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AV Boys’ small-block Mustang gave a built, turbocharged Porsche 911 a full car-length head start in a five-thousand-dollar grudge race — and still caught it with the front wheels off the ground. The clip has circulated for years as proof that a well-built pushrod small-block Ford can embarrass six-figure German engineering. See exactly how close it actually was.
A supercharged Camaro ZL1, a Hellcat, a Shelby GT500, a Scat Pack, and a naturally aspirated Mustang GT lining up for a straight-line shootout is about as good as modern muscle gets. The forced-induction cars post the eye-catching times, with the ZL1 dipping into the 9s and the Hellcat and GT500 not far behind. But the Scat Pack and the Mustang GT, both running without a supercharger, close the gap by more than the horsepower numbers say they should. That’s the real story here.
Long before customers ever saw a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, Road Runner, or GTX on a showroom floor, Chrysler’s own salesmen were trained on exactly how to sell them — using this internal film from the Master Technician Service Conference series. It breaks down engine options from economical slant six to the 440 Six-Barrel, explains what separated the budget Road Runner from the upscale GTX, and captures Plymouth’s B-body lineup right at the peak of the muscle car era. Watch to find out what Chrysler wanted its own people to know.
Furious 7’s skyscraper jump looks impossible because it almost was. W Motors built ten replica Lykan HyperSports for the stunt, and six were destroyed getting the shot. The flight between Abu Dhabi towers was actually filmed on an Atlanta soundstage, using real glass and a real stunt driver rather than pure CGI. Here’s how the franchise’s most talked-about scene actually came together.
Regular Car Reviews poses a deliberately unanswerable question at the Carlisle Ford Nationals, wandering a field that spans everything from Model A-era classics to a modern carbon-fiber GT. Host MrRegularCar’s deadpan commentary turns a simple car show walkthrough into a running bit about what ‘best’ even means across nearly a century of the same badge. Watch to see which Ford nearly breaks the host’s trademark cynicism.
There’s a version of the Corvette ZR1 story that ends with the car parked safely on a trailer, too special to actually race. This isn’t that story. Read on to find out what happened when RaceProvenMotorsports lined up a 2010 ZR1 against a 2019 ZR1 at Cecil County Raceway, and whether nine years of engineering actually showed up in the numbers.
When GM lifted its ban on big-block engines in mid-size cars for 1970, Chevrolet answered by stuffing a 454 into the Chevelle — and one version of that engine actually outrated the Corvette. Only around 4,475 of the wildest LS6 examples were built. Here’s what made this one-year-only combination the high-water mark of the entire Chevelle lineup.
Tim Allen’s 1968 Camaro isn’t a movie prop — it’s a 505-horsepower 427 COPO build from Bodie Stroud, constructed to be exactly the car Allen wanted as a teenager and couldn’t afford. Jay Leno gets behind the wheel to see if it lives up to the hype, and Allen’s face during the burnout says everything words couldn’t. This is car-guy comfort food.
A custom-built 1955 Ford Fairlane solves the problem of reverse gear in the most literal way possible: it has two front ends welded together, no rear end at all. Underneath the stunt is the nameplate Ford built its entire mid-1950s comeback around, the car that finally beat Chevrolet to the sales crown in 1957. Read on to find out how a serious piece of Ford history became a rolling car-show punchline.
The 1969 Ford Falcon does not get the respect a Fairlane-based platform and a 302 Windsor V8 probably deserve, mostly because Ford was quietly winding the nameplate down as this generation wrapped up. Dressed as a Futura Sports Coupe, though, this compact had real hardtop styling and a surprising amount of muscle hiding under a badge most people overlook completely.
On a closed airstrip outside Mosjoen, Norway, a tuned modern Hemi Challenger lined up against a Lamborghini for one of the country’s grassroots Street Legal drag events. The crowd’s loyalties were obvious before the lights even dropped. What happened next explains why American V8 muscle still draws a following six thousand miles from Detroit. Watch to see if the Hemi lived up to the hype.
Filmed in Dallas, Texas, this 1969 Camaro SS 396 carries the rare X66 cowl tag code — a 375-horsepower L78 big-block paired with power steering and power brakes, but deliberately no factory tachometer or gauge package. samspace81’s detailed walkaround catalogues exactly the kind of build-sheet specifics collectors chase decades later. Watch to hear why one commenter says they could listen to that L78 idle for hours.
Riding along in a numbers-matching 426 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible is rare enough on its own. Finding one that also left the factory with a 4-speed manual and its original Pistol Grip Hurst shifter narrows the field to almost nothing. See what it takes to verify a car this scarce, and what the experience is actually like from the passenger seat.
David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich built The Red Duster, a budget 1971 Plymouth Duster with a 360 and a four-speed, on Roadkill Garage — then Freiburger hit the road to visit Dulcich once the wrenching wrapped up. A 2023 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack giveaway rides along with the build. It’s a low-buck muscle car with a surprisingly high-value payoff.
From the curb, this 1948 Chevy Fleetmaster Coupe looks completely factory-correct — until the test drive reveals a fuel-injected drivetrain and overdrive transmission hiding under period-correct sheet metal. MyRod.com’s resto-mod keeps the postwar Chevy’s original silhouette fully intact while modernizing everything a daily driver would actually notice, drawing praise from commenters for restraint rather than the dramatic transformation resto-mods usually chase. Watch to see just how convincing the disguise really is.