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Vanguard Motor Sales spent three and a half years on a full rotisserie restoration of this numbers-matching 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, right down to verifying the original 440 Magnum’s casting date. One former owner of an identical car in the comments backs up the appeal — and the one real downside. Watch the walkaround and see what three and a half years of documented restoration actually looks like.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon arrived at the 2017 New York Auto Show with 840 horsepower, a certified 9.65-second quarter mile at 140 mph, and a Guinness record for lifting its front wheels off the line, and a portion of the internet still called it a letdown because rumors had promised four digits. Hennessey promised to fix it. What the shop actually built first was a Camaro. Here is how that detour played out, and the asterisk attached to that 840 figure.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon made 808 horsepower on pump gas and 840 on race fuel, ran a certified 9.65-second quarter mile, and lifted its front wheels hard enough to earn a Guinness record. It also arrived with a steel crate of drag parts, a factory transbrake, and an air conditioner repurposed to chill the intake charge. Dodge built it for a single model year and then walked away. Read on for what it actually took to get there.
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.
Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon with a supercharged Hemi V8 rated at 840 horsepower, factory-fitted wide-body fender flares, and a production run capped at just 3,300 units total. The reveal landed alongside news that Ford was extending availability of its own Shelby Mustangs, giving performance buyers two big storylines at once. Both moves capped a mid-2010s horsepower race that pushed Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet to repeatedly one-up each other. Read on to find out which of these limited-run factory monsters will matter more to collectors decades from now.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon started at $84,995 and left the factory with 808 horsepower. The 840-horsepower figure everyone quoted required one additional box on the order sheet, and that box cost exactly one dollar. It is one of the strangest pricing decisions in modern automotive history, and Dodge would revisit the same trick years later on a much larger scale. Here is what a single dollar actually bought.
By 1977, the Dodge Charger nameplate barely resembled the fastback muscle car that made it famous a decade earlier — and the R/T badge on this particular car raises a question most muscle car reviews skip entirely: was it still earning that name, or just borrowing it? AutoMastersHQ digs into the specs, the styling, and the restoration realities of a Charger most collectors overlook. Watch to find out what got lost, and what actually survived, in the decade between 1968 and 1977.
Regular Car Reviews takes on a 1967 Dodge Coronet 440, a car the host bluntly calls “more a symbol of virility than a car.” Under the hood sits a 7.2-liter, 480 lb-ft V8, backed by nothing more than drum brakes, bias-ply tires, and lap belts. Watch to find out why a decades-old B-body still leaves viewers stunned.
Dodge kept the third-generation Challenger in showrooms for nearly a decade on retro styling and attitude alone, and most of that run was defined by V8 horsepower wars. Then the company quietly built one with all-wheel drive and a V6, which looked like an apology to anyone who lives where it snows. The 2017 Challenger GT was the first American muscle coupe ever offered with AWD, and the idea deserved better than it got.
Dodge built 503 winged Chargers. Plymouth was forced to build nearly four times as many Superbirds. Both cars came out of the same NASCAR rulebook and the same wind tunnel program, yet they ended up with different noses, different wings, different interiors, and very different reputations among collectors today. One of them was measurably faster on the high banks. Read on to find out which, and why the gap was smaller than either camp admits.
Richard Schmidt’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible sat untouched for forty years after he and his late wife Kitty stopped using it as their everyday cruiser. His kids brought it back — not for the horsepower, but in her memory. Hagerty named the finished restoration its 2016 Classic of the Year, beating eleven other finalist stories. Watch the full story and see why one viewer called it ‘how to make a car guy cry 101.’
This showroom shot of a polished orange muscle car taps into one of Detroit biggest marketing gambles: the early-1970s high-impact color wars. Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, and Grabber Orange all trace back to the same era of factory one-upmanship. Here is the story behind the shade that still turns heads decades later.
A Mustang, a Camaro, and a Challenger lined up together is not just a photo, it is the same argument muscle car fans have been having since the 1960s. Ford started the pony car category almost by accident in 1964, Chevy and Dodge spent decades answering back, and the rivalry between all three is still what pushes each brand to build better cars. Here is the short history behind a fight that has never actually been settled.
Dodge arrived at the pony car party six years late and compensated by offering more engines than anyone else, from a 383 all the way to the 426 Hemi. The Challenger R/T was the sharp end of that lineup, and the cars that stayed with one family instead of getting flipped or raced into the ground are now the ones collectors chase hardest. Read on for what made the first-generation car special.
Every 1969 Dodge Charger R/T came standard with a 375-horsepower 440 Magnum, and 18,344 buyers were perfectly happy with that. Only 432 checked the box for the 426 Hemi. Same body, same badge, two completely different cars — and the choice said everything about how serious the original owner really was. Here is what separated them, and why the 1969 Charger became the most recognizable shape of the entire muscle era.