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Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, MOPAR, RACING & ACTION, Unhinged, Videos

Unhinged: Living In The Times Of The Nine-Second Four-Door Sedan

From the moment I made my first move to get a car of my own onwards, I was told that four-doors weren’t worth the time or effort. They were engine donors. They were derby cars. But I...

One Of A Kind: This Big-Block 1971 Dodge Van/Truck Combination Is Bitchin’!

At this price, there is absolutely no way that this Dodge will be online by the time this story will publish. If it is, someone needs to go get it like RIGHT FREAKING NOW. Why do we say that? Easy:...

eBay Find: This 1963 Ex-Military Dodge Power Wagon Ambulance Could Make For A Neat Homebuilt R.V.

We are still kind of surprised that mid-1960s Dodge trucks are enjoying the kind of popularity that they have right now. They aren’t what you would call pretty, or luxurious, or rust-proof, yet...

From A Road Course Racer, To An LSR Screamer, And Now A 9-Second Warhead, This 2009 Dodge Challenger Does It All!

When the Dodge Challenger returned for the 2008 model year, Mopar fans who wanted two doors and rear-wheel drive were lined up around the block salivating, and Sam Uthman was right in line with them....

Bring On The Apocalypse! This Dodge Ram Cummins/Sno-Cat Combination Is Awesome!

It is very, very difficult to look at this 2005 Dodge Ram and not immediately have images of it running over every possible thing on Creation while blasting “Ride of the Valkyries” out of...

This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!

(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...

She Left To Buy A Two-Seater Sporty Car, But Now This Ten-Second 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Little More Than That!

Owning a SubLime colored Mopar is one of the easiest ways to make sure people stop and look at your car, even at a Mopar show. At ChallengerFest, there were a quite a few bright green pieces rolling...

Physics Be Damned: Stage 6 Motorsports’ Eight-Second Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8…Meet “The Brick”!

Simply put, this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 should not be as fast as it is. It’s too heavy and has all of the aerodynamic properties of a barn falling to Earth after a tornado picked it up, but...

Top 11: We Cherry-Pick Mecum Auctions’ Indy Event – Too Many Choice Cars To Select From!

Normally, we peruse Mecum auctions to see what might be attainable. For their Indy auction, we had a hard time doing that…mostly because all of the lots are desirable enough and popular enough...

Unhinged: The ChallengerFest 7 Story – From Running Angry Grandpa Like A Rental To Racing With Good People

I told myself over and over after ChallengerFest 6 that come hell or high water, as long as the Project Angry Grandpa Chrysler was running, that I was going to do more than spectate at ChallengerFest...

ChallengerFest 7 Gallery: Modern Mopars At Beech Bend! Chargers, Challengers, Chryslers And More!

You don’t carry the name “Hemi” and not race the damn thing, do you? No, you don’t. No matter how pretty, no matter how restored, no matter how new…if you are the proud...

ChallengerFest 7 Gallery: Take A Tour Of The Parking Lot Festivities During Friday’s Car Show!

What was supposed to be an awesome day of Modern Street Hemi Shootout racing on Friday turned into Mother Nature’s temper tantrum. Shortly after qualification runs started, the clouds rolled...

Hot Rod Garage Makes A 512 Cubic Inch Stroker Out Of A Throwaway Block And Jams It Into This Awesome Fury Station Wagon!

Laying around in the Hot Rod Garage arena was one particular 400 cubic inch Mopar big-block. And it had a sad tale: it was in the truck that Freiburger originally bought to use as an engine donor for...

Carnage At ChallengerFest7: Slicks Plus Traction Equals Big Breakage, As We Will Now Demonstrate…

If there was a noise when it happened, it was drowned out by burnouts. All we knew was that one car refused to burn out and the driver kept pointing to the black Dodge Challenger that was coasting...