@@peterv1318 Yeah I guess it’s probably that to be honest. Dodge is just a company that wants to maximize profits so if they could make more money selling better cop cars they would, plus I think that would only encourage runners even more to get the fastest cars.
Yeah an arms race, Police versus civilians. The standing army of jack booted thugs vs Private citizens. People get tired of being treated like ticket. Revenue sources for belligerent bullies with a badge.
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.
@@337speed I bet! I gave up after 20 minutes or so. All I found were a bunch of people who clearly know nothing about the story making wild claims about having 40 RA hidden inside their left earlobe, or were best mates with one of the thieves, etc etc. People talk a lot of shit, is the lesson here. Good work, dude. ;-)
@@337speed pronounced Worcestershire wrong tho 🤣 it's normal for Americans I don't blame ya I'm from there and the English pronounce it "wus tuh shuh" We don't really pronounce all the letters, so it's Wus-tuh (Worcester) in Wus-tuh-shuh (Worcestershire)
I hate to say it but I'm disappointed to find out that's how the story of that car ends. I really wanted to believe it was sitting in some dude's shed somewhere in Britain.
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.
You are right. It is the driver. Most drivers are not as good as they think they are, even cops. It's not how fast you are, it's how good you are. I always told my grandson you get good first, the you get fast. I've seen the fastest car get beat several times. It's that nut behind the wheel that counts.
@@johnruetz3849 I learned how to drive on *the* most snap oversteer-happy car on Earth: A 1991 Toyota MR2 turbo, so yeah you are _exactly_ right, you get good before you get fast. Oh, also speaking of cops (who are commonly among the worst drivers I have ever instructed).....The best answer to give a cop when they pull you over and ask "Do you know why I pulled you over?" is "Because I let you." It will go exactly one of two ways: Either you get out of whatever bullshit ticket you were going to get, or you're going to be unceremoniously extracted from your car and spend the night in jail. So far I haven't gone to jail, knock on wood. 😅
@@NaruSanavaimost troopers/cops aren't good drivers. That's why they just go for the "ram them!" mindset. As soon as they can't just ram the suspect until the car is dead, they get smoked.
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. (To make them 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 using potentially lethal force against a guy who only wanted to go fast, without committing any other crime and not even risking anyone else, it's time police must 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 just give up.* You want to catch street racers? *It's time to step on the gas.*
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
Yeah maybe if you live in LA you do, but not in some other states or out on the open highway in the middle of nowhere. You've also probably got about a 50% chance of crashing and getting seriously injured or dying, driving race car speeds around a bunch of traffic
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.
@@hulkgreen6786 When looking at the RPM meter in a car, you see it go from 1000 to 2000 to 3000 to 4000. When you look at the highest few numbers on the RPM guage in your car you see that they have a red line instead of the usual white. An engine will have a maximum RPM it can go and the last few RPM's are its "redline". The redline is also when a non-electric powered car is at its maximum power. Ever hear a car go full throttle and go "baaap baap baap baap" and then they shift and the engine noise becomes lower to slowly increase again? Thats a car at redline before the next shift.
That cop marked the back of the blackout Charger with at least his own fingerprints, if not some kind of invisible ink that could be checked for a positive ID if a black Charger was spotted parked somewhere later that night or next day
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've seen the car. It was just a stock car. Basically all those stories are all bullshit. Any custom ordered dodge could outrun it. Including the 1974 Charger that my dad custom ordered with a stage 3 kit and gave to me when I turned 21 years old which was 26 years ago now.
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.
He was probably trying to limit it to the “saloons” but yes I think it would have been a badass honorable mention. The infamous Black Charger and White Challenger. Like two sides of the same coin 😈
@@thersanothersidetomeHe was going so fast he blew two of his own doors off! 😂… For real the car wasn’t even in frame long enough for me to remember it was a Challenger and not a “Saloon”
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 car maker make cars for public that are faster then the police on purpose so the police come to them for the faster or better cars as think how many cars they replace in the police force and all them contracts worth millions good tactic.
@337speed Dude with the content you make you'll have a streaming service or TV channel knocking at your door at some point wanting you to make a series for them. Your content is just to dam good 🤙
Insane for the time no it wasn't. My friend that was nothing. For back then legit that's average for now. But back then every modified was making on average 700 to 3,000 hp modern cars have yet to ever touch the capabilities their ancestors had
@@rus0004once the cop has a plate number on the vehicle, as long as it's not stolen they can stop the chase and drive to the owners home. The problem is getting the cops to stop the pursuit.
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.
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.
He does it as a hobby, he probably maps out his routes in advance and has a police scanner in the car. Knows where all cameras are at intersections, probably lives in a rural part of town.
@@koencone1 the looks were mostly german btw. Lotus put on a new splitter and rear bumper. Wing came standart on the model the Carlton was based on. Fun Fact: Lotus had to ship the base car from germany (made by opel) including the engine and everything, effecively full cars that could be sold and needed to strip out everything. Cause Opel didnt like the fact that Lotus was supposed to make better versions. Despite both of them belonging to GM.
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.
Only the car that pulled over had his headlights on with the taillights shut off. In the other scenes the suspect just completely shuts off the lights. They may do it so civilians won't react to them flying by at 200mph, or to completely hide their presence, or a combination of that. I saw some video where a guy almost crashed because he turned off his lights in a chase. The getaway drivers seem to either practice this or rely on dumb luck and guardian angels.
