Posts Tagged: Timely
Dodge’s new 550-horsepower Charger Scat Pack borrows a nameplate that goes back to 1969 — but the original “Six Pack” didn’t have six cylinders at all, it had six carburetor barrels bolted to a 440 V8. A week of real-world commuting captured with binaural microphones shows what the twin-turbo namesake actually delivers: a 3.7-second 0-60 time and a driving experience nobody expects from a car named after a decades-old carburetor joke.
At HOT ROD Drag Week, cars aren’t allowed to trailer between tracks — every quarter-mile pass has to be followed by a real highway drive to the next stop. On day one of the 2026 event at Route 66 Raceway, that didn’t stop two drivers from breaking into the 5-second zone for the first time in seven years, with a Camaro right on their heels.
Chevrolet’s El Camino spent most of its life looking like a work truck wearing a Chevy badge — until 1970, when a one-year corporate rule change let Chevy drop its 450-horsepower LS6 big-block under the hood. Only a few hundred buyers ever ordered that combination. Here’s why the rarest El Camino Chevrolet ever built deserves a second look.
A YouTuber talked his way into a decaying barn that had swallowed six real muscle cars since the mid-1990s, then walked out having bought one of the rarest Chevelle LS6s left on earth. But it’s the collection’s priciest car — a ‘matching-numbers’ Chevelle listed for $175,000 — that has viewers combing through every frame looking for what its paperwork isn’t saying.
A modern-day Hyundai fender bender nearly finished off a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T that a 426 Hemi option couldn’t outsell. Its owner Rick rebuilt it instead, and the car now carries a fitting new name: Mayhem. See what the factory 440 Magnum and a set of line locks can still do almost six decades later.
Plymouth built only 64 of these 440 Six Barrel Sport Fury GTs for 1970, and this one had not turned over since a minor accident parked it in 1981. Dead Dodge Garage spent months chasing a stubborn carburetor problem before finally coaxing the numbers-matching big-block back to life. What they found under the hood tells a bigger story about how few of these full-size muscle cars are still running today.
American Motors never had Detroit’s budget, but for a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, its Javelin and two-seat AMX spinoff went toe-to-toe with the Mustang and Camaro on both the street and the Trans-Am track — with Roger Penske and Mark Donohue behind the wheel of a purpose-built 5.0-liter version. Watch to see why this overlooked underdog still deserves a second look.
Richard Boehl has owned his 1971 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Six Pack — part of a production run of just 178 cars — since 1986, and he’s collected plenty of speeding tickets along the way. Filmed at Carlisle Events for My Car Story with Lou Costabile, this Concours-caliber Charger runs a triple-carburetor big block that sounds nothing like a standard four-barrel setup. Watch to hear it, and hear Boehl’s stories, for yourself.