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Dennis Collins has walked into a lot of garages on Coffee Walk, but episode 321 finds something different: a decommissioned crop-dusting hangar hiding a 1974 Plymouth Road Runner GTX under decades of dust, its dash decal still intact enough to have viewers commenting on it days later. A self-described Corvette guy shows up in the comments asking Dennis to film a full restoration, despite having no history with Mopars at all. What convinced a die-hard GM owner to root for a Plymouth?
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 ,185 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?
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?
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?
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 ,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 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.
The 1968 Dodge Charger looked every bit the muscle car, but on NASCAR’s superspeedways its sleek fastback roofline actually worked against it, generating dangerous rear-end lift. Dodge’s answer was the radical 1969 Charger Daytona, nose cone, flush backlight, and a towering rear wing that made it the first NASCAR car to break 200 mph. Only 503 were built, and just 70 carried the optional 426 Hemi. Here’s how Dodge turned an aerodynamic failure into a record-setting legend in barely a year.
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.
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.
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.’
Hagerty’s Driveway Finds crew already built an awesome muscle car out of a 1972 Nova found rotting in the dirt — on a $5,000 budget. Then they doubled it, dropped in an LS engine, and drove straight to LS Fest to see how hard a sleeper barn find can really launch. Watch to see whether a second $5,000 budget was enough to hang with cars that cost ten times as much.
Finished in its original Carousel Red, this 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 convertible represents the final and most aggressive year of the first-generation body style before a full redesign arrived in 1970. Pontiac offered three distinct versions of the 400-cubic-inch V8 that year, and the difference between a standard convertible and a numbers-matching Ram Air car can swing its value dramatically. Power steering and a power top hint at how this particular car was ordered. The fender tag tells a story the paint alone never could.
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 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 competitions do not send anyone anywhere — that is the entire appeal. Judged on smoke, tire life, and car control rather than elapsed time, these events grew out of drag-strip culture into their own dedicated motorsport, one where the real punishment falls on rear tires, differentials, and transmissions built to survive minutes of abuse a normal car would only face for seconds.