Creator Sick McVick films an entire burnout tutorial from the passenger seat, breaking down exactly how to smoke the tires in a 1970s automatic muscle car — a technique manual-only guides never cover. The car itself has drawn comparisons to the black Nova from Tarantino’s Death Proof, with multiple commenters independently spotting the resemblance. Beyond the driving lesson, the video’s loose, high-energy style has viewers comparing the host to a mashup of two well-known comedic actors. The result is equal parts instructional content and pure car-culture entertainment.
Chevrolet invented a fake French translation to explain the Camaro’s name back in 1966, and the story never really went away. From a rule-dodging Z/28 engine to a Hollywood robot that revived the whole nameplate, here’s what fifty-eight years of Camaro actually adds up to.
Ford bet big on a total redesign for the 1972 Torino, and the Gran Torino Sport wore that gamble best — longer hood, bolder grille, and a hood scoop that meant business. Buyers could step up from the base 302 V8 all the way to a 429 big-block. The payoff: Ford outsold Chevrolet’s Chevelle for the first time since the Torino nameplate launched in 1964.
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American Motors never had Detroit’s budget, but for a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, its Javelin and two-seat AMX spinoff went toe-to-toe with the Mustang and Camaro on both the street and the Trans-Am track — with Roger Penske and Mark Donohue behind the wheel of a purpose-built 5.0-liter version. Watch to see why this overlooked underdog still deserves a second look.
Doug DeMuro reviews the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, a factory SUV packing the same 707-horsepower supercharged Hemi found in Dodge’s Hellcat muscle cars. See how a badge-engineered Grand Cherokee became, for a moment, the most powerful SUV money could buy.
Richard Boehl has owned his 1971 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Six Pack — part of a production run of just 178 cars — since 1986, and he’s collected plenty of speeding tickets along the way. Filmed at Carlisle Events for My Car Story with Lou Costabile, this Concours-caliber Charger runs a triple-carburetor big block that sounds nothing like a standard four-barrel setup. Watch to hear it, and hear Boehl’s stories, for yourself.
Chevrolet has only ever used the LT5 badge on two Corvette engines – one hand-assembled by a boat-motor company in Oklahoma, the other a supercharged monster built nearly 30 years later. The first set FIA world records within weeks of hitting showrooms; the second made 350 more horsepower. Here’s why GM recycled the name instead of starting fresh.
Buick built the 1965 Riviera as a luxury coupe, then quietly optioned in a 360-horsepower 425 V8 for buyers who wanted it both ways. Fewer than 3,500 people checked that box, making the Gran Sport one of the rarest true muscle cars of the era. Decades later, Bill Burr got behind the wheel with Jay Leno – and left convinced it might be the meanest car he’s ever driven.
This two-owner 1968 Ford Torino GT carries a documented 390 four-barrel rated at 335 horsepower, backed by window stickers, the original invoice, and a title copy tracing it to day one. Ford built the Torino to go head-to-head with the Chevelle SS and GTO, and this survivor still wears the paper trail to prove it earned its place. Read on to find out what period testers clocked at the drag strip.
You’ve found a 1969 Dodge Super Bee for sale, and it looks like the deal of a lifetime. That hockey-stick stripe, the buzzing bee decal on the tail, maybe even a 383 Magnum rumbling under the hood – this is a genuine B-body muscle car, still priced well under its Charger and Road Runner siblings. But look closer before you commit. NHTSA has a documented rear-axle recall tied to these cars that most sellers have never heard of, let alone addressed, and the same rust-prone unibody construction that ended so many Mopars of this era in a salvage yard is still doing damage decades later. One owner’s Super Bee needed a full family restoration – years of work, a torn-down body, and a rebuild from the ground up – just to get back to factory-correct condition. Before you hand over a deposit on your own Bee, here’s what that restoration story, and the government’s own recall records, say you need to check first.
AMC never had the budget of Detroit’s Big Three, and for one model year it stopped pretending that mattered. The Rebel Machine wrapped the most powerful engine the company ever built into a mid-size two-door and sent it to a drag strip for its public debut instead of an auto show. Read on to find out how a car built in such small numbers became the most patriotic-looking muscle car of the era.
Most 1958 Pontiac Star Chiefs left the factory with a 370-cubic-inch V-8, but a rare Tri-Power option pushed output to 300 hp — with an even rarer fuel-injected version topping 310. Sales that year collapsed by roughly 60 percent for Pontiac, making surviving examples scarcer than the model’s reputation suggests. This particular car pushes well past its factory roots with a big-block swap, turning a once-overlooked flagship into a genuine hot rod.
Carroll Shelby’s Cobra started as an opportunistic phone call to a small British manufacturer about to lose its engine supplier, and it ended as one of the most feared shapes in racing. This 1964 289 roadster changed colors partway through its restoration, which is an appropriate twist for a car whose entire history is built on improvisation. The 289 cars are lighter, sharper and more usable than the big-block monsters that followed. Read on for why the small block Cobras have their own devoted following.