 |
A certified auto appraiser has inspected hundreds of classic cars professionally — so when he calls a 1967 Camaro RS/SS ‘the most loaded Camaro I’ve ever inspected,’ that is not a casual compliment. This California-history coupe pairs a rare factory color with an unusually complete options list, backed by a full third-party inspection report. Watch to find out exactly what convinced an expert this was something special.
HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 rolled from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City to Iowa Speedway and the Davenport fairgrounds, and the cars stealing the show belonged to the 1970s: the last high-compression muscle of the early decade and the blower-scooped, white-letter-tired street machines that followed. The decade Detroit almost gave up on turned out to be the crowd favorite. Read on to find out why ’70s survivors and tributes drew the tightest crowds on the tour.
Somewhere between a stock 440 Six Pack and a full 426 Hemi sits the sweet spot that pushes a Plymouth ‘Cuda well past 550 horsepower without turning it into a garage queen. Builders get there with aluminum heads, a reworked intake, and long-tube headers that finally let the 440 breathe, backed by a driveline that can survive the result. Read on to find out which factory pieces to keep, which to throw out, and how to make that much power live on the street.
This compilation skips the usual Camaro-and-Mustang highlight reel to spotlight muscle cars that never got their due — built entirely around engine sound and on-screen text rather than narration. Cars like the AMC Rebel Machine and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler packed genuinely competitive specs but never had the marketing muscle of their more famous rivals. Decades later, they’re still waiting for recognition.
Starting in 1968, Chevrolet quietly let Nova buyers order a 396-cubic-inch big-block — up to 375 horsepower in L78 form — inside a body that gave away almost nothing on the outside. Built on the same reworked chassis as the new Camaro, the Nova SS 396 became one of the era’s most feared sleepers on the street and the strip. Read on for the engine codes, the chassis changes nobody could see, and what genuine examples bring today.
A 174-day strike at Pontiac’s Norwood, Ohio plant nearly killed the Firebird nameplate outright, slashing 1972 production almost in half and leaving this black ’72 as one of the rarer survivors of its generation. Beneath the honeycomb grille and missing fender vents sits a 455 H.O. rated by an all-new net horsepower standard that made it look weaker than it actually was. From the walkout that almost ended it to the collector demand chasing it today, here’s the full story behind one of Pontiac’s toughest model years.
This vintage road test puts Ford’s flagship 1968 Shelby GT500KR — the “King of the Road” — through its paces, complete with a narrator whose catchphrases are still being quoted in the comments decades later. Viewers reacted to a 6.2-second acceleration figure with genuine disbelief, while others noted the era’s characteristic brake fade after repeated hard stops. One commenter even claims The Doors’ Jim Morrison owned one. Watch to hear “happy time” for yourself.
Chevrolet’s first-generation Chevelle ran for just four model years on one basic body shell, which means telling a 1964 from a 1965, or a 1966 from a 1967, comes down to details as small as a taillight lens or a grille shape. One spotting-guide video turned into a comment-section deep dive on exactly what those tells are – and a debate over which year actually looks best that nobody could settle. Watch to see if you can spot the differences yourself.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner faced off in the amateur Search For Speed league, and the fight wasn’t really about horsepower — it was about which Mopar nameplate has earned the right to more respect. Viewers spent as much time debating the Charger’s eligibility as they did praising the Road Runner’s looks, turning a quarter-mile grudge match into a full-blown argument about muscle car authenticity. The burnout told its own story.
In January 2017, the Detroit auto show had to share the headlines with an FBI arrest, a billion-dollar penalty, and a federal Notice of Violation. Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt was detained at a Florida airport over Dieselgate, Takata agreed to pay $1 billion for its deadly airbag inflators, and the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of undisclosed emissions software on roughly 104,000 diesel trucks and SUVs. Why should muscle car fans care about any of it? Read on for what those three scandals say about the industry that builds the cars we love.
Jeff Fleming’s 1968 Dodge Charger R/T wears a Medium Gold paint job over a genuine 426 Hemi, restored to a standard that reads as showroom-new nearly sixty years later. Mopar fans in the comments zeroed in on a detail only true Charger obsessives notice: 1968 was the only year Dodge used round side marker and taillights on this body style. One viewer admitted the restoration was so clean it made them nervous just watching. See what sets this Charger apart.
When a stolen car barreled back toward a crowded park, one father in a lifted diesel truck did not wait for police — he drove straight into its path. The split-second collision, caught on multiple cell phones and picked up by HLN, ended a dangerous chase involving a 14-year-old joyrider in seconds flat. Online, the internet split between calling it reckless and calling it heroic, while comment sections debated whose vehicle came out looking better. Watch to see exactly how close it came to going wrong.
AMC built exactly 2,501 Javelins in one specific configuration for 1970, and the number was not a marketing decision. SCCA rules required 2,500 street cars before the Trans-Am racing version could run its new ducktail spoiler, so AMC built one extra to make the point. Roger Penske brought Mark Donohue over from Chevrolet that year, and the pairing put a company most people had written off onto the podium.
This Tiger Gold 1965 Pontiac GTO isn’t just another restored classic — it’s a rolling argument for why this car, more than any other, deserves credit for starting the muscle car era. Built with the desirable 389 V8, a close-ratio four-speed manual, and a limited-slip differential, it represents the GTO the way serious original buyers actually ordered it. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week series tracked down this survivor and its story. Watch to see why enthusiasts still can’t agree on much except that this car changed everything.