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
Rather than constantly chasing, I would think a better result could be achieved by doing basic detective work such as who has ordered a Hellcat engine in that area recently. Or putting out a reward for info. No way this guy has been keeping his mouth shut about this, and his neighbors must know how much he works on that car. I mean, this seems do-able, but chasing it isn't gonna get it done.
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.
I outran the state trooper that turned around by thinking quickly...I had a couple a beers in me, so didnt want to get caught. it was night, and I had the advantage of knowing the hills, and him having to turn around, I already immediately turned up a known road...( I was doing 65 in a 55 is why he was coming after me) I amazingly did this all in an 87 Isuzu P'up, because I had an e-brake right next to my steering wheel, so no lights would come on, and I took every turn you can think of, and was only running with my fog lights on That same Isuzu P'up got me to work in the blizzard of 92' in 3 feet of snow...It was a very good truck, but rusted out immediately
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.
There is a very famous video now of a Hellcat in Houston which outran the police and press helicopters. He was eventually caught because he ran out of fuel.
TBH after doing some research Helicopter are surprisingly „slow“. Like the Bell 206 Jet Ranger used by the LAPD only goes 220km/h… Not saying thats easy to outrun but I regularly go that fast on my way home from work (I‘m from Germany so its a legal speed and only go so fast when the highway is clear). I would’ve guessed a Heli would at least go like 300km/h.
@@Spherz uhm yes? Whats your point? Thats why I was so astonished, I usually associate flying vehicles with being faster than those stuck on the ground. If you mean they still are faster because they don’t have to take corners… well if you’re going 220km/h for an extended period you‘re usually on a highway which also usually goes in a straight line…
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.
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".
@@mattjohnsonj Around 57% of the german autobahn does not have a speed limit. In that case the "speed limit" is 80mph, but it is just a recommendation. You can go as fast as safely possible. But if you go at speeds well above the 80mph recommendation, you will almost always receive a part of the blame for any accidents that happen, because a higher degree of responsibility, awareness and care is expected from speeding drivers. Recently, a tchec billionaire published a video on social media going 260mph with his 1500hp bugatti on the autobahn. Although, the authorities started investigating initially, they later dropped the case, because no reckless driving could be concluded. So yes, you can go as fast as you like, if done in a safe manner, but you better not crash as in that case you will be partly blamed
I hope, I HOPE, whoever owns it hasn't actually committed anything besides their reckless driving. Otherwise, I'll feel bad for saying that I'm kinda wanting it to never be caught.
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.
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.
Trooper Byrd's, as well as other Trooper's, are not omitted or "hidden". I've watched many of them before, and they will even put in the title of the suspect successfully evaded.
That and bit of luck and the black charger was even doing tricks with the tail lights not sure if it was a mod to turn them off or they turn all the lights off as black car in the dark with no lights can go invisible and can hide so easy.
There is an area in my town where it's literally 10 area with many tiny streets merged into one. Anyone knowing most of these streets could leave the police if they do not have a chopper.
@@giggity4670 Yeah there are those kinds of mods that disable the rear tail light (including the braking light) to avoid the pursuer. I think some mods make it possible to disable the tail light while still allowing the front to run so you see where you are going. Think this is decently common in cannonball runs, but don't quote me on that.
I have mapped routes in my neighborhood that only a Bicycle or Motorcycle could make it through. If I am ever in a chase situation, I will use my Motorcycle + these routes to my advantage.
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!
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.
@@tothethreshold.9965 It truly is mental. So much mass at such high speed. I've seen dash cam of them doing PIT at 130mph. Arkansas Troopers have nerves of steel. I would be too terrified to push a car that heavy on all season 225 tires.
I'm a Mopar technician, so I get to work on the cop cars (and test drive them to make sure my repair fixed the issue) I was surprised how slow they feel mashing the throttle! A basic turbo Miata could lose a cop car if the driver is skilled enough, it's insane to me. Then hopping in something like a TRX or a Hellcat after, it's like you're driving an entirely different brand of car.
@@dud1f3r Agreed, but when 1 looks at the actual curb weight when fully loaded, it's amazing that they can do what they can do. You have a N/A relatively small cube engine that makes ALL its power and most of its torque in the upper rev ranges pushing around a car that weighs nearly 5000 lbs. So I give it some credit for being able to do 140-148mph flat out. BTW, you haven't driven a truly slow cop car until you've driven some of the stuff Detroit put out in the early 80s. We're talking 12+ secs 0-60 and over 20 secs to 100 with top speeds of about 115 to 120 at best. Most of those cars weighed about 4000lbs fully decked. I'd worked on them back in the day, and they were stupid slow. Many cops that had early 70s cop cars that were still on the beat in the 80s called it "Big block withdrawal syndrome" and they were right!
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!
That may very well happen--or perhaps they confiscate a couple? Always a chance one of them will have a fuel pump relay failure or PCM failure or even just plain run out of gas while being pursued @@Slowjo1221
Hands down my favourite TH-cam 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!
Monarchs had Commonwhores and Falcons the ram raiders who got away had WReXes. Thats why the insurance premiums went up on them cause they were always getting stolen by crims. Just like Bathurst AWD Turbo cars piss all over rear drive V8s espesially when taking corners and going over kerbs on street tyres@@stuffedgrubs
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.
