Dodge Muscle Cars

Dodge muscle cars were winners at America's drag strips well before they took their place among the country's fastest and wildest street-going super cars.

Chrysler's excitement division was a force in the Super Stock drag wars of the early 1960s, and the company's advertisements of the time bragged of the exploits of its factory-sponsored Ramchargers team.

The source of these bragging rights was a lineup of remarkably powerful engines. For 1960, Dodge's hot D500 option could be teamed with 361- or 383-cid V-8s crowned with an outrageous ram induction intake manifold that balanced dual four-barrel carburetors outboard of the valve covers. Even hotter were the race-ready 1962 "Max Wedge" dual-quad 413s at 410 bhp, and the 1963 and 1964 426-cid wedges at 425 bhp.