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Close-up of a vintage Dodge Challenger grille and badge.

1971 Dodge Challenger 383 – vintage road test

by Wes

This 1971 Dodge Challenger looks almost stock — no R/T badge, no scoop, nothing to give away what’s underneath. That’s exactly the point. Built to dodge 1971’s brutal muscle car insurance surcharges, it hides a 383 four-speed combination with a Hurst pistol-grip shifter under an unassuming exterior, and this vintage road test puts it through real acceleration and braking runs to prove the disguise. Watch to see why some of the smartest muscle car builds were the ones that never announced themselves.

Red 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with black rims on a street.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody – Redline: Review

by Wes

This Redline review puts the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody through its paces, tackling the question every 707-horsepower muscle car eventually has to answer: how do you actually put that much power down on the street without spinning the tires at every stoplight? The fix borrows parts straight from the Demon’s playbook. Watch the full review to see whether the Widebody package actually delivers.

1969 Dodge Super Bee Buyer’s Guide: The Rust, Recall, and Restoration Costs Hiding Behind That Bumblebee Stripe

by Jack Harmon

You’ve found a 1969 Dodge Super Bee for sale, and it looks like the deal of a lifetime. That hockey-stick stripe, the buzzing bee decal on the tail, maybe even a 383 Magnum rumbling under the hood – this is a genuine B-body muscle car, still priced well under its Charger and Road Runner siblings. But look closer before you commit. NHTSA has a documented rear-axle recall tied to these cars that most sellers have never heard of, let alone addressed, and the same rust-prone unibody construction that ended so many Mopars of this era in a salvage yard is still doing damage decades later. One owner’s Super Bee needed a full family restoration – years of work, a torn-down body, and a rebuild from the ground up – just to get back to factory-correct condition. Before you hand over a deposit on your own Bee, here’s what that restoration story, and the government’s own recall records, say you need to check first.

Dodge Challenger SRT HELLCAT: Is This the Last Great American Muscle Car?

by Jack Harmon

Every other muscle car nameplate has gone electric, gone away, or gone soft trying to chase sports car rivals twice its price. The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat did none of those things, staying loud, huge, and supercharged right up until production ended for good. Borrowed from UK specialist importer Clive Sutton for this review, it sets out to answer a pointed question: with rivals increasingly drifting toward supercar territory, is this genuinely the last great muscle car? Watch to see the case this drive makes.

This 1970 Dodge Super Bee Sat Untouched for 36 Years — Its Rescuer Bought His First One as a Teenager With Lunch Money

by Jack Harmon

A numbers-matching 1970 Dodge Super Bee just resurfaced after 36 years of sitting untouched, and the man who found it isn’t new to the model. Former Hot Rod editor David Freiburger already owns the Super Bee he bought as a teenager in 1983 — this second one came wrapped in decades of dust, a 383 four-speed drivetrain, and a century-old machine shop’s worth of history.

Dodge Killed the Hellcat V8 in 2023 — Stellantis Just Confirmed It’s Coming Back With More Than 700 Horsepower

by Jack Harmon

Dodge spent two years insisting the V8 muscle car era was over, replacing the Charger’s supercharged HEMI with a battery pack and then a turbocharged six-cylinder. Weak EV sales and comments from Dodge’s own CEO have changed that story: a supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat V8 making more than 700 horsepower is reportedly locked in for the Charger’s 2028 refresh. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s still rumor, and why the wait might be worth it.

Comparison of two cars with green themes and different styles.

Muscle Car Memes: Go green…

by Kiril

Before Mopar’s High-Impact color names became legend, a handful of green paint codes only existed for a single model year, vivid enough to earn nicknames like Sublime and Sassy Grass. This piece traces where those shades came from, why some vanished within twelve months, and how a traffic-light-inspired green ended up on some of the boldest muscle cars of 1969 and 1970.

A shiny blue classic muscle car displayed indoors.

Ford Mustang 1970 BOSS 429

by Kiril

Ford needed to beat Chrysler’s Hemi on NASCAR’s superspeedways, but the rulebook only required 500 street versions of the race engine, not that they share a body with the car actually racing. That loophole put a 429 big-block into a Mustang engine bay never designed to hold it, built through an unusual two-plant process most owners never expect. Read on to see how a homologation technicality created one of Ford’s rarest, most valuable Mustangs.

Rear-side view of a red sports car with black rims indoors.

How I Ruined All My Cars

by Kiril

Every classic muscle car owner has a story about the mistake that cost them an engine, a transmission, or a rear end — and the stories keep repeating because these cars share a handful of very specific weak points. From carburetor floods that can hydro-lock a cylinder to reproduction tires that shock-load a differential, here are the ownership mistakes that quietly ruin more muscle cars than any track day ever could.

The Dodge Challenger SRT 392 Was Quietly Killed in 2018 — Here’s Why It’s Still the Smartest Used Muscle Car Buy

by Jack Harmon

Raiti’s Rides asks a question modern Challenger buyers keep circling back to: is the naturally aspirated SRT 392, quietly overshadowed by the supercharged Hellcat, actually the smarter used muscle car purchase? With 485 horsepower from a 6.4-liter HEMI, a modern ZF eight-speed automatic, and a used-market price well below Hellcat territory, the SRT 392 makes a compelling case for buyers who do not need 707 horsepower to enjoy every drive. Owners in the comments seem to agree.

Dodge Only Built 22 Hemi Super Bees in 1971 — And Somehow One of Them Also Has a Factory Sunroof

by Jack Harmon

Chrysler built only 22 1971 Dodge Super Bees with the 426 Hemi, and only 9 of those got a 4-speed manual. Separately, just 9 known ’71 Super Bees left the factory with a power sunroof — a nearly-$500 option that mandated a full vinyl top. Whether any single car sits at the overlap of all three is a question the historical record can’t quite settle. Watch to see the numbers behind one of the rarest combinations in Mopar history.

Dodge Built a Cheaper Way to Beat the Hemi in 1969 — Only 1,907 Buyers Ever Found Out

by Jack Harmon

Dodge built the A12-package 1969 Super Bee to deliver near-Hemi drag strip performance for a fraction of the Hemi’s cost — a triple-carbureted 440, a raw fiberglass hood, and, on this particular restored example, the Butterscotch color enthusiasts single out as the best A12 shade available. Fewer than two thousand were ever built. Watch to see why Mopar specialists still treat this package as a genuine engineering achievement.

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