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A Texas tuning shop put a bone-stock 2017 Camaro ZL1 and its brand-new 10-speed automatic through a real 0-180 mph pull, and the data logger caught it still upshifting at the top end. Viewers argued over everything from the fuel gauge to a short-shifted launch. Hennessey teased something far more extreme was coming next. Watch the full run to see it.
A cheap paint thickness gauge can expose what a passing inspection completely missed, and restoration shop owner Pete of SWRNC shows exactly how to use one on a classic car or truck. One commenter’s story drives the stakes home: his wife nearly bought a car with three crushed, actively rusting structural points, discovered less than a week after it “passed” an official inspection. Pete also breaks down why body filler shows up even on cars that never rusted, and why one specific seam tells you almost everything. What is that gauge actually catching that your eyes can’t?
Plymouth built the Duster by taking a Valiant, keeping everything forward of the cowl, and grafting on a new fastback roofline behind it. The result cost $2,172, sold over 217,000 copies in its first year, and could be had with a 340 for about four hundred dollars more. Only a fraction of buyers checked that box, which is precisely why those cars matter now. Read on for how a parts-bin economy car became a genuine muscle car bargain.
When Mikey V’s father, a former American Motors employee, asked his son to choose between a Hornet and a Javelin, the answer became this 1972 AMC Javelin SST, now built to make an estimated 900 horsepower and still driven as a daily commuter whenever weather allows. At Wisconsin’s World of Wheels show, viewers praised the build for keeping genuine AMC power instead of a common big-block swap. See how a father’s question turned into one of AMC’s wildest daily drivers.
The 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge took its name from a television catchphrase and was originally conceived as a cheaper GTO to fight the Road Runner. What Pontiac actually released was the loudest car in its showroom: exclusive paint, bold striping, a rear spoiler nobody could miss, and Ram Air power. Only 6,833 were built that first year. Read on to find out what it takes to push a car like that even further.
A 1969 Chevelle SS 396 and a 1987 Buick GNX are separated by eighteen years and two completely opposed ideas about how to build a fast car. One answers with cubic inches and a big-block soundtrack. The other answers with a turbocharged V6 that beat a Corvette to 60 mph and was almost certainly underrated from the factory. Here is why collectors keep arguing about which one actually wins.
Gold paint, a high-revving 302 small-block, and a decade-long restoration — this 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, filmed at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, turns out to be the very first Z/28 Chevrolet ever produced. Owner Jon Mello spent ten years getting it right after discovering exactly what he had. Watch the full story behind Chevrolet’s original Trans-Am homologation special.
Nobody could order a plain GT350 off a Ford dealer’s Mustang order sheet in 1969, because that badge belonged to Carroll Shelby’s operation and meant the car had been pulled out of the normal build process for serious modification. It also meant something else that year: this was the end. The 1969 cars were the last genuine Shelby Mustangs built new. Read on to find out what was actually bolted underneath the paint.
A grandfather who sold used cars for 60 years, a mom who beat the neighborhood Corvette owner in a full-size Pontiac, and a dad who won a drag race at 69 — this is a family where muscle cars run three generations deep. From a Mach 1 Mustang to a Dodge Super Bee to a 2016 Mustang GT painted in a nod to Steve McQueen’s Bullitt car, the cars change but the obsession never has.
Only 17 Pontiac GTO Judge convertibles were built for the 1971 model year, and this white example, from The Brothers Collection, is one of them. A commenter details a sister car restored in Oregon with a 455, four-speed, and Super Duty upgrades. Others argue over which cars carried the rare Ram Air IV engine. Watch the full episode to see the wing and stripes that give it away.
A countdown of the six largest production engines General Motors ever built draws exactly the kind of comment section you would expect from a genuinely technical audience, including one commenter’s joke that working on a 496-cubic-inch big-block requires a mandatory cigarette dangling from the mouth at all times. Beneath the humor sits real engineering history, including a detailed explainer on how GM’s divisions once each built their own competing V8 platforms. Watch the full countdown to see which engines made the cut.
Doug Cline drove his twin-turbo, roughly 3,000-horsepower big-block Camaro over 1,300 miles to reach Rocky Mountain Race Week. On the event’s final day, fuel buildup off the line turned into a 190-mph excursion off the racing surface, and a split-second decision not to pull the chutes ended up filling both turbochargers with sand and gravel. See exactly how a week of extreme mileage and extreme horsepower came down to one costly moment.
This 1962 Chrysler New Yorker wears a 440 V8 that Chrysler hadn’t even invented yet when the car was built. Under an orange-and-purple flake paintjob sits air suspension, a locking differential, and side pipes loud enough to turn heads before the paint does. Read on to find out what the New Yorker actually left the factory with, and why a builder would swap it for an engine four years its junior.
The 1971 Corvette LT-1 lost forty horsepower on paper compared with the 1970 car, and it is the better buy because of it. Chevrolet dropped compression from 11.0:1 to 9.0:1 that year to meet a corporate low-lead fuel mandate, which is exactly why this is the last solid-lifter small block Corvette you can run on ordinary pump gas. Only 1,949 were built.
Chrysler built the 426 Hemi to win NASCAR races and had no intention of selling it to the public. A homologation rule forced the company’s hand, and for six model years a lightly civilized race engine was available over the counter to anyone who could afford the option and the insurance. Here is what made the Elephant so effective, what the 425-horsepower rating really hid, and why 1971 was the end of it.