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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.
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.