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Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
A vintage Dodge Dart with a Chrysler 340 under the hood lines up against a modern C5 Corvette, and the comment section had already decided who wins before the video even loaded. One viewer calls it over before it started; another shares the story of nearly buying a 340 Duster for $1,000 back in 1975. Watch to see if old-school Mopar muscle really does settle the argument.
A 1969 Camaro making close to a thousand horsepower would normally be the headline, but on this build the supercharged 416 small-block is almost the least interesting part. Hand-laid carbon bodywork, machined billet hardware, a completely re-engineered chassis, and a six-speed manual describe a car meant to be driven hard rather than trailered. Here is what went into it, and why builds at this level change what the rest of the market can buy.
A routine traffic stop — a driver dusting off his own car while he waits, an officer running a records check — takes a sudden turn when an out-of-control pickup truck crashes into the scene, all caught on dashcam. Viewers have spent years picking apart the driver’s exact reaction in the moment it happens. Watch the footage and see how fast an ordinary roadside wait can turn into something else entirely.
Michelle Bongiovanni’s classmates at Penn State did not believe her, and it is hard to blame them. She spends weekends running eight-second quarter miles in a Mustang that Ford builds specifically so it cannot be registered for the road. The Cobra Jet is one of the strangest things a manufacturer sells: a factory-built drag car with no VIN for street use and no pretense of being anything else. Read on to find out how a Mustang ends up like this.
Plymouth’s 1970 GTX was already losing sales to its cheaper Road Runner sibling, and the rare 440 Six Barrel option most collectors chase today made up only a small fraction of that shrinking total. With just 7,748 GTXs built that year and roughly 678 carrying the triple-carb 440, the math behind this car’s rarity is stark.
Lou Costabile catches up with Dave OMalley and his red 1966 Pontiac GTO at a small car show in Batavia, Illinois, a car OMalley has owned since 2002. The taillights get singled out as the cars best feature, sparking a comment-section debate over whether the 66 or 67 GTO actually looks better. One viewers story about selling an almost identical car during the 1970s oil crisis says more about muscle car ownership than any spec sheet could. Watch to hear OMalley explain what has kept him holding on.
In 1966, most Chevelle shoppers who wanted power bought a Malibu or the newly standalone SS-396 — the base 300 series was built for buyers who wanted a car, not a statement. Of the 28,600 base 300s Chevrolet built that year, only 5,300 came with the optional V8, making a V8-powered example like this one the exception rather than the rule.
This C7 Corvette kept its Stingray silhouette and almost nothing else. Between the frame rails sits an Outlaw 548 HEMI force-fed by two 102mm Precision ball-bearing turbochargers, a combination credited with 3,500 horsepower and capable of a 4.05-second eighth mile on its very first outing. It is a Chevrolet body wrapped around a Chrysler idea, riding on a tube chassis, chasing traction every bit as hard as it chases power. Read on to find out how a car like this actually works.
On paper the fifth-generation Camaro ZL1 has no business hanging with a Challenger SRT Hellcat down a quarter mile. The Hellcat brings 707 horsepower to a fight the ZL1 enters with 580, and the trap speeds tell the same story. But drag racing punishes anyone who trusts a spec sheet, and this particular pairing produced a result Mopar fans did not enjoy. Read on to find out where the horsepower advantage actually goes.
Long before the Hemi, Dodge started as a bicycle-parts patent and a Detroit machine shop making stove parts. Horace and John Dodge built their fortune as Henry Ford’s exclusive parts supplier, sometimes paid in stock instead of cash, before striking out to build cars under their own name in 1914. Their story ends almost as fast as it began.
Mike Musto gets behind the wheel of a genuinely rare 1969 Plymouth GTX for BIG MUSCLE, a car that wears its chips and scratches instead of hiding them under fresh paint. It is the kind of survivor that pulls personal stories out of the comment section, including one from a viewer whose brother came home from Vietnam to a car just like it. The GTX was Plymouth’s upscale answer to the muscle car boom, and this one still carries every mile of its history. Watch to see what Musto finds under the hood.
Erika Perrye had only owned her 1970 Buick GSX for a few months when Lou Costabile caught up with her and husband Bob in Lake Zurich, Illinois — but she already had strong opinions on why Buick’s most overlooked muscle car beats the obvious choices. Finished in bold Saturn Yellow with the torque-heavy 455 V8, this GSX is one of the rarest performance cars Buick ever built. Find out how a rare yellow Buick turned her into a genuine muscle car fan.
Held every May on the Indiana State Fairgrounds the week before the Indy 500, Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic has grown into one of the largest muscle car auctions in the country. Its 30th anniversary sale set a then-record $55.6 million across 1,208 cars sold, headlined by a $1.45 million Porsche and a Vault Find Corvette that drew a moment of silence for its late owner. Less than a decade later, the same event was moving over three times that much money.
Frank and Tina Ayres spent about five years turning a 1958 Chevrolet shortbed Fleetside into something that rides and stops like a modern vehicle while looking like it never left 1959. The build passed through a now-defunct trade school campus and a Sacramento custom shop, picked up a Heidts Mustang II front end and a 350 small-block along the way, and ends on Coker wide whitewalls. It also starts an argument about what year it actually is. Read on for the details.