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Tom Bright had owned his Tor Red 1970 Plymouth GTX for all of three weeks when he pulled it into the Belvidere MOPAR Happening and fired up the 440 Six-Barrel for the camera. It’s a rare 440-6, four-speed combination finished in one of Mopar’s loudest High Impact colors, complete with the functional Air Grabber hood fans still talk about today. Watch the engine start and hear why he calls it his bucket-list car.
A stranger’s dashcam happened to be rolling at exactly the wrong moment for this 1969 Dodge Dart GT, catching a violent rear-end failure loud enough that viewers say they had to rip their headphones off. The comments dug up two competing, detailed theories for what actually broke — and both are worth knowing before modifying your own muscle car’s rear end. Watch to see it happen.
Very few 1970 Dodge Challengers left the factory with both the 426 Hemi and the upscale RT/SE Special Edition package — and this one has been fully restored by a specialist shop in Iowa. Restorer Tim Wilhelm walks through exactly what makes the car unique ahead of a Mecum Auction preview. Watch to find out what one sharp-eyed viewer says is the only thing this Hemi Challenger is still missing.
A muscle car that vanishes into a paint shop for months or years, with the painter asking for more money and returning fewer calls, is one of the most common horror stories in the hobby. It happens to careful owners too, because the warning signs look like ordinary shop life. This guide covers how to vet a painter, why the workload on the shop floor matters, how to structure payments around progress, what to put in writing, and how to recognize a shop in trouble early. Read on to find out how to keep your project out of paint purgatory.
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.
Jeff says he’d never seen this rusted-bolt removal method demonstrated properly on camera, and a comment section full of working mechanics agrees it’s the clearest version of the technique online. Heat, rapid cooling, and a little patience solve a problem that torches, sockets, and days of penetrating oil couldn’t touch on one Wisconsin viewer’s rusted exhaust manifold. For anyone restoring a car that spent decades outdoors, this is essential knowledge.
A friend’s already-knocking LT1 Camaro gets one last job — doughnuts in a parking lot within view of a police station — before the engine gives out for good. The owner, already building a replacement motor in a machine shop, knew exactly what he was risking. Viewers have kept coming back to laugh at the timing and the location for years. Watch the LT1’s final, dramatic act.
A black 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 HO convertible is the spark behind this question: what were you driving the first time you hit 120 mph? Pontiac’s 400 HO packed 335 horsepower and ran 0-60 in 5.3 seconds, quick enough to beat a 390 Mustang, a Camaro SS 396, and a 340 Barracuda in a 1968 Car and Driver test. Decades before traction control and ABS, that kind of speed took real nerve. Tell us your car, your engine, and the moment you found out what both were made of.
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.
Posted in 2008 with zero production value and a single shoelace as the star, this how-to video should have disappeared within a year. Instead the comments read like a running log of drivers who tried it years and even a decade-plus later, in freezing weather and strangers’ driveways, and came back just to say thank you. Watch to see the trick a working locksmith admits actually works.
A car left parked directly in front of a fire hydrant became the subject of a full CNN segment after firefighters responded in the most theatrical way possible. Correspondent Jeanne Moos turns the moment into a lesson on why hydrant clearance rules exist — and what a professional-grade hose can do to an unattended vehicle. The clip has quietly racked up nearly four million views. Watch to see exactly what was waiting for the driver when they got back.
This Mustang was deep into a 150mph dyno pull when a tire let go, turning a routine test into one of 1320video’s most-watched clips. Viewers point out the irony immediately: a dyno is supposed to be the one place a car can hit that speed with zero risk, and this one still found a way to go wrong. Watch to see exactly how violent a tire failure looks at triple-digit speed.
Muscle cars don’t fail the way modern daily drivers do — they fail from sitting still, wrong parts, and skipped basics like waxing and monthly drives. A little consistent care, from garage storage to a 30-minute drive once a month, is the difference between a car that holds its value and one that quietly turns into an expensive project. Read on for the maintenance habits that actually matter.
A Ford Falcon GT and a Lamborghini Gallardo line up for a street race that should not have been close, and more than a million viewers keep coming back to watch what happened next. Commenters point to a 351 Cleveland V8 under the Falcon’s hood as the sleeper’s secret weapon, part of the same homegrown horsepower war that once pitted Ford Australia against Holden at Bathurst. Watch to see whether the exotic actually pulls away.
Hagerty’s Redline Rebuild series opens with the engine that arguably needs no introduction: the Chevrolet small-block V8, in continuous production for sixty years and installed in everything from base Chevys to Corvettes, trucks, and boats. Filmed at Thirlby Automotive in Traverse City, Michigan, and compressed into a silent, sped-up teardown and rebuild, the episode has pulled in over ten million views without a single line of narration. Sponsored by RockAuto.com, it set the template for an entire series built on watching skilled hands do familiar work at an impossible pace. Watch to see sixty years of engineering come apart bolt by bolt.