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A Dodge Super Bee Sat Filthy in a Barn for 36 Years — Its Rescuer Has Chased This Exact Car Since He Was a Teenager

David Freiburger’s 1970 Dodge Super Bee sat filthy in a barn for 36 years before he finally rescued the exact car he’d been chasing since he was a teenager. In this installment, decades of accumulated grime finally comes off before reassembly around a budget 440 he already built and dyno-tested. Watch to see just how much thirty-six years of neglect really left behind.

A Vietnam Veteran Bought This 1967 Plymouth GTX Fresh From the Factory — His Nephew Still Has It 60 Years Later

by Jack Harmon

A 1967 Plymouth GTX has stayed in one family since a soldier bought it new coming home from Vietnam. Here’s why Plymouth’s 375-hp ‘gentleman’s muscle car’ only wore this body for a single model year — and why that makes a survivor like this one worth chasing.

A Rusted-Out 1968 Dodge Charger Was Too Far Gone to Restore — So Builders Turned It Into Something Dodge Never Offered

by Jack Harmon

A barn-rotted 1968 Dodge Charger gets cut apart, repainted candy apple red, and dropped on air ride — a restomod build that trades a six-figure originality premium for a stance Dodge never put on an R/T.

Plymouth Killed the Barracuda’s Six-Barrel 340 in 1971 — Then Gave the Last ‘Cuda Its Only Quad Headlights

by Jack Harmon

Peter Swainson’s private Mopar collection includes a run of 1969-1971 Challengers and ‘Cudas, with a handful crossing the block at Mecum’s record $193 million Indy sale. Here’s why the final year of the Barracuda’s E-body run — the one with the engine options stripped away — is the one collectors want most.

Dodge Swore the Dart Was Too Small for a 440 – A Chicago Dealer Proved Them Wrong, and the Factory Had to Catch Up

by Jack Harmon

A Chicago dealer stuffed Chrysler’s biggest V8 into its smallest car before the factory dared to try it. The 1969 Dodge Dart GTS 440 that followed came with no power steering, no manual option, and barely 640 ever built. Here’s the strange compromise that made it possible.

Plymouth Sold More Automatic Hemi ‘Cudas in 1970 Than Four-Speeds — Collectors Still Treat the Stick as the ‘Real’ One

by Jack Harmon

Plymouth built just 652 Hemi ‘Cudas in 1970, and most came with a TorqueFlite automatic, not the four-speed collectors chase hardest today. An AutoTopNL walkaround of an original automatic car explains why the overlooked build was actually Chrysler’s bestseller.

Plymouth Built the Superbird With No Front Bumper — Owners Needed a Jack Nobody Else Did

by Jack Harmon

This 1970 Plymouth Superbird still rides with the two different jacks Chrysler had to invent because its aero nose cone left no room for a front bumper. See what else made Detroit’s strangest one-year muscle car both a NASCAR champion and a dealership oddity.

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

by Jack Harmon

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.

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