Anybody that says that shit has never listened to the police on a scanner before. Normally the chase is over before it even starts when some officer mixes up north/south or east/west and street names. I've heard it happen in real time. Police officers typically have terrible radio discipline.
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.
Sure, the car is capable, but it's a two part equation: Is the driver capable? Usually when it comes to many/most cops, the answer is no, not past 140. It takes real skill to handle a car above those speeds on a road as dynamic as a public highway.
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..
Did this dozens of times when I was young and dumb. IMO, the key was do you have enough power, road, and driving skill to get out of the cops line of sight in 2-3 minutes AND have alternative roads to hit. In those days, my car was much faster than any cop car and I was already doing 85 while they were stationary on the side of the road. The only chance they had was for me to make a mistake. Never got caught Never had an accident One point on the Southern State Parkway I went off road at 110mph and LUCKILY the road curved back around so I ended up back on the road a few cars further ahead! People thought I did it on purpose and were giving me thumbs up. THAT was when I stopped running. That was a 2nd chance on life. For the last 30 years, I pull right over, have my info ready for them, and am respectful. About a dozen warnings but zero tickets since 1994
I rather put illegal booby trap mods on the car, instead of speeding and crashing. Oil slick, tire spikes, upgraded fuel capacity, rear glue cannon for windshield of pursuers...etc.
@ 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.😂
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.
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
Started playing GT4 again and today I found the Lotus Carlton in the used car #1 show room . If you stage 4 it after the exhaust and other engine mods it gets almost 630hp . I would have never known about this car without watching this video so I had to buy it in the game
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.
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.
No doubt the driver is a seasoned professional with a strong racing pedigree. One of the troopers in your city that has been chasing him is a seasoned track driver, and he was outclassed. If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the trooper has probably seen the culprit at the track before without ever knowing it.
@@intoTheEther1 man, that was one of my first thoughts, I was thinking if they want to catch that person, they need to go check out the drag strip. Or at least some known street racing spots.
Little Rock guy myself, went to L.R. Mills High. '84 grad. I know who the black charger is, he was the best friend of my lil bro when they were in school...I won't shout out his name though. 🤫 BOC we used to call him, was always somewhat of the trouble maker type. When he started this crap, it was no surprise to us, lol. He def has a level of cult fame in and around L.R. and Memphis...
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.
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.
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.
It depends where you are/ how much the department has to spend. Florida and georgia highway patrol are rife with them, but 90+% of city cops have v6 cars, if not an explorer. The new explorers might be faster, though, to be honest
I heard of one department that opted for the v6 because the v8 was too fast and they didn't want officers losing control. It doesn't stop them from disappearing down a winding road though.
The Black Out Charger is an absolutely amazing story and I wanna know a couple things we may never: 1. Why did this start? 2. Who is it? 3. What has been done to that car...?
If they do stop being adrenaline junkies and we never see it again on the streets like this, I would love LOVE to see it reappear 30-40yrs from now with documented proof it was this charger, it would basically be the black ghost all over again, this is how legends are made.
They found out who it was later on by the family finding the car in a garage covered up. Dodge actually just made a limited run of challengers to pay homage to the car. The owner was actually a police officer and that’s why nobody ever found out cause he had to remain secret for his job.
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
@@goblinzl1When the Byrd gets his hands on one and initiates the flight plan, the landing is the part I want to see. Note the lack of wings on *any* of these 🤷♂️
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
A cool anecdote is that Clyde (from Bonnie and Clyde) actually sent a Letter to Ford himself thanking him for making such a powerful car that absolutely crushed Law's cars in speed and allowed them to always stay uncatchable
Great video, Had a buddy back in the 80's who could drive like a rally car driver and bought and built himself a lite weight Corvette and dropped a almost race engine in it, his uncle who builds race engines built it for him and manual transmission with a race clutch, for a small block Chevy it revved to almost 7000 rpms , we out ran Cops all the time at all hours of the morning and it would bury the speedo easily, he was just a super skilled driver even as teenager he had the ability to do things most would not dare, he eventually got caught by police who pursued him for almost an hour and they road blocked him into a road with ditches so there was no where to run, he skidded to a stop and got out and was arrested and charged with a grocery list of offences and also drunk driving, lost his license for 5 years, had to attend an addictions foundation for 6 months after doing 3 months in jail and DUI had become a criminal offence which was the clincher in the end , the judge said i'm letting you off lightly, not giving you the usual 1 yr in jail for all these offences, some of them were trumped up charges like resisting arrest and punching an officer in the face and head butting another, which were thrown out when the officers on seen were questioned and one told the truth, my buddy was not a fighter, just a skilled driver who lost in the end like all do when your caught 👍
"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
They really did over 120 underneath that L track. I have read that the stunt driver said 'The car had more. It didn't even shift into 3rd until 105" but they ran out of room. Rumor had it that Dan wanted to do the scene but the lawyers stepped in and said NO. Fun fact: The scenes where Dan IS driving doing the slalom on Lower Wacker DR, made John so car sick, he could barely remember his lines.
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.
The guy outclasses Bird. These guys have radios, helicopters and drones yet they can’t manage to catch a little old guy in dodge. Sad…. Cops think they get the best training when it comes to driving but most of the LEDT classes are a joke (I’ve been through s few). The instructors aren’t allowed to train them the way they would like. Same goes for the firearms side of things with law enforcement. Lawyers keep their hands tied. That’s why they will always be outclassed by the serious few who put the time in behind the wheel.
