Posts Tagged: Muscle Car Review
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.
TheStraightPipes reviews the 807-horsepower Dodge Charger Hellcat Redeye Jailbreak at $128,545 CAD, and it turns into something closer to a eulogy than a spec-sheet breakdown. Viewers are calling it the channel’s most comprehensively edited Hellcat video yet, built around a supercharger whine they say never gets old and a reviewer’s kid who sums up the whole car in one word. Watch to see Dodge’s V8 send-off before the Hellcat era officially ends.
Chevrolet confirmed in March 2023 that this generation of Camaro would retire at the end of the 2024 model year, with no gas-powered successor announced. This ZL1 review captures the top of the lineup at exactly that moment — supercharged 6.2L V8, available manual transmission, Recaro seats, and styling that refused to soften. Viewers are calling it a genuine monster and a ‘now or never’ buy. Watch to see the last great V8 Camaro in action.
This 1970 Buick GSX spent years as a rusted, non-running wreck before a full restoration brought it back to its factory Saturn Yellow finish — one of just 491 built in that color out of 678 GSX cars total. Buick’s overlooked muscle car packed a 455 cubic-inch Stage 1 V8 rated at 360 horsepower, though real output likely ran closer to 376. Read on to find out what it took to bring a rolling wreck back to magazine-cover condition.
The April 2017 issue of Muscle Car Review, with a 1970 Ford Torino GT on the cover, asked three respected restorers, Bob Perkins, Jason White, and Ken Maisano of MASCAR Classics, how to hire a painter and keep a project out of paint shop purgatory. Their advice covers vetting a shop, getting timelines in writing, sorting parts before the car arrives, and what owners owe the shop in return. Read on to find out how the finishers work.
When longtime dealer Bob Taylor retired after 37 years running his own classic car shop, he didn’t just sell off the inventory — he mentored his successor into building a new showroom nearby. The result is a 6,500-square-foot space in El Paso that feels, by Taylor’s own admission, eerily similar to the shop he just closed. Read on for the story behind the handoff.