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Only one Oldsmobile 442 was ever built with front-wheel drive, a genuinely experimental 1968 car born out of the earliest days of the Hurst/Olds partnership. Owner Fred Mandrick discovered it by chance and later learned the previous owner had kept it hidden for 42 years before he ever got the call. Fully restored, the car was later selected as the featured vehicle at the 2013 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch to hear the story behind a one-of-one that almost stayed lost.
A V8-powered chainsaw sounds like the kind of thing only a muscle car fanatic would build in a garage — until you learn the record for cutting speed belongs to a company on the other side of the world. From a 508-pound Buick-powered monster nicknamed ‘The Predator’ to an Australian saw built purely for marketing, these builds prove a V8 will make anything sound like it belongs on a drag strip.
Only 20 examples of the legendary Corvette L88 were ever built for the 1967 model year, and this one is the only survivor finished in its specific factory color. At Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction, it sold for 3.5 million dollars, a price that reflects genuine racing pedigree as much as raw scarcity. FOX Sports called it simply the ultimate in American collector car. Watch to see the moment the hammer fell.
A Plymouth Satellite that had not run in ten years gets a shot at redemption when Junkyard Digs creator Kevin, Dylan, and a newly introduced crew called The Rust Avengers attempt the first start. A decade of sitting brings real risks, including varnished fuel, dried seals, and the possibility of a seized engine, that make the outcome genuinely uncertain going in. A second installment is already promised on a collaborator’s channel. Watch to find out if the Satellite still has a heartbeat.
In 2015, a Wisconsin trapper named John Oens found himself face to face with a fully grown timber wolf, one leg caught in a trap. Instead of a catch pole, he used a scrap of plywood with a hole cut through it, and the wolf barely fought back. Watch how he pulled off a release so clean it is still racking up views nearly a decade later.
A 1976 Dodge Aspen R/T doesn’t look like a factory Super Bee — because in the U.S., that car never existed. Chrysler kept the nameplate alive four extra years exclusively for Mexico, grafting a Dodge front end to a Plymouth’s tail and fitting an engine American buyers couldn’t get. One grandfather-grandson build project set out to recreate it from scratch, one badge and taillight at a time.
The Auto Rules wanted to answer a question every backyard mechanic has joked about: can you supercharge an engine with a leaf blower? The answer, tested on a 5.4-liter V8, isn’t a simple yes or no — there’s no real boost involved, yet the dyno still showed a gain. Commenters are already lobbying for a turbocharged leaf blower as the sequel. Watch to see exactly how many horsepower a cheap tool can buy.
A factory-built Dodge Demon, engineered from the ground up to dominate the quarter mile, takes on a Tesla Model S P100D in Ludicrous mode, on a public street instead of a prepped drag strip. The Demon’s supercharged Hemi fights front wheel lift off the line while the Tesla’s instant electric torque needs no warm-up at all. Viewers were quick to point out the street surface never gave the Demon’s drag radials a fair shot. Watch to see which car actually gets to the end first.
In 1976, a heavily built 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S with a 383 big block got its doors blown off on Gratiot Avenue — by a full-size Pontiac most street racers wouldn’t have recognized. The culprit was a rare 1966 Pontiac 2+2 running a 421 tri-power engine rated at 376 horsepower, a model Pontiac once marketed as the GTO’s big brother. Read on to see how one of the rarest Pontiacs of the 1960s humbled a genuinely fast Mopar.
The Fab Forums picks up a die grinder and starts reshaping a stock intake manifold’s runners in real time, explaining exactly why port-matching — not just polishing things smooth — is the technique that actually adds power. It’s raw, unscripted shop footage rather than a polished tutorial, showing the kind of decision-making that separates a home porting job that works from one that just looks like it should. Watch the process unfold bit by bit.
Alf’s 1965 Chevy II Nova SS still wears its original California dealer plates, decades after Hovey-Dallas Chevrolet first sold it — only now it’s a familiar sight near Seaview Road outside Adelaide, Australia, following a 2008 import. The car runs its factory 283 V8 and PowerGlide transmission, kept close to stock except for dual Flowmaster mufflers and a fresh set of mags. Read on to see how a documented, three-owner Nova crossed an ocean and stayed true to its roots.
Yenko cars from this era mean one thing to most collectors: a big-block shoehorned into something that had no business being that quick. Then the 1970 Nova wearing Yenko badges broke the pattern completely. Don Yenko had built his entire reputation on 427-powered COPO monsters, and for 1970 he skipped the big-block altogether. The reason had less to do with engineering than with insurance underwriters.
A black 1972 Monte Carlo does not announce itself the way a Chevelle SS does, and that was entirely the point. Chevrolet built this car to compete in the personal luxury coupe boom, not to win stoplight races. Yet a genuine 454 big-block sat on the order sheet that year, listed alongside power windows and a padded vinyl roof, and 1972 turned out to be the final year of the original car’s styling.
Fred already had a reputation for beating cars he had no business beating, including a widely shared win over an EcoBoost Mustang in the half mile. In this video, he brings his Corvette to the Merrill Ice Drags in Wisconsin, where studded tires replace drag radials and horsepower counts for far less than throttle control. The result adds another chapter to an already unlikely winning streak. Watch to see how the Corvette handles a surface with almost no grip at all.
Builder Cook and Evolution Performance took a factory Shelby GT500 and did something counterintuitive — they shrank the engine to 349 cubic inches, sleeved it, and bolted on a single 94mm turbo mounted right in the grille. The result reportedly makes 2,200 horsepower and has run quarter-mile passes as quick as 6.66 seconds at 210 mph, numbers that put it in territory few Mustang-based builds ever reach. This is the story behind The Devil’s Reject. Watch to see the run that earned the name.