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Every April, Las Vegas Motor Speedway turns into Mopar’s biggest proving ground, where Scat Pack and Hellcat owners settle their arguments the only way that counts — at the drag strip. The weekend runs two separate brackets, the Scat Pack Challenge for 392 Hemi cars and the Hellcat Shootout for the 707-horsepower supercharged cars, plus three days of car shows and swap meet action. Here’s what makes this event a must-attend for Dodge’s modern muscle faithful, and why a manual-transmission win still turns heads in a field mostly running the automatic.
Las Vegas is not just one of the best cities for classic car enthusiasts by reputation – it is backed up by real numbers, hosting the SEMA Show’s roughly 160,000 attendees and 2,200 exhibitors every year since 1977. Combined with St. Louis, Sacramento, and Miami’s own car cultures, this list reveals what really makes a city a haven for enthusiasts: infrastructure, climate, and a packed events calendar.
David Cach’s TorRed 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat earned June’s Hellcat of the Month honors on the SRT Hellcat Facebook page, and it’s easy to see why once you know what the car is packing. A supercharged 707-horsepower HEMI, a two-key system that limits power for valet mode, and a mid-3-second sprint to 60 made the first-generation Hellcat one of the most significant muscle cars of its era. Here’s what made this particular build stand out from the crowd.
There’s an old assumption that a life spent around European sports cars ruins your ability to build a proper American muscle car. This Roadster Shop-built 1967 Chevelle, packing a 680-horsepower Whipple-supercharged LS3 and a custom Fast Track chassis, exists to dismantle that idea completely. Here’s what’s actually under the arrow-straight black paint — and why the build’s restraint matters as much as its horsepower.
The first customer 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE ever built sold at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach for $250,000, every dollar going to the United Way. The winning bidder, NASCAR owner Rick Hendrick, has a habit of collecting VIN 001 of serious performance cars, including the world’s first production Acura NSX, and this one came with a resume of its own.
This burgundy 1976 Ford Torino made local headlines after being stolen from a driveway, but the real story is what it represents: the final model year Ford ever built a car under the Torino name before renaming the whole lineup LTD II for 1977. Only 193,096 were built that year. Here is what made the Torino’s last stand worth remembering.
Getting the right drag wheels onto a modern muscle car isn’t as simple as it was on a classic Chevelle or Mustang, and that fitment gap is exactly what Race Star built its business around. From a single wheel design launched in 2009 to a catalog partnered with NHRA Pro Stock and Pro Mod racers, here’s how the company earned its spot on serious drag cars.
The Hellcat’s quarter-mile record never sat still for long. Within a couple of years of launch, built Hellcats were already running mid-7s at nearly 180 mph, and dedicated racers have kept pushing that number down ever since, eventually cracking into the 6-second zone. For a factory-built supercharged street engine, that’s a staggering amount of headroom.
Dodge finally put a real number on the Durango SRT’s outrageous performance claims, and the price tag turned out to be the surprise. Backed by a 475-horsepower HEMI V8, a 4.4-second 0-60 run, and an NHRA-certified 12.9-second quarter mile, the SRT earned its title as America’s fastest three-row SUV. Here’s what that sticker price actually bought.
Dodge did something no automaker had ever done: shipped a production car on genuine 315mm drag radials, straight from the factory. That decision alone was enough to break the assembly line. Demons and widebody Hellcats had to ride down the line on temporary wheels before getting their real tires bolted on at a separate facility, and the drag radials come with one weakness that has nothing to do with horsepower.
Dodge’s teaser for the Demon promised higher launch force than the Hellcat, and the real numbers didn’t disappoint: a 15 percent bigger tire contact patch, nearly double the mechanical grip, and over 35 percent more launch force than the car everyone thought was already unbeatable. With only 3,000 built and a standard one-seat interior, this wasn’t a marketing stunt. It was Dodge building the most drag-strip-obsessed factory muscle car ever sold.
Only fifty of these will ever be built, and Trans Am Worldwide is reviving one of Pontiac’s most respected performance badges — the 455 Super Duty — to do it. This behind-the-scenes look at the build, directed by Ash von Chamier, has racked up over three million views from fans curious how a modern shop tackles a name with this much history attached. The finished car is only half the story.