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A stock Shelby GT350 already revs to 8,250 rpm on a flat-plane crank and sounds like nothing else Ford has ever built. Add a ProCharger and push it past 1,000 horsepower, and it becomes a very different weapon, aimed squarely at the Corvette Z06 that Chevrolet engineered to beat it. Traction, not horsepower, usually decides this one. Read on for what separates these two approaches and what boosting a Voodoo V8 actually costs.
In 1987, this Dodge Challenger owner traded away his F8 Green 1970 R/T for a Plymouth Road Runner – a decision he’d spend the next twenty-three years thinking about. When he finally tracked down his old car, its new owner wouldn’t sell it back, so he special-ordered a 2010 Challenger R/T Classic in the same High Impact Plum Crazy paint instead. This video puts both Challengers side by side, four decades apart, driven by the same person. Watch to see how much – and how little – actually changed.
This 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan drops a 392 Hemi and a Bluetooth-compatible 1400-watt stereo into an eighty-plus-year-old body, turning a Depression-era family car into something that would embarrass most modern sports cars off the line. Here’s why the ’32 Ford refuses to go out of style, and what builders keep doing differently under the hood.
Put a Hemi badge, a bowtie, and a galloping pony on the same drag strip and the internet will argue about the results for years. Independent 0-60 testing on the Camaro SS, Mustang GT, and Challenger has produced wildly different spreads depending on trim, tires, and driver. Here’s what the numbers actually show, and what’s really under each hood.
This 1970 Camaro started life as an ordinary factory 350 SS before a trip to the Dick Harrell Performance Center turned it into a 454-powered rarity, and it survives today unrestored, with roughly 6,000 original miles. Commenters pick apart everything from its likely 4.88:1 rear gear to whether those tires are period-correct. See the full breakdown of one of the Brothers Collection’s standout cars.
Ford built roughly 100 Fairlane Thunderbolts for 1964 with fiberglass hoods, fenders and doors, Plexiglas windows, no heater or radio, and a trunk-mounted battery, all to get a 427 High Riser into the most favorable Super Stock bracket the rulebook allowed. The 425-horsepower rating on the paperwork fooled nobody in the sport. Gas Ronda won the Winternationals with one, and Ford lost money on every car it delivered. Read on for what separates a real Thunderbolt from a very good tribute.
That exhaust note did not come from the base engine. In 1973 Chevrolet sold two entirely different 350 cubic-inch V8s in the Camaro, separated by one option box and a hundred horsepower, and the more serious one was built with four-bolt mains and a forged crank. This was also the last year the second-generation car wore its clean chrome front end before federal bumper rules changed it. Read on for what separated the two engines.
A fifty-one-year-old Shelby GT350 and its brand-new namesake finally shared a driveway, and the reunion revealed something the spec sheets cannot measure. Gears and Gasoline brought an original 1966 owner face-to-face with the modern Voodoo-powered GT350, expecting a straightforward comparison of horsepower and technology. Instead, they got a conversation about what a car is actually worth once memories are involved. Watch to see which Shelby the owner chose in the end.
In February 1968, a nearly unknown racer named John Barkley leaned over the fender of a dark-blue 1957 Chevy deep in the Stock Eliminator pits at Pomona, having already won his class and fought through multiple rounds of the NHRA Winternationals. Junior Stock was the most unforgiving corner of drag racing, decided by hundredths and by discipline rather than by budget. Read on to find out why his name still circulates half a century later.
This countdown of Chevrolet’s greatest engines sparked exactly the kind of debate its title promises, with viewers immediately questioning why the small-block 350 didn’t make the cut and disputing the technical details behind the top pick. See which engines made the list, and decide for yourself whether the ranking holds up.
This gallery’s 327-cubic-inch Turbo-Fire V8 and Powerglide combination sits at the reliable middle of Chevrolet’s mid-1960s full-size lineup. But the real story is what happened to Impala sales the year this car was built, once Chevrolet spun its top trim off into a brand-new standalone model that stole the spotlight almost overnight.
For the third January in a row, the Mustang outsold both the Camaro and the Challenger — even as all three pony cars posted some of their worst monthly numbers in years. The gap between first and third widened, not narrowed, during the slump. Here’s what the January 2017 numbers actually showed, and why a soft month didn’t tell the whole story.
Footage of a motorcycle crash at a documented 140 miles per hour has racked up more than 3.2 million views, and the reason isn’t morbid curiosity alone. Riders and safety instructors use clips like this to understand exactly what happens when triple-digit speed meets a split-second loss of traction. The physics are unforgiving, the margin for error is thinner than most riders assume, and the outcome depends on details most people never think about until they’re living them. See what actually separates a survivable slide from a catastrophic one.
Jay Leno walks a row of retired California Highway Patrol cars with two CHP veterans, flipping on sirens and climbing behind the wheel of machines that once ran down real muscle cars on real highways. One Dodge-based cruiser is cited at a genuinely startling top speed, and the comment section spent as much time dissecting the officers’ body language as the cars themselves. Watch to see which detail from this walkthrough nobody was supposed to notice.
Nick’s Garage puts a trusted double-pumper carburetor against a modern EFI system in a controlled, back-to-back dyno test, and the horsepower numbers surprised even longtime viewers. Just as much attention goes to an oil pump tip Nick shares mid-test, which commenters call one of the most useful things they have picked up from the channel. Watch to see which induction system actually wins.