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Two Dodge Challengers, a 1971 and a 1973, line up on a public street in Lebanon for a race that surprised viewers who never expected E-body Mopars outside Europe. A lime-green car’s Brazilian flag hides a personal family story, and the uploader has strong words for anyone who underestimates American muscle. What actually happens when these two launch?
A supercharged LSX-swapped Chevelle lines up against a supercharged WS6 Trans Am at a BAR Shootout event, pitting a modernized classic against GM’s own factory-performance answer from the LS1 era. TheBayAreaRacing caught the pass, and the matchup says a lot about how two very different approaches to Chevrolet performance stack up on the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which philosophy wins.
A crowd surrounds a car in St. Louis traffic on June 9, 2017, yelling and blocking its path forward. What happens in the next few seconds turned this clip into a years-long argument about self-defense, momentum, and who really had the right of way. The comments have their own verdict already. Watch to see if you agree with it.
This Chrysler 300C SRT8 looks like an ordinary full-size sedan and hides a stroked 404-cubic-inch Hemi backed by twin 67mm turbochargers. 1320video caught it running at the Texas Streets, an event built around exactly this kind of mismatch between looks and power. Watch to see it hang with — and upset — cars that looked a lot faster on paper.
This 1966 Plymouth Barracuda isn’t loud, and it isn’t trying to be. As an unrestored survivor with manual brakes, manual steering, and a view out the back modern cars can’t match, it demands a different kind of attention from the driver behind the wheel. Watch to see what an original, unmodified pony car from 1966 actually feels like to drive.
Shot at the historic Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, this amateur upload from daredevil7442 captures a lineup of Hemi and big-block Mopar muscle running the quarter mile at one of the East Coast’s most storied drag strips. It’s grassroots drag racing rather than a professional NHRA broadcast, but the track underneath these cars has hosted some of the sport’s biggest names for decades. Watch to see American muscle running down a strip with genuine drag racing pedigree.
A dyno pull on a 1573-horsepower Third Gen Trans Am should be the tame part of the weekend — until a charge pipe breaks loose and sends parts flying into the crowd. Minutes later the same car reportedly trapped almost 160 mph in the eighth mile in what the filming crew calls the closest race they’ve ever shot. Watch to see how a Mustang meet turned into a GM highlight reel.
Jason Michalak’s Bad9er Racing blown Hemi Corvette runs a 3.97-second eighth mile at 194 miles per hour on a 315 drag radial, setting the quickest elapsed time in Competition class at the Outlaw Street Car Reunion at Memphis International Raceway. It’s an extreme demonstration of how far a Corvette-based platform can be pushed on radial tires rather than full race slicks. Watch to see the run that had viewers doing double takes on just how fast 194 mph really is.
Filmed entirely by accident on a Thanksgiving errand, this viral clip from TheGrowingRushFamily captures two Corvettes racing — and crashing — on a residential street in The Woodlands, Texas. With over 15.7 million views, it’s become one of the most-watched amateur car crash videos on the internet, driven by clean footage and a title that captures the moment’s dark irony perfectly. Watch to see exactly how a Thanksgiving turkey run turned into one of the internet’s most-shared Corvette videos.
Every Wednesday at Sonoma Raceway, California high schoolers line up against a real police car for a quarter-mile drag race, and it is completely legal. The program, called Top the Cops, was built by a retired officer who wanted to give teenagers a real outlet instead of a street corner. Now in its 23rd year, it has its own alumni. Watch to see how it actually works.
A 1965 Pontiac GTO Tri-Power, the car most historians credit with inventing the muscle car category, takes on a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and its 375 horsepower 440 Magnum in a quarter-mile pass that is closer than the 15 horsepower gap between them suggests. Viewers in the comments have pointed out that the GTO actually lost to a red-light foul, not a straight-line beating. Both cars run essentially stock, full-weight, and unmodified off the factory floor. Watch the start as closely as the finish to see why.
Someone crowned this clip ‘The Greatest Burnout of All Time,’ a bold claim in a genre with no shortage of contenders. See where the tradition of smoking tires for a crowd actually started, how it spread from drag strip prep to parking-lot ritual, and why it’s grown into a full-blown competitive event at shows like Summernats.
A Dodge Challenger R/T running a Kenne Bell supercharger on a stroked 419 cubic inch V8 lines up against a TRD supercharged Toyota Tundra riding on Killer Chiller drag radials with a shift kit and torque converter upgrade. Commenters were surprised by how competitive the significantly heavier pickup truck stayed against the purpose-built muscle car, and the comment section stayed unusually respectful toward both builds. One viewer even hoped the Tundra’s owner would show up to a specific event later in the month. Can a street-legal supercharged truck really hang with a stroker Hemi?
A Pontiac 455 big block catches fire mid-pull on the dyno in this Nick’s Garage video, and instead of cutting the footage, the channel keeps rolling and walks through exactly what went wrong. It’s the kind of unfiltered honesty about engine building’s real risks that has built Nick’s Garage a loyal following, even when the pull doesn’t go as planned. Watch to see how the fire started and what it reveals about pushing a big-block V8 to its limits.
Full-size 1970s Cadillacs like the Fleetwood and Eldorado stretched close to 20 feet long and packed a 500-cubic-inch V8, the largest displacement engine GM ever put in a regular passenger car, all in the name of comfort over cornering. The Eldorado’s front-wheel-drive layout, borrowed from the Oldsmobile Toronado, made an already enormous car even stranger to engineer. Read on to find out why bigger, heavier, and harder to turn was exactly the point Cadillac was chasing.