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Roll racing looks nothing like a standard quarter-mile pass — cars start already moving side by side instead of launching from a light tree, which left at least one viewer of this footage from the Street Car Takeover event in Topeka completely lost. The format exists for a reason, and understanding it turns the chaos into one of the more honest tests of a street car’s actual power. Watch to see what happens when the launch gets taken out of the equation.
Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild team started with an ordinary 289 cubic-inch V8 pulled from a wrecked 1964 Ford Fairlane, not a fresh crate engine, and set out to build it into something closer to a Shelby GT350 mill. Three months and roughly 40,000 reference photos later, period-correct upgrades pushed output from a stock 195 horsepower to around 310. Watch the full teardown-to-rebuild transformation, compressed into five action-packed minutes.
A scene from the 2014 film Need for Speed pits what’s billed as a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner against a 2006 Lotus Exige, but sharp-eyed commenters argue the Mopar is actually a dressed-up Satellite. Years after release, fans are still debating who would really win between American displacement and British featherweight engineering. Watch to see Hollywood’s version of the answer.
A 1970 Plymouth Superbird spent nineteen years sitting before anyone put real miles on it, and it still shows just 674 on the odometer today. The factory B5 blue paint has never been touched by a repaint gun, and the numbers-matching 440 Super Commando under the hood still traces back to the original build sheet. Only 1,920 Superbirds were built for NASCAR homologation, and this one may be among the best-preserved survivors left. Is a car this original meant to be driven, or protected?
This nitrous V8 Holden Torana launches hard enough to send its nose skyward well past what its wheelie bars were built to handle — and several commenters swear the chassis looks visibly twisted by the time it comes back down. Filmed at an APSA event, this pass has racked up a quarter million views for one violent wheelstand. Watch to see just how far this launch actually goes.
This nitrous-fed Camaro ZL1, nicknamed the Freedom Rocket, had already survived a 300-horsepower shot under one tuner’s setup. Then a new shop got involved, and the comment section has since turned into a full investigation of a possible jetting chart mix-up. Watch to see exactly where — and how violently — the engine finally lets go.
A 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat should win this one easily — at least that’s what the spec sheet says. But the Ford Super Duty pulling up next to it is running a built, bulletproofed 6.0-liter Powerstroke with its own tuner and transmission, and diesel torque doesn’t play by gas-engine rules off the line. Watch to see which one actually crosses the stripe first.
This 1971 Ford Mustang Sportsroof became Eleanor, the only car in movie history to receive on-screen star billing, thanks to director H.B. Halicki’s dangerously ambitious 1974 chase picture Gone in 60 Seconds. Dozens of cars were destroyed, Halicki broke his own back finishing the shoot, and the result is still studied by stunt coordinators fifty years later. See why this scrappy, low-budget original still outshines its famous modern remake.
A long-rumored sale finally happened when a 1969 Dodge Hemi Daytona from the Wellborn Museum Collection crossed the block at a Mecum auction, and Mopar fans everywhere had opinions before the gavel even fell. Commenters call the winged Daytona the Holy Grail of the breed, a car some of them once passed up for a few hundred dollars back when gas cost 28 cents a gallon. This time, nobody was letting it go cheap. What did the final number turn out to be?
A routine wrap-up video at a local car show turned into something no one on the TCcustoms crew expected to film. A big block Shelby Cobra replica, built with far more muscle than its classic lines let on, didn’t make it out of the parking lot the way it rolled in. Nobody was hurt, but the car — described as a genuine monster under that fiberglass body — didn’t survive the encounter intact. See what the cameras caught.
This twin-turbo, 406-cubic-inch Chevy Nova had already beaten a Nissan GT-R and a supercharged Camaro on the street when its 800-plus horsepower engine finally gave out. Viewers who know the owner say he built it himself — and that he’s already got two more motors ready to go. Watch what happens in the moments before it lets go.
Evolution Performance built this Shelby GT500 to put down 2000 horsepower, and owner Brian Devilbiss spent an entire weekend proving the chassis can’t always keep up with that number — the front wheels came up again and again. A viewer who saw the car run live at Budd’s Creek says the in-person turbo sound didn’t come through on camera. Watch to see the passes where it actually stayed level, and the ones where it didn’t.
Bob Gough grew up in France idolizing European sports cars and came home doubting American muscle could keep up. Then he found the 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S, Plymouth’s own answer built specifically to handle like a European car rather than just run a fast quarter mile. Over twenty-three years of ownership, Gough has swapped in a 340 V8, a Tremec five-speed, custom 15-inch wheels, and nitrogen shocks — and says the result can leave Porsches behind once the road straightens out. Watch to hear why he still calls it deceptively docile to drive.
Ten cylinders do not fit where eight used to live, at least not without a serious fight. Builders keep trying anyway, and this 1968 Charger is the latest car to take a Viper V10 in the chest. Dodge itself proved the swap was possible with a factory show car making 650 horsepower. Read on to find out what it actually takes to fit a Viper engine into a car that was never designed for one.