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Scott Tiemann’s 1965 Pontiac GTO hardtop has never left the family — his parents bought it new, and he’s been the one showing it off ever since, most recently in Fontaine Blue paint at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Under the hood sits the tri-power setup that inspired a hit song. Watch to hear the full story of a GTO that never had to be found, because it was never lost.
Car News Central counts down six of the biggest engines General Motors ever built, from cross-divisional big blocks to modern crate motors capable of 500-plus horsepower. Along the way, longtime GM owners weigh in with their own builds — including a stroked 541 cubic inch monster and a 455 doing duty in a boat. Watch to see which engine tops the list.
According to its uploader, this 1985 Camaro IROC-Z28 was showing just 4.3 original miles before it eventually sold at a Mecum auction for ,000 — a genuine time-capsule survivor of the year Chevrolet introduced Tuned Port Injection and borrowed suspension tuning tricks from the Corvette. Watch to see what a virtually unused third-generation IROC-Z looks like decades later, and why collectors treat single-digit mileage as its own distinct category of provenance.
Pontiac built three distinct versions of the same basic V8 for the 1970 Grand Prix, aimed at three different kinds of buyers — including one specifically detuned for people worried about their insurance bill. Total production that year fell more than 40 percent from the previous model year. Here’s how the Grand Prix lineup tried to serve very different priorities at once.
A buyer thought he was picking up a straightforward pre-owned Camaro — until he pressed a remote he didn’t know the car even had. What followed revealed hidden underglow lighting and modifications the listing never mentioned, turning a routine purchase into a cautionary tale enthusiasts still share. See the exact moment the surprise hits.
Roughly 7,802 Dodge Challengers built for 2017 with the 5.7-liter Hemi and 8-speed automatic carried a transmission control module glitch that could leave the car showing Park while the gearbox was actually in 6th-gear limp mode. The fault traced back to software meant to smooth shift quality, and Chrysler fixed it with a free dealer update. Read on for how the failure worked, how it fit into FCA’s larger rollaway problem, and what owners should still check.
The fifth installment in this crash-and-fail series promises exactly what its title claims: pure sound, no music layered over the engine notes, tire squeal, and impact sounds that usually get buried in similar compilations. A Corvette takes the hardest hit of the bunch according to the comments, while a running joke compares imagined British and American reactions to the same crash. Watch to see which moment gets called out by timestamp as the funniest of the bunch.
Barn Find Hunter’s Tom Cotter pulls off an Arizona highway for a cinder-block motorcycle shop and finds a pair of Mopars for sale in the desert — then discovers a set of original big-block Camaros parked nearby. Both Camaros sold quickly after the episode aired, and the comments add their own barn-find stories, from a numbers-matching Impala to a first-gen El Camino fans can’t stop talking about. Hagerty’s series keeps proving how much original muscle is still hiding in plain sight. Watch to see what else Tom finds.
Gateway Classic Cars is showing off this 1966 Ford Thunderbird, built the year Ford quietly reworked the 390’s heads and carburetor for smoother power. Buyers that year overwhelmingly chose the vinyl-roofed Landau over the convertible, making today’s survivors an interesting split of common and genuinely scarce. See the full photo set and find out what made this the last great pre-’67 Thunderbird.
Every driver assumes they know what happens inside an engine at high RPM — pistons hammering up and down faster than the eye can track. Colin Furze decided to actually show it, rigging a sacrificial four-cylinder engine to run flat out at 10,000 RPM in front of a high-speed camera on an empty backroad. What the footage reveals about a completely ordinary engine is more unsettling than anyone expected.
This bright yellow 1971 Dodge Dart could be anything from a budget-minded Swinger to a genuine Demon 340 sleeper – Dodge built both on nearly identical sheet metal that year. Only 10,098 Demon 340s left the factory with their 275-horsepower small-block, making a real one a rare find among the 100,000-plus Swingers Dodge sold. Find out what made the Dart one of Mopar’s most underrated performance bargains.
A turbo kit that costs less than $700 has a reputation every enthusiast knows — cheap, common at the dragstrip, and impossible to fully trust without seeing it tested. HOT ROD Network put one through a real evaluation to find out whether it delivers or just looks good in the listing photos. Viewers report gains as high as 250 horsepower for around $1,000 all-in.
In June 2017 the Dodge Challenger did something it had not managed in at least seven years: it outsold both the Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro in a single month, 6,605 units to 6,186 and 4,691. The platform underneath it dated to 2008, and both rivals were far newer. Here is how the segment’s supposed underdog pulled off the upset, and why the year-to-date numbers tell a more complicated story.
The Beach Boys wrote a hit song about it, but Chevrolet’s 409 was only the public face of a much bigger story. Behind the scenes, a secret 427-cubic-inch “mystery motor” was quietly setting records at Daytona in 1963 while Chevrolet stayed silent about what powered it. Read on to find out how a handful of aluminum-bodied drag cars evolved into the 427 that would eventually power Corvettes, Camaros, and Chevelles for years to come.
When Ford engineer Steve von Foerster had a neighbor call the police over his Shelby GT350’s exhaust note during an early-morning drive, he brought the story back to the office and helped create Good Neighbor Mode for the 2018 Mustang GT. Quiet Start and Quiet Exhaust drop the V8 to roughly 72 decibels, about the level of a dishwasher, and can be scheduled from the steering wheel for the hours when a loud car is least welcome. Read on to find out how a 911 call became a factory feature.