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A burnout is the easiest way to look like a hero — until physics files its objection. This compilation gathers the best burnout fails of 2015: exploding tires, overheated engines, and stationary smoke shows that turn into unplanned journeys. The fun is spotting exactly when it’s about to go wrong, usually a second before the driver does. Watch the ambition-meets-consequence highlight reel and pick your favorite.
The 1974 Buick LeSabre Luxus quietly became Buick’s new flagship trim, absorbing two discontinued nameplates while still hiding a genuine performance option for buyers who knew where to look. Order the Stage 1 455 package and you got real muscle car heritage wrapped in a much more conservative body. Here is how the numbers stacked up as emissions rules reshaped what performance actually meant.
A 1969 Plymouth Road Runner with a rare 440 Six Barrel lines up against a 1969 Chevelle SS packing the legendary solid-lifter L78 396 — Mopar versus Chevy, settled under strict Pure Stock rules. Only fifteen factory horsepower separate them, and both run as close to showroom-stock as the rulebook allows. No modern tricks, just tires and talent. Watch to see which 1969 heavyweight reaches the traps first.
A single leaked photo teased the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon ahead of its New York reveal, but the real specs that followed turned out to be far more extreme than any pre-launch rumor. Once Dodge made it official, the numbers made this widebody Challenger one of the quickest production cars ever sold in the United States. Here is what that teaser campaign was actually building toward.
A Nassau Blue 1966 Corvette roadster hiding three magic numbers — 4-2-7 — and the option code that matters most: L72, the hottest 427 Chevrolet offered that year. Factory-rated at 425 horsepower but widely believed to make far more, this solid-lifter big-block turned a beautiful convertible into a legend. Presented from The Brothers Collection on Muscle Car of the Week. Watch to see why the L72 still starts arguments.
A vividly painted convertible glowing in the sunset light has readers split on whether it is a bold custom win or a paint choice gone too far. Purple has always been a rare sight on muscle cars, historically overshadowed by louder factory reds and High Impact Mopar colors, which makes this one impossible to ignore either way. Cast your vote before scrolling down to see what everyone else thinks.
The 426 Hemi did not just make the 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T fast, it marked the final year Dodge would offer this engine before it disappeared from showrooms for decades. Every Hemi Challenger from this model year is effectively a time capsule of a chapter about to close. Here is what the performance numbers actually looked like while the elephant motor was still available to order.
A wildly painted cab-style classic at a car show has readers debating its exact year, make, and model, and the clues are easy to miss if you do not know what to look for. This body style was common across several trim levels in the mid-1950s, which is exactly why fleet buyers loved it. See if you can spot the details that give this one away.
The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T could be ordered two very different ways, and the engine choice created a split that still shapes collector values today. Most left the factory with a strong big-block V8, but a small handful hid something far more serious under the hood. Here is what separated the everyday R/T from the ones nobody could actually buy.
A 1969 Camaro built with a screw-type PSI blower jutting through the hood, EFI plumbing, and nitrous stacked on top — a pro-street machine engineered to intimidate. A positive-displacement blower slams boost in like a light switch, and the nitrous is there for when that isn’t enough. The scary part isn’t the power; it’s that someone made it street-legal. Watch to see what it takes to drive something this wild.
The blacked-out, widebody Ice Charger tore across the frozen finale of The Fate of the Furious looking like pure Hollywood fantasy. Then Rob Dahm visited the shop where the film’s fleet was actually built and got close enough to see how it was really made. Three details he uncovered flip everything you assumed about the car. Watch to see what the cameras never showed you.
Owning a muscle car is a point of pride, and so you should do everything you can in order to keep it in the best shape possible. Muscle cars are different than their newer counterparts, and as such they […]
A stunning 1970 split-bumper Camaro gets strapped to the dyno, throttle pinned, Flowmasters barking off the shop walls. The second-gen Camaro’s first year gave us the most beautiful face Chevy ever styled — and this one backs the looks with a soundtrack worth turning up. The dyno doesn’t just measure power, it broadcasts attitude. Watch and hear what this gorgeous first-year second-gen actually delivers.
The Ford V8 engine saga continues with the 410 cu in powerhouse, delivering a punchy 345 hp and 475 ft-lb of torque, initially found in the short-lived Edsel. The mighty 430 cu in engine, dubbed the “Bulldozer,” made waves in Lincoln and Mercury models, hitting a historic 400 hp in ’58. Even yachts and race cars couldn’t resist its allure, with Bertram Yachts and dragsters flaunting its raw power. By ’66, the 430 bowed out, making way for the MEL 462, proving Ford’s engines were always ahead of the curve.
1971 was the only model year Ford ever squeezed its 429 big-block under a Mustang hood, and the clock was already ticking on the whole big-block era. The Super Cobra Jet version made 375 horsepower with an 11.3:1 compression ratio and four-bolt mains built to survive real abuse. Out of 149,682 Mustangs built that year, only 326 combined the manual transmission with the full Drag Pack that made a car a true Super Cobra Jet. Cars this rare rarely surface outside auction catalogs.