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David Meyer’s 1966 Plymouth Belvedere, built by coachbuilder Troy Trepanier and nicknamed “Northern Bel,” hides a 526-cubic-inch HEMI and twin rear-mounted turbochargers behind period-correct sheet metal. Featured on MotorTrend’s House of Muscle series, the restomod is reported to run 9-second quarter-miles at over 200 mph. Watch to see how a stock-looking ’66 Mopar hides that much firepower.
Posted in 2008 with zero production value and a single shoelace as the star, this how-to video should have disappeared within a year. Instead the comments read like a running log of drivers who tried it years and even a decade-plus later, in freezing weather and strangers’ driveways, and came back just to say thank you. Watch to see the trick a working locksmith admits actually works.
Hennessey Performance turned a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 into ‘The Exorcist’ — a 9.57-second quarter-mile machine hitting 147 mph, with 0-60 in 2.1 seconds and 0-100 in 4.7. Viewers are just as impressed that it does it all without a dual-clutch transmission, calling it ‘a very impressive job’ on Chevrolet’s part. Watch to see how a factory-based muscle car ended up trading blows with the world’s fastest hypercars.
TheBayAreaRacing lined up Fastlife’s supercharged CTS-V, a C6 Corvette, and a pack of Hellcats for a roll race that settles arguments dyno sheets never can. The comments have split into two camps — Hellcat defenders and GM loyalists — with even the C6’s exhaust note becoming part of the debate. Watch to see which factory-powered monster actually pulls hardest once the green light hits.
Jamboolio’s Best Muscle Car Sounds of 2016 skips music and narration entirely, letting nearly twenty American V8s — from a nitrous-fed 1967 Camaro to a 1000-horsepower Buick Grand National — speak for themselves at full throttle. Viewers picked out standouts ranging from a black Pontiac Firebird to a twin-turbo Corvette pushing an estimated 1500 horsepower. Watch to hear which cars made the biggest impression.
This compilation strings together real quarter mile drag races between the modern muscle car era’s biggest names — Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, a Shelby GT500 Super Snake, a Corvette ZR1, and more — with results that do not always match what the spec sheets promise. One Hellcat driver appears to fall asleep at the line and still nearly catches a Super Snake by the finish. Watch to see which factory-built legend actually comes out on top.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
I4NI’s “Muscle Car” music video turned a studio single into a neighborhood event — extras rolling up in a lifted Chevy truck, a full production crew credited on-screen, and a comment section split between subwoofer builds, Gran Torino nostalgia, and fans still asking about a documentary years later. See the video, and the car-audio culture running underneath its title.
CGP Grey’s explainer opens on a traffic jam with no accident, no construction, and no visible cause — then spends ten minutes building the case that the real problem was never on the road at all. It’s the reasoning behind phantom jams, the two-car-length rule nobody follows, and why self-driving cars might fix what decades of new lanes never could. Watch to see if the argument changes your mind.
An eight-minute bidding war inside Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Event Center ended with a numbers-matching, four-speed 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertible selling for $3.5 million — the highest price ever paid for one at public auction. Viewers in the comments do the math on what the car cost new, debate where collector values go next, and imagine the seller’s mixed emotions. See the sale that redefined what a Mopar convertible could be worth.
A Ford Raptor built for chewing through the desert at speed meets its match on a stretch of ordinary wet pavement, and the resulting slide ends against a concrete sign with the kind of precision the internet has been joking about ever since. The footage — captured by a fixed security camera rather than a dash cam — has become a go-to reference for how quickly a high-clearance truck can lose control in standing water. Watch to see exactly how far it slides before it stops.
A Kelly Bise Racing twin-turbo Corvette attempted a 200-mph pass at the WannaGoFast Texas Half Mile packing an estimated 3,000 horsepower from twin 88mm turbos and a 427-cubic-inch engine — and lost the fight for traction over 300 feet before going airborne above a public road. The parachute tore loose mid-spin, leaving the driver to save the car with nothing but reflexes and a well-built chassis. Watch to see how close this run came to a very different ending.
Kyle from Saabkyle04 skips the usual 0 to 60 numbers and spends his time with the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon doing one thing, listening. Between the supercharger’s mechanical whine and 840 horsepower on tap, the video turns into an open question: is this the best sounding muscle car ever made? The comment section has been arguing about it ever since, split hard between two very different definitions of muscle.
V8TV pulled six cars from The Brothers Collection for this Muscle Car of the Week episode, each one chosen specifically because it does not look like what it actually is — including a supercharged Studebaker Avanti and a four-door, four-speed 1965 Galaxie R-Code 427. Viewers responded by sharing their own sleeper stories, from a grandfather’s 421 Super Duty Catalina to a Corvair packing a 327 small block in the back seat. Watch to see all six.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX running the legendary 426 Hemi lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Six Pack in this quarter mile drag race from Road Test TV — two of the rarest muscle cars Mopar ever built, going head to head. The Six Pack jumps out front early, but the Hemi has a plan for the second half of the run. One viewer’s story about his own father predicted exactly how it would end. Watch to see who takes it.