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Evolution Performance built this Shelby GT500 to put down 2000 horsepower, and owner Brian Devilbiss spent an entire weekend proving the chassis can’t always keep up with that number — the front wheels came up again and again. A viewer who saw the car run live at Budd’s Creek says the in-person turbo sound didn’t come through on camera. Watch to see the passes where it actually stayed level, and the ones where it didn’t.
George Hansen fell for this car’s grille in a 1958 advertisement, a full year before the 1959 Pontiac Bonneville even existed to buy. Decades later he found this Mandalay Red convertible with its factory Tri-Power 389 and finally closed the loop. Lou Costabile caught the full story on “My Car Story” — including a dashboard viewers keep calling straight out of the Jetsons. See what a promise kept for sixty years looks like.
Bob Gough grew up in France idolizing European sports cars and came home doubting American muscle could keep up. Then he found the 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S, Plymouth’s own answer built specifically to handle like a European car rather than just run a fast quarter mile. Over twenty-three years of ownership, Gough has swapped in a 340 V8, a Tremec five-speed, custom 15-inch wheels, and nitrogen shocks — and says the result can leave Porsches behind once the road straightens out. Watch to hear why he still calls it deceptively docile to drive.
A 1969 Charger Daytona and a modern Charger Hellcat parked nose to nose look like a fifty-year technology gap, and in most respects they are. But the older car still holds an aerodynamic claim the newer one cannot match, achieved with an 18-inch nose cone, a wing tall enough to reach clean air, and a wind tunnel program run on a scale model. Only 503 were built, all for a single purpose: winning at 200 mph.
Long before Hollywood made it famous in Bullitt and The Dukes of Hazzard, the 1968-1970 Dodge Charger R/T had already earned its reputation the hard way — with a 440 Magnum standard, an optional 426 Hemi, and a coke-bottle body that still defines muscle car styling today. Read on for what the R/T badge actually meant under the sheet metal.
Pontiac needed an answer to the Camaro and it needed one immediately, so the first Firebird arrived only weeks after its corporate cousin, sharing bones but tuned to feel like a Pontiac rather than a rebadged Chevrolet. Fewer than 16,000 buyers chose the convertible that first year. The engine lineup, meanwhile, does not match what most people assume about early Firebirds, and one commonly claimed engine was not available at all.
This 1967 Pontiac GTO started its restoration looking, in one viewer’s words, like it had been dragged out of a swamp — rusted through and barely recognizable. V8 Speed and Resto Shop’s frame-off rebuild brought it back to its factory-correct Tyrol Blue, complete with its original Pontiac 400 four-barrel V8 and every factory comfort option intact, before unveiling it at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Watch the full transformation from swamp find to show winner.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon made 840 horsepower from its supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8, ran the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds, and became so extreme that NHRA banned it from record-legal drag competition. Dodge built only 3,000 for the US market, charged extra for a passenger seat, and gave it a widebody kit just to put the power down. Read on to find out what it took to build a street-legal car too fast for its own sport’s rulebook.
Best-selling rarely means rare, and the 1969 Chevelle SS 396 proves it. Chevrolet moved 86,307 of them, more than any other year the badge existed, after turning the SS from a standalone series into a $348 option package. Yet a genuine numbers-matching car still stops traffic on a Dallas street. Here is what changed for 1969, and how to tell a real Z25 from a Malibu wearing the right emblems.
Ten cylinders do not fit where eight used to live, at least not without a serious fight. Builders keep trying anyway, and this 1968 Charger is the latest car to take a Viper V10 in the chest. Dodge itself proved the swap was possible with a factory show car making 650 horsepower. Read on to find out what it actually takes to fit a Viper engine into a car that was never designed for one.
Do the people who build cars actually drive them? When automakers were asked, the answer was mostly yes, with employees strongly encouraged to be seen in the product, helped along by programs like GM’s employee discount, Ford’s A-Plan, and Audi’s 10 percent staff pricing. Beyond the discounts sit unwritten rules, plant-floor pressure, and a few stories of loyalty enforced harder than any policy admits. Read on to find out how far it really goes.
Mike Lorusso has owned this blue-and-white 1975 Trans Am since 1989, and over three decades he’s pushed the 400 cubic inch V8 to roughly 500 horsepower. This walk-around covers the custom work, the often-overlooked 1975 model year, and one detail about the hood bird most owners still get wrong. Watch to find out what it actually is.
Chevrolet’s rear-engine Corvair pickup only existed for a handful of years, which makes finding one at all unusual. Finding one retrofitted with a 350 small-block and automatic transmission — while keeping its original paint and body intact — is rarer still. This for-sale-by-owner listing skips the dramatic reveal shots for an honest, straightforward look at a genuinely oddball survivor. Take a look at what a practical drivetrain swap did for this unusual little truck.
Pontiac’s engineers had exactly one model year, 1971, to keep the Trans Am feeling like a genuine performance car just as emissions regulations began squeezing horsepower across the entire industry. This episode of V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week digs into the functional shaker scoop, the 455 HO big-block, and a wider color palette that included Lucerne Blue alongside the more common white. One family that has owned six different Firebirds across two decades still calls their white ’71 the favorite. Watch to find out why this specific year keeps winning the argument.
Beyond the well-known bargains, plenty of affordable muscle car ownership still hides in plain sight. Cars like the Chevrolet Nova, Dodge Dart Sport, and Buick Skylark deliver real small-block performance for a fraction of what a comparable Camaro or Mustang costs. The simple reason: fewer buyers chase these badges, which keeps demand, and prices, refreshingly low.