@@NunyaBusiness-re9pb You're just wrong. The Dodge they're trying to catch isn't some everyday Charger, it's likely a Hellcat or even a Redeye. They have some SERIOUS power for being factory-produced. There's a video of a Hellcat Challenger outrunning a News Helicopter, and the only way they caught him is because he ran out of fuel. It's not training that's the issue, it's not having sufficient equipment. Plus, I'm pretty sure that Police Helicopters aren't feasible against the Blacked Out Charger since by the time they'd be in the air, the car is LONG gone.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 He may have a faster car in this situation, but it isn’t the first time Bird lost a car. It is extremely satisfying to watch a grown man pout when he doesn’t get what he wants…. Classic
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.
Many years from now, Trooper Hernandez will tell some rookies,in the squad room, in a hushed and reverent tone; “I Got out of my cruiser, and… well, I just knew something didn’t feel right… I can’t explain it, y’know?… like being in a graveyard after midnight. (He visibly shudders, then crosses himself) I could feel every hair on my body standing up, as I approached it on the right side… I reached out to “Print” it, and it was cold as ice!!! Then it came alive and took off!!! The thing is… I don’t think there was anyone driving that car!!! I was scared, but I did my job. I ran to my cruiser and gave chase…”. Poor guy!
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.
That cop marked the back of the blackout Charger with at least his own fingerprints, if not some kind of invisible ink that could be checked for a positive ID if a black Charger was spotted parked somewhere later that night or next day
Lotus Carltons are legendary here in the UK. I did get to drive one back in the day and something you didn't mention was the upgraded handling by Lotus. They were rapid cars that also handled very well. Back in the ram raid days of the UK, my employer at the time (an upmarket clothing manufacturer), became so worried that their manufacturing and warehousing facilities were fortified with steel crash barriers and gates that were designed to stop a truck never mind a car! A good nostalgic video. Thanks for sharing.
I have been looking for a Chevy SS forever.. sucks to be Canadian man, dang. That is one of the sweetest vehicles ever produced for the family man. Thanks Dodge. Appreciate you keeping the game alive for the average joe
I feel you man i was helping my cousin locate a WS6 in the GTA and they were going for close to 40k CAD. I ended up sourcing him a clean '02 WS6 local to me in northern California and had it shipped out to the GTA all under 25K CAD. An SS is a unicorn up north good luck with your search
Just get a mid 90s Chevy Caprice and either throw a LS in it. Or build a 383 stroker. Either way you'll have way more power than a Impala SS. If you want good fuel injection, good gas mileage, and a smooth easy starting daily with 400hp go with a ls swap. If you want a rowdy sounding low tec torque monster I'd go with a carbureted 383 stroker even a mild built 383 will get 425-450hp and 475+ lbft of torque. And you can super easily throw a 150-200hp shot of nitrus with a plate system and have 650-700hp on tap and 750+ lbft of torque.
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
@@UnlikelyToRemember LMFAO it's called eyeballs, glass, and knowing where you are. What do you think this is? Mario Kart? GTA? Go ahead and try to drive using nothing but FLIR hahaha I want to record the wreck.
@@MadScientist267 There where 2 famous, completly Black out BMWs, who where driven by there drivers with Night Vision Googles. Spooking Police Cars. It already happend, mate.
Last couple rounds of golf, I randomly lost the way of my swing. Going to the left everytime and losing range. Your video got me back on to perfect shots and better than ever.. 205yrds with 5 Iron, 227yrds with a 4 and 285yrds (stopped by the netting at the range) with a driver.. Best instructor there is.
I can't imagine doing such speeds on surface streets. The highway in the middle of the night would be one thing, but on surface streets, even at 2am, there could still be a random pedestrian walking home from the graveyard shift that you'll never see till it is too late.
@@younes86hotmail IDK about that, many motorcycles also have ridiculously loud pipes even stock and you still only hear them about half a second before they go flying past you. Think it's because of a combination of road noise and sound compressing, something something Doppler effect, but I'm not a physicist.
I had friends in England and Germany back in the 90's who told me about the legendary 40 RA Carlton. It was almost too outlandish to believe, that car was a monster.
we made some hot motors back in them days, Tikford Capri, Lotus Carlton, Sierra Cosworth, them where the days to be 18 and driving hot hatches, i'm guessing many Americans never even heard of them
@@petervankas1352 serious, when the golf R first came out the police had nothing to match it, they ended up getting in a bunch of a class AMG's and M powered 1 series.
Very glad the Carlton made this list, the modern UK getaway car(s) are either a VW Golf R, BMW M135/M140i or Audi RS6. The former two being frequently stolen as well.
I believe the Chevy SS was the best super sedan(in the US). Looked like a malibu, quiet like a prius, could run like a scat, and turn like a miata. I cannot confirm nor deny that this works to it's advantage with evading law enforcement.
'War-chest-shire' - brilliant! For anyone wondering, its pronounced something more like 'Wu(r)st-er-shur'. The first 'r' is kind of there but difficult to tell at times.
I remember the days of the Lotus Carlton and the even more ubiquitous Sierra Cosworth or 'Cossie' - they were quite intimidating because there were a few visual differences before you even saw them move.
