra could be ordered with a 360-horsepower Ram Air 429 and a Hurst-shifted four-speed, though only 7,675 buyers checked that box. This particular Torino’s well-kept interior is a reminder that clean survivors from this era, Cobra or not, are getting harder to find every year.
Road Test TV stages a dream matchup: a genuine 1968 426 Hemi Super Bee against a 1971 LS6 454 Corvette over the quarter mile. Both are staggeringly rare — the Corvette 1 of 188, the Hemi Super Bee 1 of 128 — which makes watching them actually launch a rare treat. It is the eternal Mopar-versus-Chevy argument settled on the strip instead of in the comments. See which legend takes it.
This tongue-in-cheek countdown turns the roast that muscle-car and supercar fans already got squarely onto the JDM crowd. It is an affectionate skewering of import-scene stereotypes — the badge worship, the rarity obsession, the endless online debates — from a creator who clearly knows the culture. Even on a muscle-car site it earns a laugh, because the real joke is about every car tribe. See how many of the ten signs hit close to home.
Long before Ford or Chevrolet dominated American roads, a small Michigan company was already outproducing nearly every rival combined with a simple, curved-dash runabout that most people today have never heard of. Oldsmobile’s early embrace of assembly-line manufacturing and aggressive pricing let it claim a commanding share of the entire U.S. auto market by 1903. Here is how one inexpensive little car built the template every automaker since has followed.
This is a genuine vintage road test of a 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 convertible — a four-speed, 455-powered droptop from the very end of the classic muscle-car era. It offers a rare window into how one of Lansing’s most serious performance cars was judged when it was brand new, before compression drops and insurance hikes changed everything. For 442 fans, this period footage is a genuine time capsule.
Car show etiquette has real unwritten rules, and this meme is poking fun at the fastest way to break one: parking too close, or worse, taking up two spots. From revving bans to a strict hands-off policy on other peoples builds, heres what actually separates a respected regular from that guy at every cruise-in.
Nodarperformance set out to film a quick clip about a valve-spring compressor and ended up documenting his first full Coyote V8 cylinder-head rebuild instead. It is an unpolished, honest look at tearing down and reassembling one of Ford’s most important modern engines — grinding, endless cleaning, lost footage and all. If you have wondered whether a home builder can tackle a Coyote head, this one shows the real process.
Ford rated the 428 Cobra Jet at 335 horsepower, but real-world output landed closer to 400, a gap that let the mid-year engine option dominate NHRA’s Super Stock class within months of its release. Fewer than 1,300 GT Fastbacks were built with the Cobra Jet in 1968, each carrying an R engine code that collectors still chase today. This surviving example shows just how understated the factory kept its most dangerous engine option.
“Hotrod” Ronnie Miller pulled another rough Camaro out of the overgrown patch of ground he calls the “Honey Hole” — the fifth car he has rescued from that same spot. This 1971 second-gen was sinking into a field and headed for the crusher, but Ronnie has other plans. Follow the dirt-to-driveway rescue and see why he refuses to let this one go.
This 1970 Dodge Challenger earned a spot in film history through the 1982 Australian cult classic Running on Empty, proving Mopar menace plays well on any continent. As a first-year E-body launched at the absolute peak of the muscle era, it is exactly the Challenger enthusiasts prize most. Its long hood and wide stance made it a natural on screen. Watch to see the Aussie classic in action.
Doug DeMuro takes a walk around the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built at the time and the final, fiercest send-off for the front-engine layout before the mid-engine C8. With its supercharged LT5 V8 and comically large rear wing, it is a car built without an ounce of restraint. Watch for the quirks and features only Doug would think to point out.
V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week spotlights a Cranberry Red 1970 Chevelle SS packing the legendary LS6 454 big-block and a four-speed manual. This is the engine that marked the absolute peak of the muscle car era, with a staggering 500 lb-ft of torque backed by a bench seat and a period 8-track player. Watch to see why the LS6 Chevelle still sits at the top of collectors’ wish lists.
A stock 1970 Dodge Charger and a fully stripped, tuned Honda Civic meet at the traffic lights after a chance downtown encounter, and the result has drawn millions of views. The Charger’s driver had never raced before and fumbled a column-shift from first to second, which makes the outcome genuinely debatable. Best of all is what happened after the run. Watch to see how it ends.
Drag racing has its own private language, built from decades of garage tinkering and the founding of the NHRA in 1951 to take dangerous street racing off public roads. Terms like holeshot, Christmas Tree, and cutting a zero separate real insiders from casual fans. Heres where the culture, and its slang, actually came from.
A lime-green Cougar so radically reworked that showgoers assumed it was a new model altogether — that was Mercury’s 1970 El Gato concept, unveiled at back-to-back auto shows before vanishing for good. It borrowed its fastback roofline from a Mustang, swapped its back seat for a European-style cargo shelf, and tested run-flat tire technology that failed spectacularly. Ford’s standard practice of destroying show cars means no one has documented seeing it since 1970. Here’s the story behind Mercury’s strangest concept car.