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At the infamous I-15/78 interchange in San Diego County, one driver tried to force her way into traffic not once but three times, ignoring two warning honks from the unmarked vehicle behind her. The dashcam footage, captured on a Yi Dashcam Generation 1, shows exactly how the encounter unfolds once she realizes who she cut off. Viewers have praised the uploader for keeping the twist out of the title. Watch to see how it plays out.
Cruisin’ Morro Bay Car Show started with two friends and a running conversation over coffee in 1993. Three decades later, it draws 500-plus entrants a year, gets covered by Car Craft Magazine, and still features founder Stephen Carnes’ own 1964 Corvette Stingray Roadster among the entries. Read on for how a small-town idea turned into one of California’s enduring classic car gatherings.
Retired printer Michael Callahan wanted to join Bonneville’s 150mph Club under his own power, and found his answer in a 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II, one of roughly 503 built purely to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules. Most muscle car fans have never even heard of the car, despite its 8 Grand National race wins tying the far more famous Plymouth Superbird. Read on to find out how an obscure aero-war special ended up chasing land-speed records decades later.
Ford gave the Mustang II one final send-off in 1978, borrowing styling straight from its biggest rival to create the rarest trim of the whole generation. The King Cobra combined Trans Am-inspired graphics with a genuine 302 V8, a factory air dam unique to the model, and a fully-equipped price that pushed past $6,000. Read on to find out how one six-Mustang-II collector still had to go hunting for the one trim missing from his garage.
Steve Beck bought his 1965 Shelby GT350 for $900 on his eighteenth birthday, hoping it would help him land his first job as a mechanic — it did, on the spot. Hagerty’s Breakdown series traces decades of vintage racing and track days at Willow Springs that followed, plus more than a few speeding tickets along the way. Fifty years later, Beck is still driving it hard. Watch to see why he never let this one go.
Rick Campbell spent fifteen years restoring this 1970 Boss 429, chasing exact factory accuracy rather than showroom shine — down to preserving its original California emissions equipment. That patience earned it one of only two Authenticity Awards ever given for the model, shared with a 1969 Boss Mustang rather than a fellow 1970. Built originally to homologate Ford’s 429 big block for NASCAR, this Grabber Blue example is as much a research project as a restoration. Watch the full walkaround.
A certified auto appraiser has inspected hundreds of classic cars professionally — so when he calls a 1967 Camaro RS/SS ‘the most loaded Camaro I’ve ever inspected,’ that is not a casual compliment. This California-history coupe pairs a rare factory color with an unusually complete options list, backed by a full third-party inspection report. Watch to find out exactly what convinced an expert this was something special.
A bolt-on 560-horsepower Nissan GT-R out of the Bay Area spent a day at an off-the-grid California street racing meetup taking on any American muscle car willing to line up against it. Inconsistent street traction gave the all-wheel-drive GT-R a real edge, but at least one muscle car managed to jump out to an early lead despite the GT-R’s launch control. Viewers praised the driver for being upfront about his real horsepower instead of inflating it on camera. Watch to see who actually crosses the line first.
A bolt-on, 560-horsepower Nissan GT-R from the Bay Area takes on American muscle at an impromptu California street meetup, where imperfect pavement ends up mattering more than raw horsepower. Viewers came away praising the mutual respect between import and domestic camps more than the actual results. Watch to see how the all-wheel-drive advantage plays out on a street that refuses to hook up.
When a cylinder head company decides to throw its own car show, the results look exactly the way you’d hope. Air Flow Research’s V8 Builds event filled a Southern California speedway with everything from muscle cars to SEMA build stars. Read on to find out what a fifty-year racing pedigree brings to a car show.
A two-seat muscle car from the smallest of Detroit’s manufacturers, restored over two decades of weekend ownership and now offered by Vanguard Motor Sales — this 1970 AMC AMX carries a full VIN, a paint-to-brightwork restoration, and a reputation among owners for getting mistaken for anything but what it actually is. One AMX owner in the comments says he used to tell curious strangers his car was simply “experimental.” With only a few thousand built for 1970, is this overlooked oddity actually one of muscle car collecting’s smartest remaining buys?
The Vanderhall Venice is neither motorcycle nor car, and that ambiguity is exactly the point. Built around a turbocharged four-cylinder and a lightweight composite body on an aluminum chassis, this American-made three-wheeler trades a fourth wheel for a driving experience most sports cars cannot match. Read on to find out what actually separates it from the trikes of decades past.
A five-horsepower correction shouldn’t matter much in a world of 700-horsepower crate engines, but when Driving Sports TV’s Ryan revisits his own numbers mid-review of the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Premium, it turns into a lesson in what actually separates this car from its closest rival. Between desert-road sound testing, a new ten-speed automatic smart enough to nail its own launches, and a Cobra Jet intake swap pulled straight from viewer mod lists, this GT Premium raises a real question: is 460 factory horsepower still the whole story?
Frank and Tina Ayres spent about five years turning a 1958 Chevrolet shortbed Fleetside into something that rides and stops like a modern vehicle while looking like it never left 1959. The build passed through a now-defunct trade school campus and a Sacramento custom shop, picked up a Heidts Mustang II front end and a 350 small-block along the way, and ends on Coker wide whitewalls. It also starts an argument about what year it actually is. Read on for the details.
The State Street Nationals began in the 1990s as a small fundraiser for Santa Barbara’s Page Youth Center and has since grown into one of California’s largest downtown car shows, drawing 300-plus vehicles across roughly ten city blocks. Because every worker volunteers their time, 100 percent of the proceeds reach the charities involved. The cars are the draw, but the mission is what keeps it running.