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Cleaning a modern engine bay is easy, but point a hose at a carbureted 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS the wrong way and you risk never hearing it run again. In this Chemical Guys video, the Detail Garage crew tackle an exposed carburetor, open ignition, and decades of grime using a trick that costs about a dollar. It is a repeatable blueprint for anyone with a classic small-block. See how plastic bags and diluted degreaser get the job done safely.
Classic cars like this one weren’t built for efficiency; they were built to turn heads at stoplights and dominate weekend car shows decades later. Deep paint, real chrome, and body lines drawn before computers ever touched a car design tell you everything about the era before you even read the badge. The debate over which classic deserves the spotlight hasn’t slowed down since these cars left the factory floor.
Long before staging lanes bristled with cameras, street racing lived on grainy camcorder tape, and this old-school run from the summer nats is exactly that kind of footage. No graphics, no commentary, no replays, just two cars, a strip of pavement, and the raw sound. It captures a grassroots muscle-car era that has quietly vanished. Watch to see who gets to the other end first.
A 1971 Plymouth Barracuda Gran Coupe has been pulled out of long-term storage, and Mopar fans know 1971 is the E-body year collectors argue about most. This upscale Gran Coupe was never a big seller, which makes a genuine survivor rarer than the badge suggests. Between hidden rust, missing pieces, and the hope of matching numbers, every barn find like this is a gamble. See whether this one is a rough project or a sleeping fortune.
The triple-carb 440 under this Cuda’s hood was not a casual option. Plymouth built barely 1,700-some of them in 1970, split between four-speed and automatic cars. Here is what made the 440 Six Pack such a rare and serious performance package, and why guessing its value takes more than eyeballing the sheet metal.
Jay Leno has seen everything, so when he gets excited about an AMC Javelin, you pay attention. This 1972 underdog is a Ringbrothers restomod built for Prestone, and it hides a jaw-dropping secret: an 1,100-horsepower Hellcat engine fed by a 4.5-liter Whipple supercharger. It is a forgotten AMC turned into a supercar killer. Watch to see why over a million people tuned in to Leno’s garage.
Nearly two decades before airbags became mandatory, General Motors quietly built and sold them, first on government fleet cars, then as a factory option across four full-size luxury nameplates. Here is the surprisingly early and short-lived story of GM’s Air Cushion Restraint System, and why the technology vanished from showrooms for almost twenty years.
Guessing the year on a prewar Oldsmobile convertible is trickier than it looks: the drop-top body and the straight-eight engine collectors often look for did not actually arrive on the same model in the same year. Here is how to tell a real Series 60 from the bigger, straight-eight-powered senior cars, and why so few of these soft tops survived to be argued over today.
A family SUV built for track days sounds like a contradiction, but the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk sets out to prove otherwise. Under the hood sits the same supercharged 707-horsepower Hellcat V8 from Dodge’s wildest muscle cars, now hauling a five-seat Jeep with alarming speed. MotorWeek tests it on both the street and the track. Watch to see whether this 707-horse Jeep is brilliant or gloriously excessive.
Every Mopar fan argues about it: were the classic Hemis and 440s really faster, or is that just nostalgia talking? At a Mopar event at Raceway Park in New Jersey, the vintage big-blocks line up against modern supercharged Hellcats and let the quarter-mile settle it. Two eras, one strip, and no excuses. Watch to see whether old muscle or new engineering wins the family grudge match.
This red Trans Am looks like any other mid-’70s Pontiac at first glance, but 1974 was the year Pontiac quietly offered one of its rarest and most serious engines: the hand-built SD-455. Only 943 cars left the factory with it. Here’s what made the Super Duty 455 special, and how to spot the styling details that pin this car to its exact model year.