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A father’s driveway trick turned a loose tooth and a Chevy Camaro into one of the most-replayed home videos on YouTube, racking up nearly 3 million views and a comment section that has been arguing about it for a decade. The method is simple — a length of string, a slow reverse, and a kid who barely has time to react — but the family behind it insists it was never as risky as it looks. Watch to see just how fast it really happens.
On a recent episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” appraiser Donald Osborne challenged Leno to guess which of three unrestored classics had appreciated the most — and even Leno got it wrong. The reveal says a lot about how collectors actually value originality over polish, a lesson echoed by Ralph Lauren’s own decades of collecting and by the crowds still showing up to events like the Daytona Turkey Run. Read on to see why the roughest-looking car in the lineup won.
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.
In this scene from The Fate of the Furious, Dom Toretto tries to escape with a stolen nuclear football while an enemy truck launches actual harpoons into his GTX-style muscle car and drags it down the street. It’s one of the most-watched clips Movieclips has ever posted, and the internet has spent years mining it for jokes about Dom’s mythical Family gear. Ridiculous as the physics are, the scene keeps a Mopar muscle car in front of tens of millions of viewers. Watch the clip that launched a thousand memes.
The Hot Rod Super Nationals has been bringing muscle cars and hot rods to the Canfield Fairgrounds since 1987, and after a decade-long detour to Quaker City Motorsports Park, it’s been back home since 2016. With attendance topping 30,000 over a three-day weekend and collectors driving in from as far as California, this is one of the Ohio Valley’s genuine car culture institutions – right down to the Saturday night cruise into Boardman.
Coyote Classics in Greene, Iowa has built a genuinely engaged following around its rotating inventory of Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, and GTOs — including a blue Dodge Super Bee that commenters are practically begging the shop not to modify. See what’s currently on the lot, and why regulars keep coming back to argue about it in the comments.
Behind the muscle cars rolling through the South East Moparty Picnic is a Hollywood footnote almost nobody knows — the 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible Don Johnson drove in Nash Bridges wasn’t really a ’71 at all, because Plymouth only ever built eleven or twelve of the real thing. Here’s how three modified 1970 convertibles became one of TV’s most famous muscle cars, and why Mopar loyalists still argue about it today.
The 1973 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty 455 arrived at the worst possible moment for a big-block muscle car — insurance rates were climbing, emissions rules were tightening, and most of Detroit had already walked away. V8TV’s look at this SD-455 explains why Pontiac built it anyway, and why Car and Driver once called it one of the last true fast cars of its era. Watch to see what’s hiding under that shaker hood.
The 1969 Firebird Trans Am existed for exactly one model year in this form, wearing a color combination buyers couldn’t change and stripes that ran straight over the roof, a look Pontiac never repeated. This Ram Air III 4-speed example from The Brothers Collection pairs that one-year-only styling with a functional hood feeding a 400 cubic inch V8. See what made the very first Trans Am look and drive like nothing else on the lot.
Las Vegas is not just one of the best cities for classic car enthusiasts by reputation – it is backed up by real numbers, hosting the SEMA Show’s roughly 160,000 attendees and 2,200 exhibitors every year since 1977. Combined with St. Louis, Sacramento, and Miami’s own car cultures, this list reveals what really makes a city a haven for enthusiasts: infrastructure, climate, and a packed events calendar.
There is a very specific sound that still turns heads on quiet streets more than sixty years after Detroit built the cars that made it, and an entire American car culture grew up around chasing that exact reaction. From the quarter-mile drag strip to Woodward Avenue’s nightly cruising ritual, the appeal was never really about spec sheets alone. Read on to find out how insurance surcharges, oil shortages, and shifting regulations nearly ended the era entirely, and why it came roaring back anyway.
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.
Getting the right drag wheels onto a modern muscle car isn’t as simple as it was on a classic Chevelle or Mustang, and that fitment gap is exactly what Race Star built its business around. From a single wheel design launched in 2009 to a catalog partnered with NHRA Pro Stock and Pro Mod racers, here’s how the company earned its spot on serious drag cars.