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Lebanon Ford Performance is selling a purpose-built Mustang capable of mid-10-second quarter miles for $59,995, straight off the dealer lot. The comments split between buyers doing supercharger math and one self-described Mopar loyalist grudgingly admitting the car earns its reputation — sleeper looks, no fender flares, and a question about the warranty that nobody quite answers.
Vintage Mopars and brand-new Hellcats and Demons line up at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, and the spec-sheet advantage isn’t as decisive as it looks on paper. Commenters argue over bracket racing, debate whether a modern car’s electronics can really out-drive fifty-year-old cubic inches, and settle in for an old-versus-new fight that a timing slip, not brand loyalty, ultimately decides.
Vanguard Motor Sales has listed a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T SE with a 440, a Dana 60 rear end, and the factory Track Pack option — plus a decoding letter from Mopar historian Galen Glover to back it all up. One commenter remembers buying an almost identical car for $2,500 back in 1973, when muscle cars like this one were, in his words, “everywhere cheap.”
MotorWeek’s John Davis takes Dodge’s 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon to the one place it was actually built for — a drag strip — and comes away with a Guinness World Record-setting wheelie on camera. Commenters call it a milestone episode, tracing Davis’s career all the way back to a very different MotorWeek review: a 1992 Pontiac Firehawk once described as “barely street legal” with 340 horsepower.
Pontiac planned to build nearly 5,000 examples of the 1977 LeMans Can Am before a spoiler mold problem cut the run short at just 1,377 cars — a fraction of them fitted with a different engine entirely. RamblinAround tracks down one of the survivors, and the comments fill in details even longtime Pontiac fans admit they’d never heard before, from quarter-mile times to a rare column-shift option.
Tim Hall says he bought his 1971 Buick Riviera because he “liked the backend on it” — a reference to the polarizing “boattail” design GM design chief Bill Mitchell pushed through against dealer skepticism. Lou Costabile catches up with Tim and the Sandpiper Beige coupe at a small-town Illinois car show, where decades-old opinions about the shape are still being argued out in the comments. The 455 under the hood is almost an afterthought.
In 1988, one manufacturer quietly cut the mechanical cable connecting a driver’s foot to the engine and replaced it with a sensor and a computer. Every automaker eventually followed, and the muscle car world still argues about whether that was progress or a loss. Read on to find out how drive-by-wire actually works, and why some purists refuse to trust it.
Not every video in this rotation is about horsepower – this one is a 2008 Christmas alcohol-awareness campaign built like a police dashcam comedy sketch, starring a very impaired Santa Claus. It pulled over 500,000 views almost immediately, with one specific moment past the one-minute mark still getting quoted in the comments nearly two decades later. It is a strange fit and a memorable one. Watch to see why the officer’s reaction gets almost as much love as Santa’s.
James Dean died behind the wheel of a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed the “Little Bastard,” a car that vanished so completely after a string of bizarre incidents that a million-dollar reward has never brought it back. Historians still argue over how much of the wreck’s dark legend is even true. Read on to find out what actually happened on Route 46, and why the car’s disappearance still hasn’t been solved.
A single dashboard photo lands online with one question attached: what year is this GTO? Pontiac redesigned the car’s interior almost annually during its first generation, turning a simple guessing game into a real detective exercise involving shifters, switchgear, and even speedometer fonts. Read on to find out what gives a GTO’s build year away before you even see the sheet metal.
Lou Costabile visits the 2016 Burr Ridge Car Show to find a 1970 Chevy Nova in Green Mist paint, kept 80 percent original by owner Don Dames despite running only a six-cylinder engine. The comments fill in the rest: a driver’s ed car from 1977, a family Nova that survived a windshield-shattering explosion and ran past 280,000 miles, and viewers who owned nearly identical cars decades ago. Watch to see why an ordinary six-cylinder Nova is pulling out more personal stories than most muscle cars ever could.
Chip Foose unveils the Mach Foose Mustang at SEMA 2017, a build that grafts 1971 Mustang body panels and 1970 rear quarter panels onto a modern 2011 Mustang GT chassis. Viewers call the muted gray paint and subdued stripes seductive precisely because it isn’t loud, a rare restrained choice for a SEMA reveal. Comments pour in from across the world praising Foose’s decades of work, while at least one lifelong Mustang fan says this is the exact car he’d want to own. Watch to see the reveal that stopped the show floor.
V8TV profiles the very first A12 Road Runner Plymouth ever built, the Wayward Beeper, tested by Super Stock Magazine in 1969 and driven into the 12-second zone by legendary drag racer Ronnie Sox. Its 440 Six Pack, 4-speed manual, and stripped interior were all built for one purpose, and the comments fill in the rest with period tire-pressure tricks and owners’ own Road Runner stories. Watch to see the car Chrysler itself called the fastest A12 ever built.
A single tribute photograph of a 1966 GTO carries more weight once you understand what it is actually mourning. Not one car, but an eighty-three-year run that ended with a white sedan rolling off an assembly line in January 2010. Pontiac did not fade away quietly, it was a casualty of the 2009 financial collapse that cost General Motors several brands at once. But this GTO is the car that proved what the badge could do. Read on to find out what GM gave up.
Muscle Vs Tuner’s parody character Donnie Lee Jenkins struts around a heavily modified 2014 Dodge Challenger R/T 100th Anniversary Edition claiming 1,914 horsepower and insisting brakes are optional. Years after upload, the comments are still split between viewers quoting their favorite lines and others sincerely debating whether he’s serious. The jokes land because they’re built from real muscle car culture clichés, right down to a mixed-up badge gag most viewers catch only on a second watch. Watch to see if you spot every one.