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Engine

Gallery: Box Stock Chrysler 383 Restoration, Short Block Build

Mike Wilkins

May 11, 2015

Possibly one of Mopar’s most common big block engines was the ‘B’ series wedge engine. During the heyday years of Chrysler’s muscle cars, the 383 became the defacto performance engine for the decade, and was ...

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Car Features

Gallery: Five Sought-After Mopars Unearthed in One Barn Find

Bradley Iger

May 7, 2015

A barn find is more or less the holy grail of vintage car hunting. As the American landscape gets picked clean of restorable cars and the values of old school iron continues to climb, finding ...

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News

Farewell to Tom Hoover, the Father of the 426 Hemi

Kevin Shaw

May 6, 2015

“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.” It was a throwaway line in the most recent Indiana Jones film that came to mind when ...

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News

Mystery Solved: Is This Charger The Very Last Hemi Car?

Des Ryan

May 5, 2015

So every Mopar nut worth their salt knows that the last Hemi cars were produced for model year 1971. That knowledge may beg the question of what was the last Hemi car produced. Was it ...

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Brakes & Suspension

Gallery: Get Sprung! Restoring Your Leaf Springs

Mike Wilkins

May 1, 2015

Unless your springs are very low mileage, they should be disassembled, blasted, and have all the inner zinc liners, the plastic spacer wear pads, and the front bushing replaced. The front spring hangers should be ...

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News

Videos: Maiden Voyage of 850HP Blown 572 Hemi Charger Is ...

Kevin Shaw

April 30, 2015

Sometimes the hardest part about building an awesome project is not being able to get in and enjoy the dang thing. Unless you bought your classic Mopar ready-to-run, you’ve been in the same boat, looking ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Top End ...

Kevin Shaw

April 20, 2015

To be fair, calling our stump-pulling torque-monster of a 535 cubic inch 440 Wedge a “junkyard build” would be partially, if not completely, an outright lie. Although we did fish our low mileage, HP-casting 440 ...

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News

rusty mopars minnesota barn finds junkyard

Hundreds of Mopars in This Minnesota Boneyard

Des Ryan

April 3, 2015

[Editor’s note – there’s been some major revelations pertaining to this story since being first published on April 3rd and has been changed for factual corrections. – KS] Where do Chargers, Satellites, Road Runners et ...

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Paint & Body

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Organisol: Separating Truth From Fiction

Mike Wilkins

March 26, 2015

The original paint that is commonly called “Organisol” is no longer available. The paint code in the system at a PPG dealer will be listed as DDL 9355. Even if your dealer can still mix ...

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News

Video: ’71 LS6 Corvette vs ’68 Hemi Super Bee

Des Ryan

March 24, 2015

I love these Road Test TV videos because they are usually from the Pure Stock Musclecar Drags. That means the cars are running well, in a great state of tune, and the drivers can competently ...

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