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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.
To satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules, Ford built the Torino Talladega with a stretched nose and smoothed bodywork purely to cut drag at superspeedway speeds, then sold roughly 750 of them to the public. The car won a championship in 1969 before NASCAR’s rule changes ended its racing career within two seasons. Here is the story behind one of Ford’s strangest street-legal race cars.
Most roadside tire tools demand brute strength or an air compressor you do not have with you. The torque multiplier lug wrench changes that equation with a 1:78 gear ratio that makes even the most stubborn lug nut manageable by hand — no power source required. Whether you drive a truck, a muscle car, or anything with oversized hardware, this is the kind of tool that earns its place in the kit. Watch the demonstration and decide for yourself.
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.
It started as trash talk at a Wednesday night cruise-in outside a Sonic in Omaha. It ended with a nitrous-fed, 500-horsepower Fox body lined up against a Yamaha R1, a Kawasaki ZX-10R, and a Suzuki GSXR600 on a public street. The ‘beater bomb’ name undersells exactly how serious this build actually is.
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.
This 1978 Pontiac Trans Am checks nearly every box serious collectors look for: the handling-focused WS6 package, the rare four-speed manual, and the big-block-adjacent 400 four-barrel, all still together after more than four decades. Viewers are already piecing together its origin story from small details, including a telling clue about why its interior plastics never baked in the sun. Filmed on a real road test with Rob at Street Machines, not a static show floor. Watch to see how it actually drives.
All Speed Customs skipped the Hemi entirely on this 1971 Plymouth Barracuda, dropping a V-10 and a paddle-shift transmission into a body reworked with custom modifications, silver paint, and red accents. The build, nicknamed Medusa, stopped traffic at the 2017 Detroit Autorama with a back-seat ‘wall of sound’ audio system and a fully custom interior. One viewer said it belonged in the Louvre. See why this Cuda broke every rule a numbers-matching restoration would follow.
Ryan Brutt, The Auto Archaeologist, returns for a third visit to a private warehouse hiding a stunning run of aero-era Mopars, Daytonas, a Superbird, and more, parked alongside far more ordinary iron. Not every car here is a survivor ready to drive, and one viewer’s own Superbird memory adds a layer the video alone could not. Watch to see what three visits still has not fully uncovered.
A group of friends buys a Camaro with a known-knocking LT1 V8, decides doughnuts are worth the risk, and captures the exact moment the small block’s bottom end finally gives out. Beyond the viral laughter in the comments, the failure lines up with one of the Gen II LT1’s well-documented weak points — and the engine’s return of a legendary GM badge name in 1992 makes the whole clip more interesting than a simple blown motor. Watch to see how it ends.
Jim Isherwood spent decades behind the wheel of Mopar Super Stock race cars, and this ride-along in his 426 Hemi-powered Satellite GTX Belvedere captures exactly why fans still talk about him. Since his passing, the comment section has turned into something between a technical breakdown and a tribute. Watch, and listen, to understand why nothing else sounds quite like a Hemi under full throttle.
Since 2011, one filmmaker has returned every year to check on the same 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona — sitting exactly where it always sits, exposed to the weather, worth potentially 150,000 dollars or more if it were ever restored. Hot Rod Magazine has written about this exact car. Watch to see why one of Dodge’s rarest homologation specials is still rusting away in plain sight.
A numbers-matching 1970 Hemicuda living with an Italian Mopar collector gets taken out for a shaky, handheld drive test that has nothing to do with production values and everything to do with the sound of a 426 Hemi running through an A833 four-speed. The build stays remarkably close to factory spec, stock exhaust, stock carbs, stock clutch, with only a comp cam and forged pistons as real departures. Commenters cannot stop talking about how the driver shifts, and about the engine note itself. Watch for both.
A driver in Chicago’s River North neighborhood wasn’t about to let a notoriously fast-acting tow operator take his car — while he was still inside it. Filmed near a Walgreens lot at Clark and Ontario known locally for lightning-quick tows, the footage captures a chaotic, unresolved escape that raises real questions about how aggressive urban towing has gotten. Watch the moment unfold and decide for yourself who was in the wrong.
Jeff Lutz has built three 1957 Chevy race cars, and this one is the culmination of everything the first two taught him plus what he learned campaigning a Pro Mod 1969 Camaro. The new car returns to steel roof and quarter panels, satisfying both class rules and the standards set on Street Outlaws. Lutz was the first Drag Week competitor to average in the six-second range. Read on for what makes the third attempt different.