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A dusty 1971 Plymouth Barracuda pulled from obscurity by the MyMopar.com forum turns out to be far rarer than it looks, a genuine 383 two-barrel Gran Coupe, one of only 161 built that year. Wearing its factory Curious Yellow paint and original hood scoops, the car has forum regulars already debating its next chapter. The community-driven rescue story behind it says as much about Mopar culture as the car itself. Commenters are already lining up to ask what happens next.
A supercharged Hemi wasn’t the surprising part of the Charger SRT Hellcat – the stopwatch numbers were. This four-door family sedan runs 0-60 in roughly 3.6 seconds and tops out near 204 mph, numbers that would embarrass plenty of dedicated two-door muscle cars. Here’s how Dodge built a genuine supercar into a car meant for car seats.
This photo captures one of NASCAR’s rarest creations: a genuine wing car from the sport’s brief but wild ‘aero wars.’ Built by Dodge and Plymouth to chase top speed with towering rear wings and extended nosecones, cars like this one dominated the 1970 season before a single rule change legislated them out of competition almost overnight. Read on to find out why that rule mattered so much, and why surviving examples are worth seven figures today.