Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars after a few childhood years in France — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind. Over more than twenty-three years of ownership, he’s swapped in a 340-cubic-inch V8, a Tremec five-speed, and nitrogen shocks, building a car with enough torque to ‘leave Porsches behind’ on the straights. Watch to see why one habit still catches him out in the corners.
Plymouth once paid Warner Bros. $50,000 just so the Road Runner could borrow a cartoon bird’s name and its ‘beep-beep’ horn — and it turned into one of Detroit’s best-ever marketing bets. By 1970, the car had a redesigned Air Grabber hood and a genuine 425-horsepower Hemi option, but only 152 buyers ever ordered one. This numbers-style 440 Six Barrel hardtop shows what nearly everyone else actually drove home instead.
Dodge’s new 550-horsepower Charger Scat Pack borrows a nameplate that goes back to 1969 — but the original “Six Pack” didn’t have six cylinders at all, it had six carburetor barrels bolted to a 440 V8. A week of real-world commuting captured with binaural microphones shows what the twin-turbo namesake actually delivers: a 3.7-second 0-60 time and a driving experience nobody expects from a car named after a decades-old carburetor joke.
This 1970 Chevrolet Impala, powered by a 350 small-block paired with a TH350 automatic, hadn’t run since 1993, 23 years of silence before this restart attempt. Using nothing more than a dwell meter, timing light, and decades of hands-on know-how, host Jonathan walks through exactly what it takes to wake up an engine everyone assumed was finished. Watch to hear how it sounds once it finally catches.
The 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge got its name from a TV catchphrase everyone was repeating in 1968, and Pontiac somehow turned the bit into one of Detroit’s most collectible muscle cars. Only 6,833 were built, most of them hardtops, all riding on a 400-cubic-inch Ram Air V8. Here’s the story behind the name, the numbers, and the paint color that made it unmistakable.
This black 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 trades its factory bias-plies for drag radials, and the difference shows the moment the light turns green. Chevrolet built 63,006 SS 396s that year across three engine options, topping out at a rare 375-horsepower L78 that only 612 buyers managed to order. The car pictured here wears the classic black paint and a stance built for the strip. Read on to find out which 396 is hiding under the hood and what modern rubber does for a big-block Chevelle.
Everyone insists the deals are gone from major collector car auctions — so a channel built on proving that wrong went to Mecum Kissimmee 2026 with an $18,000 ceiling and came back with a Pontiac Le Mans, a Mach 1 Mustang, and a 1958 Thunderbird that gave one lifelong owner a lump in their throat. Is the market really as brutal as everyone claims?
Spotted at a Scottsdale Cars & Coffee, this 1965 AC Cobra carries a small-block 289 V8 and, according to Lou Costabile, the documentation to back up its ‘real deal’ status — a meaningful claim in a market flooded with replicas. It’s the configuration purists still argue is the best-balanced Cobra Shelby ever built. One commenter calls it a lifelong dream car; it’s easy to see why. Watch the walkaround, and listen for that unmistakable exhaust note.
A naturally aspirated Corvette Z06 was never supposed to beat a 707-horsepower supercharged Hellcat — especially not after giving it a head start. This drag racing compilation from Wheels pits the Z06 against a Hellcat, an Audi RS6, and one very confused Honda that ended up on the track by accident. The result surprised even the Corvette’s own fans watching along. Watch to see exactly how lopsided the numbers turned out to be.
Chevrolet handed its brand new Camaro one of the biggest stages in American motorsport in 1967, and a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner drove it around the Brickyard in front of a packed house. Then the man who actually won the race that day refused to go anywhere near it. This 1967 Camaro SS convertible is one of the small fleet Chevrolet built for that month of May, and its story is stranger than the badge suggests.
Chevrolet built 243,085 Camaros for 1969, and the model year ran roughly five months longer than it should have because the second-generation car was not ready. Hidden in the order books from that unusually long run are two Central Office Production Order codes most dealers never mentioned, one of which paired the car with a 425-horsepower 427. Read on for what Chevrolet was quietly building behind those numbers, and why the ’69 is still the first-gen everyone wants.
Pontiac was not supposed to build the 1964 GTO at all. A corporate rule banned engines over 330 cubic inches from the compact Tempest, so three engineers found a loophole in the option book and dropped a 389 in anyway. Management approved 5,000 units as a hedge against failure. Buyers ordered more than six times that number in the first year, and Detroit spent the next decade chasing what Pontiac started by accident.
Dodge built the Challenger SRT Demon’s exhaust note as deliberately as its horsepower figure, engineering an advanced torque reserve launch system that stores boost before the car even leaves the line. The result is a deep, uneven idle unlike anything else in a parking lot, and a first-for-production-cars piece of drag-racing technology hiding behind the sound. Read on to see how it actually works.
Tom Lembeck’s Mopar collection includes two of the rarest muscle cars ever built: a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona in Spring Green and a 1970 Plymouth Superbird in Vitamin C Orange, both packing factory 426 Hemi engines. Filmed side by side in Chicago, the pairing even fooled a passerby who walked right past without noticing. Fans in the comments are split on which winged Mopar deserves the edge. Watch to see which one Tom calls his favorite.