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Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR

Rough Start: Stuffing Ten Pounds Into A Five-Pound Bag With A 440-Powered Chrysler PT Cruiser!

Chrysler’s PT Cruiser was a hit for the company at the turn of the millennium. Funky micro hot-rod styling, Neon underpinnings, and a cute and friendly aura that seemed to just draw in the...

Hellcat Everything! Modern Mopar Extreme Is Now Offering 6.2L Hellcat Hemi Crate Engine

It’s six-point-two liters of barely contained, all-American anger being force-fed by a 2.3L IHI supercharger. It produces enough torque to pin a driver so hard into the seat that it hurts, and...

Watch This Dodge Dakota Drag A Volvo Tractor To Bump-Start It After The Starter Goes Out!

We’d be lying if we told you that we know all of the details about what is going on in this video. We do know that the Volvo semi tractor’s starter completely and utterly kicked the...

ChallengerFest 7 Is Here! We Scope Out The Early Arrivals, From Awesome Street Cars To Some Serious Third-Gen Hemi Racers!

ChallengerFest 7, sponsored by Billet Technology, has officially kicked off in Bowling Green and we are there covering everything there is to cover! We were impressed with not only the quantity but...

eBay Find: A Late 1970s Chrysler Turbine Engine Is Up For Grabs! Quick, Find An Engineless Aspen!

Chrysler’s turbine program was all but done by the late 1970s. After getting mixed reactions with the Turbine Car testing program of the mid 1960s, the company had returned to creating a few...

Having Your Cake And Eating It Too: This 1971 Dodge Station Wagon Rocks A 440 And A Four-Speed!

The kid in you wanted the Road Runner in SubLime Green, with the Hemi, four-speed, N60s and air shocks in the back to kick the tail up just a little bit. The mature adult in you wanted the GTX 440...

Would You Rather: It’s The Battle Of Forgotten Horsepower! Take Your Pick Between The 1976 Dodge Charger Sport And The 1978 Buick LeSabre Turbo Sport Coupe!

It’s been a while since we’ve felt the need to pit you, the readers, into a corner with a one-or-the-other choice, so we went digging through the Internet for two proper cars for a good...

Question Of The Day: What Would It Take For You To Drive This 1952 Plymouth Trar?

You know the jingle: “What would you do-oo-oo, for a Klondike bar?” Some of you wouldn’t lift a finger. Then there are people like me, who did horrible, unspeakable things for one....

Viper ACR Versus A Hellcat Challenger With Bolt-Ons In The Half-Mile…Place Your Bets!

From the second that the Hellcats were unveiled, Dodge was rather quick to remind us that they play in a different arena than the Viper did. And, naturally, most people don’t bother with that...

eBay Find: This 1982 Dodge Power Ram 350 Wrecker Isn’t Restored, Just Well-Worn!

When did pickup-based tow trucks disappear? As a kid, I remember seeing Fords, Dodges and GM trucks kitted out with wrecker units, massive push bumpers, and custom painted logos all over the place....

Money No Object: This 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 Has Us Drooling…572ci Hemi Goodness!

Finding the words for this 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 that are printable is an honest exercise in restraint. From the supercharged 572 cubic inch Hemi under the hood to the 20×15″ wheels...

Hellcat On Ice! Watch As Exclusive Cars Takes Mopar’s Mental Patient To 170 Miles An Hour On Ice In Sweden!

When Brian Lohnes, a man who tends to keep his comparisons realistic, willfully correlated his time in a Dodge Challenger Hellcat to the perfect drug, that should have said it all. When every car rag...

Would You Rather, The Not-Quite-A-Musclecar Edition: Clean LeMans Or California-Find Dodge Coronet?

Not every Pontiac was a GTO Judge. Not every Mopar was a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack. Not every Mustang had a Boss or a Cobra Jet under the hood. For decades, the 1964-1974 Musclecar Era has been solidly...

This Chrysler Town and Country Wagon Is Beautiful, But Is Hiding A Dark Secret!

We love our large wagons around here, and this 1977 Chrysler Town and Country would fit the bill nicely. Black, with dark red interior and more room that some of the hotels that I’ve stayed at...