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Everyone chased the 840-horsepower Demon and its six-figure dealer markups, but the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack quietly delivers most of the thrill for a fraction of the cost. With a naturally aspirated 485-horsepower Hemi and the same aggressive chassis as its supercharged siblings, a clean used example under $33,000 might be the smartest muscle car buy nobody’s talking about.
Dodge built the 426 Street Hemi to satisfy NASCAR’s homologation rules, then quietly offered the same race-bred engine in showroom Coronets, and buyers who checked that option box created one of the rarest muscle cars of 1966. Estimates on exact Coronet 500 Hemi production vary by source, but all of them land in the low hundreds, with four-speed manual cars rarer still. A low-mileage survivor like this one is the kind of find collectors spend years chasing.