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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.
The 1969 Charger R/T is the car most people picture when they hear the name, and not only because of a certain orange stunt car. A 440 Magnum came standard, the Hemi was available to the very few who could justify it, and the R/T package brought suspension and brake upgrades to match. Here is what the R/T really included, what one honestly ran at the strip, and why documentation decides what a car is worth today.
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.
Two headline Challengers arrived in the same 2017 news cycle, and enthusiasts have been mixing them up ever since. The all-wheel-drive one was the Challenger GT, a Pentastar V6 coupe aimed at snow-belt buyers. The 840-horsepower one was the rear-drive SRT Demon that lifted its front wheels off the pavement and ran 9.65 at 140 mph. Here is what each car actually was, and why Dodge needed both at once.
The 1968 Dodge Charger R/T redefined what a Mopar intermediate could look like, trading its predecessor’s slow-selling fastback for the coke-bottle body that later made it famous as the General Lee. Under the hood of this particular car sits the 375-horsepower 440 Magnum wedge — Hemi-adjacent thrust without the Hemi’s finicky tune or price tag. AutoMastersHQ’s in-depth review puts both the styling and the performance to the test.
Twice in the 1990s, Ford built a Mustang so track-focused it was only sold to buyers holding a valid competition racing license: first with the 107-unit 1993 Cobra R on the outgoing Fox-body platform, then with the 250-unit, 5.8-liter 1995 version on Ford’s all-new SN-95 chassis. Both stripped out comfort features entirely in favor of lower weight and genuine racing credibility. Read on to find out how Ford kept reviving the Cobra R formula well into the 2000s.
This raw, unedited clip revisits the quarter-mile race that launched an entire franchise: Dominic Toretto’s 1970 Dodge Charger R/T against Brian O’Conner’s Supra from the original Fast and the Furious. Two decades on, fans are still finding new details on rewatch, from a fan-verified model year to a small windshield-wiper continuity quirk. Watch the scene that made the Charger a movie icon.
When Chrysler’s 6.4-liter HEMI SRT V8 launched, it used a pushrod layout that critics considered outdated — and still made 470 naturally aspirated horsepower across the Charger, Challenger, 300, and Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. Chief engineer Gary Rogers explains the engineering decisions behind the numbers directly in this Insider Interview. Watch to understand why an ‘old’ engine architecture kept winning arguments it wasn’t supposed to win.
Since 2011, one filmmaker has returned every year to check on the same 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona — sitting exactly where it always sits, exposed to the weather, worth potentially 150,000 dollars or more if it were ever restored. Hot Rod Magazine has written about this exact car. Watch to see why one of Dodge’s rarest homologation specials is still rusting away in plain sight.
For a few short years at the end of the 1960s, win on Sunday, sell on Monday pushed Ford, Mercury, Dodge, and Plymouth into a genuine aerodynamic arms race, producing cars as strange-looking as they were fast — this MotorWeek retro review rounds up the Torino, Cyclone, Charger, and the wildest of them all, the wing-and-nose-cone Plymouth Superbird. One commenter still remembers passing on a Limelight green Superbird back in 1985, long before it became a six-figure collector car. Watch to see the machines NASCAR eventually had to legislate off the track.
Caught rolling through downtown Lowell on a June afternoon in 2014, this Pro Street 1968 Dodge Charger doesn’t get a single word of narration — and it doesn’t need one. The comment section fills in everything: praise for its cross-plane crankshaft rumble, comparisons to the Fast & Furious franchise, and one viewer’s story about a father-in-law’s full rebuild. Watch (and listen) to find out what earns a car this kind of reaction.