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The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat proved Detroit could still build something genuinely unhinged — a four-door family sedan packing a supercharged 707-horsepower HEMI, an 11-second quarter-mile, and a top speed north of 200 mph, all with room for the kids in back. It’s the kind of factory-built lunacy that makes old-school muscle car fans grin, because somebody at Dodge clearly understood the assignment.
Nick Panaritis takes on a build with a deceptively simple goal: 600 horsepower from a 1968 440, on pump gas, reliable enough to drive every day. Part one follows the teardown and reassembly of an engine pulled straight out of a client’s own Charger, with commenters pointing to real-world proof the target is achievable. Watch to see how the build starts.
From Steve McQueen’s Bullitt in 1968 to John Wick in 2014, the Dodge Charger has been Hollywood’s go-to car for spectacular on-screen destruction, and this compilation pulls together seven of its most memorable on-camera deaths. Along the way it traces how practical stunt work evolved from the golden age of Cannonball and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry through Tarantino’s deliberate throwback in Death Proof. Even the comments can’t agree on which Charger send-off hurts the most. Watch to see which seven films made the cut.
This 1968 lineup photo puts three very different Dodges side by side: the lightweight Dart GTS, the full-size Coronet R/T, and the radically styled Charger R/T. Each one represented a different bet on what muscle car buyers wanted that year, light weight and agility, big-block brute force, or head-turning design. The Coronet R/T’s Hemi option was built in numbers so small that survivors are among the rarest Mopars around today. Which one would you have driven off the lot in 1968?
This 1969 Dodge Charger isn’t a restoration – it’s a transplant, with the classic fastback body dropped directly onto the chassis of a 2016 Challenger SRT Hellcat. That donor brought along a 707-horsepower supercharged HEMI, modern suspension, and a thoroughly contemporary interior, all wrapped in unmistakable late-1960s sheet metal. The build sits at the center of a growing restomod trend that trades numbers-matching purity for something that can actually keep up with modern traffic.
Barn-find hunter Ryan Brutt tracked down a Midwest barn holding several of the rarest cars in muscle car history — a Plymouth Superbird, Dodge Charger Daytona, Charger 500, Ford Torino Talladega, and Mercury Cyclone, all products of NASCAR’s brief and furious late-1960s aero wars. Most haven’t moved in decades. See exactly what’s sitting behind that barn door.
A 383-cubic-inch engine putting down almost exactly 383 horsepower is the kind of coincidence that doesn’t happen often enough for anyone to plan around it — but that’s exactly what this blue 1968 Dodge Charger did on the dyno at a Mopar show in Avondale, Arizona. Three pulls, real numbers, and an exhaust note commenters called worth hearing all the way to redline.
Behind an unassuming barn door in the Midwest sits a collection most muscle car fans only dream of finding: a Plymouth Superbird, a Dodge Charger 500, a Torino Talladega, and a Cale Yarborough-edition Mercury Cyclone, all from NASCAR’s brief and legendary aero-war era. Ryan Brutt, “The Auto Archaeologist,” documents the find in full. Watch to see exactly what’s been sitting quietly, forgotten, since the height of stock car racing’s strangest arms race.
A Dodge Charger and a Plymouth Road Runner faced off in the amateur Search For Speed league, and the fight wasn’t really about horsepower — it was about which Mopar nameplate has earned the right to more respect. Viewers spent as much time debating the Charger’s eligibility as they did praising the Road Runner’s looks, turning a quarter-mile grudge match into a full-blown argument about muscle car authenticity. The burnout told its own story.
Jeff Fleming’s 1968 Dodge Charger R/T wears a Medium Gold paint job over a genuine 426 Hemi, restored to a standard that reads as showroom-new nearly sixty years later. Mopar fans in the comments zeroed in on a detail only true Charger obsessives notice: 1968 was the only year Dodge used round side marker and taillights on this body style. One viewer admitted the restoration was so clean it made them nervous just watching. See what sets this Charger apart.
A black-on-black Dodge Charger parked on a cobblestone street could be any number of things under the hood — and in 1969, that uncertainty was half the fun. Dodge backed the R/T badge with a standard 375-horsepower 440 Magnum and an optional 425-horsepower 426 Hemi that fewer than 500 buyers ever got their hands on. Here’s what actually separated the everyday R/T from the unicorns.
A 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T and a 2017 Dodge Charger R/T share the same HEMI V8 but very different body styles, and Modern Muscle’s host puts his own Challenger up against @frederic_rt’s Charger to settle which one actually wins on the street. Rolling starts and dig starts each favor a different car, splitting the comments right down the middle. It’s one entry in a much larger local rivalry series. Watch to see who takes it.
A Dodge Demon, a Hellcat, and a new ZL1 line up against a ’69 Charger, a Nova, a Chevelle, a Shelby GT500, and a classic Mustang in this old-vs-new drag racing compilation, and the results split viewers right down the middle. One camp insists nothing beats old-school cool factor; the other concedes technology always wins in the end. A 1970 Chevelle SS 454 turns in a pass that neither side saw coming. Watch the full lineup face off.
This 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee carries the rare A12 package, a 463-dollar option that swapped in a 440-cubic-inch V8 wearing three two-barrel carburetors for one strange mid-year run. Only 1,907 were built before Dodge moved on. Stock, these cars ran mid-13-second quarter miles, embarrassing plenty of pricier machinery on the strip.
Dodge broke an unwritten rule of muscle car culture for 2017, offering the first all-wheel-drive American muscle coupe. It was not actually the SRT Demon wearing AWD, but the two cars arrived the same year for very different reasons. Here is what Dodge actually built, and why the mix-up made sense anyway.