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Road Test TV lines up a small block Dodge Demon against a big block Camaro for a quarter-mile showdown, and the launches alone are worth the price of admission. The Demon nearly puts its front bumper on the ground under violent weight transfer, while the Camaro answers with a serious 8.69 pass. Two very different engine philosophies chase the same clock. See how the small block and big block settle it.
At the World of Wheels show in West Allis, Wisconsin, Dennis Ermi’s 1968 Plymouth Road Runner wears a stunning Pearlescent Orange and black finish and answers to a modest name: ‘Old Runner.’ Behind that humble badge sits a 472 cubic inch big block built for roughly 1,000 horsepower. Lou Costabile gets the story of a decade-long transformation and lets the engine do some of the talking. Hear what a four-figure-horsepower Road Runner sounds like.
“Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” wasn’t a slogan in the late 1960s — it was a business model, and it produced some of the wildest street cars Detroit ever built. MotorWeek’s Retro Review gathers the Torino, Cyclone, Charger and the winged Superbird to trace how NASCAR shaped the showroom. These were race cars wearing license plates. Watch to see how they earned their reputations.
Two big-block heavyweights, one strip of Florida asphalt, and a margin of victory measured in a couple of tenths of a second. Road Test TV lines up a 1967 Ford Fairlane GT against a 1969 Plymouth GTX at Palm Beach International Raceway and lets the timing lights settle the argument. Both cars run deep into the elevens. Watch to see which badge takes the win.
Named after a speedy antelope, the 1958 Chevrolet Impala danced onto the scene like an Elvis impersonator at a sock hop. As a posh cousin to the Bel Air, it flaunted a snazzy design with horizontal headlights and triple tail lights—perfect for attracting envious gazes. Under the hood, it offered a smorgasbord of engine choices, from a peppy Blue Flame six to a hearty 348 V8. With its jazzy interiors and “eager-to-please” handling, this car was the bee’s knees, helping Chevy reclaim the sales crown.
Before CGI, a movie car chase meant real steel, real speed and a stuntman betting on his own reflexes. This clip pulls a classic sequence from 1973’s “White Lightning,” starring Burt Reynolds at the height of his good-ol’-boy fame and a 1971 Ford Custom 500 doing the heavy lifting. Full-size Fords weren’t supposed to move like this. Watch to see what a big sedan could really do.
In 1963 you could walk into a Plymouth dealer and drive out with something barely street-legal — a car engineered less for the boulevard than for the far end of a quarter mile. This Sport Fury from the Brothers Collection is exactly that machine, and its spec sheet reads like a Super Stock entry form. Muscle Car Of The Week digs into what made it a terror at the strip. The compression ratio alone should raise an eyebrow. Watch to see it.
A magazine assignment to imagine a forgotten luxury nameplate reborn somehow became a fully functional one-off, built on a genuine Shelby Cobra chassis and dressed in copper and brass. Commissioned by a metals trade association rather than an automaker, the Mercer-Cobra combined retro coachbuilt styling with real Shelby performance underneath. Decades later, it sold for $660,000 at a Monterey auction. How does a concept car built to promote copper end up among the most valuable one-offs in Shelby history?
By 1971 the Mustang had grown longer, wider and more muscular, and Ford wasn’t done making a statement. This Mach 1 from the Brothers Collection carries the most serious engine option of them all, the one built for people who wanted the last word at a stoplight. V8TV puts it under the lights for Muscle Car Of The Week. The badge on the fender says 429, but the letters after it are what matter. Watch to see it.
A 1957 Corvette in Polo White looks like it rolled straight out of the Eisenhower era, but this roadster hides a detail that made it one of Chevrolet’s boldest engineering statements of the decade. Filmed at Corvette Mike Midwest for Lou Costabile’s “My Car Story,” this frame-off restoration pairs classic curves with a very specific engine choice. The number stamped on that 283 is the whole point. Watch to hear it run.
The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona looks like something a kid would draw, with a pointed nose cone and a rear wing tall enough to see over the roof. But every wild feature was deadly serious engineering. Muscle Car Of The Week features one from the Brothers Collection, a genuine rarity that is 1 of 502 built and 1 of 294 with the 440. See how a NASCAR weapon ended up in dealer showrooms.
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 looks like the quiet cruiser your grandfather drove to church, and that is exactly what makes this one dangerous. The V8TV crew pulls back the curtain on a no-frills R-code hiding a dual-quad 427 and a four-speed. From The Brothers Collection, it is the original factory sleeper, built to win on the superspeedways. See why looks can be very deceiving.
Every collector car claims to be rare, but this Mustang makes a claim that stops you cold: possibly the rarest in the world, with only two known to exist. When production numbers get that small, the provenance matters as much as the metal, and this one has a story worth digging into. Extreme Mustang rarity almost always traces back to something unusual. See what makes this pony car a two-of-two survivor.
The moment this dark GT500 fastback rolls into frame, every muscle car fan thinks the same thing, and it is a name Ford never printed on a fender. It is an Eleanor-style Shelby tribute, and Jeff of Carsbyjeff takes this show car out for a test drive. With buyers watching from Norway to Australia, the Eleanor mystique is truly global. See whether the movie-star looks are backed by real substance.