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Tom Cotter tracks down a car so rare only 85 were ever built in Episode 16 of Hagerty’s Barn Find Hunter — one carrying a seven-figure valuation despite needing a full restoration. Hagerty’s own description dares viewers to guess what it is before watching. What makes the find real, rather than just valuable, is a detail casual viewers might miss: most of the original parts are apparently still there.
California’s Riverside Police Department took delivery of a 2016 Ford Mustang GT that had been handed to Steve Saleen’s shop and returned with a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 making roughly 730 horsepower and 600 lb-ft of torque, plus revised suspension, big brakes, and a rear wing under black-and-white livery. Built as a rolling memorial and community outreach tool rather than a patrol car, it is the modern extreme of a police Mustang tradition that dates back decades. Read on to find out how it came together.
Brothers Mike and Jim Ring, already known for a 4,700-hour build on a 1969 Dodge Charger, turned their attention to AMC’s most overlooked muscle car — a 1972 AMX Javelin once dismissed by Mustang and Camaro owners as an ‘ugly duckling.’ A year and roughly half a million dollars later, Ridiculous Rides documents exactly what that obsessive effort bought. Watch to see whether the Javelin finally earns the respect it never got the first time around.
Tom’s Refurb pulled a 1966 Mustang fastback out from under a trailer home after twenty years of neglect, and what might be a real GT turns into a rebuild full of honest, unedited mistakes — including one so specific that a retired service manager couldn’t stop laughing while he watched it happen. Between a recurring cameo from a neighbor named Papa John and a T-shirt that doesn’t survive the shoot intact, this is barn-find content built on candor instead of polish. What actually went wrong with that oil pump?
Ultimate Muscle Car walked the field at Spring Carlisle 2026 to prove affordable classics still exist, and came back with everything from a second-generation AMC Javelin to a 1962 Plymouth Belvedere that multiple commenters now call the deal they wish they’d made. Not every car in the lineup gets a pass — a Ford Galaxie 500 convertible draws real skepticism over its asking price. Which of these swap-meet finds would you have walked away with?
A drive-in, two vintage muscle cars, and a hand-lettered sign poking fun at gas mileage nobody in period actually cared about. It’s a joke that’s been running since the first big-block V8s hit showroom floors, and it still lands because the trade-off it pokes fun at never really went away. Here’s why ‘worry-free’ horsepower has stayed the whole point for generations of muscle car fans.
Long before hot rodding had a name, guys with more ambition than money were already cutting up cars just like this one. The 1934 Ford 3-window coupe was cheap, common, and light enough to make backyard speed possible on a budget, a formula that built an entire subculture from the ground up. Here’s why builders are still reaching for this exact body style nearly a century later.
Dennis Collins has walked into a lot of garages on Coffee Walk, but episode 321 finds something different: a decommissioned crop-dusting hangar hiding a 1974 Plymouth Road Runner GTX under decades of dust, its dash decal still intact enough to have viewers commenting on it days later. A self-described Corvette guy shows up in the comments asking Dennis to film a full restoration, despite having no history with Mopars at all. What convinced a die-hard GM owner to root for a Plymouth?
Long before the muscle car era officially kicked off, Chevrolet was already quietly building one of its forerunners: the 1962 Impala SS 409. Buried under that full-size, family-friendly body was a 409 cubic-inch V8 available in a version that hit exactly 409 horsepower, a one-horsepower-per-cubic-inch flex Chevrolet’s engineers clearly built on purpose. It’s the car a Beach Boys song made famous before most people ever got to drive one.
The Straight Pipes usually runs on the chemistry between hosts Jakub and Yuri, so swapping in Yuri’s actual father for a review of the 2026 Ford Mustang GT FX Package was never going to go unnoticed — especially once half the footage started looking like a home movie shot in 1986. Between the deliberate VHS aesthetic and a genuinely compelling case for naturally aspirated V8 power, this review turns a routine road test into something stranger and more memorable. What made the channel risk its own format for one video?
Long before algorithm-driven feeds took over, car culture had its own meme economy built on captioned photos and one-liners passed between forums and Facebook groups. This particular joke leans on one of the hobby’s oldest tropes: a breakup where the car is the one thing that’s never on the table. It’s silly, it’s exaggerated, and it says something true about how enthusiasts actually feel about their builds.
Joe Raiti’s 2026 Mustang Dark Horse review was supposed to be about horsepower and handling, but the comment section had other plans — half the thread is arguing about the Adriatic Blue paint before anyone mentions the naturally aspirated V8 underneath. Between a plant worker weighing in from the paint shop and a brand-new owner describing pickup day, this review turns into something closer to a community verdict than a single opinion. Is this really the best new muscle car on sale, or just the best-looking one?
A forgotten 1978 movie chase pairing a detuned Trans Am against a transitional C3 Corvette earned a rare four-star rating from a dedicated film-preservation channel. Both cars represent very different Detroit performance philosophies from the same turbulent era. Find out why this overlooked scene still holds up decades later, and what made 1973 such a pivotal year for the Corvette’s design.
Regular Car Reviews built a whole episode around a technicality: strictly speaking, there’s no such thing as a factory Nova SS, just an option package bolted onto an ordinary Chevy compact. What starts as a joke about badge integrity turns into a real argument for why this particular 1970 Nova, and its unswapped 350 small-block, deserves more credit than its “fake” SS badge suggests. Viewers from as far as Argentina showed up with their own Nova stories. So is the SS badge a lie, or just a loophole?
MotorWeek put the 2026 Dodge Charger R/T through its full road-test treatment, and the numbers it turned in are hard to ignore: a roughly $50,000 price tag, a 13-second quarter mile, and not a single cylinder of V8 under the hood. Host John Davis treats the twin-turbo six-cylinder Charger with the same measured scrutiny he’s applied to Mopars since the 1980s, but the comments section isn’t nearly so calm. Is this really what “entry-level” muscle looks like now, or has Dodge just redefined the term?