A turbo Pontiac Grand Prix from 1990 wakes up on Junkyard Digs

The rare McLaren-tuned sleeper, the car viewers kept spotting in the background of recent videos, passed 480,000 views in three days.

Channel: Junkyard DigsStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Is this TURBO 80's Sleeper still as FAST as Day 1 After 36 YEARS!?

One car, a big week. Junkyard Digs posted a single video, and it was enough to lift the whole channel to several times its usual daily views.

The car is a late-80s Pontiac Grand Prix, and not the ordinary kind. The tags point to the turbocharged version built with ASC and McLaren, a short-lived performance edition of GM's front-drive coupe with a turbo 3.1-liter V6. The question in the title is whether, after 36 years, it is still as quick as it was new. The description calls it a hidden gem put back on the road.

Long-time viewers had been waiting for it. One of the most liked comments notes that the car has been sitting in the background of recent videos, and the comment section reads like a shop meeting: former dealership mechanics recalling the injectors and fuel pressure regulators that gave these cars trouble, others offering transmission upgrades, and plenty of requests to race it against Dalton's Beretta or turn it into a full sleeper build. A cameo from Jesse, who declines to touch the engine, has its own fan club, as does the stand-in for Angus that viewers have nicknamed Dangus. Someone who works in the building where MotorWeek is made chimed in after the show got a mention.

The older uploads are resting: a barn-found Chevy and a seized 1963 Cadillac from September now move slowly. Among car channels of similar size, Auto Focus and Exotic Rubber had the busiest weeks, while Junkyard Digs sat in the middle of the group, its week built almost entirely on one Pontiac.

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The videos drawing views on Junkyard Digs right now

Will this RARE Chevy RUN & DRIVE HOME After 40 Years in a BARN!?632,120 views Will a SEIZED 60's Cadillac RUN After Sitting for 35 YEARS?708,756 views

The numbers

Here is how the Grand Prix week looks in numbers.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Exotic Rubber

29,580,742

Auto Focus

2,249,477

itsjusta6

1,443,713

Junkyard Digs

1,095,832

Gears and Gasoline

578,630

Mat Watson Cars

539,144

ThatDudeinBlue

478,058

Saabkyle04

313,889

Rob Dahm

233,055

subscribers

1,330,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

263,728,562

views per day

564,712

typical day: 95,480

this week's videos (first-day views)

Is this TURBO 80's Sleeper still as FAS…

340,374

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

itsjusta6

1,430,000

Mat Watson Cars

1,400,000

Gears and Gasoline

1,360,000

Junkyard Digs

1,330,000

ThatDudeinBlue

1,320,000

Exotic Rubber

1,320,000

Saabkyle04

1,310,000

Rob Dahm

1,280,000

Auto Focus

1,280,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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