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Pontiac built fewer than 700 first-year Trans Ams in 1969, and this white-with-blue-stripes example, restored by a specialist shop and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, is one of the survivors. Owner John Steger walks through what made the earliest Trans Am different from everything that came after. It’s a rare look at where the nameplate actually began.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T doesn’t belong on the narrow, orderly streets of Vantaa, Finland, and that’s exactly why this one turns heads every time it shows up. Filmed at a European muscle car cruise thousands of miles from Detroit, this 440-powered Charger proves American iron still commands attention wherever it lands. Watch to see why a simple powerslide had fans asking for a reupload.
Dennis Collins has turned a weekly cup of coffee and a walk through his Texas warehouse into appointment viewing, but episode 201 of Coffee Walk revealed something even his regular audience hadn’t seen: a personal collection built entirely around American muscle, with zero exotics in sight. Watch to see what’s been kept under wraps.
Everyone knows the GTO and the Chevelle SS, but Car News TV went looking for the muscle cars history left behind — and found seven, including a Buick Wildcat whose custom wheels have viewers arguing in the comments to this day. One commenter even jumped in to defend his own 401-cubic-inch, four-speed AMC Javelin AMX as faster than half the cars on the list. Watch to see which forgotten machines made the cut.
In 1967, Chevrolet quietly offered a compact Nova with a 325-horsepower small-block that could embarrass Camaros and big-block muscle cars alike — and most buyers never even knew to ask for it. Roughly six people got the option code right. This is the story of how a car built to look ordinary became one of the era’s genuine giant-killers.
Long before the Challenger Demon’s real specs were public, rumors claimed it would simply ‘rival’ the Hellcat and the next GT500. The reality blew past that modest framing entirely, an 840-horsepower supercharged HEMI, a 9.65-second quarter mile, and an NHRA-certified quarter-mile record the actual GT500 wouldn’t even show up to challenge for another three years.
A Mustang GT Premium walks into a Jacksonville Ford dealership and walks out wearing a Shelby badge, a supercharger, and a sticker price above $175,000. This 830-plus-horsepower Super Snake build raises an obvious question: does it actually deliver supercar performance in a genuinely usable American package, or is the badge doing most of the heavy lifting? Watch the full walkaround to decide for yourself.
Long before Riviera meant a swoopy two-door coupe, Buick used the name on this formal, chrome-heavy 1957 Super four-door hardtop, powered by the distinctive 364 cubic-inch Nailhead V8. Small styling cues like four VentiPorts per fender and chrome rear chevrons quietly told other drivers exactly how much Buick they were looking at. Read on to find out how Dynaflow made this Super feel smoother than any geared automatic of its era.
Jay Leno gets a look at a car that shouldn’t exist by any normal logic: a brand-new 1968 Mustang GT 2+2 Fastback with Cobra Jet badging, built from freshly manufactured tooling rather than a restored donor car, and packing a modern Coyote V8 underneath period-correct steel. Watch to see how a Florida manufacturer is legally building Mustangs Ford stopped making decades ago.
Chevrolet built 7,209 Nova SS 396s for 1969, and most buyers skipped the milder engine option for the one built to actually hurt people at the drag strip. Five hundred pounds lighter than a Chevelle running the same 396, this compact turned into one of the quickest cars Chevrolet sold that year. Read on to find out why Chevrolet let its cheapest muscle car become one of its fastest.
Nineteen million views and counting: a drag racing compilation pits Hellcats, a Tesla, a Porsche, a factory Shelby GT500, and a Corvette ZR1 against a lineup of home-built project cars, including a Chevy Nova rebuilt from the ground up. One viewer joked about losing to “half Optimus Prime.” Watch to see whether money or obsession wins at the strip.
Dodge shipped the 2015 Charger SRT Hellcat with two key fobs, and only one of them unlocked the full 707 horsepower under the hood. Behind that party trick was a four-door sedan capable of an NHRA-certified 11.0-second quarter mile and a 204 mph top speed, numbers no family car had any business posting. Read on to find out how a practical sedan ended up rewriting the rulebook for what a four-door could be.
Eighteen pro-built classic Chevrolets lined up at Auto Club Speedway for the Super Chevy Muscle Car Challenge, and the smart money was on a Camaro to win the handling-focused competition, the way it usually does. Instead, a 1972 Corvette out-drove every single one of them. Watch the full episode to see how the results played out — and how at least one driver managed to hit a cone anyway.
Hector Fraire was 19 when Oklahoma Highway Patrol clocked his 2011 Mustang GT at a jaw-dropping 208 miles per hour on a turnpike, turning a refused traffic stop into a pursuit, an arrest on reckless driving and eluding charges, and a viral story. Comment sections have spent years dissecting exactly what kind of build gets a street Mustang to that speed. The build details are more impressive than the headline.
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