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Dodge knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they gave the cops the nerfed charger

I love that you, an American, somehow managed to find a clipping from the Birmingham Post about 40 RA being fished out of a canal, therefore doing an infinitely better job of researching the story than any of the actual Brits I've seen. Awesome video as always. You could literally narrate paint drying and make it sound cool.

Blacking out tail lights is the most notorious modification ever to exist😂😂😂

'likely modified in his garage to evade law enforcement for shits and giggles' love it lol

Dodge is somewhere smiling ear to ear coming up with a plan to pay homage to the legendary blacked out Dodge Charger 😅

What i learned: I've got almost a 50/50 shot at getting away from the cops. Just make sure you quicksave beforehand so you can reload your previous save if you get caught

Man the Lotus Carlton was a poster on my wall, 30 years old and that car still stands up as one of the greatest cars of all time in my mind

I watched one of these Hellcat chase videos where the speedometer on the Hellcat reached 209 mph. That is insane.

Forgot the Hellcat that left the helicopter in the dust. Bro was booking so fast the chopper had to turn around or run out of fuel. LEGENDARY!

201 hp to 377?! That’s insane. Especially in that time. And a 6 apeed from the zr1 lol. What a beast.

I bought my 2006 Dodge Magnum RT brand new on June 18, 2006. The very next day at an event I was working I saw not only my first police Hemi Charger, but it was a South Carolina Highway Patrol Charger, and an SRT8 version at that. I asked the cop about it, and he said it was so fast that is was scary even to him. He said that a few days before a sport bike had passed him at well over 120mph while he was doing 70mph. He gave e chase, and caught up with that sport bike in astonishingly quick time. He noted that the sport bike was a Ninja or something that could easily do 180+, but when he pulled up behind the bike, they were doing 160, and the bike was still trying to pull away, but the Charger stayed on his tail, and at 170+, the bike gave up and pulled over. Unreal. I’m sure it’s because of expense, but there were some SRT police cars. I also read from a forum on police cars and how they are chosen and who gets what, that while some Chargers top out at 131mph, other police package 5.7 Chargers can be made to top out at 150+, and the guy said that some agencies don’t want their officers to have that much top end capability, mostly in more urban settings, and the 150mph versions are generally in highway patrol duty. FYI.

Seeing all those Hemi 392/Hellcat videos on youtube essentially pranking cops then taking off is what made me fall in love with those engines.

Dodge knew their exact target audience for the hellcat/demon/scats , and it worked just how they wanted 😆

The top speed of the Lotus Carlton is 190mph. It was limited to 177. You can override the limiter by redlining it in 5th then shifting to 6th which will unlock the full speed.

@ 18:00 when the blacked out charger starts running you can see about 4 or 5 chargers in the left lane get passed by the cop. Guaranteed they all know each other and dude was like watch me get away.😂

Probably the best professional video on You tube. Pretty cagey making a video about your black charger also.

"You can't outrun the radio." Apparently you can in a Hellcat.

How does 337 Speed not have his own Netflix show!?!?!?

Hands down my favourite KZfaq channel! Amazing balance of interesting history & storyline, original footage, technical information and butter smooth delivery! Listening along while v8 swapping my E30 in Perth, Australia. Keep up the great work dude!

what’s funny is everybody in the mid/east Arkansas car scene knows who the black charger is but will never give him up 💯

It's amazing how we came from an era where a V8 produced only 65 hp to present where they're capable of doing over 1000 hp. Simply astonishing when you look at what we achieved.

We shall never forget the fact that a Hellcat Challenger literally outran police/news helicopters in a 200+mph chase until it ran out of fuel. EDIT: LMAO, 5K likes???? Thanks XD Also, let me add a personal hot take: *Cops should stop chasing that Charger. That car is the proof modern cop cars are outright obsolete for high speed chases.* There have been more than 15 attempts and they all ended in embarrassing defeats for the police. Police officers, it's time for you to choose any of these three: 1- Update the maximum speeds of your police cars once and for all. 150 mph and 0-60 in 6 seconds isn't that fast anymore, we're not in the 2000s anymore. *Most cars nowadays can do that, now **_even shitboxes_** can do it.* 2- Convince police corporations to be willing to use high-performance police cars that have the sole purpose of stopping high-speed cars, without the capacity to carry even half of all the equipment they carry. (Have real high-speed interceptors like Corvettes, Hellcats, Shelbys, SS's, and even Raptors, not NA-powered, 204 CU Explorer-based or 350HP Charger "Interceptors" that are humiliated in 100+ mile-per-hour chases without possibly using tactics. lethal attacks against a guy who only wanted to go fast, without committing any other crime, that is, the police should now have real undercover sports cars, not normal cars that look aggressive, even if they are only 1 or 2 units, but they now need to have them. *AND USE THEM.* ) 3- *Simply stop chasing high-performance cars and give up.* You want to catch street racers? *It's time to step the gas.*

