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A confident weekend lumberjack, a chainsaw, and a pickup parked in exactly the wrong spot: this clip is a two-second lesson in why felling a tree is harder than it looks. Gravity does not negotiate, and the truck pays the price in spectacular fashion. It is equal parts comedy and cautionary tale for anyone who owns a saw. Watch to see just how badly it goes.
This black widebody coupe, with its flared fenders and hood vents, was posted purely as a guessing game: name the year and model, then rate it. Widebody and flare kits like this one trace back to the exotic-inspired custom builds of the late 1970s and ’80s, when builders reshaped stock bodies to look more aggressive and race-ready. Take your best guess before scrolling further to see how close you got.
The Camaro’s evolution from ’67 to ’69 is like watching a superhero get a makeover. The ’68 models ditched their side vents for that fresh Astro ventilation, while ’69 went full-on sporty with a wider, lower stance. The RS/SS combo was the Camaro’s version of a tuxedo, complete with headlight covers and a headlight washing system. Sales figures flipped like a pancake, especially the Z28, which went from a whisper to a roar, tripling its numbers by ’69. Who knew a car could get such a glow-up?
This custom ’34 Ford-style coupe is built around three separate Chevy 350 engines, a layout that puts it firmly in a decades-old tradition of multi-engine show cars built to turn heads rather than lap a track. The 1934 three-window coupe body remains one of the most reproduced shapes in the hot rod world, with several small manufacturers still turning out fiberglass and steel replicas today. Between the engine count and the custom leather interior, this build leans all the way into showpiece territory.
The Eleanor Mustang traces back to a low-budget 1974 film, but the version everyone recognizes today came from the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, when a fleet of 1967 fastbacks was dressed up as Pepper Gray Shelby GT500s. One of those movie cars later sold at auction for $1 million, cementing Eleanor’s status as one of film’s most valuable cars. This 1967 G.T. 500 tribute, nicknamed the Pit Viper, takes the same starting point and deliberately goes somewhere else with it.
In the golden years of 1969 to 1976, BMW’s New Six line hit the scene powered by the mighty M30 inline six-cylinder engine, establishing BMW as not just a maker of cars, but of dreams. With sedans named like secret agents (E3 with a long-wheelbase twist) and coupes ready to race, they turned heads and corners with aplomb. In 1971, the Bavaria E3 sped onto U.S. roads, less frills, more thrills, delighting drivers with its zippy performance and enough trunk space to fit all your aspirations.
This modern pro-street build wears the body of a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, the first-year pony car GM rushed out more than two years after Ford’s Mustang had already sold over a million copies. The factory SS 396 option available that year, with the L78 variant’s 375 horsepower, gave the new Camaro real credibility from day one. Decades later, builders are still starting with that same body to create cars like this supercharged, 472-cube street machine.
This red Charger is a 1968 model, the year Dodge completely reworked the car’s fastback shape into the coke-bottle, flying-buttress body that’s instantly recognizable today. The redesign worked — sales jumped roughly sixfold over the outgoing model, with about 96,100 built for the year. Order the R/T package and buyers got a standard 440 Magnum V8, with the fabled 426 Hemi available for those who wanted more.
Months before Dodge officially unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon, fans spotted silver, flare-fendered Challengers in an early trailer for The Fate of the Furious, with Vin Diesel appearing in a behind-the-scenes clip alongside one. The car backed up the hype: a supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi V8 making 840 horsepower and 770 lb-ft of torque, good for a 2.3-second 0-60 run. It’s one of the most dramatic factory-to-Hollywood crossovers in modern muscle car history.
This 1958 Oldsmobile 88 carries the J2 option — a 371 cubic-inch Rocket V8 fed by three two-barrel carburetors, rated at 312 horsepower and 415 lb-ft of torque. Oldsmobile only sold the J2 package for two years, partly because its vacuum-operated linkage caused headaches in everyday driving. By the time 1958 ended, the setup was gone, but the cars that got it remain some of the most collectible Oldsmobiles of the era.
This driveway shot captures a 1966 Pontiac GTO, the year the GTO graduated from an options package on the Tempest to a model of its own. Buyers who ticked the box for the 389 cubic-inch Tri-Power engine got 360 horsepower, helping make 1966 the GTO’s best sales year yet. See if you can spot the details that give away the year before reading on.
In January 1999, Ford beat out Volkswagen and Fiat in a bidding war for Volvo, paying .45 billion to bring the Swedish brand into its new Premier Automotive Group alongside Jaguar and Aston Martin. The deal was meant to build an empire of European luxury under Ford’s roof. Eleven years later, the company let it go for a fraction of the price — a reminder of how fast fortunes can shift in the auto industry.
In June 2017, the Dodge Challenger outsold both the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro for the first time in seven years, a milestone that lined up perfectly with the headline-grabbing launch of the 840-horsepower SRT Demon. The year-to-date numbers told a different story, with Mustang still comfortably in the lead. Here’s how one month, and one halo car, briefly rewrote the muscle car sales order.
Ford built 25,517 Mustang GTs for the 1966 model year, a nearly 70 percent jump from the GT package’s debut in 1965. But because the GT Equipment Group could be paired with different body styles and engines, individual cars vary widely even within that number. Here’s the real production figure, and why it still confuses collectors decades later.
Ford has built more than a century of legendary engines, and Car News TV tries to crown the seven greatest in one countdown. From the flathead V8 that democratized speed to the big-block bruisers that conquered Le Mans, the list spans the whole blue-oval catalog. Uniquely, the video skips narration entirely so you can hear each engine run. Watch to see whether your favorite made the cut.