Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, MOPAR, Videos
Roads Untraveled Reviews A Five-Year-Old Challenger To See How It Is Upon First Impression
Have you wondered how the late-model muscle cars will fare after a few years of use and abuse, especially in the face of competition? I have, but it is difficult to get an unbiased opinion, or to...
Is This 1982 Dodge Charger The Shelby-Backed Drag Racing Prototype? There’s A Blower, Unique Parts, And A Questionable Past
Chrysler’s weaponizing of the otherwise craptastic L-body platform with the help of the famous Texan chicken farmer is the stuff of legends: after relegating rear-drive to the overstuffed Fifth...
A Unicorn Is Scheduled To Appear At The Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals Near Chicago: A Documented 1972 440-6 Road Runner!
(Photos: MCACN) The Mopar community is filled with legend and lore, and when it comes to the cars that were churned out, you’d better believe that there are more than a couple of long shot...
“Rough” Start: This 1978 Dodge Magnum XE Is The Cheap Alternative To A Big-Block Charger
First off, I want to thank BangShifter Joe Haber for sending this to me. Haber knows that he has an advantage when it comes to Craigslist surfing: he is based out of Tucson, Arizona, land of the...
A Dodge Ram Van Grand Prix Happens In Japan, And It Is As Weird And Cool As You Would Expect
In the normal everyday world of the average BangShifter, an early 1990s Dodge Ram Van exists for one of three purposes: engine donor, parts hauler, or it is the neighborhood pedo-van that you keep...
Getting To Play With Hurst’s 500hp Small-Block Stroker 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Is Next To Impossible…Unless You Are Jay Leno
I have a special place in my heart for a black-and-gold second generation Plymouth Barracuda, and it’s purely because of Bob Riggle’s Hemi Under Glass wheelstander. That car is the only...
Reaction Video! Watch As A Couple Of Gearheads From Isreal Meet Insanity Racing’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8!
The side of me with the twisted humor loves these reaction videos: plant some sucker into the passenger seat of a car that has unholy amounts of power and train a camera onto their face. Then take...
Rough Start: This 1971 Dodge D100 Is In Need Of A New Home
There’s just something about an old pickup that’s awesome. Every nick scratch in the paint tells a story of what the truck has seen over the years, from rock chips to the one time the...
Burnout Monday: Our Favorite NASCAR-Engined Mopar From Down Under Hazes Out Brashernats Sydney!
Are your ears still ringing from all of the explosions of the Fourth of July? Are you still cleaning up all of the firecracker debris, or looking for the duds that didn’t go off? Maybe you just...
Check Out FCA’s New “Predator” Advertisement For The Hellcat Twins And Viper – Pay Attention, OEMs, This Is How You Sell A Car
We’ve lamented over and over about the sorry state of performance car advertising in the past. Simple marketing teaches you that if the customers don’t know what the hell you are selling,...
KABOOM! This ‘Cuda’s Transmission Explosion Ventilated Just About Everything In The Car
(Photos: Jeff McDowell via Quad City Drag Racers) Yes, that’s a shrapnel hole in the door of this Plymouth ‘Cuda, one of many after the TorqueFlite let go in dramatic fashion. While we...
FCA To Ramp Up Production Of Hellcat V8s To Meet Demand – And Possibly For An Upcoming Jeep?
Well, if this isn’t good news, then I just don’t know what is. In an interview with Automotive News, Dodge/SRT CEO Tim Kuniskis admitted that the company is going to ramp up production...