This video popped in my feed a few hours ago, I just got far more entertainment than I really should've out of this one. I'm not even a car guy but this video was put together dam well. From the History lesson, to the text "Charger was never found", purely great entertainment!

Excellent video! Some of the clips were so good I didn't know if was real or CGI. Great stuff!

There was another black dodge car that held a similar title, in the 70’s. Though, it wasn’t a charger. It was a challenger. With a gator skin top. The guy would challenge locals around Chicago, if I’m not mistaken, to drag races. The guy would absolutely destroy everyone that raced him. Only thing was, he would disappear after winning. He would blow the doors off anything around, and keep going after winning. Nobody knew who the guy was. Later on down the years, his son was gifted the car and took it to a few car shows. Well, older gentleman whom his father had raced, noticed the car and recognized it. Turns out the guy was a Chicago police officer. It’s a really cool story. Even the Dodge motor company recognized how cool the story was and made a limited run of new challengers named after his car. Look up the “Black Ghost” dodge challenger. If you enjoyed this video, you’re in for a treat.

I guess you could say that black out is literally on the top of the most wanted list. Must be one helluva driver to control all that power. Surprised in this day an age they still havent found him with all the cameras around etc.

Unreported but happened: in the late 80s, a person got away from a chase by not going super fast ( although he did) but by putting kilowatt level flash bulbs in his trunk, triggered to pop up and activate. They totally blinded the officer behind, and he took off and was never seen again. I wont say where i know this happened, as it was speculated at the time it was spooky related.

I think this is why I like sleepers... I've always wanted a supercharged 3800, a 90s JDM saloon like a Nissan Cedric, and an early 00s hot hatch like a Focus RS with the 5cyl. They look common, slow, but are appreciated by "those who know".

We need a follow up on this car in a year or so. Hell just do annual updates. Great episode

Hagerty needs to hire this guy. GIVE THIS MAN A SHOW!!!

I never thought you could outrun the cops in todays tech and gadgets. This black charger is a legend.

I've seen other (longer) pursuits of the black "uncatchable" Arkansas Dodge Charger, and I'm reasonably convinced that this driver has *quite a bit* of track day training or is a moderately experienced (pro) racing driver. It is *NOT* just the car.

The Arkansas State Police videos are in a league of their own by their own respect. If you like seeing vehicles put in ditches and the occasional flying police car it is the place to go.

The Lotus Carlton gained its notoriety from outrunning the west midlands police helicopter on the M6. The Rover Metro could be outrun by literally anything. Love the videos, always very informative and well put together.

I did the same thing when I was young I had a 1984 Monte Carlo super sport I built it for the sole purpose of absolute speed and being able to evade the cops. It was an absolute monster punching out over 840 hp with a 454 big block, I had 355 wide tires on a Ford 9 inch fully rolled caged, and I built it to handle corners at excessively high speeds at most cars that are stock cannot do even Corvettes can’t. I had all of the lights on Killswitch itches to where I could blackout my tail lights And headlights individually. The headlights and the tail lights both I used that stuff you can get out of Riley‘s in a can to spray them and make them darker. They were pretty much blacked out that way anything reflective on the car would not be reflective. The car was also done in Flat black with certain patterns done in bedliner spray. The break up of everything would make it so much harder to see at night and I would only take the car out to have fun at night. It was very talked about around town but unfortunately I never became legendary as the car became victim to a Fire at my brothers shop that he had in his house where we built our cars. The car was completely melted down. I’ll just say this the fire was intense enough that the aluminum brodx heads I had on the motor melted.

