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By 1973 the Camaro Z28 had lost its solid lifters, its high compression, and its Holley carburetor, and it was rated at 245 net horsepower. It also gained air conditioning availability and kept one of the best chassis of any American car of the era. It was the last Z28 before the 1974 bumper regulations changed the shape for good. Read on for what was really left inside the badge.
1970 was the last model year before a looming federal fuel mandate forced every automaker to detune their engines for good, and Buick used that final window to build one of the most overlooked muscle cars of the era. The GS 455 Stage 1 traded flashy branding for raw torque, putting up numbers that rivaled cars with far bigger reputations. This is the story of how the old man’s brand ended up building a genuine class leader. Watch to see why collectors are still catching up to it.
A 1968 Dodge Super Bee, one of only 125 built with the 426 Hemi, takes on a 1971 Corvette LS6, one of just 188 built that year, in a genuinely close quarter-mile race decided as much by gearing as by raw power. But the real story lives in the comments, where one viewer’s sprawling account of a mid-1960s neighborhood muscle car arms race, complete with a State Trooper who kept losing his own street races, has become something close to local legend. Watch the run, then read the full story below it.
The Ferrari Guy, a channel built around European exotics, turns its attention to Japanese domestic market culture with a rapid-fire list of habits that give away a true JDM fanboy — from rotary engine devotion to import-scene obsession. It’s a good-natured jab clearly inspired by the ribbing muscle car and supercar fans have taken over the years, and most JDM enthusiasts will recognize themselves in at least half the list. See how many signs hit 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.
Only 32 of these were ever built with a four-speed manual. This 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 convertible runs 0-70 in 7.3 seconds with zero turbocharging and zero shortcuts, then backs it up with cornering that still gets called the best-handling muscle car of its era. Watch to see a genuinely rare combination pushed to its actual limits.
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.
What started as a simple video about a new valve spring compressor turned into a full first-time rebuild of a Ford Coyote V8 cylinder head. The creator, working through his very first engine rebuild on camera, doesn’t hide the parts that went sideways — including footage lost during the grinding and cleaning stages. It’s an unfiltered look at what a Coyote head rebuild actually demands from someone learning as they go. Watch to see a first attempt handled with real honesty.
The 428 Cobra Jet was not part of the 1968 Mustang lineup when the model year began. It arrived on April 1st, built largely to the recipe a Rhode Island Ford dealer had already proven, and it swept Super Stock at the Winternationals almost immediately. Ford said 335 horsepower. The real figure was closer to 400, and there was a very specific reason for the gap. Read on for the full story.
This 1971 Chevrolet Camaro is the fifth car “Hotrod” Ronnie Miller has pulled from a secret rescue spot he calls the Honey Hole — moss on the fender, a caved bumper, and years of neglect included. Unlike so many cars from the same field, this one is getting a second chance instead of a trip to the crusher. Viewers in the comments recognize its split-bumper front end from their own first cars, and one shares a moving memory of an uncle’s own 1970-and-a-half Camaro Z. Watch the rescue and see what’s next for this survivor.
A right-hand-drive 1970 Dodge Challenger, hand-converted for the Australian market, stars in a little-known 1982 chase film called Running on Empty that fans keep comparing to Mad Max. Paired against a Ford Falcon on empty outback highways, it’s a piece of car-chase history most muscle car enthusiasts have never seen. Watch to find out why this obscure Aussie chase deserves more attention.
This Cranberry Red 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS pairs the legendary 450-horsepower LS6 454 big-block with a four-speed manual — and, almost incongruously, a factory bench seat and working 8-track player. Featured on V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series, the car draws a sharp-eyed comment calling out its non-factory steering wheel, plus plenty of viewers sharing decades-old memories tied to the model. Only a few thousand LS6 Chevelles were ever built. Watch the full walkaround to see what still makes this one special.
A downtown food break turned into an impromptu grudge race when a Honda Civic owner bragging about his stripped, “tuned” 2.2-liter engine challenged two friends cruising their vintage Dodge Chargers — including a bone-stock 1970 model driven by someone who had never raced before. What followed split viewers into two camps and reignited an argument that’s never really settled. Watch to see how it played out.
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.