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A right-hand-drive 1970 Dodge Challenger, hand-converted for the Australian market, stars in a little-known 1982 chase film called Running on Empty that fans keep comparing to Mad Max. Paired against a Ford Falcon on empty outback highways, it’s a piece of car-chase history most muscle car enthusiasts have never seen. Watch to find out why this obscure Aussie chase deserves more attention.
A downtown food break turned into an impromptu grudge race when a Honda Civic owner bragging about his stripped, “tuned” 2.2-liter engine challenged two friends cruising their vintage Dodge Chargers — including a bone-stock 1970 model driven by someone who had never raced before. What followed split viewers into two camps and reignited an argument that’s never really settled. Watch to see how it played out.
A 1967 Corvette carrying the top-of-the-line L71 427, a 435-horsepower solid-lifter tri-power big block, sat parked and forgotten for nearly 40 years before finally resurfacing with just 25,000 original miles. Commenters who have owned or ridden in identical cars are still trading stories about what this engine could really do. Watch the recovery of a Corvette that time genuinely forgot.
Regular Car Reviews heads to Corvettes at Carlisle, the largest single-marque Corvette gathering anywhere, and asks a deceptively simple question: which generation is actually the best Corvette? From the fiberglass-bodied C1 through the freshly launched C7 Stingray, owners from every era make their case with total confidence and zero agreement. Watch to see seven decades of America’s sports car argue with itself in one Pennsylvania parking lot.
A short reel from the channel Motortube drops viewers straight into an auction lane full of muscle cars, no narration required. Some machines pull a scramble of bids while others slide through in near silence, and the gap between those two outcomes says a lot about where the muscle car market stands today. There is no script here, just chrome, paint, and a room deciding what history is worth. Watch to see which ones the crowd chases.
A 1969 L88 Corvette, one of only 116 built and deliberately underrated by Chevrolet at 430 horsepower, takes on a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 officially rated at just 300 horsepower. A commenter who says they worked at Olds Experimental during this era insists that number was never accurate, and that a genuine W-30 could beat Mopars, GTOs, and Corvettes regularly. The race backs up the claim. Watch the run and read the insider testimony in the comments before trusting either car’s factory rating.
Long before anyone knew where it came from, this clip was already famous as the source of the ‘better check my blind spot’ reaction gif. The full video finally supplies the context: a 2001 Dodge Durango spinning a full 360 degrees across live traffic on a Minneapolis highway, caught on a DVR-207 dash cam, without hitting a single other car. Watch to see how close it actually comes.
A 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda convertible, one of just 17 built with the legendary 440-6 Barrel engine confirmed by the V-code in its VIN, resurfaced after roughly 35 years in storage. Commenters couldn’t agree on what it’s worth, one estimated $150,000 restored, another argued a fully documented example could bring $2.25 to $2.75 million. One viewer even suggested sending it to Graveyard Carz for a factory-correct restoration. Which valuation is closer to what this rare fish will actually bring?
Once a year, a stretch of historic Route 66 running through El Reno, Oklahoma turns into a sanctioned drag strip, complete with a burnout contest, a full car show, and an evening cruise through downtown. Urban Hillbilly Videos captured the Small Town Weekend event in action, documenting a grassroots gathering that bigger automotive media outlets tend to overlook entirely. Take a look at what a legal street racing event actually looks like done right.
Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild team tears down and rebuilds a Ford Flathead V8 pulled from a 1946 Ford pickup, an engine that had already logged more than 4,000 miles as part of the network’s Swap to Street build before earning a proper rebuild. Six days of work and more than 40,000 photographs get compressed into a fast-moving time-lapse that shows exactly what it takes to bring one of the most important engines in American automotive history back to full strength. Watch to see the flathead get the treatment it’s earned.
A 1969 Corvette L88 — one of only 116 built, and one of the most underrated engines Chevrolet ever sold — rolls to the line with its door still open and runs an 11.5-second quarter mile on the car’s original poly-glass tires. Against a 1970 Chevelle SS 396 that runs a respectable 13.66, the gap says everything about why L88 Corvettes now sell for well over a million dollars at auction. Zora Arkus-Duntov built this engine for endurance racing, not showroom bragging rights. Watch to see just how much faster “Zora’s monster” really is.
A first-generation Camaro that once looked destined for the scrapyard gets a full rebirth in this restoration story, the kind of crash-to-showpiece transformation that keeps drawing builders back to this platform decade after decade. The math behind why a rough Camaro is worth saving comes down to more than sentiment. Watch the full video to see the build for yourself.
A longtime Hot Wheels collector breaks down why 2007 through 2010 stands out as one of the strongest stretches for muscle car castings the mainline dollar line ever produced. The video digs into why elusive Treasure Hunt variants almost never turn up on store pegs, and where dedicated collectors actually find them instead. It is a look at scale-model collecting taken as seriously as any full-size restoration. Watch to see which castings make the cut.
Import2Race pits a Toyota Supra against a lineup of American muscle in a straightforward, no-frills drag race that leans directly into one of car culture’s oldest rivalries. It’s the kind of grudge match that made the Fast & Furious franchise a phenomenon in the first place — turbocharged Japanese engineering against big-displacement American torque, settled in a straight line. With close to 300,000 views, this matchup has clearly found an audience that never gets tired of watching the two camps go head to head. Watch to see which side comes out ahead.
A bone-stock, 707-horsepower Hellcat Challenger meets its match against a turbocharged Dodge Dakota sleeper build that most spectators never saw coming. Viewers are split between admiring the Hellcat’s factory muscle and cheering for the truck that “earned the Hellcat badge.” Watch to find out whether factory horsepower or a home-built turbo setup wins the quarter mile.