Crazy how proud you are of protecting someone who sped in a residential neighborhood. Speeding on an empty highway sure, but on streets where kids could just be walking? You have to be an especially large asshole
yes and no. IF you want to outrun the real FAST cops, in Germany for example, a American Muscle car with how heavy and bulky they are, the cops are already blocking you out with the M5 and the RS6s. And mind you german highway cops driving these are only outrun by thieves that literally train on racing tracks day in and out, just for Heists specifically on ATMs. Some people got caught and spoke out of course. So it works in USA, but in here you will be hunted down because while you struggle in a hellcat to swerve trough traffic the cop will be chilling, thanks to expensive and complicated suspension.
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.
I live in Arkansas and am very familiar with the legend surrounding the dark demon charger. Ive seen gt 500s smoke their tires doing 75 mph (highway speed limit) out here and disappear, simply because they can.
My gray C63 is practically impossible to distinguish from a simple C class. It lets me drive at a heavy clip without drawing attention until i’ve passed and you see the quad tailpipe and hear the incomparable roar of that n/a 470 hp 6.2 V8.
I recall a story in Illinois back in the very early 70s, when ISP troopers oened their own cars, but these had to be particular police-equipped models of Oldsmobiles, Chryslers, or Mercurys. The Olds would be a 455 ci 375HP Delta 88 Police Apprehender, and was good for above 130. Well, it seemed that the department came to own 2 similar cars, but with transplanted 500 ci Cadillac engines (presumably enhanced), which had the ability to take a stretcher straight through from the trunk into the back seat area; these could be used as very high speed ambulances. There was, so the story goes, a Corvette running flat out on one of the superhighways, clocked at or above 150, and could be heard downshifting for the curves, so presumably was a 4-speed, likely with the 454 engine. The big Olds-illac caught him. To do that, it had to be capable of perhaps 180, which NASCAR racers of the day were exceeding, so it doesn't tax belief. I heard a similar contemporary story of a similar chase in, I think, New Jersey, where the cop car was a Chrysler wagon powered by a hemi, and the apprehended vehicle was also a 'vette. Can't imagine what it would be like for the cop to be driving a big cruiser, complete with gumball machines, at such speeds. Also can't imagine what it's like to be flying in a Corvette one minute and wearing handcuffs the next.
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Please make a video on the black ghost challenger of Detroit. It’s legendary
304k followers :/
@@kolbemaddox1033or the riverdale ghost Camaro
@@kolbemaddox1033no.
a better thing to cover would be shine runners of the south in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, even the 60s and 70s.
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Dodge knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they gave the cops the nerfed charger
N that's why we love them 😂😂
@@MegaJo123456789 I second this
Plus police departments want everything dirt cheap. They always take the lowest bid.
@@peterv1318 Yeah I guess it’s probably that to be honest. Dodge is just a company that wants to maximize profits so if they could make more money selling better cop cars they would, plus I think that would only encourage runners even more to get the fastest cars.
Yeah an arms race, Police versus civilians. The standing army of jack booted thugs vs Private citizens. People get tired of being treated like ticket. Revenue sources for belligerent bullies with a badge.
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.
Bro I looked so hard for that, and felt so accomplished when I found it😂😭
@@337speed I bet! I gave up after 20 minutes or so. All I found were a bunch of people who clearly know nothing about the story making wild claims about having 40 RA hidden inside their left earlobe, or were best mates with one of the thieves, etc etc. People talk a lot of shit, is the lesson here.
Good work, dude. ;-)
@@337speed pronounced Worcestershire wrong tho 🤣 it's normal for Americans I don't blame ya
I'm from there and the English pronounce it "wus tuh shuh"
We don't really pronounce all the letters, so it's Wus-tuh (Worcester) in Wus-tuh-shuh (Worcestershire)
Great video tho mate, good info on the 40RA, great story that I thought I knew quite well but there was information in here I didn't know
Good job!
I hate to say it but I'm disappointed to find out that's how the story of that car ends. I really wanted to believe it was sitting in some dude's shed somewhere in Britain.
Dodge is somewhere smiling ear to ear coming up with a plan to pay homage to the legendary blacked out Dodge Charger 😅
o you mean like killing the whole franchise for electric trash?
@@0Heeroyuy01 I've never been more disappointed in my life than when I heard that all the fun cars were getting replaced with disgusting EV models.
Yeah he's probably still shocked that it still runs because dodge is trash
@@Soluscide I heard that they will have an i6 option on their next charger
@@0Heeroyuy01 Normally I'd agree, but theres some pretty bad ass ev's coming out. Like that Daytona Charger EV, that thing looks so badass.
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.
You are right. It is the driver. Most drivers are not as good as they think they are, even cops. It's not how fast you are, it's how good you are. I always told my grandson you get good first, the you get fast. I've seen the fastest car get beat several times. It's that nut behind the wheel that counts.
@@johnruetz3849 I learned how to drive on *the* most snap oversteer-happy car on Earth: A 1991 Toyota MR2 turbo, so yeah you are _exactly_ right, you get good before you get fast. Oh, also speaking of cops (who are commonly among the worst drivers I have ever instructed).....The best answer to give a cop when they pull you over and ask "Do you know why I pulled you over?" is "Because I let you." It will go exactly one of two ways: Either you get out of whatever bullshit ticket you were going to get, or you're going to be unceremoniously extracted from your car and spend the night in jail. So far I haven't gone to jail, knock on wood. 😅
They know how to drive, for sure. When the story was big, part of me wondered if the driver wasn't an ASP Trooper, themselves.
