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Shot from a first-person view with the camera near the driver’s own eye line, this 1970 Dodge Challenger gets pushed to its 150-mph speedometer limit on Germany’s unrestricted autobahn, a kind of sustained high-speed run American owners rarely get to attempt legally. Other drivers scatter once they spot it in their mirrors. Ride along for a rare look at what these cars can really do.
This 1970 Chevrolet Impala, powered by a 350 small-block paired with a TH350 automatic, hadn’t run since 1993, 23 years of silence before this restart attempt. Using nothing more than a dwell meter, timing light, and decades of hands-on know-how, host Jonathan walks through exactly what it takes to wake up an engine everyone assumed was finished. Watch to hear how it sounds once it finally catches.
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.
Chevrolet’s 2015 Camaro Z/28 borrowed its 505-horsepower LS7 engine straight from the Corvette Z06 parts bin, then wrapped it in a chassis stripped, stiffened, and fitted with racing-grade Multimatic dampers built for one job: lap times. Priced at a flat $75,000 and offered exclusively with a manual transmission, it reportedly posted a 7:37 Nurburgring lap that embarrassed cars costing twice as much. Read on to find out what it actually took to build the fastest Camaro of its generation.
At the 9th Annual Cantigny Park Car Show outside Chicago, Lou Costabile sits down with Bill Warzynski, who has owned this 1965 Pontiac GTO hardtop since he bought it new — nearly fifty years and counting. It’s the second model year for the car that started the muscle car era, and one commenter’s story about a neighbor’s GTO abandoned in a driveway since 1978 makes clear how rare that kind of loyalty really is. Watch to hear Warzynski’s own story of five decades with one car.
A vintage 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T commercial has quietly become a cult favorite for reasons that have little to do with horsepower: a blustering, law-enforcement bit built around a Southern sheriff that viewers now recognize as an eerie preview of Buford T. Justice, seven years before Smokey and the Bandit made the archetype famous. Behind the joke sits a genuinely serious muscle car, available with everything from a 383 Magnum up to the 426 Hemi. Watch the full spot to see where the joke started.
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner dealer commercial, built for the drive-in and packed with 440 Six Pack, pistol-grip shifter, and Air Grabber hood details, has been quietly making grown adults tear up in the comments more than fifty years after it first aired. One owner has kept his original example running for thirty-seven years. Another still remembers exactly who lost a street race to one in 1972. Watch to see why a two-minute car ad refuses to be forgotten.
A four-minute, music-only tribute to the 1964-1974 muscle car era has turned its own comment section into a decade-spanning argument, about when the era actually started, which cars deserved a spot, and whether America ever built anything this good again. See the cars, then see what the community had to say about them.
The 1983 Fox-body Mustang GLX convertible almost never happened the way people assume — Ford shipped brand-new coupes out to a contractor just to get the top cut off and a folding roof installed. Add a four-barrel carb that boosted the 5.0 V8 by nearly fifty horsepower, and you have got a genuinely underappreciated turning point in Mustang history hiding behind a badge nobody talks about.
In January 2017, the Detroit auto show had to share the headlines with an FBI arrest, a billion-dollar penalty, and a federal Notice of Violation. Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt was detained at a Florida airport over Dieselgate, Takata agreed to pay $1 billion for its deadly airbag inflators, and the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of undisclosed emissions software on roughly 104,000 diesel trucks and SUVs. Why should muscle car fans care about any of it? Read on for what those three scandals say about the industry that builds the cars we love.
Barefoot Ronnie Pace’s Nova backfires through its nitrous system mid-race against Flacco’s Tuning, sending a fireball out of the engine bay close enough that a nearby bystander’s lit cigarette becomes its own punchline in the comments. One viewer corrects the record on nitrous chemistry; another questions whether the car is really a genuine Yenko. Watch to see just how dramatic the explosion really gets.
From the outside it reads as a pearl orange Plymouth Cuda with a Hemi under the shaker, which is already a serious thing to own. Look through the driver’s window and the story changes completely, because the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Schwartz Performance built this E-body for an owner in India, and moving the wheel turned out to be the smallest part of the job. Read on to find out what had to move with it.
Inline Tube’s annual open house has become the unofficial start of the Detroit car show season, and the latest one drew the biggest crowd in its history thanks to a rare stretch of wall-to-wall sunshine. The company started in a two-car garage in 1995, grew into a 28,000-square-foot facility, and now makes preformed brake and fuel lines across more than 14,000 tube patterns. Why does a parts manufacturer out-draw judged shows? Read on for how a factory parking lot became one of Michigan’s most anticipated spring gatherings.