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A high-mileage 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T with the rare six-speed manual gets rebuilt for character, not more horsepower — then makes a surprisingly convincing case against chasing a supercharged Scat Pack. The build pulled in 3.4 million views, and its closing message turned a budget car project into something far more personal.
Long before dyno charts and spec sheets settled arguments, a muscle car’s reputation was made on the quarter mile in front of a crowd. Dodge’s 80-unit 1968 Hemi Dart reportedly ran into the 9s, a Royal Pontiac-tuned 1969 GTO hit the mid-13s, and a 1969 Hurst/Olds 442 most fans overlook cleared the strip in 13.9 seconds. Read on for why these old numbers still drive prices at auction more than fifty years later.
Three days isn’t nearly enough time to see everything Chrysler ever built parked in one place, but the Mopar Nationals crowd tries anyway. Held at a drag strip with roots along the old National Road, the event has grown into one of the largest single-marque gatherings in the country. Read on to find out what keeps it growing after nearly four decades.
A brand-new Dodge Demon — Dodge’s 840-horsepower, factory drag-ready Challenger — gets delivered in Amarillo, Texas, and the crowd around it turns into its own story. Commenters split between outrage at strangers touching a sold car and celebration for the buyer’s family. Watch what happens when one of the rarest muscle cars ever built shows up at a small-town dealership.
You’ve found it: a second-generation Dodge Charger with the hidden-headlight grille, the flying-buttress roofline, glossy paint, and a seller asking north of $50,000. The vinyl top looks tight, the chrome is straight, and the V8 fires on the first crank. But on a 1968-1970 Charger, the most expensive problem usually isn’t under the hood. It’s under that vinyl top, in the channel around the recessed rear window, and in the trunk corners and lower quarters you never see on a sunny-day walkaround. Owners who have pulled the back glass on “clean” cars have found the window channel eaten away underneath. Here’s exactly where to look, and what to ask, before you hand over the money.
Dodge did what no other muscle car maker had tried when it gave the Challenger GT all-wheel drive, pairing the system with the 305-horsepower Pentastar V6 and an eight-speed automatic. The front axle engages automatically in freezing temperatures, when the wipers come on, in Sport Mode, or the instant traction is lost, then disconnects to protect fuel economy while keeping a rear-drive feel. Read on to find out how Dodge built the first factory muscle car that does not have to hibernate every winter.
Dodge’s new 550-horsepower Charger Scat Pack borrows a nameplate that goes back to 1969 — but the original “Six Pack” didn’t have six cylinders at all, it had six carburetor barrels bolted to a 440 V8. A week of real-world commuting captured with binaural microphones shows what the twin-turbo namesake actually delivers: a 3.7-second 0-60 time and a driving experience nobody expects from a car named after a decades-old carburetor joke.