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A burnout at a Florida car show nearly ends in disaster when a classic Corvette’s rear end steps out further than the driver planned, sending it sliding toward the crowd gathered at Tierra Verde over Easter weekend. A split-second counter-steer turns near-catastrophe into a clean recovery, though the driver’s reputation takes a harder hit than the car does. The clip has become a cautionary favorite among burnout enthusiasts. Watch to see how close it really gets.
This 1976 Ford Gran Torino carries one of television’s most recognizable paint jobs, a red-and-white coupe that fans nicknamed Zebra 3 during its run on the original Starsky & Hutch series. Decades later, the 2004 feature film revived the look for a new audience, building fresh stunt cars for jumps the original TV budget could never have attempted. The video traces both eras side by side. Watch to see which version fans think got the tribute right.
Street Wars at Raceway Park in Englishtown mixed muscle, import, and tuner cars into the same lineup on March 13, 2016 — and the pass everyone still talks about wasn’t a muscle car win. A car nobody expected to touch a Nissan GT-R ran a clean 10-second pass and caught the whole crowd off guard, while a Hemi-powered entry went home with a loss one fan still can’t forgive. Watch to see exactly how the lineup shook out.
Jeff says he’d never seen this rusted-bolt removal method demonstrated properly on camera, and a comment section full of working mechanics agrees it’s the clearest version of the technique online. Heat, rapid cooling, and a little patience solve a problem that torches, sockets, and days of penetrating oil couldn’t touch on one Wisconsin viewer’s rusted exhaust manifold. For anyone restoring a car that spent decades outdoors, this is essential knowledge.
A 1969 SC/Rambler and a 1968 AMX, both built by American Motors Corporation and both packing the exact same 315-horsepower 390 V8, meet in a quarter-mile race decided almost entirely by rear gearing. AMC loyalists in the comments are still defending both cars against decades of being overlooked by bigger Detroit names. Watch two underdog muscle cars settle an argument that started the same year they were built.
A rare 425-horsepower 426 Hemi Road Runner — 1 of just 287 built in 1970 — takes on a 440 Six Pack Challenger in a quarter-mile grudge match that Mopar fans still can’t agree on decades later. Both cars sold for around $4,000 new and are now worth 20 to 40 times that. Watch to see which factory legend crosses the line first.
Miguel Perez’s turbo AWD Chevy Silverado — nicknamed “Lady Bug” for how rough it looks — was built around a stock 5.3 pulled from a junkyard two weeks earlier and an eBay turbo running 35 pounds of boost, for a total cost around $750. His opponent’s Ford Lightning was built for real money and rated at 700 horsepower. Texans have a hashtag for exactly this situation. Watch to see who actually crossed the line first.
Someone asks a simple question: if you are driving 80 miles per hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles? The answer that comes back has nothing to do with speed, distance, or time. The confused pause afterward is what turned a fifteen-second Jukin Media clip into a comment-section phenomenon with nearly 14 million views. See exactly where the math falls apart.
A full year or two before the GTO, Barracuda, or Mustang existed, Studebaker, a company that was already dying financially, built a supercharged, aircraft-cockpit-inspired coupe that set a genuine Bonneville land speed record for a factory-stock production car. This 1964 Avanti R2, one of the last built before Studebaker’s original run ended, comes from The Brothers Collection with remarkably low original mileage. Commenters still argue over whether it deserves the title of America’s first true muscle car. Watch and decide for yourself.
Filmed at Raceway Park’s Street Wars event in Englishtown, New Jersey on November 2, 2014, this compilation lines up American muscle against import tuner cars run after run down the quarter mile. One entrant, a compact SUV nobody expected to take seriously, turned in a number that still has commenters arguing years later. Watch to see which side actually earned bragging rights that day.
A group of friends buys a Camaro with a known-knocking LT1 V8, decides doughnuts are worth the risk, and captures the exact moment the small block’s bottom end finally gives out. Beyond the viral laughter in the comments, the failure lines up with one of the Gen II LT1’s well-documented weak points — and the engine’s return of a legendary GM badge name in 1992 makes the whole clip more interesting than a simple blown motor. Watch to see how it ends.
Gregg Hamilton’s Pontiac Trans Am started as a childhood dream inspired by Smokey and the Bandit — and turned into something no one expected. Trained by top World Rally Championship teams, Hamilton skipped the traditional big-inch V8 in favor of a GM 5.3-liter truck engine, then applied rally-derived suspension knowledge to give this Firebird handling most muscle cars never get close to. It’s a build defined by engineering judgment over budget. Watch to see how rally-car thinking reshaped an American icon.
Edmunds editors James Riswick and Mike Monticello go head-to-head over the 2015 Ford Mustang GT and Dodge Challenger R/T, debating performance, comfort, and interior quality without ever fully agreeing on a winner. Nearly a decade later, the comments are still split down the middle between Mustang’s sharper handling and Challenger’s back-seat practicality. It’s a rivalry that’s only grown more entrenched with time. Watch to see which side of the debate you land on.
A 1071-horsepower Donovan aluminum big block sits under the hood of this Chevelle SS, and it’s clean enough to look like a show car — until it launches. Wheels up, running deep into the nine-second quarter mile, this build proves a car can be spotless and brutally fast at the same time. Viewers keep coming back to how uncluttered the engine bay looks for the power it’s making. Watch to see exactly what it takes to build a nine-second Chevelle that still looks this good.
This numbers-matching-caliber 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T meets a rough end in the original 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds, towed and crushed by a period-correct Ford F-350 wrecker for a movie stunt. VIN research confirms it was genuinely a 1970 car dressed up with later clips to look newer on screen. See why this brief scene still sparks debate among Mopar collectors decades later.