@@NaruSanavaimost troopers/cops aren't good drivers. That's why they just go for the "ram them!" mindset. As soon as they can't just ram the suspect until the car is dead, they get smoked.
My dad chased down an Aston in a diesel Ford once. No sweat from him or the car. The Aston was really going for it as well.
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.
(To make them 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 using potentially lethal force against a guy who only wanted to go fast, without committing any other crime and not even risking anyone else, it's time police must 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 just give up.*
You want to catch street racers? *It's time to step on the gas.*
The white one in Houston, Texas 🔥🔥
..what one needs to drive like that amounts to one of two things, yes. One would either have had police training or military training.
@@Van-vh5szI think you are missing another possibility, an experienced race car driver.
@@Van-vh5szgovt doesn’t hold the claim to the most trained people. In anything.
That hellcat Challenger WILL NOT OUTRUN the Washington state patrol " chase car" .... Ya better bring A LOT MORE than that hellcat....
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
Literally noted that as soon as he said it lol
It's easier than you'd think
@@Big-Tonka-Geeked-Upwhat do you mean
Yeah maybe if you live in LA you do, but not in some other states or out on the open highway in the middle of nowhere. You've also probably got about a 50% chance of crashing and getting seriously injured or dying, driving race car speeds around a bunch of traffic
@@JazzerciseJustice I meant what I said, evading police is a lot easier than you'd think
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.
Good to know
What does redlining mean ?
@@hulkgreen6786 When looking at the RPM meter in a car, you see it go from 1000 to 2000 to 3000 to 4000. When you look at the highest few numbers on the RPM guage in your car you see that they have a red line instead of the usual white.
An engine will have a maximum RPM it can go and the last few RPM's are its "redline". The redline is also when a non-electric powered car is at its maximum power.
Ever hear a car go full throttle and go "baaap baap baap baap" and then they shift and the engine noise becomes lower to slowly increase again? Thats a car at redline before the next shift.
@@Diadras well understood and schooled thank 👍
No, it was: ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️-B-A-Start
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Officer Hernandez should feel special.He was allowed to touch the car
Lmao
He should have just attached a GPS device, forget the finger print method
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That cop marked the back of the blackout Charger with at least his own fingerprints, if not some kind of invisible ink that could be checked for a positive ID if a black Charger was spotted parked somewhere later that night or next day
@@ALCRAN2010u need a judge to sign off on a warrant
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.
Honestly, after reading that and finding out it was an Chicago Police Officer. That truly didn't surprise me at all......
he was a cop from Detroit. the black ghost
Yup! Just went up at Mecum I believe unfortunately.
@@hairyyeti21 That's him. There's a video where he talks about his car mods.
I've seen the car. It was just a stock car. Basically all those stories are all bullshit. Any custom ordered dodge could outrun it. Including the 1974 Charger that my dad custom ordered with a stage 3 kit and gave to me when I turned 21 years old which was 26 years ago now.
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.
Helps when your cylinder head has more flow than a Soundcloud mubble rapper
Yeah its crazy, theres a guy called steve morris who makes and builds engines and one of the v8s he makes can push around 5000 horsepower
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@@dud1f3r😂
We didn't achieve anything. Ppl that machine new head designs with valve grinding capabilities- have
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!
He was probably trying to limit it to the “saloons” but yes I think it would have been a badass honorable mention. The infamous Black Charger and White Challenger. Like two sides of the same coin 😈
Thank goodness for the great roads. Without a smooth surface, the heroes cannot get away.
@@thersanothersidetomeHe was going so fast he blew two of his own doors off! 😂…
For real the car wasn’t even in frame long enough for me to remember it was a Challenger and not a “Saloon”
Not a car, but that one video of a liter bike (I think it was an s1000rr) literally outrunning a police chopper is worth a mention.
I think that incident is why the FHP in Florida acquired at least two Hellcats in the last year or so. Seen them on 75 a couple of times.
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.
Thats insane. Kilowatt flash lamps are INSANELY bright.
flashbang!
Dodge knew their exact target audience for the hellcat/demon/scats , and it worked just how they wanted 😆
Yeah... they all have 29.9apr payments as well.
@@PsychoGecko89 hahahah, at least they can outburst the tow trucks before getting towed
Maybe that's why they made them so easy to steal as well.
Dodge has amazing marketing teams. They really know what they are doing. Now if only their painters and trans makers were half as good.
I think car maker make cars for public that are faster then the police on purpose so the police come to them for the faster or better cars as think how many cars they replace in the police force and all them contracts worth millions good tactic.
How does 337 Speed not have his own Netflix show!?!?!?
Give me a Netflix budget and I’ll make some legendary stuff but still rather do it all organically and more creative freedom.
Rite...
HE SHOULD OMG MY GOD NEVER SEEN SOMETHING SO TRUE
@337speed Dude with the content you make you'll have a streaming service or TV channel knocking at your door at some point wanting you to make a series for them. Your content is just to dam good 🤙
Bro Netflix is dogwater when it comes to originality.
201 hp to 377?! That’s insane. Especially in that time. And a 6 apeed from the zr1 lol. What a beast.
Makes me want one.
