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Abandoned Oldsmobile 442 Muscle Car Found After 27 Years Gets a Stunning Restoration

This Oldsmobile 442 spent nearly 27 years sitting untouched in a storage unit, covered in mold and grime thick enough to hide what it actually was underneath. The team behind this channel specializes in taking cars nobody thought could be saved and surprising the owner with the finished result once the work is done. Watch the full pressure wash, clay bar, polish, and mold-removal process that brings a genuinely underrated muscle car back to life — and see the owner’s reaction when they finally get it back.

The 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1: The Last Great V8 Camaro Gets a Proper Send-Off

by Jack Harmon

Chevrolet confirmed in March 2023 that this generation of Camaro would retire at the end of the 2024 model year, with no gas-powered successor announced. This ZL1 review captures the top of the lineup at exactly that moment — supercharged 6.2L V8, available manual transmission, Recaro seats, and styling that refused to soften. Viewers are calling it a genuine monster and a ‘now or never’ buy. Watch to see the last great V8 Camaro in action.

INSANE Muscle Cars at the 2024 Street Machine Nationals – A Car Show Like No Other

by Jack Harmon

Picture a single parking lot holding a Yenko Camaro, a GTO Judge, a Smokey and the Bandit tribute Trans Am, and well over a hundred more genuine muscle cars and hot rods, all in one afternoon. That’s the Street Machine Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota — one of the biggest gatherings of its kind in the country. With a list of cars this long, the challenge isn’t finding something worth stopping for, it’s knowing where to look first. Watch the full walkthrough.

Ford Mustang 1970 – Original 302 under the hood

by Kiril

This 1970 Ford Mustang runs Ford’s original 302 small-block, the same displacement that powered the Boss 302’s Trans-Am championship run against the Camaro Z/28. Bunkie Knudsen and designer Larry Shinoda helped turn a modest small-block into a genuine giant-killer on the track. Read on to find out how a 220-horsepower engine helped rewrite what a small-block could do.

Two men standing by an orange classic car in a desert at sunset.

In the Muscle Car’s Heyday, Just Like Today, Chrysler Cranked Out Hot Cars That Weren’t for the Inhibited

by Kiril

Mopar loyalty was forged in the muscle car’s heyday, and 1971 gave the faithful a Charger that earned every bit of it. Dodge reinvented the car with a fuselage-style third-generation body, split grille, and hidden headlights, and it was the final year Chrysler offered the 426 Hemi in any car. R/T production totaled just 3,118 units, with only 332 four-speed 440 Magnums. Read on to find out why the 1971 Charger marks the end of one era and the beginning of another.

A classic black muscle car doing a burnout on a street with spectators.

DEATH PROOF Nova Burnout and V8 Sound!

by Kiril

A matte black 1970 Chevrolet Nova built as an almost exact replica of Kurt Russell’s villain car from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof rolls through a cruising night in Helsinki, Finland — and the burnout that follows makes clear why the exhaust note mattered as much to the build as the paint job did. Nearly two decades after the film’s release, the car is still instantly recognizable to anyone who’s seen it.

Blue vintage muscle car with hood scoops on display.

Dodge Super Bee 1969 images

by Ross Mills

This 1969 Dodge Super Bee isn’t dressed up for the cameras — it’s a straightforward 383 Magnum four-speed, the combination the Super Bee was built around before options started piling on. Bumblebee stripes and a power-bulge hood do the talking on the outside, while a factory 335-horsepower big block and a clutch pedal do the talking everywhere else. It’s Mopar muscle in its most honest factory form.

Ford Mustang Boss 302 1969-70

by Ross Mills

Ford needed something to embarrass Chevrolet’s Camaro on a road course, and what it built carried a name that started as an inside joke between two engineers. The Boss 302 was rated at 290 hp on paper and closer to 380 in reality. Read on to find out the story behind the name, and why a $3,720 car now sells for over half a million.

A 1969 Plymouth GTX in action during a vintage road test.

1969 Plymouth GTX 440 – vintage road test

by Wes

The narrator can’t quite settle on how to pronounce GTX, but there’s no confusion about what this 1969 Plymouth can do. This vintage road test pushes the 440-powered GTX through acceleration runs and cornering that surprised even the crew filming it, backed by a factory pedigree tied to Sox and Martin’s NHRA racing program. Watch to find out exactly how fast the quarter-mile route to Squeelsville really was.

Dodge Charger 1973 – 800 HP

by Kiril

This 1973 Dodge Charger wears its Rallye stripes and hood pins like a well-kept survivor, but under the hood sits a custom 605 cubic inch big block claimed to make 805 horsepower. A stock ’73 Rallye topped out around 280 horsepower from its 440 Magnum, so nearly everything about this car’s performance belongs to a different era of engine building. Read on to find out how much of it is still 1973, and what it takes to make an old B-body carry that much power.

Two muscle cars racing on a drag strip under a cloudy sky.

2016 V-8 Muscle Car Challenge: Acceleration

by Wes

Cars.com brought the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS, Ford Mustang GT, and Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack to Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park for a week of head-to-head quarter-mile testing. Three different engineering philosophies — high-revving small-displacement, independent-rear-suspension balance, and big-displacement torque — went up against the same stopwatch. The result wasn’t the simple horsepower-wins story some viewers expected. Watch to see which pony car actually got there first.

The AMC Rebel 1969 and 1970

by Ross Mills

AMC spent the late 1960s selling the Rebel as sensible family transportation, a four-door sedan, a wagon, and a hardtop built for buyers who wanted nothing flashy. Then it built The Machine: a 340-hp version of the same car, wrapped in a single red, white, and blue paint scheme with a hood-mounted tachometer. Read on to see how AMC quietly redesigned the Rebel for 1969 and 1970, and how The Machine turned an economy car into a genuine muscle car.

Classic black Ford Mustang parked outdoors with a scenic background.

1966 SHELBY GT350H MUSTANG UNVEILED DURING THIS EPIC “BARN FIND”

by Wes

Auto Archaeology found this 1966 Shelby GT350H not in a barn but parked beside a suburban home, where owner Judy revealed it had simply been one of her and her husband’s ongoing projects. The GT350H was born from a real collaboration between Carroll Shelby and Hertz Rent-A-Car, letting everyday renters take home a genuine performance Mustang for the weekend. Watch the full story to see the car and hear directly from the owner who’s had it all along.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon driving on a road at sunset.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon | Road Test

by Wes

MotorWeek’s John Davis takes the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon straight to a drag strip, testing a car SRT engineered from the ground up rather than simply retuning the Hellcat it’s often mistaken for. Four decades into hosting the show, Davis treats it as a milestone episode, and the comments make clear plenty of longtime viewers agree. It’s a car built almost entirely around one number. Watch to see what that number actually is.

Dodge Charger 1969 R/T 440 – Angry V8 Startup Sound and Revs!

by Kiril

The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T came standard with the 440 Magnum, and the sound that big block makes at idle is the reason so many people call this one of the best-looking muscle cars of all time before it ever moves. Most R/T buyers took the 440 over the Hemi, but far fewer of those cars survive today with their original drivetrain intact. Read on to find out how the R/T earned its badge and what to check before buying one.

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