In September 1965, Hot Rod was invited to Chrysler’s Chelsea Proving Grounds to test drive a 1966 Coronet with the new 426 street Hemi. The review was favorable. (Pretty much a given if you can get air under all four tires!) Find more detail at Hot Rod. More pics after the jump!
The Truth About Cars reader and contributor Rich Murdocco reviewed his newly purchased personal vehicle, a 2014 Charger R/T Blacktop. See what a former Mustang owner had to say about the big ol’ Charger here at TTAC.
Ever wonder what a Formula Drift driver could do with a Dodge 3500 and a wet parking lot? As found on Jalopnik. Pretty impressive video after the jump.
For sale is a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda in Playmate Pink, similar to the one that was presented to 1967 Playmate Lisa Baker The car lays claim to being the only Plymouth offered as a Playmate car. Seller is providing Galen Govier documentation to the car’s fender tag decoding but the engine is not original. Find it here on eBay. More pics after the jump!
Some people see no way to improve upon the General Lee. Some do. Check out this blown ’69 Charger on Street Legal TV. The car is the first contest winner of a collaboration between Street Legal TV and RateMyRidez. Submit your Mopar by setting up a profile and you may be the next Mopar Madness winner.
A group of Challenger SRTs, doing some (high altitude?) testing in Colorado, were nice enough to demonstrate the different exhaust notes between the 6.4 and the 6.2 Hellcat. Hint: the Hellcat is red. Find more info at autoevolution. Videos after the jump.
A 14 year old kid fleeing the cops in a Veloster he had stolen from his grandparents made several high speed runs though a local park, almost hitting several children in the process. The owner of this Ram truck got tired of it and used his truck to stop the kid in his tracks.
Bryson Rowley was driving the truck, and he said he intentionally used his truck as a ram rod to stop the fleeing vehicle. Rowley provided the picture and videos in this story, and though he did not wish to go on camera he said he acted to end the chase because he was afraid for the safety of his and other children at the park.
“The person driving the truck could see it was turning back into the park, and he did not want the car to hit all of the children, or any of the children, and he actually pulled his truck in the way so the car collided with the truck,” said Officer Erin Behm with the Syracuse Police Department.
Brandy Rowley, Bryson’s wife, spoke about the incident. “My heart dropped,” she said. “I honestly thought one of those kids is going to die.”
Officials said the teen will be taken to a juvenile detention center.
This happened in Utah over the weekend. Watch the video after the jump! Via Fox
