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Tom Lembeck has spent decades building one of the more serious MOPAR collections around, so when he calls this 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T Convertible one of his favorites, it’s worth paying attention. The car wears a rare Triple Black specification — paint, top, and interior all finished in black — paired with the potent 440 Six Pack engine, and Tom has owned it since 1999. Lou Costabile sat down with him in Chicago to find out why.
Muscle Vs Tuner built an entire parody character around one very specific kind of Chevrolet Corvette Z06 owner — and gave him a mangled catchphrase about a German racetrack that somehow relocated itself to Kansas. A cameo from a real Z06-focused channel adds an extra layer to the joke, and the comment section has spent years piling on new one-liners of its own. Watch to see how many of the stereotypes you recognize.
A 1974 Nova SS body sitting on a Dodge Ram 3500 Dually 4×4 chassis shouldn’t work — but at the Pigeon Forge Rod Run, it did. Commenters shared their own diesel-swap build specs, debated the wheel fitment, and one claimed to have spotted the exact truck at Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan. Is it a show car, a work truck, or both?
Carroll Shelby did not turn the Mustang into a race car with horsepower. He did it with a rulebook technicality so blunt that the first cars had a spare tire bolted where the back seat used to be, purely so the SCCA would classify them as two-seat sports cars. That trick launched three straight championships and a car that is now essentially unobtainable. Read on for how it actually worked.
A homeowner comes home to find a stranger’s car blocking his driveway, decides not to wait for a tow truck, and instead relocates the vehicle to the middle of the street himself. What happens when the actual owner returns — and police show up in the meantime — has made this one of the most-watched neighborhood parking disputes online, mostly because nobody can agree on who was actually in the wrong. Watch the confrontation unfold.
The Horsepower Monster wraps up its three-part documentary on reviving a genuine Chrysler 426 Hemi — the engine Mopar fans still call the ‘Elephant’ — with the moment every rebuild ultimately comes down to: a dyno pull. After months of teardown, machining, and reassembly on one of the rarest engines Detroit ever built, the crew finally finds out whether their work paid off. The full dyno sheet is published alongside the video for anyone chasing the exact numbers.
Marspeed’s rundown of forgotten Dodge and Chrysler SRT models digs up five performance cars that history left behind — a turbocharged economy car, a German-flavored coupe, a Hemi-powered family wagon, and a full-size pickup running a Viper’s V10 under the hood. Each one carried real performance credentials in its day, yet all five have faded from the SRT conversation entirely. Some command real money today; others remain surprisingly affordable bargains. See which one you’d forgotten existed.
Shelby put the words King of the Road on a 1968 Mustang, which is the kind of claim that requires backing up. It got a different engine than the GT500 it replaced, a reinforced chassis, and for one single model year, a convertible body. Finding one of those droptops under decades of barn dust is the sort of discovery that ends with a phone call to a registry. Here is why it matters.
A routine vehicle repossession in Jackson, Mississippi turned into a dive for cover when gunfire broke out mid-hookup — and the agent’s own description of the incident to a local news crew is more unsettling than the video itself. He calls it a typical day. The debt, the law, and the split-second decisions that define one of the more dangerous jobs almost nobody thinks about are all part of the story. Watch the full account below.
This 1968 Ford Torino GT arrived at the exact moment Ford finally stopped chasing the GTO and started genuinely competing, pairing aggressive SportsRoof styling with an available 428 Cobra Jet V8 that quietly embarrassed cars with flashier reputations. The redesign helped push the Torino to sales-leader status in its segment that year. Find out what made this underrated Ford one of the smartest muscle car buys of its era.
Chevrolet needed a name for its answer to the Mustang, and when a reporter finally asked what it meant, the general manager did not consult a dictionary. He described a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs, and car people have been repeating it ever since. The real story involves two thousand rejected words, a French term that does not quite exist, and a codename that got thrown away.
Ben calls his 1976 Ford Cortina “overkill,” and it’s hard to argue: a twin-turbo, supercharged Ford Cleveland V8 stuffed into a compact Australian sedan, built specifically to chase his own personal best burnout time at Summernats. A mechanical issue cut the record attempt short, but not before the car vaporized its tires and earned genuine respect from a crowd that expected a lot less from a Cortina.
Troy Hawkes fires up his numbers-matching 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona for a rev and a quick burnout, but the real story is what that towering wing and 18-inch nose cone were built to solve: a NASCAR aero war that pushed Chrysler to build only 503 street versions just to legalize the race car. Watch to see the homologation special that helped Dodge become the first manufacturer to top 200 mph in NASCAR competition.
On paper, a Whipple-supercharged Terminator Cobra should have walked away from a manual-transmission 1969 Camaro without much drama. On the track, the Cobra’s driver spent half the run fighting to keep the car pointed straight while the old-school Camaro refused to fall back. Commenters are calling it one of the best “driver’s races” they’ve seen in a long time.
Grid Banter’s cameras catch the Dodge Demon’s first public test run at the 2017 Gator Nationals — footage tied directly to NHRA’s unusual decision to ban the production car from its own sanctioned events. A Dodge rep confirms on camera that it’s a real Demon mule, then declines to discuss specs. Even a Corvette Z06 owner in the comments admits Dodge deserves credit for building something this extreme.