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High-performance pickup trucks are quite common nowadays. Ford has been offering the F-150 Raptor for quite a few years now, while Ram has a Hellcat-powered 1500 TRX in showrooms in 2021. Factory hot-rodded trucks didn't become a thing until the 1990s, but America's first muscle truck traces its roots back to the first-generation Dodge D Series.
The cool thing about Jay Leno is that he's showcasing both classic and modern cars on his YouTube channel. You can see that he's a true automobile enthusiast. Having driven new performance cars like the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1 and 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 in recent weeks, Jay decided it was time to take his 1964 Dodge Polara out for a spin.
When it comes to classic muscle cars, I'm a Mopar guy. I'm a big fan of Plymouths and Dodges from the 1960s and early 1970s and I think the Max Wedge and the Hemi are some of the coolest V8 engines ever built. But I have to admit that Chrysler's High Impact colors are among the reasons why I fell in love with old Mopars.
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autoevolution 21 Apr 2021, 19:08 UTC · by The Dodge 330 was produced briefly from 1962 to 1964 when it was part of the Polara range. Chrysler's first B-body full-size, the 330 isn't the most iconic Dodge from the 1960s, but it spawned one of the rarest factory race cars of the era: the Max Wedge. 12 photos Dodge built only a few of them for the Super Stock class, and the cars that survived are now among the most valuable Mopars from the 1960s. The 330 Max Wedge is hard to come by, and low-mileage examples are extremely rare. Amazingly enough, one such car showed up on eBay after it spe...