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Dodge Only Built 42 Hemi Super Bees in 1970 — The Buyers Who Skipped It Got the Smarter Deal

A Top Banana Yellow 1970 Dodge Super Bee skipped the ultra-rare Hemi for a 440 Six Pack instead — and gave up just 35 horsepower for a fraction of the price. See why collectors now call it the sleeper every Mopar fan should want.

Dodge’s Greatest Muscle Cars of All Time

by Jack Harmon

In March 1970, a winged Dodge became the first car in NASCAR history to top 200 mph. That single moment says everything about what Dodge was willing to build in the golden age of American […]

Plymouth Called the 1967 GTX a “Gentleman’s Muscle Car” — Its Standard Engine Still Made 375 Horsepower

by Jack Harmon

The 1967 Plymouth GTX swapped stripped-down race-car bravado for bucket seats, a console tach, and chrome trim — then backed it up with a 440 big-block as the standard engine and the 426 Hemi on the option sheet. Here’s the story behind the Mopar built to out-class the GTO without looking like it was trying.

Plymouth Squeezed a 440 Into the Tiny 1969 Barracuda — It Became the Rarest ‘Cuda Ever Built

by Jack Harmon

Plymouth never engineered the Barracuda for a big-block — until a mid-1969 fix changed that. Only a few hundred 440 ‘Cudas were ever built, and this Limelight Metallic survivor is one of just 19 left in the A-body M-Code registry, with under 7,000 believed-original miles.

Dodge Built the 1968 Hemi Dart Purely to Win Drag Races — Its Owner Pulled the Rare Factory Engine to Go Even Faster

by Jack Harmon

Only around 80 of these Hurst-built Hemi Darts ever left the Hamtramck factory in 1968, stripped to the bone for one job: winning NHRA Super Stock races. One surviving example just turned up at a South Dakota drag strip running a 9.20 at 146 mph — except its owner pulled the rare original 426 Hemi for something even bigger. Here’s why that was actually the right call.

Dodge Built the Challenger SRT 392 to Lose to the Hellcat — Owners Say It’s the One to Buy

by Jack Harmon

The Challenger SRT 392 skips the Hellcat’s supercharger and still makes 485 horsepower from a 6.4-liter HEMI. Real owners in the comments aren’t apologizing for it — they’re bragging about finding one.

Muscle Car Fans Gave the 1972 Plymouth Duster Zero Respect — This One Still Survived 30 Years in a Driveway

by Jack Harmon

A 1972 Plymouth Duster sat untouched in its original owner’s driveway for more than 30 years. Most of its kind never got respect from the muscle car crowd to begin with — so why did this one survive long enough to be worth saving?

Dodge Built the 1970 Challenger T/A Just to Race – Then Walked Away and Killed It After One Season

by Jack Harmon

The 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A existed because a racing rulebook demanded it, not because Dodge wanted to sell it. Here is how a 290-horsepower loophole became one of Mopar’s most collectible one-year wonders.

Plymouth Built Only 11 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertibles in 1971 — One Just Sold for $3.3 Million, Nearly $50,000 Over Its Top Estimate

by Jack Harmon

A 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible just crossed the block at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction for $3.3 million, blowing past the house’s own high estimate. Only a handful of these convertibles ever left the factory with the 426 Hemi — here’s why this one commanded a price most muscle cars never see.

Plymouth Built 1,935 Superbirds Nobody Wanted — Then NASCAR Banned the Car for Being Too Fast

by Jack Harmon

Chrysler had to sell nearly 2,000 street cars just to make one race car legal, and dealers could barely give them away. Here is how the Daytona and Superbird got so fast NASCAR rewrote its own rulebook to stop them.

A Collector’s First Car Was a 1969 Road Runner — Decades Later He Ripped Out Its 383 for a Supercharged Hellcat Heart

by Jack Harmon

Rich Fairservis spent years tracking down the first car he ever owned — then handed it a modern Dodge Hellcat-derived powertrain instead of restoring its original engine. See where it sits inside one of the deepest private muscle car collections Hemmings has ever toured.

Dodge Built the Super Bee as the Cheap Twin to Its Own R/T — It Outsold the R/T Nearly 4 to 1

by Jack Harmon

Dodge built the Super Bee to undercut its own Coronet R/T flagship in 1969 – then watched the budget car outsell it nearly four to one. A side-by-side comparison of both B-bodies shows exactly why buyers chose the cheaper Mopar.

Dodge Built the 1969 Super Bee With Drum Brakes and No Power Steering – Owners Still Call It the Scariest Muscle Car Ever Sold

by Jack Harmon

The 1969 Dodge Super Bee packed up to 425 horsepower into a car with drum brakes, no power steering, and bias-ply tires — no safety net included. Here’s why owners who drove it still call it the scariest muscle car Dodge ever built.

Dodge Copied the Road Runner’s Cheap-Muscle Formula in 1968 – Plymouth Still Outsold the Super Bee Five to One

by Jack Harmon

A 1969 Plymouth Road Runner and a 1969 Dodge Super Bee sit in the same driveway, owned by the same collector — and the gap between their original sales numbers tells you everything about why one nameplate became a legend and the other didn’t.

Plymouth Built the Road Runner to Be Cheap and Basic — It Still Outsold Nearly Every Mopar Muscle Car on the Lot

by Jack Harmon

Plymouth stripped nearly every option off the Road Runner to keep it cheap, then paid Warner Bros. just to borrow a cartoon bird’s name and sound effect. Decades later, this budget-built Mopar outsells its own flashier siblings at auction.

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