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This drag racing footage from Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, captures a parade of big-block Mopars and classic American muscle making full quarter-mile passes the old-fashioned way. These are not trailer queens but street-driven cars tuned in home garages and brought out to see what the clocks say. From launching Hemis to heads-up grudge runs, it is a reminder of why the faithful never gave up on torque. Watch to see which cars got down the track cleanest.
A dyno pull is supposed to be the safe part, right up until this 1,573-horsepower third-gen Trans Am launched a charge pipe into the crowd. Filmed by 1320video at the Missouri F-Body and Mustang meet, the car then backed up the chaos with one of the closest races they had ever shot, trapping nearly 160 mph in the eighth mile. It is outlaw racing at its most unhinged. Watch and hang on.
Somewhere on the Tennessee-Mississippi state line, a yard swallowed by tall weeds hides a lineup that makes your stomach drop: Chevelles, Impalas, Novas, and tri-five 1955 Chevys, all neglected and waiting. Patrick Glenn Nichols does the barn-find fantasy for a living, and this one delivers the full mix of elation and heartbreak. Every car is a rescue waiting for the right hands. Watch history get pulled back into the light.
A 3.97 at 194 mph would be stunning on any tire, but Jason Michalak’s Bad9er Racing blown Hemi Corvette did it on 315 drag radials, posting the quickest eighth-mile ever run in competition on that tire. It went down at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion at Memphis, against the fastest radial cars in the country. Huge power is easy; putting it down on a radial is the miracle. Watch the record fall.
This late-1960s Chevrolet Camaro didn’t need a caption to turn heads. Built to answer the Ford Mustang, it eventually carried Super Sport big-blocks and the Trans-Am-bred Z/28 302 — engineering that turned a pretty face into a genuine muscle car contender. Here’s the story behind the shape everyone’s still arguing about in the comments.
A bystander on the way to pick up a Thanksgiving turkey in The Woodlands, Texas, caught two nearly identical Corvettes deciding to settle it at a stoplight, and the physics did the rest. With over fifteen million views and a spot on Anderson Cooper’s Ridiculist, it has become the definitive lesson in what not to do. No one was hurt, only two cars and two egos. Watch the cautionary legend.
Every Wednesday at Sonoma Raceway, high school students stage next to an actual patrol car and race it heads-up. The Top the Cops program, founded by retired officer Kevin McKinnie, fights illegal street racing by giving teens a safe, legal place to use the throttle. The result is fewer kids racing on the street and a rare kind of trust built one pass at a time. Watch the underdogs take on the badge.
A 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and a 1965 GTO Tri-Power line up at the quarter mile, and it plays out like a decade of bench-racing arguments finally getting settled. The Charger brings a 375-horsepower 440 Magnum and a 3.54 rear; the GTO counters with a 360-horsepower 389 and a savage 4.10 posi. Two four-speeds mean driver skill matters as much as cubic inches. Watch Road Test TV settle it.
Someone crowned this clip ‘The Greatest Burnout of All Time,’ a bold claim in a genre with no shortage of contenders. See where the tradition of smoking tires for a crowd actually started, how it spread from drag strip prep to parking-lot ritual, and why it’s grown into a full-blown competitive event at shows like Summernats.
A supercharged Toyota Tundra has no business hunting down a Hemi Challenger R/T at the drag strip, and that is exactly what makes this Road Test TV matchup so hard to look away from. The truck brings a TRD blower, a Killer Chiller, and drag radials; the Dodge answers with a Kenne Bell supercharged 419 stroker. One was built to be fast, the other was beaten into it. Watch to see which one blinks first.
This montage runs the entire Chevrolet Camaro story from its 1967 debut to the muscular coupe of 2015, compressing nearly five decades into a few minutes. Along the way the Camaro reinvents itself repeatedly, even surviving a full discontinuation in 2002 before its dramatic revival. Seeing every generation in sequence shows how much the car changed while staying unmistakably itself. Watch the whole evolution unfold.
This full-size cruiser got a near-total redesign for 1960, sharing only its roof and trunk lid with the previous year’s model. Buick built it around a 364 cubic inch V8 offered in three different tunes, topping out at 300 horsepower with the four-barrel Power Pack option. More than 150,000 rolled off the line that year alone. Did you guess the year, make, and model?