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This meme is riffing on a rivalry that goes back to the 1970s fuel crisis, when import fuel economy started chipping away at muscle car dominance and a dismissive slang term was born in response. The joke still works because the regional divide it pokes fun at never really closed. Heres where the insult actually came from and why its still debated today.
Road Test TV pulls a 1967 Corvette out of a nearly forty-year slumber, and the numbers stop you cold: a 427-cubic-inch L71 Tri-Power big-block rated at 435 horsepower, a four-speed manual, and just 25,000 original miles. The ’67 is the most coveted of the mid-year Corvettes, and a genuine barn-find L71 is the kind of car appraisers build careers around. Watch to see it wake up.
Mr. Regular of Regular Car Reviews wandered through Corvettes at Carlisle 2015 with one loaded question: which generation is the best Corvette? What he got back was less an answer than a friendly war between C1 purists, C2 loyalists, and C5 value hunters, none of whom would concede an inch. It is part car show, part anthropology field study. Watch to see who the crowd crowns.
This gold 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS is wearing the very first sheetmetal Chevy ever put on the nameplate, built to answer Ford’s Mustang head-on. The SS package brought a 295-horsepower 350 V8, Wide Oval tires, and the signature bumblebee stripe, while just 602 buyers that year opted for the brand-new Z/28 package instead. Chevy moved over 220,000 first-year Camaros total. Here’s what actually separated the SS from the rest of that debut lineup.
The auction lane produces a specific kind of ache: dream cars rolling under the lights one after another while you do quiet math on machines you have no business buying. This short reel drops you into a run of sweet muscle cars staged and waiting for the gavel, with no narration and no mercy. Big-blocks, survivors, and tribute builds all share the same lane. Watch, play appraiser from your couch, and try not to pick a favorite.
It looks like a mismatch on paper: a 1969 L88 Corvette rated at 430 horsepower against a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W30 rated at just 300. But both figures were creative fictions built to dodge insurers, and Road Test TV takes these two genuinely rare survivors—one of 116 and one of 772—to the quarter mile to find the truth. The timeslips reveal as much about 1970s marketing as about the cars. See which icon actually crosses the line first.
You have probably seen the frozen frame—the highway, the sideways lurch, the blind-spot caption—but the full clip is something else entirely. A 2001 Dodge Durango hits ice coming from 394 onto Highway 100 in Minneapolis and carves a complete 360-degree spin through live traffic without touching a thing. Captured in one unbroken dashcam take, it became one of the internet’s most-shared driving gifs. Watch the moment behind the meme and the winter-driving lesson buried inside it.
After roughly thirty-five years hidden in storage, a 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertible emerges still wearing its original 440 Six Barrel big block. The “V” in its VIN confirms it is the real thing, and Plymouth built just 17 V-code ‘Cuda convertibles for 1971. Road Test TV walks around this uncovered survivor and leaves the biggest question wide open: what is it actually worth today? See the barn find that makes collectors hold their breath.
For one weekend a year, El Reno, Oklahoma turns a stretch of the original Route 66 into a fully sanctioned playground of street drags, a car show, a burnout contest, and a downtown cruise. Urban Hillbilly Videos captures the Small Town Weekend event in all its tire-smoke glory. It is the rare celebration where the racing is real but nobody is watching for police lights. See what happens when an entire town says yes to horsepower.
Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild series takes a grimy, worn-out Ford Flathead V8 and, across six days and more than 40,000 photographs, reassembles it into a jewel in about six mesmerizing minutes. This is the engine that put affordable V8 power in everyday hands back in 1932 and reshaped hot-rodding forever. This particular motor was pulled from a 1946 Ford pickup after 4,000-plus miles of faithful service. Watch bolts thread themselves and pistons drop home in perfect stop-motion rhythm.
Urban Hillbilly Videos made its name at drag strips, but this clip goes back to its outlaw roots on the old Kearney Street Cruise and Highway 13. Turbo and nitrous street cars making anywhere from 600 to 1,200 horsepower trade runs in the dark while trying to stay one step ahead of the local police. It is a raw time capsule of a street-racing era that is quickly disappearing. See how long they manage to keep the party going.
A 1969 Corvette with the legendary L88 427 was too rare and too valuable to ever risk, which is exactly what makes watching one launch down the quarter mile feel almost illicit. Only about 116 were built, and examples have since sold for more than a million dollars. Here one runs pure stock, doing exactly what its deliberately underrated big block was engineered for. See the number it put on the board.
The most expensive muscle car you will ever buy is the one that looked perfect in the photos and fell apart underneath it. This buyer’s guide walks a 1970 to 1981 Camaro and Trans Am panel by panel, showing exactly where rust hides and why the trouble is almost never the spot you would check first. It is the kind of hard-won knowledge that can save you thousands before you hand over a deposit. Learn what to look for.
This Camaro went from a rough, damaged shell to a fully restored driver, and the transformation says as much about the muscle car hobby as it does about the car itself. First-generation Camaros remain some of the most rebuilt classics in America thanks to strong parts support and lasting collector demand. See how this build turned a wreck into a showpiece.