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Car News TV’s silent, subtitle-only countdown of the highest-horsepower classic muscle cars includes a 1969 Camaro ZL1, a big-block Chevelle that left one viewer speechless, and a Trans Am, AMX, and Shelby Cobra whose stated numbers didn’t survive contact with the comment section. Viewers caught a Hemi badge attached to what looks like a 440, and a Cobra horsepower figure understated by more than a hundred. Watch the countdown, then see what the audience corrected.
A close encounter with an animal that outweighs a small car, captured in real time with a handgun instead of a rifle. This clip out of Alaska has racked up more than 14 million views and years of debate over what happened and why. Watch the moment, then see what the comment section had to say about it.
Only 157 Firebirds were built with the Ram Air IV in 1969, and just 55 of those were Trans Ams. Round-port heads, a wild cam, and an aluminum intake made this Pontiac’s most serious 400 — here’s what made the Ram Air IV genuinely rare, not just a badge.
John Hennessey does not usually get excited about a car he has not modified, but the 2017 Camaro ZL1 earned an exception. In this test drive, he runs the supercharged 650-horsepower Camaro through every gear on a public road, reaching a top speed that still gets cited in owner forums today. The explanation for why it stops exactly there is the most interesting part of the whole run. Watch to see how close a factory Camaro really gets to supercar territory.
The Ferrari 512 BBi traded raw carbureted power for fuel injection and gained something arguably more valuable: real drivability, without giving up a 174 mph top speed. As the final and most refined chapter of the Berlinetta Boxer story, only 1,007 were built before the Testarossa took over in 1984. We look at what changed under that flat-12 and why this ocean-view example represents the end of an era for Ferrari’s mid-engine supercars.
You’ve found it: a second-generation Dodge Charger with the hidden-headlight grille, the flying-buttress roofline, glossy paint, and a seller asking north of $50,000. The vinyl top looks tight, the chrome is straight, and the V8 fires on the first crank. But on a 1968-1970 Charger, the most expensive problem usually isn’t under the hood. It’s under that vinyl top, in the channel around the recessed rear window, and in the trunk corners and lower quarters you never see on a sunny-day walkaround. Owners who have pulled the back glass on “clean” cars have found the window channel eaten away underneath. Here’s exactly where to look, and what to ask, before you hand over the money.
A father and son in Strasbourg spent two years restoring a 1968 Mustang GT Fastback built to the same spec as Bullitt’s most famous chase car. Days after finishing it, the groom drove it to his own wedding. Here’s the story behind the build — and why the ’68 GT Fastback remains one of the rarest, most requested Mustang body styles ever made.
Only a small share of 1969 Oldsmobile 442 buyers checked the W-30 box, and fewer still ended up delivered new in Canada. This black-and-red survivor did both — and the video below breaks down exactly what separates a real W-30 from a 442 that just looks like one.
1966 was the single best-selling year the Pontiac GTO ever had — and it’s also the year Pontiac quietly buried one of its rarest factory engine options, a Ram Air camshaft package that replaced Tri-Power on paper but never really won buyers over. Barely 35 were built to factory spec. Here’s the story behind the GTO’s forgotten sales peak.
Ford built only about 10,000 of these V8 compacts before quietly discontinuing the model — one year after it unknowingly wrote the blueprint for the Mustang. A rediscovered 1963 Ford Falcon Sprint shows why the car that got overshadowed still commands over $30,000 at auction today.
Only 4,116 examples of the AMC AMX left the factory for 1970, making it the rarest and final year of a two-seat muscle car most casual fans have never heard of. Under its long hood sat a 360-cubic-inch V8 and a four-speed capable of running into the low-14s in the quarter mile. Read on to find out why this scrappy independent’s forgotten sleeper still deserves a spot alongside the era’s more famous names.
A fifty-year owner finally handed his 1969 Plymouth GTX to a restoration shop, and the sheet metal told a story nobody expected. Only 15,602 GTXs were built that year, and this one needed far more than paint to come back on the road.
Road Test TV pits a rare 1969 428 Cobra Jet Mustang GT Coupe, one of only 243 built, against an equally scarce 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram Air 400. Commenters immediately dig up a 1968 Car and Driver test where the Ram Air 400 beat four rival muscle cars outright, setting the stakes for this quarter-mile rematch. Watch to see whether Pontiac’s airflow-focused engineering or Ford’s Cobra Jet muscle wins this round.
A black-on-black 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee packing a 426 Hemi, a four-speed stick, a bench seat, and dog-dish hubcaps — one of just four post-car Hemis Dodge ever built. Its first owners weren’t collectors chasing a trophy; they were a Chicago motorcycle club that actually raced it.
Most winter storage damage isn’t from the cold — it’s from what owners skip before the cover goes on. Here’s the overlooked step that prevents rust, dead batteries, and a spring full of repair bills.