@@Wolf.dieselthere's a smashed up one for sale for £10,00 down the road from me
I've driven one a couple of years ago. It's an absolute rocketship. 😎
One of my favourite cars. Gran Turismo made me fall in love with it. One day I'll own one hopefully
Insane for the time no it wasn't. My friend that was nothing. For back then legit that's average for now. But back then every modified was making on average 700 to 3,000 hp modern cars have yet to ever touch the capabilities their ancestors had
'likely modified in his garage to evade law enforcement for shits and giggles' love it lol
The only time this guy takes his charger out is when he wants to get away.
My mans is living the american dream
why are people romanticizing this?
Because it's awesome
I think its more that they outsmart the poilce .
Its not something anynody can do. And if you can do it im guessing its a rush. @@thecaski8239
"You can't outrun the radio."
Apparently you can in a Hellcat.
No, you still can't.
@@g.w.7893 Did you watch the video?
@@rus0004once the cop has a plate number on the vehicle, as long as it's not stolen they can stop the chase and drive to the owners home. The problem is getting the cops to stop the pursuit.
@@davidclemens1578 No plate, no face, no case.
@@g.w.7893 oh yeah you can
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.
Georgia state patrol ranks up there too.
i mean you can outrun the crusiers, but what about the helicopters... usually that's the problem with getting away from my understanding.
@@LordxJoeye, some manage to get away
@@FrankTimms-cs5hlGSP videos have definitely grown more popular over the past few months. I hope to see Texas DPS videos soon
you can run apps that let you know when they're flying choppers or planes @@LordxJoe
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.
prolly changes the plates or runs none at all
He does it as a hobby, he probably maps out his routes in advance and has a police scanner in the car. Knows where all cameras are at intersections, probably lives in a rural part of town.
Now that is a smart person, and I salute them for it. I love it.@@2jzandys444
That's the car he keeps in his garage till he's ready to fuck with the cops.
@@helluvademon3936 all im saying is yes it is
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'd love to get my hands on one
One of the cars I've ever owned that was great fun. Grown up now with kids and have a Panamera 4S E-Hybrid.
I'd say one of the best looking British cars in my opinion, looks timeless and innocent, imagine a tune on that! Probably exceeds 200 if happened.
@@koencone1 the looks were mostly german btw. Lotus put on a new splitter and rear bumper. Wing came standart on the model the Carlton was based on. Fun Fact: Lotus had to ship the base car from germany (made by opel) including the engine and everything, effecively full cars that could be sold and needed to strip out everything. Cause Opel didnt like the fact that Lotus was supposed to make better versions. Despite both of them belonging to GM.
Blacking out tail lights is the most notorious modification ever to exist😂😂😂
First thing we did with our bikes way back in the day.
Blacked out tail lights is not enough. They (the pursuees) need a kill switch for the brake lights too!
@TheOzthewiz You know right, it becomes a ghost
@@jb-xc4oh😂...only bike u had was ya boyfriends Murray
LoL..!!@@wildestcowboy2668
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.
Thanks I watched the video too
Only the car that pulled over had his headlights on with the taillights shut off. In the other scenes the suspect just completely shuts off the lights. They may do it so civilians won't react to them flying by at 200mph, or to completely hide their presence, or a combination of that. I saw some video where a guy almost crashed because he turned off his lights in a chase. The getaway drivers seem to either practice this or rely on dumb luck and guardian angels.
Not so much a cutout switch as it is a "bulb voltage nullifier".
The car I drag race with is completely blacked out and has the brake/taillights wired to a cut out just incase the cops show up to bust the spot lol.
@0.09er6 the brake lights are activates by a switch on the brake pedal.
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
No matter how good you think you are there's always someone better
what if you're the one better?@@rickyestes7477
And the someone better was the Charger guy @@rickyestes7477
Rather than constantly chasing, I would think a better result could be achieved by doing basic detective work such as who has ordered a Hellcat engine in that area recently. Or putting out a reward for info. No way this guy has been keeping his mouth shut about this, and his neighbors must know how much he works on that car. I mean, this seems do-able, but chasing it isn't gonna get it done.
Tyrant cops
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.
I outran the state trooper that turned around by thinking quickly...I had a couple a beers in me, so didnt want to get caught. it was night, and I had the advantage of knowing the hills, and him having to turn around, I already immediately turned up a known road...( I was doing 65 in a 55 is why he was coming after me) I amazingly did this all in an 87 Isuzu P'up, because I had an e-brake right next to my steering wheel, so no lights would come on, and I took every turn you can think of, and was only running with my fog lights on That same Isuzu P'up got me to work in the blizzard of 92' in 3 feet of snow...It was a very good truck, but rusted out immediately
ASP caught him. It is wrecked.
I'll bet the car was either scrapped and parted out or is mothballed under a tarp in the back of a barn.
@@wl562 The car was wrecked into a building. I am sure it was impounded and sent to the wrecking yard.
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.
There is a very famous video now of a Hellcat in Houston which outran the police and press helicopters. He was eventually caught because he ran out of fuel.
TBH after doing some research Helicopter are surprisingly „slow“.
Like the Bell 206 Jet Ranger used by the LAPD only goes 220km/h… Not saying thats easy to outrun but I regularly go that fast on my way home from work (I‘m from Germany so its a legal speed and only go so fast when the highway is clear). I would’ve guessed a Heli would at least go like 300km/h.
@@Simoxs7 300 kmhs ? that would require an insane lean downwards from the helicopter to achieve such speeds
@@Simoxs7helicopters can also... y’know... FLY?
