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This vintage road test puts Ford’s flagship 1968 Shelby GT500KR — the “King of the Road” — through its paces, complete with a narrator whose catchphrases are still being quoted in the comments decades later. Viewers reacted to a 6.2-second acceleration figure with genuine disbelief, while others noted the era’s characteristic brake fade after repeated hard stops. One commenter even claims The Doors’ Jim Morrison owned one. Watch to hear “happy time” for yourself.
Street Car Video brings out what it calls the fastest V3 Cadillac CTS-V in the country to face a Kenne Bell-supercharged Shelby GT500 and two Hellcats pushing past 800 horsepower each. A luxury sedan against dedicated muscle car hardware sounds like a mismatch on paper. Watch the full lineup to see whether the CTS-V’s supercharged LT4 can actually keep up.
The 2016 Pigeon Forge Rod Run packed the LeConte Center and turned the Tennessee town’s Parkway into a slow parade of muscle cars, street rods, and classics, but the event began decades earlier as an unofficial club cruise-in that Gatlinburg pushed out of town. From the 1983 move to the Grand Hotel to the 1986 split and the 2014 jump to a convention center, read on to find out how a handful of enthusiasts built one of the country’s biggest classic car gatherings.
A 1976 Ford F-100 that’s stayed in one family since it rolled off the lot is rarer than the truck itself. Grandpa bought it new; his son and grandson are still building it together. Here’s what makes the Dentside generation such a strong hot rod platform, why vintage Ford trucks are suddenly climbing in value, and why this build’s paper trail matters as much as its parts.
Ten thousand photographs, six months of shop time, and one badly worn 1967 Mustang convertible come together in this time-lapse restoration from Julius Bencko’s former shop, Mustangs4you.com. Convertibles from this era carry restoration challenges hardtops never face, from reinforced unibody structure to convertible-specific top mechanisms that are notoriously difficult to source. Watch a frame-off restoration compress six months of invisible labor into just a few minutes.
Few American cars are as instantly recognizable as a classic Mustang, and it’s not just about looks. From a launch that blew past Ford’s own sales predictions to V8 options that turned an affordable pony car into a genuine muscle car contender, here’s what actually built the Mustang’s reputation.
A 1967 Chevrolet Corvair convertible and a 1986 Pontiac Fiero don’t look like they belong in the same conversation, but both cars broke GM’s own rulebook and paid for it. One got buried by Ralph Nader, the other by its own recall history. Here’s a closer look at which car actually took the bigger engineering risk, and why the answer isn’t the one most people assume.
Mark Wickens went looking for a Mini or a Mitsubishi Lancer in 2015 and drove home with production number 1638 of Ford’s Shelby GT run instead. Finished in black with a silver stripe, this numbered Mustang carries a genuine ‘Powered by Ford’ badge that separates it from tuner-built imitators, a detail collectors increasingly treat as a mark of long-term value. Nearly two decades later, this accidental find is still turning heads outside a Scottsdale burger joint. See why an economy-car search ended somewhere else entirely.
Twenty of the internet’s best car mechanical failures, stitched together with no narration: a truck bed bouncing like an intentional lowrider setup, a sunroof leak bad enough to turn a car into a luxury model with a pool, and an engine bay fire escalating in seconds. Viewers have picked apart nearly every timestamp in the comments. Watch to see which failure earns the biggest reaction — and which one you have secretly worried about happening to your own car.
Chevrolet’s first-generation Chevelle ran for just four model years on one basic body shell, which means telling a 1964 from a 1965, or a 1966 from a 1967, comes down to details as small as a taillight lens or a grille shape. One spotting-guide video turned into a comment-section deep dive on exactly what those tells are – and a debate over which year actually looks best that nobody could settle. Watch to see if you can spot the differences yourself.
A 2005-2009 Mustang wearing a Cervini’s C-Series Eleanor tribute kit isn’t just a hood and some scoops — it’s a genuine side-exhaust system borrowed from a movie car that never existed as a real Shelby. Here’s what separates a tastefully built S197 tribute from a costume, why the side pipes matter more than the styling, and what a car like this is actually worth next to the real thing.
Mark Hassett already owned a Yenko Camaro, Chevelle, and Nova, all painted the same shade of orange, before a Yenko Stinger Vega came up for sale and completed the set. My Car Story with Lou Costabile catches up with the car at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, where decades of Vega rust jokes in the comments collide with a genuinely rare piece of Yenko performance history. Watch to see the car most people forget Yenko ever built.
Ford didn’t just reveal the 2019 Mustang Bullitt at the Detroit Auto Show — it brought Steve McQueen’s granddaughter and restaged his famous parking-deck chase scene before pulling the cover off. Underneath sat 475 horsepower, Highland Green paint, and a manual-only drivetrain built for purists, plus a first look at the upcoming Shelby GT500. Fans in the comments called the reveal itself “pure marketing genius.” Watch to see why a fifty-year-old movie scene still sells Mustangs today.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner faced off in the amateur Search For Speed league, and the fight wasn’t really about horsepower — it was about which Mopar nameplate has earned the right to more respect. Viewers spent as much time debating the Charger’s eligibility as they did praising the Road Runner’s looks, turning a quarter-mile grudge match into a full-blown argument about muscle car authenticity. The burnout told its own story.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger RT with a numbers-matching 383 started its second life with a $50 bill of sale from a seller in prison and a title that was never transferred. What followed was a sixteen-year, one-stall-garage restoration that survived job changes, lost interest, and a race against a newborn’s due date. Read on to find out what’s under the hood now.