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Can you place the year, make, and model in this photo? The stance and polished wheels are a strong clue, this is a 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390, the special options package that paired a 325-horsepower big-block V8 with heavy-duty suspension and dual exhaust. It’s the same combination that made a debadged Highland Green fastback famous in one of cinema’s greatest car chases. Scroll down to see how the real answer compares to your guess.
In 1984, a dare on a dirt road outside Kingman, Arizona taught Vicki how to drive a stick shift in her sister’s black 1967 Camaro RS/SS — and planted a want that took nearly thirty years to satisfy. In 2013, she finally found her own, an almost perfectly restored example listed on Craigslist in Brooklyn, Michigan. Read on for how one proving-them-wrong moment turned into a lifelong Camaro obsession, complete with a matching-numbers engine still waiting for its turn.
David Meyer’s 1966 Plymouth Belvedere, built by coachbuilder Troy Trepanier and nicknamed “Northern Bel,” hides a 526-cubic-inch HEMI and twin rear-mounted turbochargers behind period-correct sheet metal. Featured on MotorTrend’s House of Muscle series, the restomod is reported to run 9-second quarter-miles at over 200 mph. Watch to see how a stock-looking ’66 Mopar hides that much firepower.
Posted in 2008 with zero production value and a single shoelace as the star, this how-to video should have disappeared within a year. Instead the comments read like a running log of drivers who tried it years and even a decade-plus later, in freezing weather and strangers’ driveways, and came back just to say thank you. Watch to see the trick a working locksmith admits actually works.
Hennessey Performance turned a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 into ‘The Exorcist’ — a 9.57-second quarter-mile machine hitting 147 mph, with 0-60 in 2.1 seconds and 0-100 in 4.7. Viewers are just as impressed that it does it all without a dual-clutch transmission, calling it ‘a very impressive job’ on Chevrolet’s part. Watch to see how a factory-based muscle car ended up trading blows with the world’s fastest hypercars.
Car News TV’s countdown of Ford’s greatest engines opens with the flathead V8 and closes on a hard-pulling 428 Cobra Jet Mustang — but it is what got left out that dominated the comments. Viewers made the case for the 351 Cleveland, the long-running 300 straight six, and even the modern Coyote 5.0, each with their own specific ownership stories. Watch the countdown, then see what fans think should have made the cut.
TheBayAreaRacing lined up Fastlife’s supercharged CTS-V, a C6 Corvette, and a pack of Hellcats for a roll race that settles arguments dyno sheets never can. The comments have split into two camps — Hellcat defenders and GM loyalists — with even the C6’s exhaust note becoming part of the debate. Watch to see which factory-powered monster actually pulls hardest once the green light hits.
A boat, a narrow street, and a muscle car owner clearly betting the marina could wait one more minute for a photo. This meme has circulated car forums since 2017 for good reason — the open-ended caption format never gets old, and neither does the mystery of whether the driver actually made the turn.
Jamboolio’s Best Muscle Car Sounds of 2016 skips music and narration entirely, letting nearly twenty American V8s — from a nitrous-fed 1967 Camaro to a 1000-horsepower Buick Grand National — speak for themselves at full throttle. Viewers picked out standouts ranging from a black Pontiac Firebird to a twin-turbo Corvette pushing an estimated 1500 horsepower. Watch to hear which cars made the biggest impression.
HOT ROD put a $699 small-block turbo kit through real-world testing to answer the question every budget builder asks: does it actually work? The kit’s wastegate turned out to be the weak link — confirmed by a viewer who swapped in a real 50mm external wastegate and pushed a similar kit past 1,000 horsepower on a completely different engine. Watch to see what held up, what didn’t, and what it takes to fix it.
This compilation strings together real quarter mile drag races between the modern muscle car era’s biggest names — Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, a Shelby GT500 Super Snake, a Corvette ZR1, and more — with results that do not always match what the spec sheets promise. One Hellcat driver appears to fall asleep at the line and still nearly catches a Super Snake by the finish. Watch to see which factory-built legend actually comes out on top.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
Fifty years is long enough for a car to outlive the reasons someone parked it in the first place. This 1961 Corvette finally rolled back into daylight after five decades in storage, and the timing matters: 1961 was the last year Chevrolet built the Corvette exclusively around the 283 small-block, including a rare fuel-injected option. Here’s what makes a survivor like this one worth a second look.