Before waking a GT350 or GT500 up from winter storage, there’s a thirty-second engine step that even experienced Shelby owners admit they’d never heard of. Enthusiasts Garage walks through the full process of getting both cars ready for summer, from storage prep to that first critical start. Watch to see the priming trick that has longtime owners rethinking their own routine.
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A blue 1967 Shelby GT500 crossing the block at Mecum’s Indianapolis auction reignited a debate collectors have argued for fifty years — whether cars built before Ford shifted Shelby production to Michigan in 1968 deserve a different level of respect than everything that came after. Powered by a 428 Police Interceptor V8 wearing a 427 badge, and built during the final year Shelby American assembled cars at its own Los Angeles shop, the 1967 GT500 sits at the center of an authenticity argument that still shapes what collectors are willing to pay today.
Tom’s Refurb pulled a 1966 Mustang fastback out from under a trailer home after twenty years of neglect, and what might be a real GT turns into a rebuild full of honest, unedited mistakes — including one so specific that a retired service manager couldn’t stop laughing while he watched it happen. Between a recurring cameo from a neighbor named Papa John and a T-shirt that doesn’t survive the shoot intact, this is barn-find content built on candor instead of polish. What actually went wrong with that oil pump?
The Straight Pipes usually runs on the chemistry between hosts Jakub and Yuri, so swapping in Yuri’s actual father for a review of the 2026 Ford Mustang GT FX Package was never going to go unnoticed — especially once half the footage started looking like a home movie shot in 1986. Between the deliberate VHS aesthetic and a genuinely compelling case for naturally aspirated V8 power, this review turns a routine road test into something stranger and more memorable. What made the channel risk its own format for one video?
Joe Raiti’s 2026 Mustang Dark Horse review was supposed to be about horsepower and handling, but the comment section had other plans — half the thread is arguing about the Adriatic Blue paint before anyone mentions the naturally aspirated V8 underneath. Between a plant worker weighing in from the paint shop and a brand-new owner describing pickup day, this review turns into something closer to a community verdict than a single opinion. Is this really the best new muscle car on sale, or just the best-looking one?
A Cars and Coffee meet in Oklahoma City brought out factory-stock and modified muscle cars alike, from a black-painted 396-style Camaro to a ’68 ‘Cuda most viewers couldn’t stop talking about. Buried in the footage is a Yenko Nova, one of only 37 built and seven known to survive today. Four minutes of tire smoke and drive-bys hide more automotive history than most viewers realized. Watch to spot it yourself.
NR Classics fires up a numbers-matching 1967 Shelby GT500 Fastback, but the engine growling under that fiberglass hood is not the one Shelby’s own sales brochure promised buyers that year. The real story behind the missing Le Mans-bred 427 explains why every production GT500 got a different engine instead — and why nobody who owns one seems to mind.
This 1,000-HP Twin-Turbo Mustang Rolled Out of a Car Show — And It Wasn’t Even the Loudest One There
A twin-turbo, supercharged ‘Vicious Mustang 2.0’ claiming 1,003 wheel horsepower headlines this car show sound compilation from 97robin997, but according to the person who filmed it, that Mustang wasn’t even the loudest car to roll through the lot. The footage also captures a Chevelle SS, a 1967 Eleanor-spec Mustang, and a 1951 Mercury coupe running a modern LS3 V8. Watch to hear which build actually stole the show.
An amateur clip of a 1969 Boss 429 leaving a car show it just won has racked up over a decade of replays, with commenters returning specifically to hear its rough, high-cam idle one more time. Ford built the Boss 429 purely to homologate its 429 engine for NASCAR, reshaping the Mustang’s front end just to fit it. Add American flags and a nuclear plant in the background, and it’s become an unlikely, enduring favorite.
This 1969 Shelby GT500 footage from the Monterey Motorsports Festival captures why Carroll Shelby’s 428 Cobra Jet-powered Mustang still anchors muscle car conversations more than five decades later. The long-nosed silhouette and racing stripes announced its intentions before the engine ever did. Viewers call it drag-strip ready on sight — and the history backs that instinct up.
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.
A Mustang GT Premium walks into a Jacksonville Ford dealership and walks out wearing a Shelby badge, a supercharger, and a sticker price above $175,000. This 830-plus-horsepower Super Snake build raises an obvious question: does it actually deliver supercar performance in a genuinely usable American package, or is the badge doing most of the heavy lifting? Watch the full walkaround to decide for yourself.
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.
A movie-pedigree Eleanor tribute, a one-of-503 NASCAR homologation Daytona, and a heavily customized Road Runner all crossed the same Mecum Las Vegas stage in one weekend, selling for a combined $995,500. Each car represents a different reason bidders pay six figures instead of five — provenance, rarity, or pure taste. Watch to see which one drew the fiercest bidding, and which one is still splitting opinion in the comments.
A 1970 Ford Mustang SportsRoof gets a complete heart transplant on PowerNation’s Detroit Muscle, swapping its original small-block for a supercharged 5.0-liter Coyote V8 paired with a Tremec TKX five-speed transmission. The build leans on ARP fasteners, Detroit Speed headers, and a custom belt-drive system to make the modern powerplant fit a decades-old engine bay. Viewers in the comments debated the real cost of the swap, with one builder pricing out a $305 header alternative to the show’s $3,500 name-brand set. The result is a classic fastback built to run with cars its original engineers never had to worry about.
