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FEATURE May | June 2010

General Feature
California businessman Ron Main has a million ideas racing around in his head—all have something to do with speed. Not the drug, but the MPH thing.

Cover Feature
The Mopar® off-road engineering and design teams in concert with the Jeep® Product Design Office did it again

Competition
How Did Nascar Superstar Kurt Busch Spend One Of His Treasured Off Weekends From The Sprint Cup Circuit? By Debuting His Mopar® Hemi®-Powered 1970 Dodge Challenger Super Gas Car At The NHRA Gatornationals.

Drag Race Dateline
When Chrysler first officially announced its Mopar® Challenger drag pak back in 2008, it quickly peaked a lot of drag racer interest.

Garage
Like most of us Mopar® nuts, I grew up in a Chrysler products family. It all started when I began driving my mother to church—and most everywhere—in my dad’s ’50 Plymouth 4-door.

Heritage
The high banks and drag strips of America are where Dodge and Plymouth made Chrysler racing history in the 1950s and 1960s, but there are other tracks and other kinds of Chrysler cars that also contributed their part to the legend.

Mopar Originals
Proper maintenance keeps the good times rollin’.

Mopar Originals
Proper maintenance keeps the good times rollin’.

Next Generation
Mopar® headed out west to Southern California and the Chrysler Spring Festival where the brand announced two new projects geared toward the tuner crowd.

Next Generation
Penske Racing’s Justin Allgaier will debut a Dodge Challenger in the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Daytona International Speedway in July.

How To
Before the widespread application of electronics in automobiles, engine vacuum played a much larger role in the operation of the vehicle.

Reader Rides
Check Out What Our Readers Drive.

Tech Insider
The engine’s cylinder block is the basic foundation for the engine. The block is the largest single part of the engine and tends to be the part that holds everything together.

Tech Q&A
The editors of Mopar Magazine answers reader's technical and general service questions.

You Should Know
The warm weather season is here, so if they haven’t already, your customers will be turning on their vehicle’s air conditioning (A/C) and expecting a nice cold blast of air out of the dash vents.

Tech Tips
Manual transmissions are becoming rarer in daily-driven automobiles, even in economy cars, but there are people out there who still enjoy shifting gears.

Diagnostics
Gaskets have been used on automobiles since their inception. While those early vehicles did not have EGR valve or throttle body gaskets, they did require cylinder head and intake manifold gaskets like modern automobiles.

Body Shop
Proper color matching is an art; especially with metallic and other specialty paints.

The Mopar Nation
The Nation’s Premier Hot Rod & Custom Car Show

Finish Line
Team Mopar driver Allen Johnson introduced his new 2010 NHRA Pro Stock Mopar Dodge Avenger by driving to four straight semifinals appearances in the first four events of the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

Finish Line
The No. 12 Penske Racing Dodge Charger driven by Brad Keselowski carried a special paint scheme featuring Dodge, Mopar and FLO TV™ at the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS). Keselowski was in line for a top 10 finish until he was purposely wrecked by Carl Edwards.