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This 1969 Dodge Charger 500 wasn’t built to win a car show; it was built so Dodge could go NASCAR racing, and federal rules forced them to sell a street version to the public first. This one carries the 426 Hemi, the rarest and most feared engine option Dodge offered, captured here in a vintage road test that shows exactly how it drove when it was simply a new, very fast Dodge. Watch to hear what period testers actually thought.
An orange, numbered Dodge Charger R/T wearing General Lee livery gets put sideways by Italian drift specialist Federico Sceriffo in this clip from photographer 19Bozzy92. The result pairs a car built for straight-line muscle with a driving style built for controlled chaos through corners, and the big-block soundtrack is unlike anything else in typical drift content. Watch to hear just how loud a Charger gets losing traction on purpose.
If you’re a car enthusiast, nothing screams nostalgia like a muscle car. These beasts from the ’60s and ’70s were more about roaring power than nimbleness, embodying the glory of the American auto industry. Here’s a countdown from GenCept’s poll of the top 10 muscle cars: kicking off with the 1970 Buick GSX, and climaxing with the legendary 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500. Spoiler alert: these rides aren’t just fast, they’re fast enough to make your grandma’s hair curl!
Cleveland Power and Performance did something most restomod builders wouldn’t dare: they grafted a real 1969 Dodge Charger body onto a 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat chassis. The result hides a 707-horsepower supercharged V8 under sheet metal that looks completely period-correct. Dubbed ‘Reverence,’ the build debuted at SEMA 2018 to plenty of double-takes. It’s one of the more convincing arguments that a factory muscle car body and a modern supercharged chassis were always meant to meet.
Dodge built the 1969 Charger Daytona to win a war NASCAR itself would later legislate out of existence. Behind its pointed nose cone and towering rear wing was a wind-tunnel-tested shape good enough to make Buddy Baker the first stock car driver to top 200 mph — and good enough that only 503 were ever built before NASCAR changed the rules. Here’s the engineering story behind the car and the season that ended it.
One jump – sixteen feet high, eighty-two feet long – made this orange Charger more famous than the show itself. More than 320 identical cars were destroyed getting that stunt on film, and the welded-shut doors weren’t a style choice; they were what was left after the abuse this car was built to take.