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Plymouth built 686 GTX convertibles for 1967, and only 17 of them carried the 426 Street Hemi, split roughly ten automatics to seven four-speeds. The $564 option brought a NASCAR-derived engine, a Dana 60 or heavy-duty 8.75 rear axle, and a maintenance schedule most owners underestimated badly. Nine out of ten GTX buyers took the 375-horsepower 440 instead, and most of them were making the right call. Read on for what a genuine Hemi GTX convertible has to prove on paper.
Doug DeMuro calls the 2019 Corvette ZR1 the ultimate Corvette in this review, working through the supercharged LT5 V8 and the quirks that earned it his signature DougScore. The comments are just as entertaining as the car, endless “Doug is the type of guy” jokes, plus one pointed reminder that the mid-engine C8 arrived not long after. Watch to see if the ZR1’s case still holds up.
The first driving leg of HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 ran roughly 230 miles from Kansas City, Missouri to Iowa Speedway in Newton, the opening day of a seven-city route ending in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photographers followed the convoy and came back with 200 images of cars, drivers, and heartland roads. Power Tour is about driving, and the Long Haulers who complete every leg in vintage machines earn a badge no static show can offer. Read on to find out what it takes.
A 650-horsepower Camaro isn’t supposed to out-lap a Ferrari 488 GTB, a McLaren MP4-12C, and a Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring, but that’s exactly what the 2018 ZL1 1LE did, running a 7:16.04 with an ALMS driver behind the wheel. Multimatic’s adjustable DSSV dampers and a genuinely track-tuned aero package back up the number. At ,995, it embarrasses cars costing three times as much.
TwinRodders returns to the Fairplex in Pomona for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine & Muscle Car Nationals, capturing everything from a Pro Street 1968 Camaro to a blown-Hemi 1963 Dodge Polara to an Oldsmobile 442 fresh off the burnout contest. A slight chance of rain didn’t keep the fairgrounds from filling with muscle car history. Watch the full walkthrough to see what else made the cut.
A hood scoop can be pure decoration or it can be the single hardest-working part of a muscle car’s engine bay — and in the late 1960s, Chrysler, Ford, and Pontiac each answered that question differently. This episode of Muscle Car of the Week walks through some of the wildest cold-air intakes in The Brothers Collection, including the shaker scoops that visibly move with the engine underneath them. Watch to see which manufacturer’s approach still gets the most respect from muscle car fans today.
Dodge built a real consequence into the Demon’s production line: sell at MSRP and your customer’s car rolls off early with a coveted low serial number, mark it up and you go to the back of the queue. One Florida dealer tested that system anyway, and the story spread fast. Read on to find out whether Dodge’s serial-number leverage actually worked.
Genuine 1970 Plymouth Superbirds are nearly impossible to find and even harder to afford, so this build started from a Plymouth Satellite instead and became a hand-crafted tribute complete with the aero car’s iconic nose cone and towering rear wing. Featured on Muscle Car of the Week, it lives in The Brothers Collection alongside vintage NASCAR racers and bone-stock originals. Watch to see how close a tribute build can get to the real thing.
This TorRed 1970 Plymouth Superbird carries one of muscle car history’s stranger stories: a NASCAR-bred aero warrior with a 426 Hemi under the hood that once served as a getaway car in a Reno casino heist. V8TV’s Brothers Collection walkaround traces both its racing pedigree and its brush with crime before its restoration. The wing and nose cone alone make it unmistakable. Watch to see how a car built to be seen ended up in a story about trying not to be.
Fifteen minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip sits a private circuit with no speed limits, no traffic, and a garage full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Corvettes. It opened in 2016 and later merged with Exotics Racing, an operation that has been running guided supercar drives since 2009. Here is how the experience actually works, what separates it from a rental, and whether it teaches you anything about driving.
A Plymouth Satellite that had not run in ten years gets a shot at redemption when Junkyard Digs creator Kevin, Dylan, and a newly introduced crew called The Rust Avengers attempt the first start. A decade of sitting brings real risks, including varnished fuel, dried seals, and the possibility of a seized engine, that make the outcome genuinely uncertain going in. A second installment is already promised on a collaborator’s channel. Watch to find out if the Satellite still has a heartbeat.
Chevrolet has closed the book on the Camaro, ending a long argument over whether the car ever lived up to its affordable muscle roots. Owners fought a shuddering eight-speed, cooling problems at idle, and visibility that made parking a guessing game — none of which appeared in the brochure. Chevy answered by making the car better rather than cheaper, and it worked everywhere except the showroom. Read on for what a returning Camaro would have to fix.
Nick’s Garage puts a trusted double-pumper carburetor against a modern EFI system in a controlled, back-to-back dyno test, and the horsepower numbers surprised even longtime viewers. Just as much attention goes to an oil pump tip Nick shares mid-test, which commenters call one of the most useful things they have picked up from the channel. Watch to see which induction system actually wins.
In the summer of 2017 Chevrolet sent a 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE around the 12.9-mile Nordschleife with a six-speed manual gearbox and production Goodyear tyres, and stopped the clock at 7:16.04. That lap beat a Ferrari 488 GTB, a Nissan GT-R and a Mercedes SLS AMG, and left only one American production car ahead of it. The margin over the automatic ZL1 was 13.56 seconds. Read on to find out what actually made the difference.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.