The Phantasm ‘Cuda Wore 440+6 Badges and Hid a 340 Underneath. Nobody Called It for 46 Years. Five films, three different displacements, a cloned Hemi and a vanished original. Don Coscarelli couldn’t afford the car his screen promised. So he lied. And the lie worked. Pause the VHS, the DVD or the 2016 J.J. Abrams-produced … Read more
Dodge Charger Daytona: The Car That Was Too Fast for NASCAR and Had to Be Banned When Engineering Took Racing Too Seriously In 1969, Chrysler engineers had an obsession that bordered on pathological: dominate NASCAR so absolutely that Ford would consider abandoning competition entirely. They didn’t want to win races. They didn’t want championships. They … Read more
Plymouth ‘Cuda Hemi 426: The 425-HP Beast Now Worth Millions There are cars that are myths. And then there is the Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda. We aren’t talking about just another muscle car. This isn’t just another American V8 with loud paint and racing decals. The Hemi ‘Cuda is the line that separates what American manufacturers … Read more
