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Episode 67 of the Motorz rebuild series picks up the Chevy 350 build at its most consequential stage — the top end, where a single missed torque step or skipped sealant can undo three prior episodes of careful work. Viewers with decades of small block experience have weighed in throughout, flagging two specific mistakes worth avoiding and trading tricks that never make it into a written manual. Watch to see exactly where a home rebuild can go right, or wrong.
Nelson Racing Engines’ Tom Nelson sat down with 1320video at SEMA to explain the Maximus Charger — a 2,000-horsepower 1968 Dodge Charger built to recreate a scene from the original Fast and the Furious inside Furious 7. Over 2,000 hours of bodywork went into a car commenters initially assumed was fake. Watch the full breakdown of the build above.
A Bright Yellow 1969 Cougar Eliminator is headed to a no-reserve auction with its original G-code paperwork intact, proof it left Dearborn with Ford’s rare Boss 302 and a mandatory four-speed. Somewhere along the way that engine vanished in favor of a 351 and an automatic, and nobody wrote down why. Whoever buys it next has to decide whether the car’s real value is in what it is now, or what it once was.
A Minnesota collector has spent decades keeping his 1965 Rambler Marlin on the road, and it still stops traffic at every show he brings it to. Before the Dodge Charger existed, this AMC fastback quietly set the template for the American personal muscle coupe. Here’s why almost nobody remembers it did it first.
Only a handful of Camaros in Chevrolet history have led the field at the Indianapolis 500, and in 1969 about 3,675 buyers got to park a street version in their own driveway. Every one of them was a Dover White convertible with orange houndstooth inside, because the Z11 package left buyers almost nothing to decide. What did vary is what sat under the cowl induction hood, and that single difference is what separates a nice car from a six figure auction headline today.
A forgotten Mercury nameplate returned in 1969 wrapped in leather, alloy wheels, and two-tone paint — hiding a 429 V8 that made more torque than most muscle cars of its era. Production barely topped 20,000 cars before Mercury killed the name for good.
Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard spent time with a 1963 split-window Corvette to explain what makes the C2 the most collectible generation in the model’s history — and where buyers get burned if they don’t know what to check. It’s a buyers guide built from decades of watching these cars change hands, including one correction Hagerty had to issue after the fact. Watch to find out what even an executive editor got wrong on camera.
Ford built only 73 examples of the 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT with the ultra-rare 429 Super Cobra Jet Drag Pak package, and this survivor still carries its original invoice, Marti Report, and numbers-matching drivetrain. Under deceptively quiet Competition Yellow paint sits one of Detroit’s most overlooked muscle car engines, now dyno-tested past 500 horsepower.
Nearly five minutes long and first aired on NBC’s American Dreams to launch the redesigned 2005 Mustang, this commercial tells the story of a Marine coming home to a driveway surprise from his father. The comments reveal a twist the ad never states outright, plus a running debate over whether it even counts as a true Ford commercial rather than just a Mustang one. Even self-described Chevy loyalists admit it’s hard to dislike. Watch to see why it still gets shared more than fifteen years later.
AMC’s 1970 Rebel Machine packed 340 horsepower and a patriotic red-white-and-blue paint job into a company nobody expected to beat Detroit’s best. Only 2,326 were built before AMC pulled the plug on the name for good.
Pontiac drilled roughly 130 holes into a 1963 Catalina’s frame just to shave weight, then sold it through a regular dealership. It was one of seven street-legal factory drag specials Detroit built in the 1960s, each rarer and wilder than the last. Here’s what made all seven nearly impossible to insure.
Doug DeMuro calls the 2019 Corvette ZR1 the ultimate Corvette in this review, working through the supercharged LT5 V8 and the quirks that earned it his signature DougScore. The comments are just as entertaining as the car, endless “Doug is the type of guy” jokes, plus one pointed reminder that the mid-engine C8 arrived not long after. Watch to see if the ZR1’s case still holds up.
One classic Mustang owner funded a 500-horsepower restomod build largely through extra work shifts, and the story behind it resonated with viewers far more than the parts list. Here’s what actually goes into a modern restomod, what it costs, and why this build struck such a nerve.
This 1969 Camaro isn’t just any barn find — it’s a genuine Yenko Super Camaro built through Chevrolet’s COPO 427 program, one of only 201 made and one of just 30 with an automatic transmission. Parked in rural Indiana since the 1970s, it missed the entire modern muscle car boom and comes out the other side essentially untouched. Watch to see what fifty years of storage did to one of the rarest Camaros Chevrolet ever built.
A 450-horsepower Chevelle LS6 and a 360-horsepower Buick GS Stage 1 met on the same strip under strict factory-stock rules, and the car with less horsepower and more weight swept every round. Here’s the torque math nobody on paper saw coming.