Category: Charger

In my weekly search for crazy Cummins Turbo Diesel powered Ram trucks blackening the sky, I frequently come across clips of Cummins powered dragsters and this week, we look at a Dodge Charger funny car in action on the drag strip with a heavily modified Cummins tucked under the lightweight composite body. We don’t know […] More »

For this week’s Mopar Muscle Thursday feature, I was looking for a video of a really fast Dodge Charger and I happened across a video of a 1968 Dodge Charger racing at the 2009 Mopar World Finals and running in the high 8s.  It just so happens that this particular 8 second Charger is racing […] More »

The Chrysler Display at the corner of 13 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue has become one of the star (static) attractions of the annual Woodward Dream Cruise and in 2013 – the Mopar area was better than ever.  In addition the a huge Dodge themed stage where a pair of hosts ask trivia questions in […] More »

In the history of Mopar Performance, there is arguably no name that comes to mind more quickly than the Dodge Charger.  Introduced for the 1966 model year, the Charger helped to usher in the Mopar muscle car era and it ran through the 1978 model year as a big, bold rear wheel drive 2-door.  While […] More »

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird are arguably the most sought after and most famous of all of the Mopar muscle cars.  These cars were originally designed to race in NASCAR but due to production qualification rules, the Chrysler Group built a limited number of the “wing cars” in 1969 and […] More »

Thanks to the high flying Duke Boys, there are few things that we haven’t seen a 1969 Dodge Charger do on the roads of Hazzard County but since drifting was really invented yet when Bo and Luke tore up the ‘shine running scene, we have never really seen the General partake in the sport of […] More »

This past weekend brought us the 2013 Mopar Nationals in Columbus. One of the key attractions at the Nationals each year is the burnout competition… As it is and should be at any big automotive event. What makes the burnout competition at the Mopar Nationals so unique is that it is usually comprised of a […] More »