a ride in a 1971 426 hemi charger last426

[@marcodevries4481]

There’s still fun cars today but man did we lose this experience - the sound the feel the smell. Damn I miss it.

[@Erics5th]

Glad to see you driving it. That's what they where built for!

[@midatlanticcycle]

fabulous car. i owned a 71 Hemi Gtx for over 30 years..the only one ever made with a canopy top. 71 was a wonderful year for hemi cars though extremely rare.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

What happened to it?

[@nailgun1499]

I have this car kinda. It's a 71 Charger SE...hideaway headlights...column shift auto...came with a 318...same color as this car ..bench seats

[@freesoul9324]

His voice is a great symphony

[@williamboardman9476]

Opening scene....NO A/C available (no vents in plastic wood dash insert) I started one of these once. And then bought it. Un driven, from a closed down gas station in LA. THIS being the LA freeway....7 lanes a day, 9 at night. Break 'em loose ...@ 45 mph...in a 4500 pound car. I bought my first Hemicar for the cool hood deal. 1971 Road Runner, out of Canada, by way of Indiana.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

My 73 only has a 318. Yours looks great and sounds even nicer than it looks. So I guess that's great on top of great

[@kernal616]

a lot of 71 cars of any brand had the good pre 71 options. they WERE plenty.but a lot of them got wrecked.. crushed. and are not out there anymore. good to see someone has still got one

[@Fubarfighter]

Interesting car. Sounds like it could use some carb tuning.

[@last426]

@rtmike70 That's no exhaust leak. That's the hemi whispering to me "stick your foot in me and drive me like you used to, you wimp." The "wimp" part, though true, really made me sad. So I turned off the heat in the garage!!

[@DramaDon83]

Beautiful car.I met someone today that has a 71 that needs alot of work but does have a good running 440 in it...he wants to trade it for my jeep..he is asking $7800 for it..so it must need a few things right?..if it is not rusted to bad I am going to make the deal..I really have been craving a muscle car recently...oh, and my colors of choice is black with black wheels...your car is better than gold, dont sell it....

[@samsdad900]

a lot of these cars had column autos, even superbirds

[@rodciferri9626]

Nice '71 hemi charger! I love the '71 hemis.

[@Hats1976]

Wow,the 71's do look a lot like the 71 Ford Torinos. From the rear window back both cars look real close,still a great looking Charger.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

Chrysler and Ford products always had similarities back then even in the 50s & 60s.

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

What a beast !

[@mikesbbody]

68-70's are very cool too but the 71-72's had options that you couldn't get in the 2nd gens but let's face it Chargers are cool cars!

[@kernal616]

that car is extremely rare to be ordered with an automatic ON THE COLUMN... they are very rare. usually on the floor. the hemi was one of the leftover motors from 1970. you could order anything they had left on the shelf when you purchased a new car. if they had a hemi you could order itand because dodge was doing away with the hemi in 71 the original owner probably got it at a steel. THAT IS ONE AWESOME RIDE. that thing is priceless

[@e2sguy]

That car is too rare to be driving on the streets with traffic taking a foolish risk on such a exotic option car of that vintage a 71 hemi charger with a column shift is unheard of

[@ms-fb6xt]

Make America great again 😀😁😂 through these cars!!!!!! And give me one of these cars!!!!😁

[@carloschavez5368]

Those cars back in the day were purposely built for racing the big oval track until Nascar put the stop on the Hemi in 1971.

[@fandlinlv]

This car should be showcased not on city streets and crowded freeways in Cali, but somewhere in the generally uncrowded northbound lanes on Interstate 29 between Grand Forks and the Canadian border.

[@Big-Cj-Up-Next]

God I love this car. I wish I can have one, but I betcha I can't find one anywhere.

[@AutoYoung]

Im pretty sure the last hemi charger built is the yellow car used in the Richard petty challenger commercial. It's in Tim Welbourn's collection. Check it out, he has the first and last.

[@chargermaster3676]

I like that lisence plate slogan.

[@soyounoat]

Possibly my favorite application of the 426 Street Hemi. This is just my opinion: I understand the originality factor, and keeping those wheels and tires.... in the garage.... is a fine idea. Put some properly sized shoes on that car so it can look it's best. Those tiny things were a cost saver and detract from the performance and looks of this magnificent machine.

[@mikesbbody]

The best looking Charger's are 71's IMO and a Hemi too...

[@jaymoe5.7]

One badass ride!! The column shift auto is kinda weird but hot damn it sure is cool!!

[@orgami100]

that's funny. ..column shift. .. it could've been pushbutton shift like my dad's Valiant.. the Valiant was a nice car..

[@bgjb-r1499]

Many people forget these cars were almost 5000lbs with a full tank of gas.

[@Conaddor]

They really were at 4100lbs I took mine and had it weighed with a full tank of gas in it. They were long I think right at 19ft and when you got on the big block like that and not careful you light up the tires. You light them up again when you hit second gear too.

[@Tarten46]

hemis and magnum powered cars always sounded leaky even when new but youve def got a leak. sweet sweet car you got there. 71's the only year where styling finally caught up with the performance.chase down that leak and a full set of 15x8 of those wheels thru wheel vintique and she'd be perfect.

[@a12bird]

This is interesting. RK motors in Charlotte say they have the last Hemi motor built. In a 71 Charger. You can see the white 71charger on their web site.

