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Jamboolio’s Best Muscle Car Sounds of 2016 skips music and narration entirely, letting nearly twenty American V8s — from a nitrous-fed 1967 Camaro to a 1000-horsepower Buick Grand National — speak for themselves at full throttle. Viewers picked out standouts ranging from a black Pontiac Firebird to a twin-turbo Corvette pushing an estimated 1500 horsepower. Watch to hear which cars made the biggest impression.
Every good getaway car needs the same three things: enough speed to matter, enough anonymity to disappear, and enough reliability to not quit a block from the vault. This 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle was built by its owner purely to make him grin every time the key turned, not to win a trophy. But 1973 is a loaded year for the nameplate, because it is the year Chevrolet rebuilt the Chevelle from the frame up. Read on for what changed and why it mattered.
Marc Vernon spent time deliberately searching online for a Pontiac Formula before finding this 1975 Firebird Formula 400 — an original, unrestored survivor finished in a shade of Arctic Blue that collectors rarely see anymore. He could not pass up the opportunity once he found it. The car has already picked up its own small following among viewers who remember Firebirds in this exact color from decades ago. Watch to see what made this particular find worth the search.
Chevrolet used the Geneva Motor Show to reveal a Camaro built specifically with European buyers in mind, pairing SS 1LE track hardware with a transmission choice American shoppers couldn’t even get at the time. The satin green Track Concept combined a 453-horsepower V8, upgraded Brembo brakes, and a lowered Magnetic Ride Suspension into a package aimed squarely at track-day driving. Read on to find out why Chevrolet built something so track-focused exclusively for a market that rarely embraces American muscle.
HOT ROD put a $699 small-block turbo kit through real-world testing to answer the question every budget builder asks: does it actually work? The kit’s wastegate turned out to be the weak link — confirmed by a viewer who swapped in a real 50mm external wastegate and pushed a similar kit past 1,000 horsepower on a completely different engine. Watch to see what held up, what didn’t, and what it takes to fix it.
In 1969 Nissan launched a 2,300-pound, six-cylinder sports coupe that cost $3,526 and immediately started beating cars worth three times as much. The Datsun 240Z won four straight SCCA championships, took the East African Safari Rally outright twice, and forced American buyers to rethink what a cheap sports car could be. Here is how a Japanese coupe earned a place in conversations about American performance.
Zach Archer had already tried vintage Corvettes, Camaros, Mustangs, and modern performance cars, and none of them stuck. So a friend at DI Motorwerkz stopped advising and started building, and what came out the other side was a 1969 Chevelle carrying a claimed 740 horsepower from a modern crate big-block that leaves the factory rated at 627. Read on for what the LSX454 actually is, why it is not the big-block your father argued about, and what it takes to find another hundred-plus horsepower.
This compilation strings together real quarter mile drag races between the modern muscle car era’s biggest names — Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, a Shelby GT500 Super Snake, a Corvette ZR1, and more — with results that do not always match what the spec sheets promise. One Hellcat driver appears to fall asleep at the line and still nearly catches a Super Snake by the finish. Watch to see which factory-built legend actually comes out on top.
What began in 2005 as a casual cookout for members of an online Camaro and Firebird forum has grown into one of Michigan’s biggest car shows, drawing F-Bodies from every generation to a Milford parking lot each year. Since 2013, the event has doubled as a charity fundraiser, giving car culture a purpose beyond the parking lot. Stock survivors and heavily modified pro-touring builds share the same field this Saturday. Read on to find out what turned a small group cookout into the state’s largest F-Body gathering.
A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
Fifty years is long enough for a car to outlive the reasons someone parked it in the first place. This 1961 Corvette finally rolled back into daylight after five decades in storage, and the timing matters: 1961 was the last year Chevrolet built the Corvette exclusively around the 283 small-block, including a rare fuel-injected option. Here’s what makes a survivor like this one worth a second look.
Inside Line pits a 2010 Dodge Challenger against its 1970 ancestor in this Edmunds.com comparison test — but the vintage car is not stock. It is a Hotchkis-modified Trans Am platform car, and viewers who have ridden in it firsthand explain exactly what was changed and what was not. Watch to see how a well-rounded modern Challenger stacks up against fifty-year-old muscle built for the road course.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.
Buick never marketed the Riviera as a muscle car, but tucked under its elegant hood sat a 425-cubic-inch Nailhead V8 with a nickname that hinted at something more aggressive. Here’s the story behind the Wildcat 465, the rare dual-quad Super Wildcat option only 2,122 buyers ordered, and why this personal luxury coupe deserves a second look from muscle car fans.
A creator known as MrOffAndOn set out to document a complete teardown and rebuild of a Dodge 5.9-liter 360 Magnum V8 — an engine with real Mopar small-block heritage that spent most of its life under truck hoods instead of muscle car fenders. Viewers have called it one of the most thorough rebuild videos they’ve found for this specific engine, with several thanking the creator directly for making it. Watch to see what a full rebuild actually involves, start to finish.