Posts Tagged: Dodge Charger
This 1970 Dodge Charger R/T pairs the 426 Hemi with a rare EB3 Light Blue Metallic and black vinyl top combination — one of just 56 Hemi Chargers built with an automatic transmission that year. Read on to find out why so few buyers said yes to the Hemi’s steep price tag, and how the engine paid off on Dodge’s most successful NASCAR season yet.
Nobody can agree on the exact specs of any single General Lee because The Dukes of Hazzard chewed through somewhere between 200 and 300 Dodge Chargers over its 1979-to-1985 run, with only about 18 surviving in driveable condition. Stunt coordinator Al Wyatt Sr. built the fleet around lessons learned from an earlier film, and the welded-shut doors that became the character’s signature trait were pure structural necessity. Read on to find out why a genuine survivor is rarer than winning a drag race.
By 2014, the Dodge Charger SRT8 packed a 470-horsepower V8 and genuine track-ready braking into a car still priced around $30,000 — less than half what comparable European performance sedans cost at the time. Getting there took three model years of shared engineering with the Chrysler 300, a redesigned face, and an engine lineup that kept growing without ever changing the car’s basic bones. Read on to find out how this generation closed out with a genuine value argument, not just an attitude.
Coyote Classics in Greene, Iowa has built a genuinely engaged following around its rotating inventory of Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, and GTOs — including a blue Dodge Super Bee that commenters are practically begging the shop not to modify. See what’s currently on the lot, and why regulars keep coming back to argue about it in the comments.
A small Wisconsin shop turned heads at SEMA by building classic Mopars with body panels made almost entirely of carbon fiber — hoods, fenders, even fender flares, shaving roughly 600 pounds off cars already packing supercharged Hemi power. SpeedKore’s builds have since gone from show-floor curiosities to Kevin Hart’s personal fleet, a Fast & Furious movie car, and an actual Dodge parts catalog. Here’s how a carbon-fiber gimmick became one of the most respected names in modern muscle car building.
Before the 1969 Dodge Charger became a movie legend, Dodge sold it on TV with comedian Stu Gilliam and actress Joan Parker as part of “The Dodge Boys” campaign. This thirty-second pitch is over fifty years old and still working on viewers today. See how Detroit built an entire personality around a muscle car before social media ever existed.