What a well made video, the facts are nice and info and the guy sounds like he actually knows a little of what he is talking about. Nice job! 👍🏻

You guys don’t understand how good the blacked out charger is. Jacob Byrd is the man notorious for catching and pitting people and he got smoked several times by the guy, so he has experience with driving for sure. The guy has Arkansas by the balls and until they give Byrd a redeye he’s gonna keep making them look bad lol

Looks the best mod on the charger is a brake/tail light cut out switch, get far enough ahead and hit the switch around a blind corner and at night it looks like you disappeared. the cop will usually slow to strat checking side streets as you make your escape at your leisure. That's actually an old moonshiners trick.

01:00 - This made me smile, I couldn't help it!

I love the way cops put a small invisible sticker on the tailights of the pulled over cars !

Rule of thumb: if it escapes trooper Byrd, no one else is catching it.

Shout to them dodge boys for keeping the outlaw spirit alive 🤣🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️

My vehicle is so slow I'd have to blackout the front lights and stop to get away.

Absolutely fantastic video man.

Around a year ago I actually made an english essay on the lotus carlton, making a lot of comparisons to dodge chargers of today and their use in crime so imagine my surprise and joy when I see a video on the topic of super saloons using these two examples. Wonderful video.

The Undefeated Charger strikes again. What’s crazy is that the Little Rock State Police have their own compilation video of Officer Byrd chasing down fleeing criminals, yet seem to omit his run-in with the Undefeated Charger. The videos are entertaining, if only for the high speed thrills.

Very very nice video, love the animations, great detail, everything is on point !

Decades ago, the Maryland State Police often had 440 "six pack" Chargers. Also, they put speed guns in everything from VWs to semis.

40 RA was pulled out of a canal, the reason the roof was caved in was that a barge on the canal crashed into it. The guy who owned it back at the time had the plate transferred to a few other cars over the years, most recently I think it was a hyundai, but the plate is back where it belongs now, as he's got another lotus carlton and put the plate on it. I remember reading some posts a few years ago by its owner, might of been on facebook and he explained some of the things from back in the day.

I swear 337 makes some of the most interesting content. You touch on subject that others don't. As someone who watches a lot of police chases, this nailed it. Thanks 337. Pursuit Chargers are way too heavy. 4200lbs plus equipment. Partition cell with a roll bar, lights, crash bars, computer, gun rack, equipment in the truck, heavy duty brakes and suspension, ballistic doors, extra cooling, bigger battery, bigger alternator, etc. Damn car is pushing like 5500lbs without driver, that's 2300lbs heavier than my Mazda3 hatchback AWD. Not to mention cop cars are running on 225 width tires on such a big heavy car. You have to give props to the LEO that can catch and PIT 392s, Hellcats, 5.0, SS, etc. It's good to know the road and have experience.

I ❤ this video, thank you. I did the exact same things to law enforcement in Massachusetts in the 80's except in a white IROC-Z.instead of a black Charger. I even got chased with an airplane in New Hampshire. They still couldn't get me until I gave up voluntarily after guns were drawn. Over 30 pursuits and they never caught me either.

Back in the days a long long long time ago in 06 we ran 6.0 GTOs with a toggle switch to disconnect power to the tail lights so if ever the needed you couldn’t tell if and when we were breaking. It gave just enough distance to lessen the charges.

You know why these guys were so good? They had the power that the police didn’t have: FAMILY

We had the WRX in Australia. Four corners and you lose the police.

He is best to quit while he is ahead . The longer he keeps it up , the greater the chances he will get caught. In 1967 after I got out of the USAF, I ordered a 1967 GTO from the factory. It had a Hurst 4 on the floor. One night on my way home I noticed a set on headlights coming up fast so not knowing who it was , I turned off the state highway and turned on a county road . I noticed he turned too, so the race was on. It was mostly all flat land and roads were in square miles. I would take him around square miles and every time I turned a corner , I got farther away. When I thought I was far enough ahead I headed for home . When I hit my road ( it was gravel ) I got the car fishtailing to kick up as much dust as I could. When I turned in the driveway I braked hard , pulled the parking brake, and shut off the headlights. I pulled in a shed, closed the doors, and ran to the house. With the house lights off I looked out the window to see who was chasing me. It was an Ohio State Highway Patrol that went flying by. He never turned on his red light. If he had , I never would have tried that, I would have stopped. About a week later a buddy of mine that didn't have as fast of a car, tried to out run one that had his red light ( back then they only had one red light on top ) on. He made a mistake and went into a town and that is where the two way radio caught him. I miss that old car. I had it above 150 one time and when I looked at the tach it sunk in how fast I was going and I chickened out. I never did that again.

