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Kevin Hart didn’t just buy a 1969 Pontiac GTO — he spent three years working directly with Detroit Speed & Engineering to build one exactly to his standard. It debuted at the 2023 SEMA Show and, according to the builders themselves, still dazzles everyone who sees it. Zach Arlen walks through the subtle details that set this GTO apart. Watch to see what three years and real collaboration actually buys.
After the 1968 Dodge Charger’s handsome fastback shape turned into a liability on NASCAR’s high-banked superspeedways, Chrysler answered with the radically reshaped 1969 Daytona — complete with a nose cone, towering rear wing, and a Lockheed wind-tunnel-tested aerodynamic package. It worked immediately, winning its first race and becoming the first NASCAR stock car to top 200 mph. Read on to find out how two cars sharing one platform ended up telling such different stories.
After years of Dodge flip-flopping between V8 muscle and an all-electric future, the new Charger Sixpack lands somewhere nobody quite expected: a 550-horsepower turbocharged inline-six. Jakub and Yuri put it up against the Kia Stinger, the Honda Prelude, and even an old Charger at its $89,995 CAD price point. Watch the most brutally honest verdict yet on whether a six-cylinder Charger still deserves the name.
A four-door family sedan that can out-accelerate two-seat sports cars sounds like a contradiction Detroit would never build — until Dodge wrapped a supercharged 707-horsepower HEMI in one and called it the Hellcat. Bone stock, it runs an 11-second quarter mile from a car that tips the scales at well over 4,500 pounds. Read on to find out exactly what Dodge crammed under that hood.
Chrysler built only 22 1971 Dodge Super Bees with the 426 Hemi, and only 9 of those got a 4-speed manual. Separately, just 9 known ’71 Super Bees left the factory with a power sunroof — a nearly-$500 option that mandated a full vinyl top. Whether any single car sits at the overlap of all three is a question the historical record can’t quite settle. Watch to see the numbers behind one of the rarest combinations in Mopar history.
This all-black 1978 Pontiac Trans Am hides a detail most casual buyers never notice: two completely different 400-cubic-inch engines were available that year, separated only by a single cylinder head casting number. See all eight photos of this dealer-fresh example, then read on to find out which engine code actually made it the car enthusiasts wanted.
A 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, immortalized by Smokey and the Bandit, was once cheap enough to be a common sight in driveways across America, sold by the tens of thousands every year. The comments on this video tell a different story now — one viewer cites $85,000-plus prices for clean examples, calling the video’s ‘bargain’ framing badly out of date. Watch to see why GM’s most aerodynamic 1977 production car still gets called ‘the aerodynamics of a brick.’
Hagerty’s Driveway Finds crew already built an awesome muscle car out of a 1972 Nova found rotting in the dirt — on a $5,000 budget. Then they doubled it, dropped in an LS engine, and drove straight to LS Fest to see how hard a sleeper barn find can really launch. Watch to see whether a second $5,000 budget was enough to hang with cars that cost ten times as much.
This 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 convertible wears its original Carousel Red paint and whatever numbers-matching hardware Pontiac bolted under the hood in the final year before a full redesign. The gap between a standard 400 and the Ram Air package cars built that same year can mean tens of thousands of dollars at auction today. Read on to find out what separates a garden-variety 400 from the cars that made 1969 the high-water mark of the first-generation Firebird.
A 74-year-old viewer says this old-school drag racing footage from Indiana’s US41 Dragstrip brought back memories of the 1970 Plymouth Duster he bought at 21 — and the jade-green ’56 Chevy that replaced it a year later. No purse, no sponsors, just a quarter mile and cars that launch the way they did decades ago. Watch to see which car earns an instant, confident prediction from the comments before the run even finishes.
This 1967 Camaro pro-street build hides a supercharged 472 cubic-inch V8 behind a custom-cut hood opening, a full roll cage, and drag radials wide enough to leave no doubt about its priorities. See all ten photos of the build, then read on to find out what the factory SS 396 it’s built on could already do — and how far this one goes past that.
No trailers allowed means exactly what it says: every car racing in this 405 street event drove itself there and will drive itself home, which rules out trailer queens and modern Fox-body Mustangs alike. A stripped-down ’65 F-100 steals scenes from the muscle cars, and the finale nobody called becomes the night’s real talking point. Watch to see old-school drag-and-drive racing run the way it was in the 1960s.
Burnout competitions reward cars for going absolutely nowhere — judged not on elapsed time but on smoke volume, tire longevity, and showmanship, even as the sustained wheelspin quietly punishes the driveline far harder than any quarter-mile pass would. This breakdown covers what actually happens to a tire and transmission during a serious burnout, and why the format has become its own standalone motorsport. Read on to find out why judges care more about smoke than speed.
Barry White thought he knew what he was buying when he picked up a gutted 1969 Camaro shell from a wrecking yard. Hidden rust, a supercharger that wouldn’t fit, an engine bay fire, and a run of bad luck earned the car its nickname: Christine, after Stephen King’s killer Plymouth. With $40,000 on the line at auction in Jackson Hole, and a rival Camaro selling for far less, watch to see whether the curse finally breaks.
At Sweden’s Power Big Meet — the largest gathering of American cars in Europe — a 1968 Dodge Charger doesn’t bother with a quarter mile. It just plants its rear tires and lets a crowd of onlookers decide whether to cheer or step back. Years later, viewers still say they come back to this exact clip just to feel it again. Watch to see why a simple burnout still beats a modern Hellcat’s, according to the comments.