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A Michigan Muscle Car Fan member once parked his 1968 SS Camaro on Woodward Avenue, stuck his thumb out to hitchhike, and did not make it back for nearly seven hours. What started as a spontaneous ride to a house party turned into a 3.5-hour walk home at dawn. Read on to find out what happened in between, and why one specific street corner in Michigan still means something to him decades later.
Jeffrey Harkins bought this 1969 Ford Ranchero already dressed up as a low-rider, sagging on the wrong springs with side pipes bolted on for looks. Eight months of real work later, from suspension to floor pans to a swapped-in Mustang 302, it sits proud and ready for its first show. It’s a reminder that the best rescues aren’t about paint, they’re about undoing somebody else’s bad decisions first.
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS LS6 454 carried a factory rating of 450 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, the highest gross horsepower GM ever officially assigned a muscle car. This feature breaks down exactly why that number happened in 1970 specifically, and why regulatory changes the following year made sure no muscle car would ever match it again in the same way. Even Mopar loyalists show up in the comments to give credit where it’s due. Watch to see the case laid out in full.
Car News Central counts down seven of the rarest American cars ever built, from a two-off Duesenberg SSJ capable of 140 mph to a Corvette L88 whose real horsepower figure still sparks arguments in the comments. Along the way: an eight-car Trans Am convertible run split evenly between automatics and four-speeds, and the last Studebaker fast enough to matter. Watch to see the full list.
This 1967 Dodge Charger was not built for a dealer lot — it was assembled for Dodge’s stand at the International Auto Show, loaded with options and powered by the 426 Hemi most buyers could only special-order and hope for. Now preserved in The Brothers Collection, the car still carries its factory show-car details, right down to a four-bucket-seat interior fans call one of Chrysler’s best. Watch to see what almost sixty years of careful preservation looks like up close.
A brand-new Dodge Demon — Dodge’s 840-horsepower, factory drag-ready Challenger — gets delivered in Amarillo, Texas, and the crowd around it turns into its own story. Commenters split between outrage at strangers touching a sold car and celebration for the buyer’s family. Watch what happens when one of the rarest muscle cars ever built shows up at a small-town dealership.
This compilation stacks five of the worst dyno pulls caught on camera — cars held at redline too long, a suspiciously unconventional ‘single roller in a box’ dyno that has viewers questioning its safety, and at least one Subaru that survives purely because it was strapped down right. HighSpeedManiaNET keeps the commentary minimal and lets the footage speak. Watch the full compilation to see which car makes it through.
Road Test TV pits a rare 1969 428 Cobra Jet Mustang GT Coupe, one of only 243 built, against an equally scarce 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram Air 400. Commenters immediately dig up a 1968 Car and Driver test where the Ram Air 400 beat four rival muscle cars outright, setting the stakes for this quarter-mile rematch. Watch to see whether Pontiac’s airflow-focused engineering or Ford’s Cobra Jet muscle wins this round.
This 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T showed up at the 2013 Pigeon Forge Rod Run wearing a 426 HEMI badge, one of the rarest engine options Dodge ever put in a midsize body, and got nothing more than a quick, unscripted walk-around. No narration, no backstory, just a camera and a car worth stopping for. What that raw footage reveals, and what separates a documented HEMI Coronet from the clones that outnumber them, comes down to details most people would walk right past.
Only 678 Buick GSX Stage 1 models left the factory in 1970, and this Saturn Yellow 4-speed is one of them — a 360-horsepower, 510 lb-ft muscle car that Motor Trend clocked at 13.38 seconds in the quarter mile, its fastest test of the entire year. One former owner kept this exact combination for twenty years. See what made Buick’s forgotten muscle car a legitimate contender.
Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard spent time with a 1963 split-window Corvette to explain what makes the C2 the most collectible generation in the model’s history — and where buyers get burned if they don’t know what to check. It’s a buyers guide built from decades of watching these cars change hands, including one correction Hagerty had to issue after the fact. Watch to find out what even an executive editor got wrong on camera.
The 1957 Thunderbird could be ordered with a McCulloch-Paxton supercharger and up to 340 horsepower, which made it the fastest and most desirable two-seater Ford had ever sold. It was also the last. Robert McNamara had already decided what the 1958 car would be, and the styling department drew the entire thing before a single engineer was consulted. Read on to find out why the decision that infuriated the faithful turned out to be right.
Ford expected to sell 100,000 Mustangs in the first year and passed that figure in about three months. Roughly 318,000 people bought one in the first model year, and a million had been sold inside eighteen months. The rush left its marks: cars leaving the line without headlight wiring harnesses, horn rings stamped Ford Falcon hiding under Mustang trim. Read on for why those mistakes are worth money now.
This 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS Z28, finished in Granada Gold, carries no exterior badge proving what it is — just a “4L” code stamped on the firewall confirming its rare, racing-homologated 302 V8. Owner Ron Makovich has kept it since 2000, sharing the hobby with his son and grandchildren. Watch to find out why the very first Z28 Camaros were built to satisfy a racing rulebook, not a sales brochure.
Some cars get decades of careful restoration. This 1969 Camaro SS got decades in a barn instead — and it still stopped traffic at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Under the hood is a 396-cubic-inch L78, once the most powerful regular production engine Chevrolet offered. Watch to see what makes this unrestored survivor one of the show’s genuine hidden gems.