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A nitrous-fed 1967 Mustang and a twin-turbo 1999 Camaro met on the street, and it ended exactly how uncontrolled high-horsepower passes often do — contact, damage, and two cars that needed extensive rebuilds afterward. Both drivers were confirmed unhurt, and the uploader closes with a blunt reminder: everybody be careful out there. Watch to see how quickly a street pass between two very different muscle cars went wrong.
The Camaro was never supposed to last fifty years — it was a rushed response to the Mustang, built on borrowed time and a hastily developed platform. Instead it became one of the longest-running nameplates in American performance history, surviving a cancellation and multiple redesigns along the way. Here’s how a car built to catch up ended up outlasting most of its rivals.
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.
Owner Jeffrey Filz grew up two blocks from the Kenosha plant that built this 1970 AMC Javelin SST Mark Donohue Signature Edition, and the comments below Lou Costabile’s video turn up an even wilder story: a commenter’s father, a former Spitfire pilot, briefly owned one himself. Watch the full walkaround and engine start.
Its billed as a barn find, but there isnt a speck of dust or a single flaw to be found on this 1967 Mustang fastback nicknamed Helleanor, a claim skeptical viewers might want to take with a grain of salt. Underneath sits a 402 cubic inch small-block pushed by twin turbochargers to a claimed 3,000-plus horsepower, running low-4-second eighth-mile passes while reportedly holding back another 1,500 horsepower in reserve. Between the staging precision and that unmistakable turbo whistle, its easy to see why this ones racked up over 1.6 million views. Just how much is this car really capable of?
Muscle cars aren’t just vehicles; they’re an attitude on wheels. Take Eleanor, the iconic 1967 Mustang from “Gone in 60 Seconds,” a true embodiment of muscle car spirit. These beasts, often powered by roaring V8 engines, dominated drag racing from the ’60s to ’80s. With insane torque and horsepower, they offer rides that’ll make your jaw drop—and maybe your toupee fly off. Thanks to innovations like Dodge’s all-wheel drive Challenger GT, driving these monsters isn’t just for sunny days anymore!
At first glance it looks like a flawlessly preserved 1969 Boss 302, chrome bumpers, shaker hood and all, until the modern stance gives away a secret hiding underneath. Filmed at Tennessee’s Pigeon Forge Rod Run, this fastback pairs a reproduction Boss 302 body with the chassis of a 2007 Mustang GT, blending Ford’s Trans-Am-bred styling with modern brakes and drivetrain reliability. Viewers, including admirers as far away as the UK, are asking why Ford never built this combination themselves. So what’s really underneath that unmistakable 1969 skin?
This race-prepped Camaro isn’t just for sale, it’s a rolling piece of the pony car war Chevrolet started on purpose. When reporters asked what ‘Camaro’ meant, Chevy’s famous answer was ‘a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs,’ and the rivalry that followed pushed both brands into a genuine horsepower arms race. Decades later, this car still runs like it has something to prove.
Car News TV goes looking for the muscle cars everyone forgot, and the list includes a Mustang wagon that left viewers stunned it ever existed, a six-barrel Road Runner that sparked a comments-section correction, and a Studebaker Avanti nobody expected to see. Watch the full rundown and see how many you actually remember.
Ford quietly swapped engines mid-year on the 1968 Shelby GT500, and the change turned an already potent muscle car into a legend. Early cars carried the proven 428 Police Interceptor, good for a genuine 360 horsepower, before Ford dropped in the underrated 428 Cobra Jet and renamed the car GT500KR, King of the Road. Only 1,570 KR models were built that year, split between fastbacks and convertibles.
Ford rated this Mustang’s big block at just 375 horsepower, a figure almost nobody who drove one actually believed. Built to satisfy NASCAR homologation rules and assembled outside the factory by an outside engineering firm, this car packed race-bred internals most buyers never fully understood. Discover why enthusiasts still debate its real output decades later, and how a Hemi-inspired head design ended up under a Ford hood.
The first Shelby Super Snake was a 600-horsepower one-off built to promote Goodyear tires, and Ford turned down the chance to put it into production. Four decades later, Shelby brought the name back as a real conversion program, and this Las Vegas-built GT500 is one of the results. Here is the story behind the badge.
Get ready to rev up your engines with the 2013-2014 Mustang GT lineup, where speed meets style! The Shelby GT500 roars with a 5.8L Trinity V8, hitting 662 hp and a breezy 202 mph. Not a fan of shifting gears? No problem! Whether cruising in the Boss 302 or the GT, you’ll enjoy upgraded brakes, stability control, and even ambient lighting for those moody night drives. And don’t forget the essential USB plug for your road trip playlists. Buckle up; it’s going to be a wild ride!
1967 was the year Ford stopped playing it safe with the Mustang. A wider engine bay, beefed-up frame rails, and the debut of the 390-cubic-inch GT390 package turned Ford’s pony car into a legitimate muscle car contender almost overnight. Only 13,852 GT390 fastbacks rolled off the line that year, and clean survivors get harder to find every season. Here’s what made 1967 the Mustang’s turning point.
Mike O’Toole nearly sent this Tahoe Turquoise 1966 Mustang hardtop to the junkyard before deciding to restore it instead. It’s a survivor from a model year when Ford built over 607,000 Mustangs and hardtops made up more than 80 percent of them – a production pace that helped the Mustang claim over 7 percent of the entire U.S. car market. Here’s what made 1966 such a pivotal year for Ford’s pony car.