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Everyone thinks they know the Dodge Charger, but the real story is stranger and richer than the poster on the wall suggests. From its style-first 1966 debut to the winged Daytona that helped get aero cars banned from NASCAR, this rundown of eight facts hits the details even longtime Mopar fans tend to miss. Watch to see how many you already knew.
A modern 6.1-liter Challenger SRT8 takes on a 1970 Challenger T/A and its ferocious 340 Six Pack across six quarter-mile runs — four decades of progress against a Trans-Am homologation legend. Then comes the twist: in races five and six, the drivers swap cars. Suddenly it’s not just which Challenger is faster, but whether it’s the machine or the driver that wins. Watch the old-versus-new showdown settle both questions.
A burnout is the easiest way to look like a hero — until physics files its objection. This compilation gathers the best burnout fails of 2015: exploding tires, overheated engines, and stationary smoke shows that turn into unplanned journeys. The fun is spotting exactly when it’s about to go wrong, usually a second before the driver does. Watch the ambition-meets-consequence highlight reel and pick your favorite.
A 1969 Plymouth Road Runner with a rare 440 Six Barrel lines up against a 1969 Chevelle SS packing the legendary solid-lifter L78 396 — Mopar versus Chevy, settled under strict Pure Stock rules. Only fifteen factory horsepower separate them, and both run as close to showroom-stock as the rulebook allows. No modern tricks, just tires and talent. Watch to see which 1969 heavyweight reaches the traps first.
A vividly painted convertible glowing in the sunset light has readers split on whether it is a bold custom win or a paint choice gone too far. Purple has always been a rare sight on muscle cars, historically overshadowed by louder factory reds and High Impact Mopar colors, which makes this one impossible to ignore either way. Cast your vote before scrolling down to see what everyone else thinks.
A wildly painted cab-style classic at a car show has readers debating its exact year, make, and model, and the clues are easy to miss if you do not know what to look for. This body style was common across several trim levels in the mid-1950s, which is exactly why fleet buyers loved it. See if you can spot the details that give this one away.
A 1969 Camaro built with a screw-type PSI blower jutting through the hood, EFI plumbing, and nitrous stacked on top — a pro-street machine engineered to intimidate. A positive-displacement blower slams boost in like a light switch, and the nitrous is there for when that isn’t enough. The scary part isn’t the power; it’s that someone made it street-legal. Watch to see what it takes to drive something this wild.
The blacked-out, widebody Ice Charger tore across the frozen finale of The Fate of the Furious looking like pure Hollywood fantasy. Then Rob Dahm visited the shop where the film’s fleet was actually built and got close enough to see how it was really made. Three details he uncovered flip everything you assumed about the car. Watch to see what the cameras never showed you.
A stunning 1970 split-bumper Camaro gets strapped to the dyno, throttle pinned, Flowmasters barking off the shop walls. The second-gen Camaro’s first year gave us the most beautiful face Chevy ever styled — and this one backs the looks with a soundtrack worth turning up. The dyno doesn’t just measure power, it broadcasts attitude. Watch and hear what this gorgeous first-year second-gen actually delivers.
This side-by-side pairs a 1969 Chevelle SS 396 — home to one of Chevrolet’s rarest options, the 425-horsepower L72 427 built in barely 300 examples — against a 2017 Camaro ZL1 packing a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4. One car earned its reputation with a carburetor and a stick shift; the other does it with a 10-speed automatic and modern electronics. Both share a black-on-black stance that makes the fifty-year gap between them almost disappear. The real question is which era actually built the better street brawler.
This full-size Mopar spent the late 1960s as the most common sight in American police fleets, chosen by departments from coast to coast over anything Ford or GM offered. Under the skin sat heavy-duty everything: reinforced suspension, semi-metallic brakes, and an electrical system built to run radios and light bars all shift long. Buyers could option as little as a 230-horsepower 318 or as much as a 375-horsepower 440 wedge. See if you can identify the year, make, and model wearing the badge.
A stock Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a stock Dodge Viper lined up at a Texas airport for the WannaGoFast half-mile — 707 supercharged horses against 8.4 liters of naturally aspirated V10. The trap speeds came back separated by barely a single mile per hour, run after run. Two completely different recipes for speed, arriving at nearly the same place. Watch to see which Dodge flagship edged the other.
Buried in the caption of a classic car-show photo is a number that means something very specific to Mopar people: 340. It’s the displacement, in cubic inches, of one of the most respected small-block V8s Chrysler ever built, one that punched well above its weight class against bigger factory rivals. Here’s what actually made that small-block worth remembering.
A 1969 Dodge Charger has sat abandoned and silent for twenty years, and Dylan McCool coaxes it out toward a new home in footage that has drawn over eight million views. Under the grime hides a loaded SE model with power steering, brakes, A/C, and windows, once metallic blue with a black vinyl top. McCool is honest that the engine isn’t numbers-matching, though it’s still a real factory 383 car. Watch to see whether this iconic shape has anything left to give.
This 1968 Shelby GT500 KR wears gorgeous, original Acapulco Blue paint, but the 428 Cobra Jet that made it legendary was destroyed years ago being drag raced. On My Car Story, Lou Costabile visits Phoenix builder Tony Arme, who is resurrecting the King of the Road piece by piece with a replacement Cobra Jet. It is a look at what it truly takes to save one of the most desirable Mustangs of the decade. Watch to see this Shelby’s comeback take shape.