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A Tesla P100D in Ludicrous mode has genuinely beaten a stock Dodge Hellcat off the line thanks to instant electric torque, but bolt drag radials and a smaller pulley onto the Hemi and the fight tightens into a genuinely confusing result depending on how you define winning. Dodge answered with the Demon and Demon 170 partly because of exactly this kind of matchup. Read on to find out what a 707-horsepower supercharged V8 versus instant torque actually proves.
Pontiac built just 7,500 examples of the 1979 10th Anniversary Trans Am to mark a decade of the badge — and inside that already-limited run, only 1,817 buyers got the 400 cubic-inch V-8 paired with a 4-speed manual. That combination makes this silver-and-charcoal special one of the last true muscle-era Firebirds, built right before the fuel crisis changed everything.
Chevrolet built the 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe strictly to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules — but production exploded from 200 cars in 1986 to over 6,000 the following year once buyers caught on. That steeply raked backlight wasn’t just a superspeedway trick; it turned into one of the most collectible G-bodies Chevrolet ever built.
An ’08 Smart Car running a boosted Toyota Paseo engine lined up against a Shelby Mustang on a Colorado test-and-tune night, and the first run nearly ended in a wheelstand before the car even left the line. By the second pass, the tiny hatchback had cut its time to 12.53 at 107 mph and put the Mustang on the trailer. Drag racing regulars in the comments call it one of the purest sleeper builds they have seen. Watch to see exactly how a car this small pulls it off.
A junkyard Chevy 350 doesn’t look like much until Chris Duke starts tearing it down for Motorz’s full rebuild series, and sharp-eyed viewers caught something he got wrong about the donor truck within minutes of the upload. Along the way, hands-on commenters share the exact reverse-torque trick that prevents a warped head and the fuel-line-and-dowel method for pulling pistons without scarring the cylinder walls. One teenager even credits the channel with teaching him to rebuild his own Monte Carlo’s engine. What else does this teardown get right that most tutorials skip?
This 1973 Pontiac Ventura started life as a badge-engineered Chevy Nova twin, sold on trim and sound insulation rather than performance. Factory power topped out at a mild 150-horsepower 350 V8, a far cry from Pontiac’s GTO-era muscle. This particular example has been built well beyond stock, with custom exhaust, upgraded V8 work, and a sharp two-tone paint job that turns an overlooked compact into a genuine sleeper. It’s proof that an anonymous badge-engineered car can still earn a second look.
Just 300 units, all Performance Red, sold directly by SVT to buyers who could prove they weren’t flipping them. The 2000 Cobra R paired a reworked Lincoln Navigator V8 with a Tremec T-56 six-speed, stripped its interior down to essentials, and added track-focused aero to become the fastest factory Mustang Ford had built to that point. Its influence still shapes how Ford builds performance Mustangs today.
This 1973 Lincoln Continental wasn’t restored for a trophy — it was rebuilt because the owner’s mother once drove this exact car, and Manns Restoration in Festus, Missouri took that responsibility seriously. The numbers-matching 460 V8 got a full rebuild, the suspension and brakes were gone through top to bottom, and the body came back looking showroom-fresh under a new white vinyl top. Watch to see how a family memory became a rolling restoration.
Pontiac built just 17 examples of the 1971 GTO Judge convertible, and this white, unassuming-looking survivor from The Brothers Collection is one of them. Sharp-eyed viewers spotted honest rust on its rear quarter panel, proof this is a preserved original rather than a show-polished restoration. Commenters still debate why so few were ever built. Watch Muscle Car Of The Week’s 202nd episode take a close look at one of Pontiac’s rarest configurations.
In 1960, half a million Americans bought a Chevrolet Impala, making it the best-selling car in the country that year. Most drove home with a modest six-cylinder or small V-8 — but buried in the order form sat a genuine big-block option most showroom shoppers never noticed. Five versions of the 348 cubic-inch engine, topped by a 335-horsepower tri-power variant, turned an ordinary family car into a legitimate sleeper. Read on to see why collectors hunt for that combination specifically.
Chevrolet had less than two years to answer Ford’s Mustang, and the result was the 1967 Camaro convertible — an F-body built on a subframe design shared with the new Firebird, offered anywhere from a 140-horsepower six-cylinder up to the 375-horsepower L78 396. The SS350, Z/28, and hidden-headlamp RS packages all launched that same year, giving Chevrolet an instant, credible answer to the pony car Ford had invented. Today, first-year SS and RS convertibles remain among the most sought-after Camaros ever built.
Ford’s 1964 Mustang launch caught Chevrolet flat-footed, and the two-year scramble to build the Camaro set off a rivalry that’s run through Trans-Am road courses, COPO-built drag strip specials, a near-death in the malaise era, and matching retro revivals. With Camaro production paused since 2024, the fight looks different than it has in sixty years — but grassroots tracks, cruise nights, and the collector market show it’s far from settled.
A bolt-on, 560-horsepower Nissan GT-R from the Bay Area takes on American muscle at an impromptu California street meetup, where imperfect pavement ends up mattering more than raw horsepower. Viewers came away praising the mutual respect between import and domestic camps more than the actual results. Watch to see how the all-wheel-drive advantage plays out on a street that refuses to hook up.
A 174-day strike at Pontiac’s Norwood, Ohio plant nearly killed the Firebird nameplate outright, slashing 1972 production almost in half and leaving this black ’72 as one of the rarer survivors of its generation. Beneath the honeycomb grille and missing fender vents sits a 455 H.O. rated by an all-new net horsepower standard that made it look weaker than it actually was. From the walkout that almost ended it to the collector demand chasing it today, here’s the full story behind one of Pontiac’s toughest model years.
This 1966 Dodge Coronet 500 pairs deep black paint with the rarest option Dodge offered that year: the 426 Street Hemi, ordered by just 136 of 55,700 Coronet 500 buyers. Behind the badges sits a story of NASCAR bans, a $907.60 option box, and a factory clutch upgrade needed just to handle the torque. Read on for what made this car so hard to order in period, and what it takes to prove one is genuine today.