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Ford’s own paperwork undersold this 1969 Mustang GT the moment it left the factory. The 428 Cobra Jet carried an official 335-horsepower rating that engineers knew was fiction, chosen to keep the car out of the insurance industry’s crosshairs. Add a convertible body, a rare Indian Fire paint code, and a factory power top, and you have a combination Ford built fewer than thirty times. The registry that tracks them can confirm four survivors.
A German Formula One driver once drove a Porsche 550 Spyder underneath a closed railway crossing gate during a race, without slowing down. That is how low the car sat, and part of why a 1,498cc four-cylinder could humiliate machinery with twice the displacement. Then James Dean bought chassis number 55, had a name painted on the trunk lid, and turned a race car into something else entirely. Read on for the whole story.
Only three Caterham R500 EVOs were ever built, and each one cost 42,000 British pounds — around $69,000 — without a heater or any other comfort you might reasonably expect. One of them went out and left a Ferrari Enzo behind. The Enzo cost roughly ten times as much. Read on to find out how a company that started with a Lotus parts license ended up embarrassing Maranello.
Pontiac built 6,833 GTO Judges for 1969 and only 108 of them were convertibles. This one is believed to be the last Judge convertible built for the model year, wearing a special-order color and carrying the 366-horsepower Ram Air III 400. The Judge started life as John DeLorean’s plan for a cheap, stripped GTO to fight the Road Runner, and then got optioned into something else entirely. Here is how that happened.
A supercharged Camaro ZL1 — reportedly belonging to host Liel Levy’s father — takes on a modified BMW and a $200,000 Bentley in this street-racing matchup. The factory 650-horsepower LT4 V8 makes the outcome closer than the video’s title suggests, and the comments are still arguing about just how close it really was. Watch to see how the numbers play out on the street.
MotorTrend’s Matt picks a 1987 Buick GNX, one of the most respected turbocharged muscle cars ever built. Davin counters with a 1969 Chevelle that looks like a grandmother’s grocery getter but hides a genuine COPO 427 under the hood. The comment section splits almost exactly in half, and the arguments get more detailed than most professional reviews. Watch to see which era wins this round.
A 1970 Hemi Cuda, one of just 652 built with the 426 that year, lines up against an even rarer 1967 Hemi Coronet R/T, one of the earliest street-legal Hemi cars Dodge ever sold. Both cars share the same legendary Elephant engine, which means this is less a brand rivalry than a family argument about which chassis and gearing made better use of it. Viewers in the comments have already nicknamed both cars the asphalt elephants. Watch the run and see which body style actually won the argument.
A 2017 compilation stitches together some of the loudest, smokiest muscle car burnouts and drift attempts uploaded that spring, with no single car taking center stage. One commenter loved the second clip best; another flatly asked where the drifting even was. That disagreement is basically the whole appeal, a grab bag of tire-shredding chaos where everyone picks a different favorite. Watch and see which clip earns your vote.
Car Throttle’s UK-based hosts take on one of American car culture’s most argued-over distinctions: what actually separates a muscle car from a pony car. The video traces both categories back to their origins, from the Pontiac GTO to the original 1964½ Mustang, before tackling the overlap that confuses even longtime enthusiasts. It’s a debate with real consequences for car show classifications and collector values. Watch to see where the line actually gets drawn.
A random online post about a car sitting in someone’s barn led The Auto Archaeologist to a 1967 Mercury Comet Caliente most muscle car fans have never heard of, let alone seen. This particular example carries the R-code designation, meaning a factory 427 with dual four-barrels and a four-speed manual, verified in an original Hot Rod magazine feature. Even dedicated Mercury enthusiasts often assume this configuration is more legend than reality. Watch to see what a genuine, forgotten piece of Mercury muscle car history looks like today.
Two hundred miles an hour used to be a number reserved for exotics, not something you ordered at a Ford dealership. Then SVT dropped a 5.8-liter supercharged V8 into the 2013 Mustang and produced 662 horsepower — the most powerful production V8 in the world at the time. It came with one transmission choice and a solid rear axle. Read on for how Ford made all of that work.
A 2016 Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce rolled into an ordinary Scottsdale Cars and Coffee meet, and Lou Costabile’s camera was there to catch it. The SV badge is not just trim, it marks the most track-focused, weight-stripped version of Lamborghini’s V12 flagship, and reactions in the comments came from as far away as Cairo. Watch to see what happens when an exotic this rare parks next to the regulars.
210 episodes into covering the Brothers Collection, Muscle Car of the Week finally ranks the convertibles — pulling from a 1967 Mustang K-code, a 1964 Plymouth Satellite 426 Wedge, a fuel-injected 1959 Corvette, and a 440 Six Barrel ‘Cuda in Tor-Red. Each car represents a different era and manufacturer’s approach to open-top American performance. The comments are already split over which one deserves the top spot. Watch to see the full lineup and decide which convertible you’d pick.
Filmed at Raceway Park’s Street Wars event in Englishtown, New Jersey on November 2, 2014, this compilation lines up American muscle against import tuner cars run after run down the quarter mile. One entrant, a compact SUV nobody expected to take seriously, turned in a number that still has commenters arguing years later. Watch to see which side actually earned bragging rights that day.
Only twelve people ever ordered a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a 426 Hemi and a convertible top — and just five came with a manual transmission, like this Plum Crazy Purple example from the Brothers Collection. The factory fender tag tells the whole story, down to the exact rear gear ratio and interior trim code. See how V8TV verifies a claim this rare, one code at a time.