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This 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 proves the muscle car era wasn’t as dead as critics claimed. Built with a cammed 350 V8, headers, and its original four-speed manual transmission, it wears the black-and-orange color combination that defined the second-generation Z/28 at its peak. Watch the full 4K road test and tour of a survivor built during the industry’s so-called malaise era.
Adam Martin bought this primer-gray 1968 Chevrolet Camaro at sixteen with money he’d earned making pizzas, knowing little more about cars than how to check the oil. Decades later, the imperfections he built into it himself — a coat-hanger scar in the paint, a set of Hooker headers he hammered into shape by hand — are the parts he refuses to fix. Petrolicious follows how one car became Martin’s entire automotive education. Watch to hear the story behind every imperfection.
The Dodge Charger debuted in 1966 as a two-door-only muscle car with V8 power and a distinctive rotating-headlight grille, a formula it kept until the nameplate went dormant in the late 1970s. When Dodge revived it in 2006, the Charger came back as a four-door sedan, a shift that still splits opinion among Mopar loyalists decades later.
This 1969 Plymouth Road Runner spent its early life as ‘Agent Orange,’ a Detroit-area drag car famous for popping wheelies at Milan Dragway. A decade-long rotisserie restoration and a NASCAR-built 500-cubic-inch six-pack engine later, it’s now a street-legal machine wearing its drag strip pedigree openly. See what a documented drag-strip pedigree and a 700-horsepower six-pack stroker look like on the same car.
A 1969 GTO Ram Air IV, one of only 759 built that year, takes on a 1970 Chevelle SS454 LS6, Chevrolet’s most powerful factory big block of the era, in a quarter-mile pass that ends in a burnout as memorable as the race itself. An original LS6 owner in the comments confirms the car’s biggest weakness was never power, it was getting that much torque to the pavement. The Ram Air IV gives up 80 horsepower on paper but does not give up the fight. Watch the full run to see how it closes the gap.
A routine Coffee and Cars meet turns chaotic in seconds when a Mustang driver revs aggressively toward a crowd of spectators, captured live by High Tech Corvette’s Facebook feed. Two small children were knocked aside in the scramble to get clear, though no one was seriously hurt — a near-miss that reignited debate about the unwritten safety rules car meets depend on. Watch the unedited footage that has viewers siding firmly with the crowd.
California’s Riverside Police Department took delivery of a 2016 Ford Mustang GT that had been handed to Steve Saleen’s shop and returned with a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 making roughly 730 horsepower and 600 lb-ft of torque, plus revised suspension, big brakes, and a rear wing under black-and-white livery. Built as a rolling memorial and community outreach tool rather than a patrol car, it is the modern extreme of a police Mustang tradition that dates back decades. Read on to find out how it came together.
A drive-in, two vintage muscle cars, and a hand-lettered sign poking fun at gas mileage nobody in period actually cared about. It’s a joke that’s been running since the first big-block V8s hit showroom floors, and it still lands because the trade-off it pokes fun at never really went away. Here’s why ‘worry-free’ horsepower has stayed the whole point for generations of muscle car fans.
Long before algorithm-driven feeds took over, car culture had its own meme economy built on captioned photos and one-liners passed between forums and Facebook groups. This particular joke leans on one of the hobby’s oldest tropes: a breakup where the car is the one thing that’s never on the table. It’s silly, it’s exaggerated, and it says something true about how enthusiasts actually feel about their builds.
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.
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.
Doug DeMuro barely had time with the new 2019 Corvette ZR1 before filming, but touring it at its Dubai debut still turned into a look at the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet had ever built. Commenters could not resist joking about an American supercar getting its unveiling in a city built around European exotics. Watch to see the quirks DeMuro found anyway, and why this first look still gets rewatched years later.
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.