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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.
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.
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.
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.
1974 marked the last year Dodge would let you order a Charger with a 440-cubic-inch V8 under the hood, and hardly anyone did. Insurance surcharges and tightening emissions rules had already scared most buyers toward smaller engines, leaving this big-block holdout as one of the final true muscle Chargers built before the nameplate went soft. Backed by a three-speed TorqueFlite automatic, it’s a genuine end-of-an-era survivor for anyone who understands what 1974 really meant for Mopar performance.
Only 475 of the roughly 96,000 Chargers Dodge built for 1968 left the factory with a 426 Hemi under the hood, and this 4-speed example pairs that rare engine with a color so scarce that surviving examples can be counted on one hand. Read on to find out just how thin the numbers get, and why proving a car is truly one of a kind is harder than it sounds.
Rutledge Wood’s ride for HOT ROD Power Tour 2017 was a white 1970 Dodge Charger with Petty Racing history: Kyle Petty bought it as a teenager and had its quarters widened by the Petty Enterprises fab shop, it passed to his son Austin, and it still carries its original 383 and four-speed. Wood added Wilwood brakes and a prototype RideTech StreetGrip suspension for a thousand miles of driving. Read on to find out why this Charger out-ranks nearly everything on the tour.
A 1968 Ford Mustang GT and a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T tear through the hills of San Francisco in one of the most argued-about car chases ever filmed — and viewers still can’t agree on how many hubcaps the Charger actually lost along the way. No score, no CGI, just two big-block V8s and two drivers who knew exactly how much grip they had left. Watch to see why a scene filmed over fifty years ago still beats the chases Hollywood makes today.
SpeedKore built this 1970 Dodge Charger around an engine that was never intended for a road: a 9.0-liter, quad-cam racing V8 from Mercury Racing’s boat program, twin-turbocharged to 1,650 horsepower on race fuel. It debuted at SEMA, appeared in a Fast & Furious film, was gifted to Vin Diesel, and has been offered at $699,000. Here is how a marine engine ended up in a muscle car body.
Dodge and the Fast and Furious franchise have been tied together since Dominic Toretto first tore the wheels off his father’s 1970 Charger. By The Fate of the Furious, that relationship had grown into a full co-branded campaign called Muscle Heaven, built around a fleet of silver-and-black Challenger SRT Demons. The timing was not accidental. Read on to find out what Dodge was actually proving with it.
Built specifically to represent Chrysler at the 1967 International Auto Show, this 426 Hemi-powered Dodge Charger comes from The Brothers Collection with a rear wing, hidden headlights, and a load of options that still spark debate among Mopar loyalists decades later. It’s a genuine factory showpiece, not just another restored survivor. Watch to see what made this Charger good enough to represent an entire brand.
The 1970 Charger R/T SE is the version that confuses people. R/T meant 440 Magnum, heavy-duty everything, and 375 horsepower. SE meant leather, wood grain, and deep-dish wheel covers. Combining them produced a car that Dodge itself struggled to explain, and only a small fraction of 1970 R/T buyers ordered it. Here is what that combination was actually for.
This bright green Dodge Charger hides an 800-horsepower Procharged Hemi and a subwoofer-equipped interior — built, per commenters, by the owner himself. 1320video catches the car running Colorado Springs Airport’s runway at the 2017 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack. Viewers call the owner a badass for actually driving it instead of trailering a build this serious. Watch to see what a real daily-driven, 800-horsepower Hemi can do.