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A nearly 2,000-horsepower Mustang convertible dominated the small-tire class at Street Car Takeover St. Louis, a combination 1320video says they “rarely EVER see” at events like this one. Convertibles typically struggle in small-tire competition due to chassis flex, making this build’s consistency genuinely unusual. Watch to see how it pulled off a class win nobody expected from an open-top car.
Ford’s original 1934 3-window coupe made a modest 85 horsepower from its flathead V8. This one runs a 327-cubic-inch engine instead, a swap rooted in a hot rodding tradition that began right after World War II, when cheap, plentiful 1930s Fords became the platform of choice for speed-hungry builders. Ford built tens of thousands of these coupes in 1934 alone, leaving plenty of raw material for the builders who came looking two decades later.
Manufacturers do not normally sell cars on drag radials, but the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon arrived with 315/40R18 units developed specifically for it, each measuring 12.6 inches wide. The result was a 15 percent larger contact patch and more than double the grip of a standard Hellcat. Read on for why the tires, not the 840 horsepower, were the component that made every one of the Demon’s numbers possible.
In 1961 an American designer decided a Corvette was not European enough, so he shipped one to Turin and had Vignale build a new body over it by hand. The result headlined the Paris Salon and landed on magazine covers, and underneath the Italian coachwork it is still fundamentally a C1 Corvette. Here is how the Kelly Corvette came to exist, and why the American-chassis, Italian-body formula was more common than you would think.
Chevrolet wasn’t chasing the GTO with this car, it was aimed at Ford’s Galaxie 7-Litre and Mercury’s S-55, full-size rivals most muscle car fans forget existed. Only 1,778 of these SS 427 Impalas were built in 1968, hiding up to 425 horsepower under a body that could pass for a family sedan. A well-sorted example could reportedly reach 60 mph in about six seconds flat.
Pontiac built the first Firebird in barely six months after General Motors killed its pitch for a genuine two-seat sports car, borrowing GTO taillights and a shared Camaro platform to hit showrooms by February 1967. Four completely different engines, from a mild inline-six to a 400-cubic-inch V8 pulled from the GTO, all wore the same sheet metal, and only 697 of the ultra-rare 1969 Trans Am package were ever built. Read on to find out which engines actually made this car a legend.
This 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu underwent a complete frame-off restoration and has logged just 15,000 miles since, now running a 5.3-liter LS V8, a Quick Performance 9-inch rear end, and a full RideTech suspension. Listed out of Ubly, Michigan for $59,000, it pairs SS badging and classic sheet metal with genuinely modern mechanicals. Read on to find out everything that went into this build.
The W-30 package sounds like a minor footnote, “Outside Air Induction”, but on this 1968 Olds it meant a genuine ram-air system feeding a 360-horsepower 400 V8 capable of low-13-second quarter miles. It also came with a detail only insiders would recognize: bright red-painted inner fenders marking the car as something more than a standard 4-4-2. 1968 was also the year Oldsmobile spun the 4-4-2 into its own standalone model.
Most show cars arrive on a trailer. This 1971 Camaro street machine drove 275 miles under its own power to reach the show field, with an LS swap under a hood that was never meant to hide it. Chevrolet built 114,630 Camaros that year, and only 4,862 of them were Z/28s. Read on to find out why a strike at the Norwood plant made 1971 the second-generation F-body’s real first year.
This quiz-format rundown of Dodge trivia mixes real automotive history with one deliberately planted lie, daring viewers to separate fact from fiction across seven claims — from the 1968 Charger’s controversial “Coke bottle” styling to a Lamborghini connection behind the Viper’s V10. Some of it is common knowledge among Mopar fans. At least one claim is designed to catch even serious enthusiasts off guard. Watch to the end to see which fact doesn’t hold up.
Dodge revived the Super Bee name for a 2013 Charger SRT8 variant built around a 470-horsepower, 6.4-liter Hemi V8 capable of a sub-5-second run to 60 mph. Beyond the straight-line speed, the car pairs Brembo brakes, Bilstein dampers, and a genuinely upscale Nappa leather interior with practical four-door, five-passenger versatility. Read on to find out what else separates the Super Bee from the rest of the Charger lineup.
Jason Fenske’s Engineering Explained video takes a skeptical premise — can a motor oil really go a full year, or 20,000 miles, without a change — and turns it into a two-day tour of Mobil 1’s actual testing facility in Paulsboro, New Jersey. It’s detailed enough that even the video’s own top comment from an engineer viewer admits marketing claims and engineering data don’t always tell the same story. Watch to see exactly what convinced Fenske, and what one sharp-eyed commenter thinks the testing still left out.
Every month, without fail, a market square in central Helsinki fills with American muscle cars, classics, hot rods, and the occasional Japanese oddball — all gathered for a meet that has nothing to do with Detroit, SEMA, or any American car culture hub. This Jamboolio video captures the September 2017 Cruising Night at its liveliest, from a 1967 Mustang commenters called “perfect” to a Death Proof-inspired Nova prowling the crowd. It’s proof that the sound of a V8 translates in any language. Watch to see what shows up next.
Often called the car that started the entire muscle car genre, this 1965 Pontiac GTO rolls in wearing Tiger Gold paint, a 389 V8, and the close-ratio four-speed and limited-slip rear end that made it more than just a big engine in a mid-size body. Former GTO owners flooded the comments with their own stories, from decade-long daily-driver ownership to heated debates over the single best factory color combination. Watch the breakdown of the car that made John DeLorean’s rule-bending idea a legend.
A reviewer who’s owned both a Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a Camaro SS 1LE gets behind the wheel of a 2018 Camaro ZL1, and by his own admission, it’s the closest anything has come to matching his Hellcat’s thrill since he sold it. Between a digital speedometer that skips numbers under hard acceleration and a stranger leaning out of traffic to snap a photo, this review captures exactly why one commenter summed the ZL1 up in three words: smiles per gallon. Watch to see what won him over.