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TheBayAreaRacing lined up two stock modern muscle cars with a nearly 180-horsepower gap between them – a supercharged Hellcat Challenger against a naturally aspirated Shelby GT350 – and the trap speeds came back closer than the spec sheet would suggest. One viewer’s verdict had nothing to do with the numbers at all: nothing sounds better than these Mustangs. Watch to see how a flat-plane-crank V8 held its own against a supercharger.
Two documented, unrestored 1970 Novas built with the rare L78 396, a survivor 1971 Heavy Chevy Chevelle, and an entire property’s worth of other collectible muscle cars and parts — all assembled by one Iowa collector commenters can’t decide to call a hoarder or a historian. One viewer’s memory of a 427 fuel-injected Corvette ride in 1965 explains exactly why cars like these still matter. What does it actually take to build a collection this deliberate?
A muscle car’s front wheels lift completely off the pavement in this shot, and it isn’t an accident or a loss of control. Spring rates and shock valving are doing exactly what they’re tuned to do at the starting line, and wheelie bars exist specifically to cap how far that lift can go. Here’s the suspension science behind why some cars wheelie off the line, and where that same lift turns dangerous.
A Toyota X-Runner lines up on an empty stretch of pavement for what should have been a quick, cocky drift pass — and instead becomes a decade-long punchline, complete with a bent rim and a Craigslist joke that refuses to die in the comments. Viewers have picked apart exactly where the throttle held on a beat too long. Watch to see the moment it all goes sideways, literally.
Only ten 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II convertibles left the factory with a 426 Hemi, six of those with automatics, and just one in the color code 661 Metallic Mauve — the car in this episode, restored with its original numbers-matching driveline intact. Commenters can’t agree if the color is mauve or purple, but they agree on one thing: this Hemi was built to be feared, not casually enjoyed. What actually makes a car the rarest piece in a collection already built around rare Mopars?
This isn’t muscle car footage in the usual sense — it’s 1970s crash-test film, digitized from the A/V Geeks archive, built to prove a shoulder belt does something a lap belt alone can’t. One commenter, now 58, remembers the exact head-impact pattern this footage demonstrates from real wrecked cars growing up. Another credits Volvo’s decision to give away its seatbelt patent with saving countless lives. What does decades-old crash-test footage actually have to do with why the muscle car era ended the way it did?
An orange A-body sitting on a consignment lot in Dearborn looks period correct until it starts. What is under the hood was designed thirty-five years after the body was stamped, makes about 150 more horsepower than the engine that belongs there, and has become one of the most popular swaps in the Mopar world. Read on for why builders keep reaching for this particular engine instead of something newer.
Everyone who owns a Mopar uses the word constantly — almost nobody agrees on what it actually stands for. Regular Car Reviews’ Roman traces it back to 1937, when ‘Motor Parts’ became Chrysler’s parts-division shorthand, long before it meant anything about performance. The comments aren’t satisfied with the real answer, though, offering up ‘MO’ PO’ER,’ ‘Many Odd Parts Arranged Randomly,’ and half a dozen other competing definitions. Which version has actually been driving the culture all along?
This 1968 Plymouth GTX convertible is one of 24 built, not 34, despite what the video’s own description claims elsewhere — and Mopar fans in the comments caught the contradiction. Under the hood, a 426 Hemi rated at 425 horsepower but built for NASCAR carries torque near 500 lb-ft, backed by a rear end reinforced specifically to survive it. One commenter even corrects the entire GTX-versus-Road-Runner origin story. So which details actually hold up?
Nick Panaritis rebuilt a 426 Hemi before he had a Challenger to put it in — then found a 1970 T/A instead, a genuinely rare factory homologation car built around a 340/6-barrel, not a Hemi. Commenters cite a possible Canadian-market history of roughly 115 T/As, correct a popular Vanishing Point myth, and mostly land on the same verdict: keep this one original. So does the freshly rebuilt Hemi get left without a home, or is there a smarter compromise hiding in the comments?
Deep in Virginia’s Northern Neck, on private land the uploader refuses to name, sits a Thanksgiving-shot slideshow of Chevelles, Novas, Chevy IIs, and Mopars that time simply left behind. A rare Cyclone Spoiler, honeycomb wheels still mounted on a LeMans, and 340-powered cars that used to be everywhere all turn up in the footage. One viewer calls it the best therapy a car guy can get. What does a field nobody’s allowed to buy from still have to say about muscle cars?
These three overlooked muscle cars all earned obscurity in different ways, from a Hemi Dart built purely for the drag strip to a Rebel Machine unveiled at NHRA’s biggest stage. The Hemi Dart’s 426 engine ran quarter-mile times in the nine-second range not long after leaving the factory, numbers that still hold up decades later. AMC’s Machine countered with a standard 340-horsepower V8 built for straight-line bragging rights of its own. Here’s what made each of these forgotten muscle cars worth a second look.
Alf’s red 1965 Chevy II Nova SS still wears its original California dealer plates — despite living in Adelaide, Australia since he imported it in 2008. Two prior owners, a factory 283 V8, and an untouched interior make it a genuine survivor, with only a repaint, new brakes, and a set of Flowmaster mufflers separating it from stock. Read on for the story of how the car got there, and how the Nova nameplate itself came to be.