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TheStraightPipes reviews the 807-horsepower Dodge Charger Hellcat Redeye Jailbreak at $128,545 CAD, and it turns into something closer to a eulogy than a spec-sheet breakdown. Viewers are calling it the channel’s most comprehensively edited Hellcat video yet, built around a supercharger whine they say never gets old and a reviewer’s kid who sums up the whole car in one word. Watch to see Dodge’s V8 send-off before the Hellcat era officially ends.
A flyer promising prize money at a March drag shootout doesn’t tell you much on its own — but the track behind it, an NHRA-affiliated eighth-mile strip built for grudge racing and small-tire shootouts, has plenty of story to it. Door-crasher format, cash on the line, and a community that shows up test-and-tune after test-and-tune. Here’s what actually happens when the tree drops and real money’s riding on it.
A silent slideshow tracing the Dodge Charger from 1964 through 2008 has turned its comment section into a crowd-sourced Mopar encyclopedia, packed with disputed production numbers and Dukes of Hazzard trivia. Commenters debate everything from the rarity of the 1972 440 Six Pack to how many Chargers survived the show’s stunt work. One line sums up the split verdict on the nameplate’s later years better than any narration could. See the full generational lineup and decide where your favorite Charger falls.
A 1969 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Challenger both meet violent ends in this chase sequence from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof — and the comment section has turned into a years-long debate about whether destroying two desirable Mopars for a movie stunt was ever justified. Some viewers point to decades of onscreen Mopar destruction as context; others simply call it the best movie ever made. Watch to see the practical stunt work that still gets muscle car fans arguing nearly two decades later.
A handful of factory Mopars slipped through Mecum Kissimmee 2026 for prices that left the room stunned — a letter-series 300 for around $30,000, a 440-powered ‘Cuda, a Coronet R/T one viewer called the best deal of the weekend. Dealers noticed first, and they’re already marking these cars up. Which ones got away, and what should have sold for twice as much?
“Tater,” Westen Champlin’s 1968 Dodge Charger, has taken plenty of abuse across his build videos, but stuffing a supercharged Hellcat engine rated near 1,500 horsepower into its 58-year-old unibody pushed things further than usual. The swap leans on aftermarket Holley EFI to run a powertrain that chassis was never designed for, and it shows almost immediately once real torque hits the driveline. Fans in the comments are already calling Champlin an honorary member of the Hemi brothers for what happens next. Watch how far belt slack and 1,500 horsepower can push a vintage Mopar before something gives.
This 1973 Dodge Charger wears its Rallye stripes and hood pins like a well-kept survivor, but under the hood sits a custom 605 cubic inch big block claimed to make 805 horsepower. A stock ’73 Rallye topped out around 280 horsepower from its 440 Magnum, so nearly everything about this car’s performance belongs to a different era of engine building. Read on to find out how much of it is still 1973, and what it takes to make an old B-body carry that much power.
The 1969 Dodge Charger R/T came standard with the 440 Magnum, and the sound that big block makes at idle is the reason so many people call this one of the best-looking muscle cars of all time before it ever moves. Most R/T buyers took the 440 over the Hemi, but far fewer of those cars survive today with their original drivetrain intact. Read on to find out how the R/T earned its badge and what to check before buying one.
This burgundy 1966 Dodge Charger wears the styling cues that made it an instant standout: hidden headlights borrowed from a 1942 DeSoto trick, a six-lamp taillight panel spelling out its own name, and a white bucket-seat interior built around a full-length console. Only 468 of the 37,344 Chargers built that first year came with the 426 Hemi. Read on for how the fastback nearly flopped as a Rambler copycat before becoming a Dodge Rebellion icon.
A 1970 Dodge Charger can hide anything from a mild 318 to a snarling 440 Six Pack under that Coke-bottle sheet metal, and the difference shows the instant the throttle opens. Here is what separated the base R/T 440 Magnum from the Six Pack and the Hemi, why the 1970 car was the last and most refined of the second generation, and why collectors still chase the numbers-matching examples. Read on to find out what is really making that exhaust note.
This race-prepped Camaro isn’t just for sale, it’s a rolling piece of the pony car war Chevrolet started on purpose. When reporters asked what ‘Camaro’ meant, Chevy’s famous answer was ‘a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs,’ and the rivalry that followed pushed both brands into a genuine horsepower arms race. Decades later, this car still runs like it has something to prove.
A 1968 Dodge Charger with a Hemi is a familiar story. This one hides a twin-turbocharged 8.0-liter Dodge Viper V10 making 1,300 horsepower, roughly triple what the engine produced in a factory RT/10. Getting a V10 that was never designed for boost to survive that kind of power takes forged internals, a billet intake and a fuel system built for E85. Read on to find out why the 1968 Charger keeps getting picked for swaps like this.
The 1969 Dodge Charger and Super Bee shared Chrysler’s B-body bones but chased two completely different buyers — one wanted a boulevard cruiser, the other wanted the cheapest ticket to a 13-second quarter mile. A mid-year option turned the budget car into the one that actually embarrassed its fancier sibling at the strip. Read on to see how the math worked out.
Only 468 of the 37,344 Chargers Dodge built for 1966 left the factory with the 426 Street Hemi under the hood, and fewer still got the four-speed this fastback needed to use all of it. This is the story of the year Chrysler finally let its feared race engine loose on the street, and why almost nobody actually bought one. Read on to find out just how close this combination came to never existing at all.
This head-to-head lineup pits vintage muscle — a numbers-matching Cobra Jet, a classic Hemi Charger, an old-school Camaro — against Dodge’s Hellcat, Demon, and Chevy’s ZL1 in a series of quarter-mile drag races. One matchup even needed a handicap start just to keep things fair. Which era actually wins when the light drops green? Watch the full lineup to find out.