The Aspen was Dodge’s new-for-1976 compact/midsize F-body, replacing the Dart in the showroom and sharing its basic platform with the Plymouth Volaré. It was supposed to be a more modern, comfortable evolution of Chrysler’s old A-body formula. Under the hood is Chrysler’s 225-cubic-inch Slant Six, one of Detroit’s great indestructible engines. It was never fast, […]
A factory Caravan SE 5-speed turbo was already an undercover Mopar oddity. This one has gone several layers deeper into that cover with a SRT-4 turbo swap and a rusty exterior. The original 2.5L turbo is gone, replaced by the SRT-4 2.4L turbo four, running a Kinetic Creations swap harness, Crane cams, upgraded injectors, Walbro […]
Dodge and Mitsubishi collaborations go back a long way, but the late 80s, early 90s were wild. The twin turbo V6 powered Dodge Stealth and Mitsubishi 3000 GT were the big brothers to the smaller 4-cylinder turbo Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser. But today we’ve got a strange combo. Somebody took the smaller […]
Up next is a long-dormant, stock Dodge Spirit R/T with Lotus-headed turbo power, a Getrag 5-speed, and enough early-’90s Mopar weirdness to make a Taurus SHO seem almost conventional. It needs a thorough restoration, but if the bones are strong enough, this could be your ticket to a RadWood trophy. Find this 1991 Dodge Spirit […]
Todays next feature is a vintage Dodge Custom 880, which sat near the top of Dodge’s full-size lineup, below the new-for-1965 Monaco but above the regular Polara. The 1965 redesign moved Dodge away from the wilder Virgil Exner years and into the cleaner, more formal Elwood Engel era: slab sides, crisp roofline, stacked visual mass, […]
I have to be honest and admit that it took me a while to understand what I’m looking at, and it’s still a bit fuzzy. This appears to be a Dodge Stealth R/T Twin Turbo that has been visually converted with Mitsubishi 3000GT front-end and side-skirt pieces, not a factory 3000GT VR-4. That’s not a […]
Today’s first feature is an interesting piece of automotive customization…because it started out as a Dodge Tradesman Van but has been converted into an El Camino. A huge El Camino. El Camino Gigante. But it gets two thumbs up from DT because of the three-on-the-tree, red paint, modern audio, and enough El Caminoization to make […]
Our next feature today is a big red 2nd generation Dodge 3500 Dually with a 24-valve Cummins inline-six paired with the NV4500 5-speed manual. That is the work-truck enthusiast combo: mechanical toughness, big torque, and no fragile automatic to fear. The seller calls it a 6BT, but technically the 24-valve version is the ISB 5.9 […]
This is a 1990 Dodge Shadow with the Competition Package, which is one of those obscure Iacocca-era Mopars that sounds fake until you realize Chrysler really did bolt serious hardware into economy cars for a brief, glorious window. The big trick is the drivetrain: 2.2-liter intercooled Turbo IV four-cylinder with a variable-nozzle turbine, paired with […]
What do you call a Van if you take all of the seats out of it and compress it into the size of a small SUV? Today’s shorty van has the face of a normal B-series Dodge van, the wheelbase of a roller skate, and the visual balance of a cartoon service vehicle from a […]