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The 2026 Mustang GT Was Built to Feel Like 1986 — So These Reviewers Filmed It on Actual VHS Tape

by Jack Harmon

The Straight Pipes usually runs on the chemistry between hosts Jakub and Yuri, so swapping in Yuri’s actual father for a review of the 2026 Ford Mustang GT FX Package was never going to go unnoticed — especially once half the footage started looking like a home movie shot in 1986. Between the deliberate VHS aesthetic and a genuinely compelling case for naturally aspirated V8 power, this review turns a routine road test into something stranger and more memorable. What made the channel risk its own format for one video?

The 2026 Mustang Dark Horse Kept Its V8 While Rivals Went Turbo – Owners Say That’s Exactly Why It’s the One to Buy

by Jack Harmon

Joe Raiti’s 2026 Mustang Dark Horse review was supposed to be about horsepower and handling, but the comment section had other plans — half the thread is arguing about the Adriatic Blue paint before anyone mentions the naturally aspirated V8 underneath. Between a plant worker weighing in from the paint shop and a brand-new owner describing pickup day, this review turns into something closer to a community verdict than a single opinion. Is this really the best new muscle car on sale, or just the best-looking one?

There’s No Such Thing as an “SS Nova” — Why That Loophole Made the Chevy Nova One of Detroit’s Smartest Muscle Car Buys

by Jack Harmon

Regular Car Reviews built a whole episode around a technicality: strictly speaking, there’s no such thing as a factory Nova SS, just an option package bolted onto an ordinary Chevy compact. What starts as a joke about badge integrity turns into a real argument for why this particular 1970 Nova, and its unswapped 350 small-block, deserves more credit than its “fake” SS badge suggests. Viewers from as far as Argentina showed up with their own Nova stories. So is the SS badge a lie, or just a loophole?

Dodge’s “Entry-Level” 2026 Charger R/T Has No V8 and Costs $50K – It Still Runs a 13-Second Quarter Mile

by Jack Harmon

MotorWeek put the 2026 Dodge Charger R/T through its full road-test treatment, and the numbers it turned in are hard to ignore: a roughly $50,000 price tag, a 13-second quarter mile, and not a single cylinder of V8 under the hood. Host John Davis treats the twin-turbo six-cylinder Charger with the same measured scrutiny he’s applied to Mopars since the 1980s, but the comments section isn’t nearly so calm. Is this really what “entry-level” muscle looks like now, or has Dodge just redefined the term?

Kevin Hart Spent 3 Years Building This 1969 Pontiac GTO — Then Named It After His Rap Alter Ego

by Jack Harmon

Kevin Hart didn’t just buy a 1969 Pontiac GTO — he spent three years working directly with Detroit Speed & Engineering to build one exactly to his standard. It debuted at the 2023 SEMA Show and, according to the builders themselves, still dazzles everyone who sees it. Zach Arlen walks through the subtle details that set this GTO apart. Watch to see what three years and real collaboration actually buys.

Two black muscle cars face each other on an empty road near old buildings.

Dodge Charger 1968 & Dodge Daytona 1969

by Kiril

After the 1968 Dodge Charger’s handsome fastback shape turned into a liability on NASCAR’s high-banked superspeedways, Chrysler answered with the radically reshaped 1969 Daytona — complete with a nose cone, towering rear wing, and a Lockheed wind-tunnel-tested aerodynamic package. It worked immediately, winning its first race and becoming the first NASCAR stock car to top 200 mph. Read on to find out how two cars sharing one platform ended up telling such different stories.

Dodge Killed the V8, Tried an EV, Then Built This 550-HP Six to Win Muscle Car Fans Back

by Jack Harmon

After years of Dodge flip-flopping between V8 muscle and an all-electric future, the new Charger Sixpack lands somewhere nobody quite expected: a 550-horsepower turbocharged inline-six. Jakub and Yuri put it up against the Kia Stinger, the Honda Prelude, and even an old Charger at its $89,995 CAD price point. Watch the most brutally honest verdict yet on whether a six-cylinder Charger still deserves the name.

Dodge Only Built 22 Hemi Super Bees in 1971 — And Somehow One of Them Also Has a Factory Sunroof

by Jack Harmon

Chrysler built only 22 1971 Dodge Super Bees with the 426 Hemi, and only 9 of those got a 4-speed manual. Separately, just 9 known ’71 Super Bees left the factory with a power sunroof — a nearly-$500 option that mandated a full vinyl top. Whether any single car sits at the overlap of all three is a question the historical record can’t quite settle. Watch to see the numbers behind one of the rarest combinations in Mopar history.

The 1978 Pontiac Trans Am Used to Be the Cheapest Muscle Car Money Could Buy — Here’s Why Those Days Are Gone

by Jack Harmon

A 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, immortalized by Smokey and the Bandit, was once cheap enough to be a common sight in driveways across America, sold by the tens of thousands every year. The comments on this video tell a different story now — one viewer cites $85,000-plus prices for clean examples, calling the video’s ‘bargain’ framing badly out of date. Watch to see why GM’s most aerodynamic 1977 production car still gets called ‘the aerodynamics of a brick.’

Pontiac Firebird 1969 400 Convertible

by Kiril

This 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 convertible wears its original Carousel Red paint and whatever numbers-matching hardware Pontiac bolted under the hood in the final year before a full redesign. The gap between a standard 400 and the Ram Air package cars built that same year can mean tens of thousands of dollars at auction today. Read on to find out what separates a garden-variety 400 from the cars that made 1969 the high-water mark of the first-generation Firebird.

The Nearly-Abandoned Indiana Dragstrip Where Old-School Muscle Cars Still Rule the Quarter Mile

by Jack Harmon

A 74-year-old viewer says this old-school drag racing footage from Indiana’s US41 Dragstrip brought back memories of the 1970 Plymouth Duster he bought at 21 — and the jade-green ’56 Chevy that replaced it a year later. No purse, no sponsors, just a quarter mile and cars that launch the way they did decades ago. Watch to see which car earns an instant, confident prediction from the comments before the run even finishes.

No Trailers Allowed: Inside the Muscle Car Street Race That Still Plays by 1960s Rules

by Jack Harmon

No trailers allowed means exactly what it says: every car racing in this 405 street event drove itself there and will drive itself home, which rules out trailer queens and modern Fox-body Mustangs alike. A stripped-down ’65 F-100 steals scenes from the muscle cars, and the finale nobody called becomes the night’s real talking point. Watch to see old-school drag-and-drive racing run the way it was in the 1960s.

Burnout Party – Tire Shredding MADNESS!

by Kiril

Burnout competitions reward cars for going absolutely nowhere — judged not on elapsed time but on smoke volume, tire longevity, and showmanship, even as the sustained wheelspin quietly punishes the driveline far harder than any quarter-mile pass would. This breakdown covers what actually happens to a tire and transmission during a serious burnout, and why the format has become its own standalone motorsport. Read on to find out why judges care more about smoke than speed.

Common 1969 Camaro SS Problems — and What They Mean for Buyers

by Jack Harmon

Barry White thought he knew what he was buying when he picked up a gutted 1969 Camaro shell from a wrecking yard. Hidden rust, a supercharger that wouldn’t fit, an engine bay fire, and a run of bad luck earned the car its nickname: Christine, after Stephen King’s killer Plymouth. With $40,000 on the line at auction in Jackson Hole, and a rival Camaro selling for far less, watch to see whether the curse finally breaks.

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