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A 74-year-old viewer says this old-school drag racing footage from Indiana’s US41 Dragstrip brought back memories of the 1970 Plymouth Duster he bought at 21 — and the jade-green ’56 Chevy that replaced it a year later. No purse, no sponsors, just a quarter mile and cars that launch the way they did decades ago. Watch to see which car earns an instant, confident prediction from the comments before the run even finishes.
Burnout competitions reward cars for going absolutely nowhere — judged not on elapsed time but on smoke volume, tire longevity, and showmanship, even as the sustained wheelspin quietly punishes the driveline far harder than any quarter-mile pass would. This breakdown covers what actually happens to a tire and transmission during a serious burnout, and why the format has become its own standalone motorsport. Read on to find out why judges care more about smoke than speed.
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.
In February 2013, two brothers went looking for one very specific car: an unrestored 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda in a screaming factory color, with its original build sheet, a four-speed, and one owner from new. Plymouth built only 114 of these for the entire model year, and just 7 convertibles. What the brothers found inside three weeks turned out to be exactly what they were chasing. Read on to see how rare this car really is.
This Old Car digs up a 1970 Motor Trend test of the redesigned Torino Cobra 429 Super Cobra Jet — numbers fast enough to beat a 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 in period testing. Ford’s aircraft-inspired redesign added five inches of length and real performance credibility most muscle car fans have since forgotten. The data alone makes a case for reconsidering it.
Autotrader’s Rory imports a 797-horsepower, left-hand-drive Hellcat Redeye to answer one genuinely practical question: can it actually work as a daily driver on British roads? Between narrow lanes, tight roundabouts, and a supercharger bigger than most European engines, the answer isn’t obvious going in. One longtime UK owner says it’s been worth every complication since 2015, and the review explains why.
A 1970 Oldsmobile 442, bought for $1,500 in 1994 and simply driven like any other used car, sits at the center of a story about how undervalued genuine muscle car iron once was. With its W-30 forced-air induction package and a 455 rated at 370 horsepower, this was Oldsmobile’s peak performance statement before insurance pressure forced Detroit to pull back. Watch to hear the secrets most fans never heard.
New EPA fuel rules hit every muscle car in 1971, but the Oldsmobile 4-4-2 absorbed the changes better than most, holding onto a genuine 350-horsepower W-30 option even as compression ratios dropped across the industry. Read on to see how Oldsmobile’s answer to the GTO adapted to a rulebook nobody in Detroit had faced before.
One of these two Chevrolets could be ordered by nearly anyone with the cash; the other required knowing about a hidden engine code most dealers had never heard of. Both hid more horsepower than their factory ratings admitted to. Here’s how a mass-produced 450-horsepower Chevelle and a nearly unobtainable 69-unit Camaro both earned a permanent place in muscle car history.
This 1971 Dodge Charger holds a rare distinction: the first Hemi Charger of its all-new body style, and the last year Dodge ever offered the 426 Hemi in one. Built as a pilot car never meant to reach a customer, it somehow ended up sold new at Mr. Norm’s legendary Grand Spaulding Dodge in Chicago. Watch to see the story behind a car that broke its own rules before it ever left the factory.
Tim Wellborn built one of the deepest private Mopar collections in the country, including a genuine NASCAR Daytona raced by K&K Insurance and a limelight-green Hemi four-speed he refuses to restore. When Rocket Restorations’ Tom mentioned he was a fan of the channel, Tim didn’t just say thanks — he flew him down for a personal tour and a drive. Watch to see what fifty years of collecting looks like from behind the wheel.
Buick nicknamed the 1970 GSX Stage 1 the “Hemi Killer,” and this Saturn Yellow, unrestored survivor still backs it up on Friday night cruises, according to its owner. One commenter recalls jump-starting the car decades ago and getting a very confident answer about how it runs. See why Backyard Barn Finds’ Parker keeps returning to this one.
Over 40 cars showed up for a $150,000 no-prep purse at Freedom of War, in a field so dense with winged, aero-heavy builds that one viewer joked it should be called the Winged Nationals. A fast Falcon got disqualified for jumping the start, a Coyote-swapped entry held its own against big-inch builds, and a rolling Corvette had the whole comment section talking. Watch to see who survives a field this deep.
Fifty years ago General Motors answered the Ford Mustang not once but twice, and a museum exhibit is now putting the Camaro and Firebird side by side with the movie cars that turned them into pop culture icons. One shape-shifted into an alien robot on screen; the other spent a decade running from the law with a trucker at the wheel. Here’s why GM built two separate pony cars instead of one.
Jamboolio’s 2018 muscle car sound reel skips the reviews and interviews entirely, letting eight cars speak for themselves — from a nitrous-fed 1,000-horsepower 1967 Camaro to a supercharged 572 Hemi Challenger. It is pure cold-start-to-redline audio, the kind that racked up more than 4.4 million views without a single word of narration. Viewers call it the best kind of white noise. Watch to hear what all the fuss is about.