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A powerful Pontiac 455 gets strapped to the dyno at Nick’s Garage and pushed toward its limits, until it lights up in flame. Dyno pulls are meant to be controlled, but this big-block had other ideas. The incident is a vivid reminder of how much stress a high-output engine is under and why testing exists to find failures before the street does. Watch to see what went wrong and how the pros handle it.
Watch a full-size classic Cadillac attempt a U-turn and you will understand instantly why these cars earned the nickname land yacht. Some 1970s Cadillacs stretched nearly 20 feet long and carried engines as large as 500 cubic inches, built for effortless cruising, not tight turns. This clip is proof that size and swagger came before maneuverability on Cadillac’s priority list.
A nitrous-fed 1967 Mustang lines up against a twin-turbo 1999 Camaro in a street race that turns from grudge match to cautionary tale in a matter of seconds. Both builds make serious power, and both drivers were lucky. The footage shows just how quickly a public-road pass can go wrong when there is no track, no prep and no runoff. Watch to see why the strip exists for a reason.
Troy Hawkes 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona is one of the rarest and most valuable muscle cars Detroit ever built, a winged NASCAR homologation special that most owners are terrified to even drive. This one revs hard and lays down a burnout anyway. The engine note hints at the serious Mopar power hiding under that long aero nose. Watch to see a museum-grade legend used exactly the way its makers intended.
Shot for a Unique Cars magazine feature and aired on Australia’s Today Show in 2011, this comparison lines up classic Australian muscle against American big-blocks to argue which country built it better. Aussie cars like the Falcon GT and Holden Monaro were engineered for distance and touring-car racing, while American muscle chased straight-line cubic inches. The two rarely meet on the same track. See which philosophy comes out ahead.
WasabiCars stumbled onto a collection of American muscle rotting away in Japan, including RS and Z28 Camaros, a 429 Mach 1 Mustang, and a Pontiac Trans-Am. Restored and correct, cars like these command serious money, which makes the neglect painful to watch. It plays like a sad time capsule of projects that never got finished. Find out how this many collectible muscle cars ended up rusting half a world from home.
At Drag Week 2017, the 1320video crew spotted something they did not expect: a full-size Chevrolet Impala wagon on 26-inch blades that weigh nearly 100 pounds each. Builder Alan Robinson swaps just two for drag radials at the track, then runs 11-second passes despite a 4,720-pound curb weight. The math should not work, but the timing slips disagree. See how this big-body oddball became a Drag Week standout.
Roadkill episode 38 hands Finnegan and Freiburger two 707-horsepower Hellcats and a 645-horsepower Viper GT to launch a new Dodge sponsorship, and they do it with maximum tire smoke. Then things escalate at a motocross track, with guest appearances from Carlos Lago, Fred Williams, and drifter Tony Angelo. It is expensive machinery meeting total irreverence. See why this Hellcat-Viper-Hellcat thrash is one of the show’s most quoted episodes.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger merges onto a derestricted stretch of German autobahn, and the camera rides right beside the driver’s eye while the mic sits by his ear. The result is an immersive, unfiltered POV of American muscle finally allowed to stretch its legs where no speed limit applies. It is a side of the E-body that US roads keep hidden. Strap in and hear what a fifty-year-old Mopar does off the leash.
Long before staging lanes bristled with cameras, street racing lived on grainy camcorder tape, and this old-school run from the summer nats is exactly that kind of footage. No graphics, no commentary, no replays, just two cars, a strip of pavement, and the raw sound. It captures a grassroots muscle-car era that has quietly vanished. Watch to see who gets to the other end first.
Every Mopar fan argues about it: were the classic Hemis and 440s really faster, or is that just nostalgia talking? At a Mopar event at Raceway Park in New Jersey, the vintage big-blocks line up against modern supercharged Hellcats and let the quarter-mile settle it. Two eras, one strip, and no excuses. Watch to see whether old muscle or new engineering wins the family grudge match.
This clip racked up millions of views by getting an entire car community to laugh at itself. Muscle Vs Tuner strings together every stereotype Mustang owners are teased for, then parks a genuinely serious machine in the middle of the bit: John Fulks’s supercharged 2011 GT, reportedly making 850 horsepower to the wheels. The comedy is the hook, but the hardware is real. Watch to see the joke and the beast behind it.
A confident weekend lumberjack, a chainsaw, and a pickup parked in exactly the wrong spot: this clip is a two-second lesson in why felling a tree is harder than it looks. Gravity does not negotiate, and the truck pays the price in spectacular fashion. It is equal parts comedy and cautionary tale for anyone who owns a saw. Watch to see just how badly it goes.
Ford has built more than a century of legendary engines, and Car News TV tries to crown the seven greatest in one countdown. From the flathead V8 that democratized speed to the big-block bruisers that conquered Le Mans, the list spans the whole blue-oval catalog. Uniquely, the video skips narration entirely so you can hear each engine run. Watch to see whether your favorite made the cut.