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Bladed Angel’s tour of six fast American cars under $10,000 has become a minor cult favorite for one honest reason: the host flubs a torque unit on camera, catches it, and leaves the apology in rather than editing it out. Picks range from a Mach 1 to sleeper domestics most budget shoppers overlook, but the real twist comes later, when the host admits he ignored his own Mustang advice and bought a 2016 GT instead. Watch to see the full list and the confession that follows it.
Calvo Motorsports took a factory Dodge Viper ACR Extreme, kept the aero kit and stock 19-inch wheels untouched, and pulled 1750 horsepower from a sleeved version of the production block. The result: 0-200 mph in under half a mile at Texas Invitationals. See why this build still has fans wishing Dodge built it this way from the factory.
An ordinary commute turned into an extraordinary sighting when this creator passed a warehouse full of exotic and muscle cars being seized by the DEA and U.S. Marshals — combined value pushing toward four million dollars. From a Diablo Roadster to a heavily modified American muscle car, see what was inside before it scattered to auction forever.
At the Goodguys West Coast Nationals, a fully functional miniature blown V8 — 6.3 cubic inches, 16 horsepower, built by Ken Hurst and Dwight Giles of the Bay Area Engine Modelers — draws a crowd as dedicated as any full-size muscle car. Every system of a real supercharged engine is here, just scaled down. Watch to see it come to life.
A stock 1969 Charger, an authentic Charger Daytona, and a modern Hellcat go through identical wind-tunnel testing to answer a question most muscle car fans get wrong: the Daytona’s towering wing wasn’t primarily about cutting drag, it was about solving a dangerous rear-lift problem at superspeedway speeds. Watch to see smoke trails and pressure data confirm exactly what Chrysler’s engineers were fighting in 1969 — and how differently Dodge’s modern Hellcat was ever meant to be used.
A 1972 Plymouth GTX and Road Runner running a modified 318 small block, re-sleeved to accept 340 pistons, takes on a 1994 Impala SS riding on chrome 20s and a factory 260-horsepower LT1. Comments from nearly two decades of viewers confirm the budget build held up long after the cameras stopped rolling. Watch to see why the Impala’s driver stopped smiling by the end of the run.
A Camaro built for over 1,000 horsepower, backed by nitrous, takes on a tuned Nissan GT-R in a straight-line grudge race — and the outcome hinges less on horsepower than on which car can actually put its power to the pavement. Commenters call the GT-R “hell on wheels” while sympathizing with the Camaro’s traction problems. Watch to see whether raw American muscle or all-wheel-drive precision wins the day.
An Estonian builder captures the exact moment a freshly assembled, supercharged 440 big-block fires for the first time, destined for a 1973 Dodge Charger R/T. It’s the moment that either validates months of build work or reveals a costly problem, and the aggressive idle that follows makes clear which one this was. Hear what a genuinely blown Mopar big-block sounds like before it’s even been tuned.
A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 — one of just 69 ever built — lines up against an equally rare 1969 Corvette L88 for a quarter-mile grudge match between two of Chevrolet’s most extreme homologation specials. Both cars share the same 427 big block, both are worth serious money today, and both owners chose to race them instead of trailering them to a show. Poly-glass tires, low-eleven-second passes, and a decades-old rivalry between two GM legends collide on the same strip. Watch to see which one crosses the line first.
Fifth Gear puts two of television’s most famous cars through a real head to head, the Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee against Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino. Host Vicki Butler-Henderson gets behind the wheel of both to find out which screen legend actually handles better once the cameras stop editing for drama. The result says as much about decades of TV car myth as it does about either car.
Ron Smith bought this 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona — one of only 503 built — for a road trip before shipping out to Vietnam. He drove it for over a decade after coming home, then parked it in his father’s lockup for more than twenty years. Restorer Marshall Woolery brought it back, and the finished car has since been featured in Hemmings Muscle Machines. Watch to see the Daytona that waited two decades for its second life.
A 2008 Shelby GT500 running a smaller supercharger pulley, a custom tune, and drag radials for roughly 650 horsepower takes on a completely stock 2013 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and its factory 556 horsepower LSA V8 in a heads-up quarter mile. The Cadillac’s showing against a 100 horsepower deficit drew real respect in the comments, and the channel even responded to a viewer’s question about the included density altitude data. Watch the run to see just how close a modified car and a stock one can actually be.
V8TV’s “Muscle Car of the Week” spotlights a Rally Red 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AAR — the numbers-matching, 340 Six-Barrel-powered homologation special built for exactly one model year. Housed today in The Brothers Collection, this AAR carries the tighter steering ratio and unmistakable strobe stripe that set it apart from every other ‘Cuda on the road. Watch to see why collectors call it the sharpest example they’ve found.
According to its uploader, this 1985 Camaro IROC-Z28 was showing just 4.3 original miles before it eventually sold at a Mecum auction for ,000 — a genuine time-capsule survivor of the year Chevrolet introduced Tuned Port Injection and borrowed suspension tuning tricks from the Corvette. Watch to see what a virtually unused third-generation IROC-Z looks like decades later, and why collectors treat single-digit mileage as its own distinct category of provenance.
A buyer thought he was picking up a straightforward pre-owned Camaro — until he pressed a remote he didn’t know the car even had. What followed revealed hidden underglow lighting and modifications the listing never mentioned, turning a routine purchase into a cautionary tale enthusiasts still share. See the exact moment the surprise hits.