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A teenager who fell in love with Mopars watching quarter-mile battles at a Rhode Island airstrip in the early ’60s spent decades chasing down the car that started it all: a 1964 Plymouth Savoy carrying Chrysler’s Max Wedge engine in its final and rarest form. Here’s why that one model year, and that one drivetrain combination, was never repeated.
This 1969 Dodge Charger 500 wasn’t built to win a car show; it was built so Dodge could go NASCAR racing, and federal rules forced them to sell a street version to the public first. This one carries the 426 Hemi, the rarest and most feared engine option Dodge offered, captured here in a vintage road test that shows exactly how it drove when it was simply a new, very fast Dodge. Watch to hear what period testers actually thought.
Tom Cotter pulls off an Arizona highway on nothing more than a hunch about a weathered cinder-block motorcycle shop, and the stop unravels into a desert full of forgotten metal. Before the day ends he has tracked down a pair of Mopars and, better still, original big-block Camaros and an Impala hiding in the dry air. This Hagerty Barn Find Hunter episode is muscle car archaeology at its finest. Watch to see what he uncovers.
JMC RIDES’ widebody Hellcat Challenger — a build reportedly worth around $83,000 — has taken fresh damage yet again, according to the channel’s latest update. Known for blending real car culture with heavily produced, “movie purposes” segments, JMC RIDES has turned the wide-body Mopar into a recurring character across its high-energy content. Widened fenders and a bigger footprint make damage more likely in tight spaces, but there is more to this episode than that. Watch to see what happened this time.
Recycling yards exist to strip cars for parts, not preserve them — which makes this 1968 Plymouth GTX a strange find at Clay and Sons’ Mopar yard in Missouri. It still has its original 426 Hemi sitting in the engine bay, untouched through however many years of sitting outside. Auto Archaeology tracked it down among the yard’s unsorted inventory. See how a car this significant ended up here instead of a museum.
Buried inside the 2001 David Spade comedy Joe Dirt are genuine appearances by a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona replica and a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX convertible — and channel dit0mat0 cut together every scene featuring them. It’s a supercut built for Mopar fans, not comedy fans. Watch every frame these two cars get on screen.
Auto Archaeology tracked down something rarer than a single barn find: two separate hidden stashes of Mopars, one tucked inside a long-abandoned auto parts showroom, the other buried into the side of a hillside in an old barn. Decades of dust, rodents, and neglect couldn’t erase what makes these cars special — rare B-body and E-body Mopars that collectors have chased for years. See exactly what was uncovered in both locations.
RamblinAround spent an afternoon at Fast Lane Classic Cars in St. Charles, Missouri, putting driver Tom Abbett behind the wheel of everything from a 572-cubic-inch Hemi to wedge-headed Mopars, big-block Chevys, and a Cleveland-headed Ford Windsor. No superchargers, no turbos — just fifteen minutes of naturally aspirated American V8s, one after another. It’s a rare chance to hear an entire era of muscle car engineering back to back. Watch to see which combination sounds the meanest.
A stock 1970 Dodge Charger and a fully stripped, tuned Honda Civic meet at the traffic lights after a chance downtown encounter, and the result has drawn millions of views. The Charger’s driver had never raced before and fumbled a column-shift from first to second, which makes the outcome genuinely debatable. Best of all is what happened after the run. Watch to see how it ends.
Chrysler built only 780 Hemi ‘Cudas and 427 Hemi Challengers across the 1970 and 1971 model years combined, and the ultra-rare R/T SE Hemi Challenger numbered just 37 cars total. Those production figures explain exactly why a lineup of Mopars crossing the Barrett-Jackson block turns heads: cars this scarce simply don’t come up for sale very often.
A 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1968 Hemi Dart make for one of the loudest pairings in the Mopar world, but their backstories couldn’t be more different. Only 80 Hemi Darts were ever built, farmed out to an outside contractor after Chrysler refused to factory-install the 426 Hemi in a compact car. See what made one of these cars a dealership staple and the other a factory-disowned drag weapon.
A grandmother in Toledo, Ohio kept this 1973 Plymouth Duster under bed sheets for two decades, surrendering it with just 22,000 original miles. Then a builder dropped in a stroked 426 Hemi, treated it to a rotisserie restoration, and painted it Sublime Green. The result is a magazine-featured Mopar that pairs survivor-grade preservation with genuine brute force. Watch to see one of the baddest Dusters on the planet.
From across the lot it looks gentle: a soft metallic mauve convertible you’d expect to find with a picnic basket in the trunk. But V8TV calls this 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II the Big Bad Wolf in Granny’s nightgown, because a 425-horsepower 426 HEMI lurks under the hood. Plymouth built only ten HEMI drop-tops that year, and this is the sole one wearing color code 661. One of ten becomes one of one. See why the pink is no punchline.
A routine trip to haul out some vintage Napco trucks turned into something far bigger when five late-sixties Mopars surfaced in a forgotten back lot. Among them: a 1969 Hemi Charger, a 1968 Hemi four-speed that is 1 of 467, and a rare 440 Charger 500 Fast Top built in a run of just 392. These are museum-grade VINs found rotting in the weeds. Watch the walkthrough to see how each one decodes.