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Plymouth Built the Classiest Muscle Car of 1971 — Only 2,942 People Wanted One

Plymouth paired a 440 Super Commando V8 with the kind of trim and insulation you’d expect from a luxury coupe. The GTX nameplate didn’t survive past that single model year. Here’s the story behind the rarest, most refined muscle car Plymouth ever built.

Dodge Reworked the Super Bee’s Face for Just One Year in 1970 — Then Hid a 390-HP Weapon Behind It

by Jack Harmon

This 1970 Dodge Super Bee wears a front end Dodge built for exactly one model year. Under the hood, a 440 running three carburetors was engineered to chase Hemi-level bragging rights for a lot less money. Here’s the story behind both decisions — and why neither one stuck around.

A 1971 Dodge Charger R/T Baked in a Las Vegas Driveway for 55 Years — Its Revival Skipped the Restoration Shop Entirely

by Jack Harmon

A 1971 Dodge Charger R/T sat in the same Las Vegas driveway for 55 years before two guys with a YouTube channel brought it back — not with a full restoration, but with a budget revival built to be driven. Here’s the story, and the real rarity of a 1971 R/T.

A 1972 Plymouth Satellite Lost Its V8 to a Tesla — Then Humbled a 700-HP Turbo Dodge Dart

by Jack Harmon

Kevin Erickson spent nearly two years swapping a wrecked Tesla Model S drivetrain into his 1972 Plymouth Satellite — and the 636-horsepower result just put a 700-HP turbo Dodge Dart on notice at the strip. Here’s how a home-garage build called ‘Electrollite’ pulled off one of the most convincing EV muscle car swaps yet.

Dodge Copied the Road Runner to Build a Budget Muscle Car — Then Buried a 425-HP Hemi Inside Just 125 of Them

by Jack Harmon

Dodge built the 1968 Super Bee to undercut the Road Runner on price, with a 383 Magnum doing most of the work. A 426 Hemi was quietly on the order sheet too — almost nobody checked the box.

A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Vanished Into a Shop in 1991 — Its 440 Six-Pack Just Woke Up 32 Years Later

by Jack Harmon

A black 1970 Road Runner sat sealed inside a building from 1991 until a Pacific Northwest restorer finally pulled it out. Under the hood: a numbers-matching 440 Six Barrel rated at 390 horsepower, backed by a Dana 60 built for exactly the abuse this car saw at the strip.

Dodge Called the Coronet the Charger’s Plain Cousin — Then Snuck Its Rarest Hemi Into One Anyway

by Jack Harmon

A 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee is heading to auction with its original fender tag intact — one of a scarce handful built with the 426 Hemi and a four-speed stick. Here’s why Dodge’s supposedly plain muscle car hid one of its rarest engines, and why that final Coronet year mattered.

Everyone Swaps Out a Barracuda’s 318 for Something Bigger — This 1968 Mopar Kept Its Original Small-Block Instead

by Jack Harmon

A 1968 Plymouth Barracuda was supposed to get a simple 318 refresh. Instead, the small-block’s hidden problems forced a full drivetrain removal — and turned a routine job into one of the more unusual builds on the channel.

Chrysler Built a 200-MPH Street Car in 1969 — Then NASCAR Rewrote Its Rules Just to Stop It

by Jack Harmon

Only 503 Dodge Daytonas and 1,935 Plymouth Superbirds were ever built, and both were sold with a regular factory warranty. Here’s how a wind-tunnel-shaped street car broke NASCAR’s 200-mph barrier — and why the sport changed its own rulebook to make sure it never happened again.

A 1968 Dodge Charger Sat in Storage for 30 Years — Then Strangers Gave a 96-Year-Old Man His Youth Back

by Jack Harmon

Peter’s 1968 Dodge Charger spent three decades buried in a storage unit while its 440 sat silent. A detailing crew and a father-son mechanic duo spent weeks bringing it back to life, not to sell it, but just to watch a 96-year-old man see his car clean and running again.

Plymouth Beat Ford to America’s First Pony Car by 16 Days — Then Watched the Mustang Outsell It in a Single Day

by Jack Harmon

Plymouth had a sporty fastback on sale before the Mustang even existed, complete with the biggest curved window Detroit had ever tried to build and a trunk big enough for a pair of skis. Here’s how beating Ford to market turned into one of the pony car era’s strangest footnotes.

Plymouth Only Built 824 Convertible Road Runners in 1970 — Then Killed the Ragtop for Good

by Jack Harmon

Plymouth built only 824 convertible Road Runners for 1970 before killing the body style for good. A clean survivor hardtop, featured in a recent walk-around, carries all the same oddball 1970-only details: a licensed cartoon bird, a vacuum-actuated hood scoop, and a facelift that lasted exactly one model year.

Dodge Killed the Hemi V8 in the 2026 Charger — Then Built a 550-HP Six That Hits 60 in Under 4 Seconds Anyway

by Jack Harmon

The Hemi is gone from the 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack Plus, replaced by a twin-turbo inline-six good for 550 horsepower and a 3.9-second sprint to 60 mph. Mopar fans are still deciding whether to forgive the swap — especially once they see the price tag.

Plymouth Paid Warner Bros. for a Cartoon Bird’s Name — Then Built a 440 Muscle Car Whose Horn Says ‘Meep Meep’

by Jack Harmon

A restored 1970 Road Runner in Lime Light green shows why Plymouth’s cheapest big-block muscle car outsold its fancier GTX sibling by miles — and why a licensed cartoon horn was never the joke it sounds like.

A Man Held Onto His 1969 Plymouth GTX for 50 Years — What Restorers Found Underneath Left Even Him Speechless

by Jack Harmon

A fifty-year owner finally handed his 1969 Plymouth GTX to a restoration shop, and the sheet metal told a story nobody expected. Only 15,602 GTXs were built that year, and this one needed far more than paint to come back on the road.

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