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Dodge Challenger SRT HELLCAT: Is This the Last Great American Muscle Car?

Every other muscle car nameplate has gone electric, gone away, or gone soft trying to chase sports car rivals twice its price. The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat did none of those things, staying loud, huge, and supercharged right up until production ended for good. Borrowed from UK specialist importer Clive Sutton for this review, it sets out to answer a pointed question: with rivals increasingly drifting toward supercar territory, is this genuinely the last great muscle car? Watch to see the case this drive makes.

A classic red Mustang coupe driving down a scenic rural road.

93 Mustang coupe VS 68 Nova SS

by Wes

A rolled-up newspaper drops as the starting signal, and a 1993 Mustang coupe lines up against a 1968 Nova SS — two completely different eras of Detroit performance settling things the old-fashioned way in a parking lot. The CLUNKER channel’s comment section has been arguing about the result for years since it first posted. Watch to see which one actually gets the better launch.

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Was So Fast NASCAR Changed the Rules — This One Has Never Even Been Titled

by Jack Harmon

A 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona built to chase a 200-mph NASCAR dream has sat in a private collection without ever being titled or plated — not once in over 50 years. Only 503 of these winged Mopars were built before NASCAR rewrote the rulebook to stop them. Here’s the story behind one of the rarest muscle cars in America.

A car crashes into a large ramp set up outside a building.

VELOSTER DRIFTING ON A VERTICAL WALL IS THE CRAZIEST THING EVER!!

by Wes

A Hyundai Veloster appears to climb a vertical wall, hold the line, and come back down — and the comment section has spent nearly a decade split on whether the footage is real. Tire-track evidence says one thing. A suspicious six seconds around the fourteen-second mark says another. Watch the clip and decide which side of the debate you land on.

The 1966 Dodge Coronet Had No Scoops, No Stripes, and a 425-HP Secret Most Detroit Muscle Never Matched

by Jack Harmon

Dodge buried a 425-horsepower 426 Hemi inside a Coronet that looked like a plain family sedan — no scoops, no stripes, nothing to give it away. Only 732 got the engine in 1966, and it took a NASCAR ban to make it possible. Jay Leno owns one of the survivors.

The Rambler Marlin: How AMC Beat Ford to the Fastback Pony Car — Then Threw Away Its Head Start

by Jack Harmon

AMC had a fastback on the auto-show floor before the Mustang even existed, then handed the idea to a new CEO who scrapped it for something bigger and slower to sell. The result moved barely 17,000 units in three years, yet one six-cylinder survivor from suburban Chicago shows exactly why the story still matters — and its owner bought it in 2011 for a reason that has nothing to do with horsepower.

A car performing a burnout at night on a street.

Street Outlaws KAMIKAZE Gets Busted By The Cops While Street Racing On Texas Streets!

by Wes

A crew filming for “Texas Streets” set out to capture a real test hit from Kamikaze, the big-block, nitrous-fed El Camino known to Street Outlaws fans — no barriers, no safety net, no staged police cameo. What they got instead was a nasty, fiery pass followed by an unscripted visit from actual police after the noise woke up the neighborhood. See how a supposedly routine test hit turned into one of the rawest moments the channel has caught on camera.

Danny ‘The Count’ Koker Never Sells His Own Cars — Then He Gave This 1969 Nova Away for Charity

by Jack Harmon

Danny Koker almost never gives up a car he bought for himself — until Counting Cars turned his own 1969 Nova into a charity build. Here’s the real story behind the Yenko-style graphics on the finished car, and why the actual Yenko Deuce Nova was a 1970-only rarity with just 175 ever built.

Classic red vintage car with chrome grille and headlights on.

1964 Plymouth Savoy Stage III Max Wedge of His Dreams Turned Out to Be Even More Special Than He Thought

by Kiril

A teenager who fell in love with Mopars watching quarter-mile battles at a Rhode Island airstrip in the early ’60s spent decades chasing down the car that started it all: a 1964 Plymouth Savoy carrying Chrysler’s Max Wedge engine in its final and rarest form. Here’s why that one model year, and that one drivetrain combination, was never repeated.

Two classic muscle cars ready for a drag race on a street strip at night.

$1.000 Drag Race Went Well But The Looser Did Not Want To Give Up The Money

by Wes

SS Shaun’s LSX-powered Chevelle and Big Matt’s nitrous-and-methanol Camaro lined up for a straightforward proposition: a thousand dollars, one run, no excuses. The race itself settled the question of which car hooked better off the line. What happened after — when it came time to actually hand over the money — turned out to be the more interesting part.

What a Real Shelby GT500 Restoration Exposes That a Show-Car Finish Hides

by Jack Harmon

You’ve found it — a stunning 1967 Shelby GT500, paint gleaming, engine bay detailed to concours standard, everything you dreamed about since you were staring at a Bullitt poster as a kid. But how much of what you’re looking at is genuinely original, and how much of what’s holding that car together was actually done right? A German restoration shop called V8-Werk has built a reputation making cars from this era better than the original — and watching how they work reveals just how much invisible engineering separates a properly sorted GT500 from one that only looks the part. Reproduction parts, real-world recalls, and decades-old brake and fuel systems can all hide behind a fresh coat of paint. Before you sign anything on a 1967 Shelby GT500, here’s what a genuine restoration reveals — and what NHTSA’s own recall and complaint files say buyers should double-check.

Two men examining a classic car in a garage filled with vintage vehicles.

Classic Car Jackpot: New Fast N’ Loud

by Wes

A routine buying trip turns into a masterclass in stubbornness when the Fast N’ Loud crew meets a lifelong car hoarder sitting on a private collection spanning a Ford Model A to a four-speed Corvette. The owner’s refrain — some version of ‘I like cars, a fella can’t have too many’ — became the segment’s most quoted line years after it aired. Whether Richard walks away with a deal is the real question.

Buick Built Only 72 of These 1971 GS Stage 1 Automatic Convertibles — One Magazine Says It Could Outrun a Hemi

by Jack Harmon

Only 81 Buick GS 455 Stage 1 convertibles were built for 1971, and just 72 of those got an automatic transmission — making this triple-black example one of the rarest muscle car convertibles GM ever produced. A magazine once claimed a car just like it could beat a Hemi Plymouth GTX in the quarter mile. Here’s the story behind the numbers, and the Jim Morrison ad campaign that almost never happened.

This Phoenix Collector Bought Back the Muscle Car He Drove in High School — Then Filled His Garage With a Real Superbird and Every Viper Ever Built

by Jack Harmon

Hidden in Phoenix, Arizona is a private garage holding a real 1970 Plymouth Superbird, a Boss 429 Mustang, and a Viper from every generation ever built. Its owner did not set out to build a museum — he set out to buy back the cars of his own past, starting with the Plymouth Road Runner he first drove as a teenager. Hagerty’s Larry Chen got a rare look inside.

Sweet 64 Corvette From Stephen Carnes Founder Of The Cruzin Mooro Bay Car Show

by Pat C

Cruisin’ Morro Bay Car Show started with two friends and a running conversation over coffee in 1993. Three decades later, it draws 500-plus entrants a year, gets covered by Car Craft Magazine, and still features founder Stephen Carnes’ own 1964 Corvette Stingray Roadster among the entries. Read on for how a small-town idea turned into one of California’s enduring classic car gatherings.

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