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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.
A bolt-on Camaro Z28 — 280 whp, 13.1 seconds in the quarter — squares off against a 455-swapped GTO on a public road, and the encounter takes an unexpected turn when a passenger spots what looks like an unmarked police car closing in behind them. The footage, shot on aging analog tape, captures a slice of street culture that barely exists anymore. Watch to see how the scare resolves.
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.
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.
Duck X Productions’ Lights Out 7 turned South Georgia Motorsports Park into a proving ground for radial-tire cars pushing well past 2,000 horsepower, and the wheelstands that resulted became the stuff of drag racing legend. From the physics of exactly when a front end lifts to the underdog racer who showed up without a running car and left with a five-figure purse, the story behind the chaos is stranger than the clips alone let on.
Under the faded green paint of this 1972 Chevrolet Nova sits an all-aluminum LS2 stroked to 402 cubic inches, fitted with a dry-sump system and twin Rotrex superchargers making 1,160 horsepower and 825 lb-ft on pump gas. Built by Kurt Urban of Wheel to Wheel Powertrain for owner Dru Diesner, it has run 9.25 at 148 mph at Cordova Dragway Park. Read on to find out why the ugliest car in the lane is usually the one to worry about.
A Shelby GT350R already sheds weight with carbon wheels and a deleted rear seat, and it still tips the scales around 3,700 pounds. A Wisconsin composites shop offers a fix: replace the entire steel body with carbon fiber. The full treatment costs roughly what the car does. Individual fenders come out under two pounds. Read on for how the pricing tiers break down and where the weight actually goes.
Alf’s red 1965 Chevy II Nova SS still wears its original California dealer plates — despite living in Adelaide, Australia since he imported it in 2008. Two prior owners, a factory 283 V8, and an untouched interior make it a genuine survivor, with only a repaint, new brakes, and a set of Flowmaster mufflers separating it from stock. Read on for the story of how the car got there, and how the Nova nameplate itself came to be.
A 1969 Camaro with 680 horsepower, a full custom interior, one-off wheels, and McLaren paint looks like a horsepower story. It is not. The Gen V LT1 is rated around 455 horsepower from the factory, so reaching 680 means real work, and making a 1969 unibody survive it means replacing almost everything underneath. Read on to find out where the money in a build like this actually goes, and why the power figure is the least useful thing about it.
Ford promised the 2018 Mustang GT would be the fastest Mustang the company had ever built, and the 5.0-liter V8 jumped to 460 horsepower to back it up. But hitting the sub-four-second number required a very specific options list that most buyers never checked. Here is what was actually in that combination, why the claim needed an asterisk, and how quickly the 2020 GT500 took the title away.
Paperwork is the first thing a sixty-year-old car loses, which is exactly why this 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 is unusual: it still has its original owner’s manual and window sticker, plus light blue metallic paint correct to the way it was ordered in Louisiana. Under the hood sits a 289 four-barrel, and on the corners sit wheels Ford never sold. Read on for what makes a documented Fairlane worth more than the production numbers suggest.
A 174-day labor strike at Chevrolet’s Norwood plant nearly ended the Camaro entirely in 1972, and roughly 1,100 partially assembled cars were scrapped outright because they could not meet the next year’s bumper rules. What survived that year became the rarest Z/28 of the second generation, with just 2,575 built. On steel Rally wheels and raised white letter tires, it looks exactly as it did on a 1972 showroom floor. Read on to find out how close this car came to never existing.
A yellow muscle car and a matching yellow dress, posed together for one photograph – it’s an advertising formula Detroit didn’t invent but perfected, tracing back to bicycle ads from the 1800s. By the muscle car era it had become its own subculture, complete with dealership calendars and parts-store posters. Here’s where the pairing actually came from.
Between 1969 and 1974, Jaguar’s E-Type went through more change than any four-year stretch in its history — detuned engines for U.S. emissions rules, a completely new V12, and a dozen ultra-rare lightweight racers built alongside the roadgoing cars. The Series III’s 5.3-liter V12 turned the E-Type into a genuinely different machine, capable of 135 mph and a 14.82-second quarter mile. Read on to find out what separates a Series II from a Series III, and why twelve specific cars from 1963 and 1964 remain the most valuable E-Types ever built.
The 1969 Mercury Cougar was sold as the grown-up alternative to a Mustang, with more chrome, a longer wheelbase, and a quieter ride. It could also be ordered with a 428 Cobra Jet, and from April onward with a Boss 302 that no other Cougar could get. This Gateway Classic Cars gallery captures the third-year car. Read on for the option boxes that turned a luxury coupe into something else entirely.