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Inside Line pits a 2010 Dodge Challenger against its 1970 ancestor in this Edmunds.com comparison test — but the vintage car is not stock. It is a Hotchkis-modified Trans Am platform car, and viewers who have ridden in it firsthand explain exactly what was changed and what was not. Watch to see how a well-rounded modern Challenger stacks up against fifty-year-old muscle built for the road course.
Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars after a few childhood years in France — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind. Over more than twenty-three years of ownership, he’s swapped in a 340-cubic-inch V8, a Tremec five-speed, and nitrogen shocks, building a car with enough torque to ‘leave Porsches behind’ on the straights. Watch to see why one habit still catches him out in the corners.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.
My Classic Car’s Dennis finds two of 1970’s rarest survivors in the same Indiana town: the only Ram Air III GTO Judge built in Orbit Orange, and a 440-Six Barrel Plymouth Road Runner convertible, one of roughly thirty ever made. See the factory details behind both cars, how the Six Pack carburetor setup actually worked, and a commenter’s vivid memory of seeing one new at a mall in 1970.
Jay Leno ordered this 1966 Ford Galaxie as a sixteen-year-old, reportedly behind his father’s back, and decades later he’s calling its restoration ‘finally’ complete for the third time. Along the way, one exchange about a muffler and a rocketship has become, according to his own fans, one of the best stories Jay has ever told on the show. Watch to see what took the Ultimate Edition build so long to get right.
Before the Tesla Model S ever reached dealerships, there was the Roadster — unveiled at a private, invitation-only event in a Santa Monica hangar in 2006 and eventually delivered to 2,418 owners across 31 countries. By 2013, Tesla’s Model S sedan could hit 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, seat seven passengers, and still return real-world usability that undercut the Roadster’s price by tens of thousands of dollars. Read on for the full numbers behind Tesla’s first decade of building genuinely quick electric cars.
A 1970 Chevelle sitting inside one of Delaware’s largest private car collections turned out to be hiding a factory LS6 454 — GM’s rarest and most powerful big-block option that year, built for just over 4,000 Chevelles nationwide. Chevelle Magazine gave it a nickname that stuck: the ‘Fossil From Flint.’ Watch to see how a cowl tag turned an overlooked coupe into a magazine-featured discovery.
Brad Mathis learned to drive on his grandfather’s grasshopper-green AMC Javelin AMX — a fully loaded “Go Package” car built by a man who spent his career working inside AMC’s High-Speed Stop Division. What started as supervised laps around a garage at age twelve grew into a personal collection of seven AMC vehicles and a Javelin now in its fourth generation of family ownership. Read on for how one family turned a single car into a lifelong AMC obsession.
The 1963 Impala SS looks like a full-size cruiser and, ordered correctly, was one of the fastest cars Chevrolet sold that year. The car in this Gateway Classic Cars gallery carries the rare factory dash-mounted tachometer, an option most buyers skipped and the one that tells you what the original owner intended. Read on for the engine that a pop song made famous and the aluminum trim that defines the model year.
A sixteen-year-old school bus driver in Cleveland County, North Carolina talked his father into a $100 down payment on a yellow 1966 Dodge Charger — the most cash the man had ever handed his son at once. What followed was a factory 383/four-speed muscle car turned into a gas-guzzling street machine, sidelined by the 1973 oil embargo, and left parked outdoors for the better part of four decades. Read on for how one phone call from a friend turned into a lifelong family project.
Nissan split its 2014 GT-R into three distinct machines built on one platform: a genuinely comfortable Premium trim, a styling-focused Black Edition, and a 150-unit Track Edition with the back seats deleted entirely. All three shared a hand-built 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 officially rated at 545 horsepower — though real-world estimates run considerably higher. With a base price near $100,000 and a claimed 2.7-second 0-62 time, the GT-R undercut plenty of pricier rivals. Read on for how the numbers broke down trim by trim.
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.
Roughly 60,000 American cars are still working the streets of Havana, kept alive for over six decades without a single factory replacement part reaching the island. Cuba’s 1959 revolution triggered a US embargo that never lifted, freezing the classic car market in place and forcing owners to fabricate parts, source Soviet substitutes, and even swap in diesel engines just to keep their “Yank Tanks” running. Read on for how economics, not nostalgia, built one of the world’s most unusual classic car fleets.
Car News TV counts down the eight highest-horsepower classic muscle cars, and viewers spent the comment section correcting nearly every figure on the list. Between disputed top speeds, mismatched engine badges, and overlooked contenders like the AMX, the pushback ends up telling a more accurate and more interesting story than the countdown itself.
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.