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A classic Camaro’s burnout went wrong in front of a packed crowd at Wayne Downtown Days, and only a parked Ford Flex stood between the out-of-control car and spectators with nowhere to run. No one was hurt, but the event’s organizer had pointed words afterward about why crowds keep egging drivers into exactly this kind of stunt. Here’s what happened on Michigan Avenue that night.
Two intake manifolds can look like twins on the bench and still make or break a build, and Edelbrock breaks down exactly why. A dual-plane splits the plenum to build strong low-end and midrange torque for street driving, while a single-plane opens everything up for maximum high-rpm airflow on race engines. Pick the wrong one for your cam and gearing and you cap the very power you were chasing. Watch to learn which manifold actually matches how you drive.
Chevrolet’s 1963 pickup redesign quietly introduced a coil-spring front suspension and the truck line’s first alternator, changes that outlasted the model itself and shaped the C/K lineup for years. The factory engine lineup topped out well below what this particular restomod carries under its hood today. Here’s how a truck originally rated at 180 horsepower ended up running a modern small-block instead.
Regular Car Reviews turns its trademark mix of mechanical respect and merciless comedy on a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda, a gentleman’s GT car the host says looks best from the rear. Built on the humble Valiant platform and fitted with the largest automotive glass of its day, this fastback beat the Mustang to showrooms by weeks and then watched it steal the decade. It is the strange, earnest origin story behind the legendary Cudas that came later. Watch to see why this odd fish still inspires such loyalty.
A stock Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat lines up against a stock Shelby GT350, and the trap speeds capture two completely different philosophies of speed. The Hellcat’s supercharged HEMI bullies its way to 147 mph while the Shelby’s screaming flat-plane Voodoo V8 answers with 142. One car is a straight-line heavyweight, the other a road-course scalpel forced to fight on unfamiliar ground. Watch to see how close these modern classics really run when nobody is allowed to cheat.
Behind a set of long-shut doors in rural Iowa sits one of the denser muscle car hoards Patrick Glenn Nichols has ever documented, headlined by two unrestored 1970 Nova L78 396 cars and a survivor 1971 Heavy Chevy Chevelle. Finding one genuine L78 Nova is a career highlight; finding two in the same building sounds invented. Add a massive stash of collectible cars and original parts, and you have a discovery worth walking through slowly. Watch to see whether the stories hold up.
Muscle cars run on a simple formula: big power, small price. Japan never quite matched that formula until Infiniti’s 2018 Q50 Red Sport 400 showed up with 400 horsepower, four doors, and a price tag tens of thousands below what a GT-R or RC F demands. First-drive reviewers loved the power but split hard on one specific detail. Here’s what stood out.
Taking a rear-wheel-drive muscle car on a snowy road trip sounds like a recipe for a ditch, but the redesigned sixth-generation Camaro was built with more than good weather in mind. A lighter Alpha-platform chassis, a limited-slip differential, and a dedicated Snow/Ice drive mode change the equation more than you’d expect. Here’s what actually makes this Camaro capable in conditions it was never supposed to see.
A software bug buried in the transmission control module of some 2017 Dodge Challengers could let the dash show PARK even when the car isn’t actually parked, creating a real rollaway risk for anyone who steps out without the parking brake set. Dodge recalled 7,802 examples equipped with the 5.7-liter V8 and 8-speed automatic to fix it with a free software update. Here’s what triggered the recall and what affected owners need to do.
Pontiac’s sedan delivery was always the overlooked sibling in GM’s fleet lineup, rare enough that only a fraction survive today compared to Chevrolet’s more common version. This 1951 example has been reworked with a 400 cubic-inch V8, leather interior, and modern comforts the original spartan service trucks never came close to offering. Here’s what makes this uncommon body style worth a second look.
A muscle car’s front wheels lift completely off the pavement in this shot, and it isn’t an accident or a loss of control. Spring rates and shock valving are doing exactly what they’re tuned to do at the starting line, and wheelie bars exist specifically to cap how far that lift can go. Here’s the suspension science behind why some cars wheelie off the line, and where that same lift turns dangerous.
Drifting looks effortless when it’s done right, which is exactly what convinces people to try it before they’ve earned it. This clip from TheFormulaJuan is the other side of that confidence gap: a truck goes a little too hard, and physics collects its debt. Tall, heavy, and high-riding, trucks are among the least forgiving vehicles to slide on purpose. Watch a quick cautionary tale about the razor-thin line between looking cool and losing control.
It sounds like a recipe for a fast trip into a hedge: take a 1,000-pound classic Mini and cram in a 240-horsepower Hayabusa superbike motor. But once this thing launches, the laughter turns to disbelief, and over four and a half million viewers agree. 1320video shows how an absurd power-to-weight ratio turns a humble economy car into a genuine street terror. See why the wildest builds aren’t always the ones with the biggest engines.
A first-generation Camaro that looks completely stock from the outside just ran 7.79 seconds at 179 mph, numbers that belong more to a purpose-built race car than a 55-year-old street body. Twin turbochargers, not a big-block V8, are doing the work this time, hidden behind a factory-style front clip. Here’s how builders are extracting supercar-slaying performance from classic sheet metal.
By 1972, the Dodge Challenger had lost its convertible option, its biggest engines, and a big chunk of its sales, all in the same model year. Tightening emissions rules reshaped the muscle car era almost overnight, wiping the 426 Hemi and 440 Six Pack off the order form entirely. Here’s what actually changed under the hood and why this often-overlooked model year still matters to collectors.