Officer Hernandez should feel special.He was allowed to touch the car

UK has the Lotus Carlton the USA has the Charger as their most infamous get away cars, here in Australia it was the Subaru WRX, Australian Police chased hundreds of them in Corvette powered Holdens and never even got close to catching one!

The key to running from cops isn’t even power, it’s knowing the area you are in better then the cops do

I’m clueless when it comes to cars so thanks for including pictures and stuff lol I actually learned quite a bit and earned a new subscriber

I love the Hemi engines and I was wondering if you have ever made a dedicated video on them explaining the history and power potentials of it?

The uncatchable car. For a minute I thought we were talking about OJ's Bronco.

The Carlton is one of my dream cars so freaking cool

I assume that’s why the last time I got pulled over the cops boxed me in with 3 patrol cars and then hit the lights.

The Crown Vic and Impala were long retired when the Dodge came along. Most agencies had switched to Tahoe's and Explorers by then.

This is why I always laugh when people say "you can't outrun the radio". Perhaps you can't, but when you CAN outrun everything WITH a radio it doesn't make much difference.

Man, you're one of the most underrated content creators in this topic (that topic being the automobile industry). High production value, great scripting, the lot. Congratulations. Also, the Lotus Omega is one of my favourite factory sleepers of all time.

As someone who lives in Chelsea MI. I was doing a double take when he mentioned it. completely forgetting that test track existed and is not even 2 miles down the road from where I work.

wish i had this guy as a teacher i’d pay attention every day in class

Being a citizen of LR for a long time and being into the car community to some degree, the black charger was a big thing. I have a lot of state trooper and police friends that would always talk about it. It was a lot of street racing going on around that time too, not that I took part of any of it..

As soon as you mentioned Europe trying to get rid of the type of cars via outlawing them I was thinking, I hope the Lotus Carlton is mentioned.

17:42 makes me laugh every single time b/c he knew what time it was 😂

This is probably my fifth time watching this video. I love the style your videos are edited in, and your narration is so smooth. Great video as always!

In Poland, we had one dude like this. He was called Boguś and had a BMW M3 E92. There were videos of him drifting that beemer around Warsaw, even around Police cars. It wasn't until one of his dumbass friends made some noise next to police Opel Insignia 2.8 OPC which managed to keep up with him while going at 100mp/h in the city centre, where the 35 zone is practically everywhere.

A note about the Lotus Carlton, it wasn't just a modification of the engine - Lotus literally stripped the original Carltons down to nothing but the body shell and rebuilt them with performance parts. I was working with Lotus at the time and saw them filling up skips with brand new GM engines, transmissions etc, that were all sent for scrap (it would be illegal to sell them). That's why they were so expensive - buyers were paying for almost 2 cars in 1. For some reason GM (known as Vauxhall in the UK) refused to sell Lotus just the body shells. I also worked with the company that stores Lotus's concept cars, and test vehicles etc off-site. They had (as of 10 years ago) a Lotus Carlton with just 10 miles on the odometer. It's been stored in a container, and only taken out once a year to free off the brakes, check for rust etc. There are also similar Lotus Cortinas etc in similar condition.

the Mercury Marauder was a pretty sick car back in the day. But they were very temperamental, the ABS computer didnt like any changes to the wheel/tire size. on top of having proprietary(or very rare) staggered wheel/tire size. during the 2000's i think only Goodyear?(been awhile cant remember the brand) made the tires and they would go out of production a lot during the later 2000's/yearly 2010's. the early "fix" was to disable the ABS, which..... is not optimal. the later fixes was to especially reprogram the ABS computer to accept whatever wheel dimensions u went to. now onto the Impala, there were a few tuner "houses" in the US for the Impala, we had a customer with a one, cant remember the house/brand. it pretty much had a stock car racing engine(as the legend goes) on a beefed up chassis with MONSTER tires. rears were 365 fronts were 305. the thing was a monster. I really wish i had 100% of the details, but this was back in 05/06 and i was a young tire man who didnt pay too much attention to cars. all i know was that it was loud and people who knew what it was would stop and gawk at it. fun car history.

