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American Motors built muscle cars on a fraction of what Ford, GM, and Chrysler spent — yet fielded a genuine two-seat performance car in the AMX, a Trans-Am-proven Javelin, and the tachometer-hooded 1970 Rebel Machine. This countdown video draws a passionate, correction-heavy response from AMC loyalists in the comments. Watch to see which cars actually earned AMC’s reputation for hiding real speed in unglamorous bodies.
Plymouth’s Barracuda beat the Mustang to market by two weeks in April 1964 — and then spent a decade figuring out how to actually compete with it. This rundown traces the nameplate from its Valiant-based debut through the 1970 E-body reinvention, the Hemi ‘Cuda and AAR ‘Cuda, and the four-headlight 1971 restyle, ending with Barracuda production’s quiet close in 1974. Watch to see how a footnote became one of the most valuable muscle cars ever built.
Brown County Dragway’s eighth-mile is narrow enough and beat up enough that grass grows between the lanes — and once a year, the fastest small-tire no-prep cars in the country race there anyway, often past sunrise. This year’s War in the Woods XIV coverage from 1320video doubles as a tribute to a community figure the crew clearly lost, and includes a Fox-body-versus-Firebird finish fans are still arguing about. Watch to see why this event has no real competitor.
Richard Hammond spent years reviewing everything from hypercars to homemade contraptions, but it’s a 500-horsepower Ford Mustang Dark Horse that pulled the most surprising reaction out of him yet. Built around a reworked 5.0-liter V8, a standard limited-slip diff, and a six-speed manual, the Dark Horse arrives just as its V8 rivals are disappearing from showrooms entirely. Watch to see what won him over.
Jay Leno gets a look at a car that shouldn’t exist by any normal logic: a brand-new 1968 Mustang GT 2+2 Fastback with Cobra Jet badging, built from freshly manufactured tooling rather than a restored donor car, and packing a modern Coyote V8 underneath period-correct steel. Watch to see how a Florida manufacturer is legally building Mustangs Ford stopped making decades ago.
Brad Conley owns one of the actual Stage 1 prototype show cars Buick used to prove the GSX deserved to exist before the division ever built one for a customer. Host Kevin Oeste finally met his own childhood dream car face to face at the 2018 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Chicago — and Conley did more than let him look. Watch to see what happened when the owner invited him to sit inside.
Richard Rawlings and the Gas Monkey Garage crew found three 1970 Dodge Challengers — purple, black, and orange — hiding in the same barn, and the tipster who found them wanted a $10,000 finder’s fee for the tip alone. Pulled from years of barn-find hunts across Camaros, GTOs, and Monte Carlos, this compilation shows exactly how those negotiations really go down. Watch to see whether Rawlings pays up or walks.
B is for Build cut a 2019 Mustang GT down to bare metal and fabricated a 1967 Fastback body onto its modern chassis, calling it a roughly $40,000 build. Their own commenters ran the labor math and came up with a very different number. Watch the SEMA-deadline build that turned into a debate over what car builds actually cost once real labor counts.
Rich Fairservis spent most of his life buying the cars he wanted, one at a time — and the result is a warehouse holding six Dodge Demon 170s making a combined 6,150 horsepower, plus a Viper from every generation ever built. Photographer Larry Chen was let inside to document it. One viewer even stumbled onto the building by accident, driving for Uber nearby. See what a lifetime of deliberate collecting actually looks like up close.
A 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle gets dragged out of a hay barn and rebuilt from the ground up on PowerNation, with new body panels, an upgraded suspension, and a big-block Chevy engine dropped under the hood. Hosts Marc and Tommy finish the car in a dazzling metallic baby blue before taking it for a payoff drive through the Smoky Mountains. A sharp-eyed viewer — a professional locksmith — even spotted a shortcut the crew missed for the broken trunk lock. The build has become a fan favorite for its patient, drama-free approach to bringing a forgotten classic back to life.
Throttle House hosts Thomas and James test the 2026 Dodge Charger Sixpack, the gas-powered, twin-turbo six-cylinder version of Dodge’s new Charger platform making 550 horsepower for $54,995 USD. The review — bluntly titled ‘Welp’ — splits the hosts between cautious optimism and open disappointment. Commenters piled on over the car’s roughly 4,800-pound curb weight, heavier than a Toyota Highlander hybrid despite carrying no EV battery, and a plastic engine cover that misrepresents the inline-six’s cylinder layout. It’s a pointed look at whether Dodge’s post-Hemi Charger can actually deliver on the muscle car promise.
A 1970 Ford Torino Cobra finished in Vermillion with satin black accents gets the spotlight in V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series, powered by a factory-rated 375-horsepower 429 Super Cobra Jet V8. Owners in the comments dispute that number, with one claiming his SCJ Torino made closer to 540 horsepower once drag-pack options were factored in. Period magazine tests reportedly placed its quarter-mile times alongside a 435-horsepower Corvette, despite the Torino rarely getting the same collector respect today. One owner’s story about the car even ends with a deer strike on a Wyoming highway at 100 mph.
Regular Car Reviews is giving away the WS6 Trans Am featured in this video — but the real story in the comments is an owner whose own WS6 sat under a cover for six years and fired right up the moment they turned the key. Watch to see what it actually costs to bring one of these back from years of hibernation.
This Top Banana Yellow 1970 Dodge Super Bee packs a 440 Six-Pack under the hood and, according to its owners, can’t go anywhere without turning heads. But the real surprise is a small dashboard light most fans have misidentified for fifty years. Watch to find out what Super Bee actually stood for, and what that mystery light on the dash is really for.
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 came with two very different big-blocks — the 360-horsepower LS5 and the race-bred, 450-horsepower LS6 — and disputed production numbers that still fuel debate at auction. Viewer comments add their own family history, from a Fathom Green LS6 to a rumored Corvette-swapped ’67. Few muscle cars generate this many personal stories fifty years later.