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Every scene featuring the two Mopars from Joe Dirt, the 2001 comedy starring David Spade, gets stitched together in this compilation, his battered Charger Daytona replica and a convertible dressed up as a Plymouth GTX. Sharp eyed Mopar fans in the comments have spent years picking apart which details are accurate and which give the movie car away. Watch the film’s most memorable machines without sitting through the rest of the plot.
Dashcam footage from Interstate 70 in Kansas captured a Mustang losing control at over 100 miles per hour and rolling over, a stark reminder of how little margin for error exists at triple-digit highway speeds. The clip’s comment section responded with dark humor, but the physics behind why flat, straight highways still produce rollovers is worth understanding. Here’s what actually happens in the seconds before a high-speed loss of control.
A modestly modified 2003 SVT Cobra lines up against a brand-new, completely stock 2016 Corvette Z06 in this DirtySS street pull, and the result has split comment sections for years. Longtime Mustang owners argue the horsepower math doesn’t add up for a bolt-on Terminator to hang with a factory-supercharged Z06, which only fuels the debate over what’s really under that hood. The footage keeps circulating precisely because nobody can fully agree on the answer.
A 970-horsepower turbocharged Mustang gets caught running well past 140 miles per hour on an open Texas street in this clip from 1320video’s Texas Streets series. What happens after the lights come on isn’t the ticket or arrest viewers expect — it’s an officer whose response has kept this footage circulating for over a decade. The reason he lets the driver off with a warning says as much about him as it does about the car.
When a stolen car barreled back toward a crowded park, one father in a lifted diesel truck did not wait for police — he drove straight into its path. The split-second collision, caught on multiple cell phones and picked up by HLN, ended a dangerous chase involving a 14-year-old joyrider in seconds flat. Online, the internet split between calling it reckless and calling it heroic, while comment sections debated whose vehicle came out looking better. Watch to see exactly how close it came to going wrong.
A 2009 Chevrolet Malibu and a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air were aimed straight at each other at the same speed as part of an IIHS fiftieth anniversary demonstration, and the result hit viewers harder than a routine crash test had any right to. One car crumpled the way engineers designed it to. The other barely moved at the nose, and that was exactly the problem. Watch to see why a fifty-year-old safety statistic still makes people flinch.
A friend’s Dodge 440-powered pickup, affectionately nicknamed the smiley truck, gets driven hard enough on a rough road that something underneath finally lets go — live, on camera, with a passenger along for the ride. Viewers have spent years debating exactly what failed, with rusty U-bolts and worn mounting hardware the leading theories. It’s raw, unscripted, and exactly the kind of big-block Mopar mishap owners swap stories about.
WYCO Racing’s Operation Octane no-prep event turned the pit road at Kansas Speedway into a proving ground for genuinely street-driven cars, no dedicated race builds allowed. A supercharged Mustang Cobra, an Eagle Talon, and even a four-door CTS-V all took their turns on unprepped pavement. Watch to see which daily driver came out on top when the safety net of sticky racing rubber disappeared.
Two privately owned, twin-turbo cars claiming over 1,100 horsepower apiece — a Ford GT and a Dodge Viper — line up at a Texas Speed Syndicate private track day, and the result comes down to something neither spec sheet could predict. Years later, this exact clip still gets cited in GT-versus-Viper debates online, by fans on both sides of the argument who each think the footage proves their point.
A Hemi-powered Mopar, a boosted Buick, and a naturally aspirated Corvette line up for a rolling-start grudge match in this F.A.S.T. Racing matchup — three completely different performance philosophies going head to head with nothing but a green light to settle the score. Turbo lag, big-inch torque, and high-revving small-block power all bring something different to the table. Watch to see which approach comes out on top.
A 1970 Chevelle running a 383-cubic-inch small block crate engine lined up against a 2009 Mustang GT running little more than a cold air intake and a tune — and the Chevelle’s front end came off the ground before either car had gone ten feet. The comments turned into a full small-block-vs-big-block debate. Watch to see how the race actually finished.
A chance tip from a friend on the Hot Rod Power Tour led to this overgrown Gulf Coast yard full of forgotten Dodge Challengers, slowly disappearing into the undergrowth after years of neglect. Some parts have already gone on to support other Mopar restorations, while the rest keep decaying where they sit. See what’s left of this hidden E-body stash before nature reclaims it completely.
David Freiburger genuinely forgot he owned this 1970 Plymouth Duster until it turned up buried in dirt on a California grape farm belonging to Engine Masters editor Steve Dulcich. What followed was a five-day sprint to stuff a salvaged 440 big-block into the car, complete with hammered-on headers and a trunk painted before the engine even ran. Longtime fans still call it the best episode Roadkill ever made. Watch the full build and burnout below.
A brand-new 5.0 Mustang, a slick no-prep drag strip, and stock street tires proved to be a costly combination at this Armageddon No-Prep event. The crash that followed happens in about six seconds flat, and the driver walked away within minutes thanks to modern safety equipment. One commenter, who says they faced the same situation two weeks earlier, offers a blunt breakdown of exactly where the launch went wrong. Watch the full clip and the reaction its still generating years later.
Four cars line up for a pink slip race in 2 Fast 2 Furious, and the build sheet behind each one is more accurate than most movie car scenes ever bother to be. Brian O’Conner’s Evo VII wears taillights from the newer Evo VIII, Roman Pearce’s Eclipse Spyder kept its stock engine under a wide-body kit, and the Camaro squaring off against a 426 Hemi Challenger is actually a period-correct Yenko replica built just for the film. See which build holds up best once the lights turn green.