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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?
A Pontiac 455 big block catches fire mid-pull on the dyno in this Nick’s Garage video, and instead of cutting the footage, the channel keeps rolling and walks through exactly what went wrong. It’s the kind of unfiltered honesty about engine building’s real risks that has built Nick’s Garage a loyal following, even when the pull doesn’t go as planned. Watch to see how the fire started and what it reveals about pushing a big-block V8 to its limits.
Full-size 1970s Cadillacs like the Fleetwood and Eldorado stretched close to 20 feet long and packed a 500-cubic-inch V8, the largest displacement engine GM ever put in a regular passenger car, all in the name of comfort over cornering. The Eldorado’s front-wheel-drive layout, borrowed from the Oldsmobile Toronado, made an already enormous car even stranger to engineer. Read on to find out why bigger, heavier, and harder to turn was exactly the point Cadillac was chasing.
Tom Cotter leaves his usual 1939 Ford Woodie Wagon at home for this episode of Hagerty’s Barn Find Hunter, instead driving a freshly uncovered 428-cubic-inch V8 machine straight through the back roads of South Carolina. It’s the latest stop in a series built around one simple idea: real muscle car history is still out there, hiding in barns and overgrown fields, waiting for someone willing to dig it out. Watch to see what Cotter found and why he decided to drive it home instead of trailering it.
A nitrous-fed 1967 Mustang and a twin-turbo 1999 Camaro squared off in a street race that RedmaroProductions caught on camera, and it didn’t end the way either driver hoped. Both cars, representing two very different eras of Detroit muscle, came out of the run needing serious bodywork, though both drivers walked away unhurt. The clip has drawn over 817,000 views and no shortage of debate about who was really at fault. Watch to see exactly how quickly a grudge race can go sideways.
Troy Hawkes’ 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona isn’t just wearing the look — the wheels underneath it are genuine NASCAR pieces, confirmed by Hawkes himself in the comments. Chrysler built roughly 500 of these to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules after grafting an 18-inch nose cone and towering rear wing onto a standard Charger to chase 200 mph on the superspeedway. What’s left is a car engineered to solve an aerodynamics problem, still being used for exactly what it was built for. Watch it light up the rear tires.
Built entirely by one owner in a home garage and driveway, this 1968 Mustang started as a rust-free 289 two-barrel A-code car and emerged with a period-correct-looking 302 V8 swap, a custom twin front sway bar setup, and Spring Time Yellow paint. The goal was a reliable daily driver capable of real track days, not just cruise nights. Read on to find out what else went into the build.
Every muscle car crowd loves a good debate, and Hot or Not photo posts like this one never fail to deliver. With no year, make, or model attached, this glossy red classic has to win or lose the argument purely on looks: stance, color, chrome, and proportion. It is a reminder that the communitys eye for what counts as a genuine head-turner is anything but universal.
Filmed for a Unique Cars magazine feature and aired on Australia’s Today Show back in November 2011, this video lines up American muscle against Australia’s own homegrown V8 legends – and the rivalry it sparked in the comments is still going strong. The Ford Falcon, a car Ford never officially sold in the U.S., squares off against the Mustang, while Holden’s VR Commodore SS and Chrysler’s Valiant Charger make the case for Australian engineering. So which country actually builds the better muscle car?
A split-bumper Camaro Z28, a 429-powered Mustang Mach 1, and a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am — all rusting together in a Japanese field, thousands of miles from where any of them were built. Car-spotting channel WasabiCars found the yard first; Jalopnik later called it Japan’s random muscle car graveyard. Viewers in the comments don’t just identify the cars, they mourn them, with more than one person floating the idea of shipping the whole lot home. Watch to see exactly what’s been left to rust.
Roadkill hosts Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger got handed three brand-new 2015 Dodges at once — a 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat, a 707-horsepower Charger Hellcat, and a 645-horsepower Viper GT — for a combined 2,059 horsepower in one parking lot. What follows includes burnouts, a drag strip, guest appearances from Motor Trend and Dirt Every Day talent, and an unplanned stop at a motocross track that none of these cars were built for. Watch to see how much of it survives intact.
Shot from a first-person view with the camera near the driver’s own eye line, this 1970 Dodge Challenger gets pushed to its 150-mph speedometer limit on Germany’s unrestricted autobahn, a kind of sustained high-speed run American owners rarely get to attempt legally. Other drivers scatter once they spot it in their mirrors. Ride along for a rare look at what these cars can really do.
Detailing a modern engine bay is easy; detailing a 1969 Camaro SS’s exposed carburetor, distributor, and ignition system without frying anything is another matter entirely. The Chemical Guys Detail Garage crew bags every vulnerable component before touching a hose, then works through a specific degreasing and drying sequence built for engines that predate sealed, water-resistant electronics by decades. It’s the kind of process viewers have since applied to their own numbers-matching Camaros. Watch how they pull it off without a single misfire.