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Alux.com runs down fifteen facts about Chevrolet, who really founded the brand, the most expensive Corvette ever sold, and what the bowtie logo might actually stand for. The comment section did not just fact-check the list, one viewer added the Corvair, America’s only mass-produced air-cooled rear-engine car, to it. Watch to see how many of the fifteen you already knew.
TFLcar lines up two Dodge Challenger Hellcats — one automatic, one manual — for a straight quarter-mile drag race to finally settle which transmission is actually faster. The results did not fully satisfy everyone, with one viewer arguing a 13-second pass meant the car simply needed a better driver. An unexpected background moment also stole some of the spotlight. Watch to see which transmission crossed the line first.
That rusty ‘classic car for sale’ listing everyone laughs at might be sitting on real money. Documented barn finds have sold for six figures once buyers uncovered numbers-matching engines and original parts underneath the grime. Here’s why the collector market takes rough Craigslist finds more seriously than you’d think.
MotorTrend’s Generation Gap pits a rare, numbers-matching 1969 COPO Chevelle, 427 cubic inches, 425 horsepower, and a body that looks like grandma’s car, against a McLaren-tuned 1987 Buick GNX turbo V6 that quietly out-torques expectations. Both cars disguise serious performance behind unassuming looks. See which one the hosts, and the comment section, actually side with.
Builder johnscudashop documented this 1971 Plymouth Barracuda pro-touring build — complete with a working HEMI Shaker hood — step by step on the Moparts forum. The gloss-and-flat-black paint won over commenters instantly; the visible welds underneath did not. Watch the build and see if you agree with the forum’s mixed verdict.
Owner Kirk Phillips brought his 1971 Plymouth GTX 440 — one of only a handful built with a factory sunroof — to the 24th Annual Belvidere MOPAR Happening, where Lou Costabile caught up with him. The car’s export history and a second fender tag full of rare factory options had commenters cataloguing details down to the exact paint code. Watch the full story behind one of the rarest GTX combinations still on the road.
Mark Worman’s Graveyard Carz took on a 1970 Hemi Coronet R/T convertible — one of just two Hemi convertibles Dodge built for the 1970 model year, in a four-year Hemi convertible run that totaled closer to two dozen cars than the round number sometimes quoted. The comment section turned into an oral history project, with viewers tracing the car’s ties to the Otis Chandler collection and swapping stories about neighbors who still own its rare siblings. Watch the restoration and the history that follows it.
MotorTrend’s Generation Gap pits a numbers-matching 1968 Pontiac Firebird against a 2010 Lingenfelter-built Trans Am tribute making more than double the horsepower. The spec sheet says it isn’t close — 320 horsepower against 655 — but the comments turned into a real argument about authenticity versus raw performance. Watch to see which Firebird wins, and decide for yourself whether horsepower settles it.
V8TV built Episode 230 of Muscle Car of the Week as a tribute to the Chevrolet Camaro’s 50th anniversary, narrowing five decades of history down to five cars from The Brothers Collection. Viewers pushed back hard, defending the DZ302-powered Z/28 and pointing out the missing Baldwin-Motion and COPO cars. Watch the list and weigh in on which Camaro deserved a spot.
Fewer than fifty 1969 Pontiac GTOs left the factory with the Ram Air IV V8, a four-speed manual, and a convertible body all at once. This green survivor from The Brothers Collection went through a full restoration before its debut at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago — and one commenter claims a famous rock drummer once owned it. Watch the reveal and judge the rock crusher four-speed for yourself.
Nearly 1.3 million views, zero narration, and a comment section that has spent over a decade arguing about what got left out — that’s the strange staying power of this ’20 Best Muscle Cars’ compilation. Viewers have nominated everything from the Plymouth Superbird to a 1969 AMX still parked in someone’s driveway as glaring omissions. Watch the list and see if your own pick made the cut.
A Chrysler 440 big block living inside a vintage Ford racer is the kind of combination that makes purists twitch and racers grin. This build pairs a hot-tanked and honed RB block with upgraded pistons, a period-correct roll cage, and a carefully sorted carburetor setup. The result sounds nothing like what the badge on the body promises. Read on for why the 440 keeps ending up in cars Chrysler never built.
This 1970 Plymouth Road Runner convertible was special-ordered new by the current owner’s father, sold decades ago, and lost to the family entirely — until his son tracked it down and bought it back. Auto Archaeology brought it straight to the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals 2017 Barn Finds display, dust and all. Watch to hear the full story behind why it earned the nickname “Holy Grail.”
The 1984 Corvette was the car Chevrolet skipped an entire model year to get right, and it arrived with a chassis so stiff that magazines complained about it while recording the highest skidpad number they had ever measured on a production car. Its 205-horsepower Cross-Fire Injection V8 was the weak link in an otherwise radical package. It still outsold every other C4 model year. Read on for what made it matter.