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By 2015, the Dodge Viper’s fans already suspected the end was close, and two years later the Conner Avenue plant proved them right. The cars revving at that year’s Viper show were among the last and strongest of a 26-year run: 8.4 liters, 645 horsepower, 600 lb-ft, a six-speed manual, and not a single turbocharger across roughly 31,000 cars. Read on to find out how the Viper grew from a bare-bones 1992 roadster into the final-generation car collectors now chase.
A Chevy Monte Carlo’s wheels detach mid-burnout at Track Mania Car Show 2K17 in Memphis, spinning freely on the pavement while the car itself grinds to a stop. Commenters point to oversized 24-inch wheels and stock supporting hardware as the likely culprit. Watch the moment that turned a routine burnout run into one of the scene’s most-replayed clips.
This compilation stacks five of the worst dyno pulls caught on camera — cars held at redline too long, a suspiciously unconventional ‘single roller in a box’ dyno that has viewers questioning its safety, and at least one Subaru that survives purely because it was strapped down right. HighSpeedManiaNET keeps the commentary minimal and lets the footage speak. Watch the full compilation to see which car makes it through.
This 1979 Camaro Z/28 wears T-tops, flat black stripes and a Procharged small block sending more than 600 horsepower to the rear tires. The factory version made 175. That gap is the entire story of the second-generation Z28, a car that sold in record numbers during the worst period for American performance in living memory. Read on for how it managed that and why builders still start here.
A tubbed, twin-turbocharged 1957 Chevy is not where anyone expects to find refinement, yet this build from Bryant Boats and designer Eric Brockmeyer makes the case. An all-fiberglass body, an Art Morrison chassis, Wilwood 14-inch brakes, a twin-turbo aluminum Brodix engine, and a Lenco four-speed add up to a Pro Street car engineered to work as a whole rather than simply launch hard. Read on to see how every ingredient was chosen.
Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars after a few childhood years in France — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind. Over more than twenty-three years of ownership, he’s swapped in a 340-cubic-inch V8, a Tremec five-speed, and nitrogen shocks, building a car with enough torque to ‘leave Porsches behind’ on the straights. Watch to see why one habit still catches him out in the corners.
This Redline review puts the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody through its paces, tackling the question every 707-horsepower muscle car eventually has to answer: how do you actually put that much power down on the street without spinning the tires at every stoplight? The fix borrows parts straight from the Demon’s playbook. Watch the full review to see whether the Widebody package actually delivers.
Chevrolet’s Camaro beat the Ford Mustang for America’s top-selling muscle car crown in September and October — then lost it right back in November, proof that this decades-old sales rivalry can flip in a single month. The same stretch also saw a lifelong Chevelle SS hunt finally pay off, a new Motor Trend show built entirely around muscle car culture, and a 560-horsepower pro-touring Camaro built by Detroit Speed. Read on for what the whole picture says about the state of muscle cars in the mid-2010s.
The fourth-generation Cadillac Series 62 arrived for 1954 with wraparound glass, reverse gull-wing bumpers and a dual exhaust routed straight through the rear bumper, then spent three years breaking its own sales records. Along the way it went from a 17.3-second run to 60 mph to a flat 12 seconds. Here is how to tell a 1954 from a 1955 from a 1956, and what the differences actually mean.
Buick called its 1986 Grand National’s turbo V6 ‘under-rated’ in its own brochure — then proved it a year later by handing 547 cars over to an outside shop for a transformation the factory couldn’t build itself. The result, badged GNX, put up numbers that worried owners of contemporary Ferraris and Porsches. Officially rated at 276 horsepower, independent testing suggested Buick was still underselling it. Read on to see exactly what changed under the hood.
While Pontiac was inventing the muscle car with the 1964 GTO, Dodge was building the opposite: a Dart GT convertible with a 225 Slant Six, a pushbutton automatic, and fuel economy nobody advertised. It was not fast, and it was never meant to be. Read on for why the Slant Six Dart may have been the smarter buy in 1964 and why these cars are quietly becoming collectible on their own terms.
The same owner puts his Dodge Demon and Hellcat on the same dyno, on the same day, to finally settle which supercharged Hemi actually makes more power at the wheels. The numbers confirm Dodge’s engineering gap between the two cars, and the video hints there’s still more locked away in the Demon’s factory race-fuel mode. Demonology’s channel built its following on exactly this kind of head-to-head test.
Alan Robinson’s Chevrolet Impala wagon weighs 4,720 pounds with its 26-inch street wheels and four JL Audio subwoofers still bolted in, runs a stock-bottom-end 6.0-liter engine at just 10 psi of boost, and still posts mid-11-second quarter miles at Hot Rod’s Drag Week. Getting to the line means swapping two of those 98-pound wheels for drag radials first. It wasn’t even the car Robinson planned to bring. Watch a wagon nobody expected to be fast prove exactly the opposite.
Chevrolet built this roadster during the worst economy in American history – and somehow sold nearly half a million of its kind anyway. Find out how a rebadged “Eagle” with a beaver-tail rear end and a V-shaped radiator became one of the best-selling cars of 1933, and why collectors still chase these six-cylinder survivors today.
Mike bought his 1967 Chevrolet Camaro at nineteen with a plan he couldn’t yet execute — a build centered on an engine most Camaro owners have never heard of. Nearly two decades later, Quality Custom Rides finally sourced the specialty V12LS motor he’d been waiting for, and wrapped it in suicide doors, an air-ride stance, and custom paint. The plan now is simple: drive the wheels off it. See what a V12 swap actually looks like under a first-gen Camaro’s hood.