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For 2017, Dodge let R/T Scat Pack buyers order the Dynamics Package and walk away with forged 20-inch wheels and six-piston Brembo brakes pulled straight from the SRT 392 and Hellcat parts bin, all for $2,200. What Dodge would not share was the supercharger, and that decision was entirely deliberate. Here is what the package actually changed, what it left alone, and why it still matters on the used market.
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.
David Freiburger’s on-camera shout of “Thermoquad!” during Roadkill’s General Mayhem build turned an obscure Carter carburetor into a legend — but few people actually know what makes one different. This Roadkill Extra breaks down the spread-bore design, the unusual plastic float bowl built to fight heat, and exactly why Freiburger called it the carburetor that “punishes” careless drivers. It’s a deep dive into a piece of Mopar hardware most fans only know as a punchline. Watch to finally learn the mechanics behind the meme.
A 1970 Dodge Charger R/T ordered with the Special Edition package, a sliding sunroof, and a 440 describes a buyer who wanted the full performance car and the full luxury car in one signature. That combination was unusual when it was new and is genuinely scarce now. The R/T’s own sales collapsed by roughly half that year as insurance costs caught up with the segment. Read on for what this order sheet says about 1970.
The car chases people still talk about have one thing in common: almost nothing about them was faked. Real drivers, real streets, real risk, and in several cases real crashes that stayed in the final cut. From a 1968 Mustang tearing through San Francisco to a Peterbilt stalking a Plymouth Valiant through the desert, here is what made each of these sequences work and why CGI has never quite replaced them.
One car chase filmed across San Francisco in 1968 did more for the second-generation Dodge Charger than any advertising campaign ever could. The villains’ black R/T was not a movie prop built for the occasion. It was a production car anyone could order, with a 440 Magnum standard and a 426 HEMI on the option sheet. Read on for what the R/T package actually included, and why real ones still chase movie-car money.
SpeedKore of Grafton, Wisconsin built a 1970 Dodge Charger around a 9.0-liter Mercury Racing QC4v, an engine designed for offshore powerboat racing, then added twin 94-millimeter turbos for 1,650 horsepower and ran it through a Tremec six-speed manual. It was the first time that marine engine had ever gone into a road car. The carbon fiber body proved even more commercially significant. Here is what that swap actually required.
Two years before the Charger body style most people recognize even existed, Dodge released a genuinely different fastback, and this rare, 426 Hemi-powered 1966 example, pulled from the respected Brothers Collection, makes the case for why that first-generation car deserves more credit. V8TV’s Muscle Car Of The Week reaches episode 116 with a car one commenter already calls ‘the most underrated Charger.’ See what made Dodge’s original Charger formula work before the more famous redesign took over.
This isn’t a replica — it’s a genuine 1970 Dodge Charger R/T with real Fast and Furious production history, now owned by a collector who built his career sourcing and preserving movie cars. Bob Hartwig’s path from pilot to Picture Car Warehouse to running his own MovieMachines collection explains exactly how a car this recognizable ended up in private hands. The launch alone is violent enough to shift a mounted camera. Watch to see why this specific Charger matters to an entire generation of car fans.
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.
Dodge built 9,509 Charger R/Ts for 1970, and only about 112 of them left the factory with a 426 Hemi under the hood. This Burnt Orange car has one, backed by a Hurst pistol-grip four-speed and the Super Track Pak option that came with a 4.10-geared Dana 60. Read on to find out why the option almost nobody wanted in 1970 became the one everybody chases now.
This 1969 Dodge Charger 500, reportedly the very first one built and originally used by the Dodge News Bureau for promotion, is one of only 27 built with the 426 Hemi and four-speed manual — and the only one combining that drivetrain with Bright Red paint, a black cloth interior, and power windows. Documented by Chrysler records and Mopar authenticator Galen Govier, it sat in a private Ontario collection for decades in unrestored condition. Read on to find out why collectors value it over a fully restored example.
A 440 bored and stroked to 535 cubic inches, roughly 700 horsepower, Viper-inspired hood louvers, and rear fenders widened enough to swallow 12-inch tires. This 1968 Dodge Charger build is not chasing subtlety anywhere on the car. The bodywork alone tells you what the builder was solving for. Read on to find out what the factory 1968 Charger was, and what it takes to make one put that kind of power to the ground.
Back in 2016, word started spreading that Dodge might drop the V8 from the Challenger and Charger in favor of a twin-turbo V6 — a rumor most Mopar fans, including this outlet, dismissed outright. Years later, the debate turned out to be an early preview of exactly where the industry was headed. Read on to see how a rumor once written off as internet noise ended up getting the last laugh.
Most people who can identify a 1969 Dodge Charger on sight have never seen one in person. They know it from a television show that turned an orange, door-welded stunt car into one of the most recognizable vehicles in American culture, and that fame ended up burying what Dodge actually built. Underneath the paint sat a genuinely serious platform with a real racing record that predated Hollywood by a decade.