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John Hennessey does not usually get excited about a car he has not modified, but the 2017 Camaro ZL1 earned an exception. In this test drive, he runs the supercharged 650-horsepower Camaro through every gear on a public road, reaching a top speed that still gets cited in owner forums today. The explanation for why it stops exactly there is the most interesting part of the whole run. Watch to see how close a factory Camaro really gets to supercar territory.
Road Test TV pits a rare 1969 428 Cobra Jet Mustang GT Coupe, one of only 243 built, against an equally scarce 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram Air 400. Commenters immediately dig up a 1968 Car and Driver test where the Ram Air 400 beat four rival muscle cars outright, setting the stakes for this quarter-mile rematch. Watch to see whether Pontiac’s airflow-focused engineering or Ford’s Cobra Jet muscle wins this round.
Builder Tom Bailey’s 1969 Camaro, ‘Sick Seconds 2.0,’ pairs twin 94mm turbochargers and a stated 4000-horsepower target with power windows, cup holders, and a plan to drive it home from the track. Bailey is chasing 300 mph in the standing mile and a 5.5-second quarter mile, numbers usually reserved for dedicated Pro Mod drag cars, not anything with a working glovebox. Watch how a street-legal Camaro is being built to compete with cars that never see a public road.
Nelson Racing Engines’ Tom Nelson sat down with 1320video at SEMA to explain the Maximus Charger — a 2,000-horsepower 1968 Dodge Charger built to recreate a scene from the original Fast and the Furious inside Furious 7. Over 2,000 hours of bodywork went into a car commenters initially assumed was fake. Watch the full breakdown of the build above.
Nearly five minutes long and first aired on NBC’s American Dreams to launch the redesigned 2005 Mustang, this commercial tells the story of a Marine coming home to a driveway surprise from his father. The comments reveal a twist the ad never states outright, plus a running debate over whether it even counts as a true Ford commercial rather than just a Mustang one. Even self-described Chevy loyalists admit it’s hard to dislike. Watch to see why it still gets shared more than fifteen years later.
CarsFX’s countdown of 2018’s most anticipated muscle cars mixes the expected — the Dodge Demon, the Viper, the supercharged Camaro ZL1 — with one entry almost nobody saw coming: the hand-built EQUUS Bass 770, which commenters say out-styles anything currently built by Ford. The list isn’t perfect (a few older models slipped in), but the reaction proves one car stole the whole show. Watch to see which upcoming muscle car has fans arguing the most.
Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars after a few childhood years in France — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind. Over more than twenty-three years of ownership, he’s swapped in a 340-cubic-inch V8, a Tremec five-speed, and nitrogen shocks, building a car with enough torque to ‘leave Porsches behind’ on the straights. Watch to see why one habit still catches him out in the corners.
This 1970 Chevrolet Impala, powered by a 350 small-block paired with a TH350 automatic, hadn’t run since 1993, 23 years of silence before this restart attempt. Using nothing more than a dwell meter, timing light, and decades of hands-on know-how, host Jonathan walks through exactly what it takes to wake up an engine everyone assumed was finished. Watch to hear how it sounds once it finally catches.
This 1971 Dodge Challenger looks almost stock — no R/T badge, no scoop, nothing to give away what’s underneath. That’s exactly the point. Built to dodge 1971’s brutal muscle car insurance surcharges, it hides a 383 four-speed combination with a Hurst pistol-grip shifter under an unassuming exterior, and this vintage road test puts it through real acceleration and braking runs to prove the disguise. Watch to see why some of the smartest muscle car builds were the ones that never announced themselves.
A twin-turbo, supercharged, nitrous Ford GT pushing an estimated 1200 horsepower lined up against a supercharged, nitrous Dodge Viper putting down roughly 1050 — and the race came down to who left the line clean, not who had the bigger number. High Tech Corvette caught the whole exchange, reaction-time jokes and all. Watch to see whether raw horsepower or a perfect launch wins the day.
A Cadillac CTS-V owner ripped out the factory supercharger and replaced it with a 106 millimeter turbo, roughly tripling the car’s horsepower and putting it into low 7-second quarter mile territory. This run was the setup’s maiden voyage, bugs and all, and the video does not hide that. Comments have zeroed in on the turbo’s jet-engine presence and the fact that the interior is still mostly intact despite the radical power increase. Watch the run and see what 1,600-plus horsepower looks like in a car that still has a back seat.
Six clean dyno pulls, then a seventh that ends in a bang, a flinch, and a very memorable shot of the shop floor. This stroked “Boss 557” build — a heavily reworked Ford Boss 429 — had already made 850 horsepower before a rushed decision to run a stock flywheel instead of a billet one caught up with it. The internets verdict is split between sympathy for the expensive loss and jokes about the cameramans reflexes. Watch to see exactly what a flywheel failure looks like up close.
A 2016 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 and a 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T 5.7L line up for a Los Angeles street race that reignites the manual-versus-automatic fairness debate. Modern Muscle’s host takes on car owner @chefyork_s550 across several runs, including one unscripted moment in a tunnel that’s been quoted in the comments for years. Viewers remain split on which car actually deserves the win. Watch to see how the runs play out.
Helsinki holds its own muscle car cruising night every month from April through October, and the July 2012 edition proves American iron has fans far outside the United States. A matte black 663-horsepower Shelby GT500 convertible shares the lot with a Bullitt tribute Mustang, a fleet of Mopar muscle, and even a 1930s Auburn Speedster. It is proof that horsepower obsession does not stop at the American border. See which car steals the show.