[@BoogyWoogyCreep]

+a12bird He said this is the last "year" the 426 Hemi was built, not the last engine.

[@last426]

3:55 8 3/4 rear end, 727 hemi torqueflite

[@FANADICALCOWHEAD]

@orvillegames1966 What's ugly about this generation of chargers? They were they had the best looking bodies of any thing on the road at that time.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

The Air Grabbier opens slowely like Vlad Drac's coffin lid.

[@ezrabrooks12]

BAD ASS CHARGER.

[@chargermaster3676]

ezrabrooks12 indeed I like the hideaway headlight version of it.

[@cantcme1243]

"Dodge, the brotherhood of muscle"

[@fiveslots]

I can see that air grabber sucking in all those econo box's on the freeway

[@racetherapy]

Beautiful.

[@plum360415]

Nice hemi.... my dad also has a last hemi... 67 charger, biult 07 11 67

[@a.k.a.A.E.]

greetings from germany , at min 1:25 , ihr habt ja doch eine autobahn !!!! 🤣

[@angelperez7891]

Is that the absolute last factory 426 Hemi V8 Charger sold new by Dodge!?

[@markadams7597]

Hello, show is the motor.

[@150grnballistictip6]

Hey Chuck, what year Z28? Had to've been a name only year as I've never seen a 4 speed column shift...

[@71superbee3]

Pachyderm Power ! Oh yeah !

[@DolittleMccoy]

My 69' Charger R/T SE is loaded with options, but was or dered with a column shift... Weird for the HP cars and RT's to be column, But kind of cool for the rareness .

[@cooker4409]

my dad's car was a '70 RT/SE with 440-6 and column shift......loved it....saved $112 by going column shift instead of console....rare car it was.....

[@ruwithlee1970]

Cool car! What is a car like this worth these day's?

[@strattuner]

fix the header leak,you're losing about 17 horse,i'm retired senior master chrysler tech and you have an exhaust leak,car is absolutely gorgeous,i test drove at least three of them,fix it ,it was meant to be driven hard,you ought to hear it after a 100 mile run the idle is pure sex1967-1989 for mopar

[@classic-kool]

Those cars were made for the open road .... but you have to DRIVE it through the gears ..

[@JimJones-zc9mk]

The last Hemi was in 1972 and Richard Petty drove it.

[@glenparks5175]

Jim Jones , no 1971 last year

[@racehorse7669]

All the haters on here. Meanwhile they own shit. Funny this car is worth more than their daddys house. (~150k if numbers match)

[@onlyweknow2]

what a monster!

[@kloner]

Great car. If only there was a "Bullitt 2"...

[@Yeeyeeyeeeeee]

will other 3rd gen charger taillights fit in any 3rd gen charger? say a 72 in a 74?

[@CEOkiller]

Don’t need a radio with the soundtrack the engine has…

[@mfarmakas17]

@mikesbbody damn straight they are

[@samsdad900]

the column shift kills it, there were a lot of them ordered that way, even the superbirds

[@r5t6y7u8]

I'm torn. Top speed is 130+ mph, but nobody would dare race it like that. This car must be babied, on the far right of the interstate, getting passed by other cars to avoid an accident. Pity...

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

3 on the tree

[@scottfree6]

@012mb forged steel...

[@406_chevelle8]

That's one model that I think I will never like, unless you put the good modern muscle rims on it, I don't think i'll every be attracted to it, sad part is, is that i'm 100% for muscle.

[@01dukegirl]

What beautiful part history, preserved! My personal car is a '71 Charger R/T, tx9, factory M51 sun roof car that is the Spokes Car for the Rev-n-nator Ignition. Yours is a thing of beauty! Enjoyed your video! Check out www.thertgarage.com

[@rayola217]

berkeley hills?

[@last426]

Oh yeah.

[@rayola217]

stay away from telegraph ave. some punk will key it

[@danfavata2821]

never seen the motor......hmmm

[@classrockin]

+Dan Favata He has another video showing the engine. Definitely a hemi !

[@rollingstopp]

lol

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

318?.......

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

On no! Much more HP than 318.😜

[@bugzie706]

never saw the engine, just saying

[@Ontariosound]

That idle….. sounds like the Hemi GTX and Hemicuda my mechanic owned when I was a teenager. Intimidating idle.

[@ronwashburn1978]

Mopar or no car

[@AngPatGV]

with all due respect - I HATE YOU! (said in envy) - I miss my old car! Im gonna have to get an Rx for depression meds now! LOL In all seriousness, Congrats! Happy for you, I wish I appreciated what I had when I was in my 20's ... (30 yrs ago)

[@SherryslayerMotorny]

show me something :P

[@mfarmakas17]

@mikesbbody i think 69 is better

[@orvillegames1966]

Great car, ugly as sin but great car.

[@fatsog123]

Stop driving it! .....Money in the bank.

[@timpriddy349]

meh.....column

[@SEARCHDESTROY57]

Ugly contraption

[@kernal616]

that car is extremely rare to be ordered with an automatic ON THE COLUMN... they are very rare. usually on the floor. the hemi was one of the leftover motors from 1970. you could order anything they had left on the shelf when you purchased a new car. if they had a hemi you could order itand because dodge was doing away with the hemi in 70 the original owner probably got it at a steel. THAT IS ONE AWESOME RIDE. that thing is priceless