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Team-built and nitrous-fed, this Junior Class Camaro has done something few no-prep racers manage: back-to-back CHITOWN KOTS titles without a mark on its paint. Built to run bare, unprepped asphalt against a field of dedicated racers, it launches clean enough to look showroom-fresh between rounds. The 1320video crew has followed this build for two seasons, and a third title run is already on the horizon. Watch to see what makes this Camaro different from the cars it keeps beating.
Pontiac borrowed the name for its 1969 GTO Judge package from a sketch-comedy catchphrase, betting that the gag would help a budget-focused muscle car stand out from a stripped-down Road Runner rival. The joke worked, but the hardware underneath — a Ram Air 400 V8, functional scoops, and a Hurst shifter — was dead serious. Fewer than 7,000 were ever built, which is exactly why this one turns heads.
This lowered, wheels-tucked Cheyenne Super 10 might look purpose-built for show, but the platform underneath started life as GM’s answer to buyers who needed real towing capability. Depending on how it was ordered, a truck like this could pack anything from a mild inline-six to a 454 big block. Here’s what made these squarebody trucks tick — and why clean examples are suddenly commanding real money.
The 2011 Ford Mustang GT, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, and 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8 all brought big V8 horsepower numbers to this three-way pony car showdown — but the horsepower leaderboard and the drag strip results didn’t match up. One car’s weight advantage turned out to matter more than its power deficit. Here’s how the numbers actually broke down between Detroit’s three biggest muscle car rivals.
A first-generation Dodge Challenger R/T that has never left one family is rarer than it sounds — Dodge built fewer than 1,000 R/T convertibles, and most examples changed hands, got modified, or disappeared decades ago. Built to challenge the Mustang and Camaro with everything from a 383 V8 to the 426 Hemi, the R/T was never meant to be a garage queen. So how does a car built for the street survive intact for half a century?
A faded green Nova that looks like a $500 driveway special is hiding a twin-supercharged engine that has embarrassed plenty of purpose-built race cars. Built by Wheel to Wheel Powertrain, it has been proven not just on the dyno but on real drag strips and road tours. Here is what is actually under the hood of one of the most convincing sleepers in muscle car history.
Nothing turns heads at a muscle car meet like a hard launch that lifts the front wheels clean off the pavement. It looks like pure chaos, but the physics behind a wheelstand actually explain why some of the fastest cars in the lineup do it on purpose. Here is what is really happening in that split second before the tires touch back down.
A Nassau Blue 1966 Corvette roadster carrying the L72 427, factory-rated at 425 horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque, headlines Episode 213 of V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week. The car comes from The Brothers Collection, and viewers split over whether visible exhaust smoke points to needed engine work or whether the car is still a near-perfect judged example. See which side of that debate holds up.
Some cars are rare because a manufacturer decided to make them rare. The 1971 Challenger R/T with the 426 Hemi is rare because almost nobody would pay for it, and then the option vanished before anyone realized what was ending. Roughly 70 were built that year, all hardtops, all with the shaker hood as standard equipment. Finished in triple black, this is about as intimidating as the configuration gets. Read on to find out what actually killed the elephant motor.
Every 1969 Dodge Charger R/T came standard with a 375-horsepower 440 Magnum, and 18,344 buyers were perfectly happy with that. Only 432 checked the box for the 426 Hemi. Same body, same badge, two completely different cars — and the choice said everything about how serious the original owner really was. Here is what separated them, and why the 1969 Charger became the most recognizable shape of the entire muscle era.
Ford put its 429 big-block under a Mustang hood for exactly one model year, and only a sliver of 1971 production actually got it. Fewer still received the Drag Pack that turned a Cobra Jet into a Super Cobra Jet — four-bolt mains, big-valve heads, and an 11.3:1 compression ratio that demanded premium fuel and a careful hand. This Mach 1 is one of them. Read on for the numbers behind one of the rarest Mustang combinations Ford ever shipped.
1959 marked a quiet milestone for Ford’s truck line — the first year the company built its own 4×4 pickups in-house instead of shipping them out for conversion. This short-bed keeps things simple with the original straight-six and three-speed manual, riding on a freshly redesigned grille that replaced 1958’s busier quad-headlight face. Ford built roughly 96,600 F-100s that model year, making it one of the stronger truck seasons of the decade. Survivors with their original drivetrain intact are getting harder to find every year.
Eighteen finalists paraded through the Ohio Expo Center that Friday, each vying for one of the most coveted titles in the street machine world. Goodguys’ PPG Nationals is the organization’s largest annual event, and the walk from outdoor display to indoor judging is where Street Machine of the Year contenders make their final case. Recent winners have ranged from a twin-turbocharged Buick Grand National to a meticulously restored ’67 Mustang, showing just how wide the caliber of competition has become. Only one build from this parade would leave with the trophy.
Chevrolet built the supercharged 6.2-liter LS9 for exactly one car, the 638-horsepower Corvette ZR1, and then builders started putting it in 1969 Camaros. The engine is the easy part; it already has forged internals, dry-sump oiling, and an Eaton blower. Everything the factory bolted around a 1969 unibody is what has to be replaced to survive it. Read on to find out what an LS9 swap actually demands underneath the sheet metal.
Most car builders pick a lane: restoration purists on one side, wild custom builders on the other. Mike Finnegan never really did, and it turned a road-trip video he shot as a side project into one of the most influential automotive franchises online. When the network behind that franchise shut its doors, he simply built a new one.