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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.
A 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger spent decades hidden in a garage before anyone heard its 340 run again. Chrysler rated the small-block at just 275 horsepower — enthusiasts have spent 50 years insisting that number is a lie. Here’s what happened when this rough, unrestored survivor finally came back to life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Over a thousand cars showed up to a fountain-side park in Fountain Hills, Arizona, and somehow a Lamborghini Miura still wasn’t the car everyone in the comments wanted to talk about most. Vipers, a genuine Ferrari Testarossa, and a rare Aston Martin continuation car all made appearances, but it’s the sheer variety packed into one Arizona morning that keeps viewers coming back to this exact upload every year.
This episode of the long-running documentary series turns its attention to the 1969 Dodge Dart GTS, the compact A-body that Chrysler quietly loaded with 340 and 383 big-block power while keeping curb weight hundreds of pounds under its Charger and Coronet siblings. Overshadowed for decades by its Hemi Dart cousin and the flashier E-body Challenger, the GTS built a devoted following on handling alone. Watch to see why period road testers ranked it Chrysler’s best-driving muscle car of the era.
Dodge’s Super Bee ran a full four-year spread of engine options, from a stout 383 all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi, but the rarest combination of them all was the mid-1969 A12 Six-Pack. Only 1,907 of those 440 Six-Pack cars were built, and the Hemi option was even scarcer at just 125 units. It’s a lineup that proves not every muscle car icon needed a household name to earn its reputation.
