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Tom Cotter’s Barn Find Hunter tracked down a numbers-matching 1954 Chevrolet Corvette and its original Blue Flame Six engine, tucked into a collection that also holds a 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 convertible, a big-block El Camino, and a warehouse of dusty Italian sports cars including an ASA 1000 GT nicknamed the “baby Ferrari.” Few barn find episodes cover this much ground in one visit. Watch to see what else Cotter uncovers.
Lou Costabile heads to Schwartz Performance Inc. headquarters in Woodstock, Illinois, to check out a custom 1966 Pontiac GTO owned by Dale Schwartz, whose father Jeff runs the shop’s build team. The orange paint gets attention, but the real story is underneath: a lighter, stronger custom frame plus disc brakes and improved steering. Watch to hear directly from the builders why the chassis mattered more than the finish.
Nobody can agree on the exact specs of any single General Lee because The Dukes of Hazzard chewed through somewhere between 200 and 300 Dodge Chargers over its 1979-to-1985 run, with only about 18 surviving in driveable condition. Stunt coordinator Al Wyatt Sr. built the fleet around lessons learned from an earlier film, and the welded-shut doors that became the character’s signature trait were pure structural necessity. Read on to find out why a genuine survivor is rarer than winning a drag race.
A Muscle Car Fan reader recalls buying his first real performance car, a 1969 GTO nicknamed The Goat, for $1,200 in the summer of 1979, then living an entire high school year defined by drag races, a blown clutch on his first date, and a January night that ended with a friend’s Fairlane wrapped around a utility pole. Somehow nobody called the police on him. Read on for how the story, and the car, both ended.
Shot at the historic Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, this amateur upload from daredevil7442 captures a lineup of Hemi and big-block Mopar muscle running the quarter mile at one of the East Coast’s most storied drag strips. It’s grassroots drag racing rather than a professional NHRA broadcast, but the track underneath these cars has hosted some of the sport’s biggest names for decades. Watch to see American muscle running down a strip with genuine drag racing pedigree.
A dyno pull on a 1573-horsepower Third Gen Trans Am should be the tame part of the weekend — until a charge pipe breaks loose and sends parts flying into the crowd. Minutes later the same car reportedly trapped almost 160 mph in the eighth mile in what the filming crew calls the closest race they’ve ever shot. Watch to see how a Mustang meet turned into a GM highlight reel.
Patrick Glenn Nichols uncovers a property on the Tennessee/Mississippi state line packed with forgotten muscle, including Chevelles, Impalas, Novas, and even a 1955 Chevy, all hidden under tall weeds after years of neglect. The find raises the same question every barn hunter faces: how much of this is actually salvageable, and how much has already been lost to time. Watch to see exactly what condition these classics are in after years exposed to the elements.
Jason Michalak’s Bad9er Racing blown Hemi Corvette runs a 3.97-second eighth mile at 194 miles per hour on a 315 drag radial, setting the quickest elapsed time in Competition class at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion at Memphis International Raceway. It’s an extreme demonstration of how far a Corvette-based platform can be pushed on radial tires rather than full race slicks. Watch to see the run that had viewers doing double takes on just how fast 194 mph really is.
Chevrolet rushed the first Camaro to market in 1967 purely to answer the Ford Mustang, but within two years the same shape carried the Z/28’s racing-bred 302, the L78 396 big-block, and a handful of ultra-rare COPO ZL1 427s that now bring seven-figure money at auction. Only 602 Z/28s were built in that first model year alone. Read on to find out which options actually turned an underdog into one of Detroit’s most valuable icons.
Filmed entirely by accident on a Thanksgiving errand, this viral clip from TheGrowingRushFamily captures two Corvettes racing — and crashing — on a residential street in The Woodlands, Texas. With over 15.7 million views, it’s become one of the most-watched amateur car crash videos on the internet, driven by clean footage and a title that captures the moment’s dark irony perfectly. Watch to see exactly how a Thanksgiving turkey run turned into one of the internet’s most-shared Corvette videos.
Every Wednesday at Sonoma Raceway, California high schoolers line up against a real police car for a quarter-mile drag race, and it is completely legal. The program, called Top the Cops, was built by a retired officer who wanted to give teenagers a real outlet instead of a street corner. Now in its 23rd year, it has its own alumni. Watch to see how it actually works.
A 1965 Pontiac GTO Tri-Power, the car most historians credit with inventing the muscle car category, takes on a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and its 375 horsepower 440 Magnum in a quarter-mile pass that is closer than the 15 horsepower gap between them suggests. Viewers in the comments have pointed out that the GTO actually lost to a red-light foul, not a straight-line beating. Both cars run essentially stock, full-weight, and unmodified off the factory floor. Watch the start as closely as the finish to see why.
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 Dodge Challenger R/T running a Kenne Bell supercharger on a stroked 419 cubic inch V8 lines up against a TRD supercharged Toyota Tundra riding on Killer Chiller drag radials with a shift kit and torque converter upgrade. Commenters were surprised by how competitive the significantly heavier pickup truck stayed against the purpose-built muscle car, and the comment section stayed unusually respectful toward both builds. One viewer even hoped the Tundra’s owner would show up to a specific event later in the month. Can a street-legal supercharged truck really hang with a stroker Hemi?
This Matchbox Garage retrospective traces the Chevrolet Camaro’s full evolution, from the original 1967 pony car built to challenge the Mustang, through six generations, a seven-year hiatus, and the retro-styled revival that landed in 2010. Along the way, the video revisits the highs of the Z/28 and IROC-Z eras and the rough patches that nearly killed the nameplate for good. Watch to see all six generations side by side and decide for yourself which era actually deserves the crown.