Posts Tagged: Camaro
A pair of 88-millimeter turbochargers mounted directly in the grille of a first-generation Camaro is not a subtle build choice, and it is not meant to be. Turbos that size are reserved for big-block combinations chasing four-digit power, and everything behind them has to be built to match. Read on to find out what a setup like this actually commits a builder to, and why the first-gen body keeps getting chosen for it.
Street Outlaws built its reputation on real grudge matches between real cars, and few rivalries carried more weight than Kye Kelley’s nitrous-fed Camaro, the Shocker, squaring off against a twin-turbo rival known as the Mistress. Nitrous versus turbos is one of drag racing’s oldest arguments, and this matchup played it out in front of a national television audience. Read on to find out how a garage-built Camaro became one of the most recognized cars in the entire street racing scene.
V8TV steps outside its usual 1960s and 70s territory for episode 206, profiling a 2011 Nickey Performance Stage III S 427 Camaro from The Brothers Collection. Nickey isn’t a modern marketing invention; it’s a real Chicago dealership that built factory-adjacent big-block Camaros back in the 1960s, and this build carries that name forward with four-digit horsepower you don’t need a racetrack to use. One commenter admits it’s the modern muscle car that finally got an old-school purist thinking. Watch to see why.
The 400 small-block is mostly remembered for something almost embarrassing: which parts from other small-blocks will not bolt onto it. This guide traces Chevrolet’s 4.0-inch bore small-block family — the race-bred 302, the ubiquitous 350, and the siamese-bore 400 — and explains the external-balance quirk that catches out first-time engine swappers. Read on to find out how to tell these engines apart before you buy or build one.
Chevrolet built the L88 Corvette without a radio or heater on purpose, a deliberate filter to keep casual buyers away from an engine dyno-tested at roughly 560 horsepower against its official 430 hp rating. This entry breaks down the auction results that made L88 Corvettes the benchmark for six-figure muscle car money, including a 1969 example that sold for $825,000 with just 20,000 miles. Read on to find out what separates true scarcity from marketing hype.
At 6Sixty Street’s Pre-72 class, there’s one rule that never bends: if your muscle car wasn’t built before 1972, it doesn’t line up — and if it can’t drive itself to the start line, it doesn’t race at all. No trailers, no tow rigs, no exceptions. It’s a throwback that turned a grassroots meetup into 44 minutes of Nova-on-Nova rematches and one Ford truck nobody saw coming.
This compilation kicks off a new monthly format built around the best street races a single month produced, and the headline pull says it all: an 850-horsepower Camaro against a heavily built Nissan GT-R, reportedly hitting 180 miles an hour. Both platforms represent completely different paths to serious street power. Which one actually gets there first is the whole point of watching. Check out the full top-10 rundown above.
In a modest Tennessee backyard, more than 100 muscle cars — Camaros, Chevelles, Corvettes, and models in between — sit stacked in rows, a private hoard decades in the making. The video’s creator calls it one of the wildest backyard barn finds ever filmed, and even the man who owns it admits he’ll never restore them all. Watch to see just how deep the stash really goes.
This IROC-Z Camaro spent thirty years parked and forgotten, yet its odometer reads just 18,000 miles — a number that made the WD Detailing crew treat it less like a cleaning job and more like an archaeological dig. Underneath the dirt and mold was a factory-original survivor that had never been repainted or reupholstered, a rarity in a market full of restored clones. Watch to see how much of that untouched history was still there to save.
Barry White thought he knew what he was buying when he picked up a gutted 1969 Camaro shell from a wrecking yard. Hidden rust, a supercharger that wouldn’t fit, an engine bay fire, and a run of bad luck earned the car its nickname: Christine, after Stephen King’s killer Plymouth. With $40,000 on the line at auction in Jackson Hole, and a rival Camaro selling for far less, watch to see whether the curse finally breaks.
Tim Allen’s 1968 Camaro isn’t a movie prop — it’s a 505-horsepower 427 COPO build from Bodie Stroud, constructed to be exactly the car Allen wanted as a teenager and couldn’t afford. Jay Leno gets behind the wheel to see if it lives up to the hype, and Allen’s face during the burnout says everything words couldn’t. This is car-guy comfort food.
In 1967, Chevrolet borrowed a primetime sitcom witch to help sell a brand-new Camaro that, ironically, was mostly bought with a base inline-six and a three-speed. The commercial folds Bewitched’s magic into GM’s era-defining options culture, where practically everything on the car was a paid extra. It’s a strange, charming piece of Detroit advertising history.
Ringbrothers built their 1969 Camaro ‘G-Code’ with a supercharged 416 cubic inch V8 making a claimed 1,000 horsepower, Detroit Speed suspension, one-off IROC-inspired wheels, and an interior one commenter compared to a Pagani. TheSmokingTire took it out to find out if a SEMA showstopper like this could actually be driven — and the reaction in the comments is split down the middle. Watch to see which side you land on.