What an amazing video, thank you for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed the the history lesson on this topic of motor history. If you reply to this my one question would be, where and how do you find the resources to research this information in such detail? Great video once again.

That guy is a fucking legend amongst everyone who's seen it, he is literally toying with cops and adding many pursuit escapes to his stat list HAHAH This dude is gonna have a HELL of a resume for a heist crew xD

I'm in Little Rock... had that charger come up beside me goin about 35mph and bust a donut while continuing to stay beside me going down the road. Modified ain't the word,and the person can drive it as good as it runs..just gave em a thumbs up because I was genuinely impressed.

13:16 gives me chills

Really love your content of this video. Keep putting out content like this.

That M5 drifting footage has a Georgian (country) drifter George Tevzadze behind the wheel. He was a real talent, but sadly died in the crash, sitting on the passenger's side

When I worked in Virginia in the mid-2000s equipping police cars, I don't recall much if even a V8 Charger came in through our garage doors. They were pretty much all V6s.

The quality of these vids are top tier

crazy part is he hasn't even started talking about the Quiet Corevette

Thank you! People think runners always get caught. Most of the time the officer has to ask permission to pursue if its a regular traffic stop and they wont volunteer if it seems dangerous. It doesn't even take a fast car really. Someone who isn't me was being pursued and immediately went the wrong way up an exit ramp before turning back the right way on the interstate and never heard a siren since.

As a Brit the way you pronounced Worcestershire was hilarious 🤣 But absolutely fantastic videos, gained a new subscriber!

What a well done video lol definitely subscribed 🤙

Nice, mentioned Marauders. I have an 03 and an 04. My daily driver is 2012 300 SRT8. They all scoot.

The amount of effort, fact finding, editing, and just overall production quality of your videos is astounding. Your efforts aren’t unrecognized 🤘🏼

It's poetic that the first chase the Blackout Charger was in, the Legendary Byrd was the trooper in pursuit. Trooper Byrd needs to give his own pursuit vehicle a new powerplant to even stand a chance of catching the Blackout Charger.

Here in Australia, our police ended up buying a Subaru WRX cop car (just 1) after years where every wrx car chase resulted in escape. They didnt even bother trying to catch the evo, the cops couldnt drive well enough

Amazing video. Totally captivating from start to finish.

I’ve always thought a sleeper like a modded black family sedan with extended fuel tanks, hardwired light switches, and a FLIR thermal cam would be able to outrun anything

As a Arkansas resident and a 392 owner . The infamous blacked out charger is a built 5.7. Plus you can tell in that one clip where it pulled over, that it didn’t have any wheel spin from a dig and it doesn’t really have meaty tires

it still amazes me that v8's at any point in time produced the same horsepower of a modern two cylinder

Bro you should do a video on the challenger hellcat from Chicago. UKD762 or unknowndriver. He literally baits the cpd and flys by them on the e way.

No "WILL RUN" plate, no Instagram account to folow, R/T decals, not catched, FKNG LEGEND

From looking at all the footage I've seen, the uncatchable black Charger has the body panels, wheels, and suspension ride height of a basic Charger R/T. Given it's ability to pull away quickly without spinning the wheels, it's not making Hellcat or Redeye power. If it had a big cam, it would have a rough idle, but it doesn't. I suppose it could have a Scat Pak 6.4L swapped into it, but I'm going to guess it's just the original 5.7L with a few simple bolt-ons and a clever and skilled driver behind the wheel.

I learned to drive in the UK when living there as a teen. We had a Granada Ghia with a Cosworth motor and was optioned with the RS500 suspension package but had a 4 spd manumatic transmission. It was basically a fancier version of the '86-'88 NA RS500. That sucker was fast. IDK if my mom ever really knew there were 200 ponies under the hood (it is a lot for a car that weighs around 2700lbs). I outran the cops in it one night but it wasn't much of a challenge because they were driving a Vauxhall Astra 1.4l with literally half the horsepower. I've also driven the second generation Crown Vic Interceptor and, while it is pretty quick off the line, it handles like shit. They should have kept buying the old Impala instead. It was the better car. I owned 3 box Caprices and a Grand Marquis with the infamous 5.0 FI from the Mustang. Great motor. Shit car. Was really only good for drag racing.