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Filmed while the third-generation Trans Am was still brand new, this MotorWeek retro review evaluates the third-generation Trans Am completely on its own merits — new styling, real road performance, and an engine that didn’t quite live up to its own marketing. Watch the car exactly as period reviewers judged it, before it became KITT.
Gord Nelson had a bucket list, and near the top of it sat a Mercury Cougar Eliminator most muscle car fans overlook in favor of its Mustang cousin. When he found one buried in the newspaper classifieds, his wife told him to go get it. What he ended up with wears an engine rating that never quite matched what these cars could do at the strip. Read on to find out the real story under that Competition Orange hood.
We researched 6 top Orbital Polishers & Car Buffers options on Amazon — here are the ones worth buying for your muscle car, ranked by ratings and real buyer feedback.
Ron Hoeft bought this 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS Super Sport new, let it go at some point over the following decades, and then — against long odds — tracked it down and bought the exact same car back. Host Lou Costabile sits down with Ron at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals to hear the full story behind the big-block 427, the rare factory vinyl top, and a reunion most owners never get.
A 1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible offered buyers a full menu of engines from a modest six-cylinder up to a 335-horsepower V8. A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda offered exactly one engine and only seven surviving convertibles. See how two completely different factory philosophies now translate into wildly different price tags at auction, ranging into the millions for the rarer of the two.
By 1955, the Hudson badge on this Wasp was covering for a car that was mostly Nash underneath, a product of the 1954 merger that created American Motors. It rode on Nash’s full-size platform and borrowed its 202-cubic-inch six from the smaller Hudson Jet, making up to 120 horsepower with the optional dual-carb Twin H-Power setup. Sales fell to just 7,191 units that year. Here’s the story behind one of Hudson’s last independent-looking cars.
Oldsmobile officially rated its 1970 442 W-30 at 370 horsepower — a figure many enthusiasts believe underrated the real output by roughly 30 horsepower. Raiti’s Rides walks through the car’s cold-air hood, upgraded rear axle, and factory performance package, making the case for one of GM’s most overlooked muscle cars. Watch to see what the numbers on paper never fully told you.
Buick built north of 33,000 Rivieras in 1971, but only 3,175 wore the Gran Sport package that added a hotter 330-horsepower 455, heavy-duty suspension, and real performance hardware under that polarizing boattail body. Add a rarely-ordered option like factory cornering lights, and you land on a car that’s uncommon within an already uncommon build. It’s proof that the interesting story on a boattail Riviera often lives in the option boxes, not just the sheet metal.
The Pontiac Trans Am WS6 package started as a simple order-form checkbox, but it transformed a standard fourth-gen Firebird into the sharpest-handling version Pontiac ever built. This detailed Cars & Bids review, viewed nearly 288,000 times, walks through every quirk from the functional hood scoops to the notoriously cheap interior. Watch to see what that $3,290 checkbox actually bought.
Most Mustang GT reviews lean on the window sticker. Landan took LMR’s fresh 2018 Mustang GT straight to a dyno and a quarter-mile track before touching a single bolt, establishing real baseline numbers for a car generation that brought more changes than most buyers realize, an all-new third-generation Coyote V8 and a 10-speed automatic with a dedicated drag mode among them. Watch to see exactly what the numbers showed, and why viewers are still debating them.
It feels responsible to fire up a stored muscle car through the winter to keep the oil circulating — but Muscle Car Solutions brings actual oil analysis data suggesting that habit can cause more engine wear than it prevents. The video makes the case for a battery charger instead of repeated cold starts. Watch to see what the oil report actually revealed.
We found 5 1970 Buick GSX and GS 455 listings across ClassicCars.com and Streetside Classics — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
After 122 episodes of Muscle Car Of The Week, V8TV pulled the actual play-count data to rank which individual cars fans watched the most. Two Ford Boss Mustangs claim the top spots, with a Hemi Superbird, a Mr. Norm’s Challenger, and a Dodge Daytona rounding out the list. The hosts even challenge viewers to guess what’s conspicuously missing from the countdown.
Plymouth’s 1971 Duster 340 wore a compact-car body and a shark-tooth grille, but its 340-cubic-inch small-block gave it enough power-to-weight advantage to hunt down muscle cars costing twice as much. Motor & Mutt TV makes the case for this overlooked Mopar as one of the smartest performance buys of its era. Watch to see why enthusiasts still argue over exactly what’s under the hood.
Before waking a GT350 or GT500 up from winter storage, there’s a thirty-second engine step that even experienced Shelby owners admit they’d never heard of. Enthusiasts Garage walks through the full process of getting both cars ready for summer, from storage prep to that first critical start. Watch to see the priming trick that has longtime owners rethinking their own routine.