@@Spherz uhm yes? Whats your point?
Thats why I was so astonished, I usually associate flying vehicles with being faster than those stuck on the ground.
If you mean they still are faster because they don’t have to take corners… well if you’re going 220km/h for an extended period you‘re usually on a highway which also usually goes in a straight line…
Hagerty needs to hire this guy. GIVE THIS MAN A SHOW!!!
Idk, my insurance premiums are expensive enough already
Don’t……as soon as channels get big they fall to shit
No
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.
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".
the Cedric is so underrated (like any Nissan that isn't a Skyline, Z or Silvia)
@@Tornado2409 Maxima?
@@tappajaav V6 versions ig
I watched one of these Hellcat chase videos where the speedometer on the Hellcat reached 209 mph. That is insane.
My 300C SRT goes 200 mph with 630HP ....
Over here this legal ...
Greets from Germany ... (hehehe)
@@TomKappelndoes Deutschland allow people to do 200 mph on the autobahn?
@@mattjohnsonjno speed limit on the autobahn
@@mattjohnsonj: you can do 500...
@@mattjohnsonj Around 57% of the german autobahn does not have a speed limit. In that case the "speed limit" is 80mph, but it is just a recommendation. You can go as fast as safely possible. But if you go at speeds well above the 80mph recommendation, you will almost always receive a part of the blame for any accidents that happen, because a higher degree of responsibility, awareness and care is expected from speeding drivers.
Recently, a tchec billionaire published a video on social media going 260mph with his 1500hp bugatti on the autobahn. Although, the authorities started investigating initially, they later dropped the case, because no reckless driving could be concluded.
So yes, you can go as fast as you like, if done in a safe manner, but you better not crash as in that case you will be partly blamed
We need a follow up on this car in a year or so. Hell just do annual updates. Great episode
That thing sounds sick. I bet even the cop was delighted.
I hope, I HOPE, whoever owns it hasn't actually committed anything besides their reckless driving. Otherwise, I'll feel bad for saying that I'm kinda wanting it to never be caught.
He’s reached 1# in the blacklist
@@Journey_to_who_knowsmost wanted
@@Real_Mechanic87well I mean he is a skilled driver and has caused 0 accidents so I wouldn't call it reckless driving
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 just checked the car its still on the road taxed 2023 mot expires 4th of may 2024
@@240hzGaming what a legend this guy is
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.
Shout to them dodge boys for keeping the outlaw spirit alive 🤣🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️
Np man
Not anymore. Sucks that they aren’t making these beautiful cars anymore
@@2_Awesome4uwhat happened?
@@BlueTyphoon2017government regulations.
@@2_Awesome4u80% BMW Audi Mercedes can out run police. Better handling not as fast a SRT. Corner 5x Sharpe and precision.
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.
If he keeps on evading police, that goes to show he's skilled or caree enough to avoid accident to keep on pursuing
@michaelscarportI find that to be very believable
Trooper Byrd's, as well as other Trooper's, are not omitted or "hidden". I've watched many of them before, and they will even put in the title of the suspect successfully evaded.
trooper tyrd got smoked by the undefeated charger. look it up.
if you want to know what a real undefeated car looks like, search for "40 RA vauxall carlton"
The key to running from cops isn’t even power, it’s knowing the area you are in better then the cops do
That and bit of luck and the black charger was even doing tricks with the tail lights not sure if it was a mod to turn them off or they turn all the lights off as black car in the dark with no lights can go invisible and can hide so easy.
There is an area in my town where it's literally 10 area with many tiny streets merged into one. Anyone knowing most of these streets could leave the police if they do not have a chopper.
@@giggity4670 Yeah there are those kinds of mods that disable the rear tail light (including the braking light) to avoid the pursuer. I think some mods make it possible to disable the tail light while still allowing the front to run so you see where you are going.
Think this is decently common in cannonball runs, but don't quote me on that.
I have mapped routes in my neighborhood that only a Bicycle or Motorcycle could make it through. If I am ever in a chase situation, I will use my Motorcycle + these routes to my advantage.
Yes indeed.
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!
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.
That is almost 2000ib heavier than my 300hp diesel estate. Absolutely mental that they can manoeuvre those barges at high speeds.
1000lbs heavier than my truck 😂
@@tothethreshold.9965 It truly is mental. So much mass at such high speed. I've seen dash cam of them doing PIT at 130mph. Arkansas Troopers have nerves of steel. I would be too terrified to push a car that heavy on all season 225 tires.
I'm a Mopar technician, so I get to work on the cop cars (and test drive them to make sure my repair fixed the issue) I was surprised how slow they feel mashing the throttle! A basic turbo Miata could lose a cop car if the driver is skilled enough, it's insane to me. Then hopping in something like a TRX or a Hellcat after, it's like you're driving an entirely different brand of car.
@@dud1f3r Agreed, but when 1 looks at the actual curb weight when fully loaded, it's amazing that they can do what they can do. You have a N/A relatively small cube engine that makes ALL its power and most of its torque in the upper rev ranges pushing around a car that weighs nearly 5000 lbs. So I give it some credit for being able to do 140-148mph flat out. BTW, you haven't driven a truly slow cop car until you've driven some of the stuff Detroit put out in the early 80s. We're talking 12+ secs 0-60 and over 20 secs to 100 with top speeds of about 115 to 120 at best. Most of those cars weighed about 4000lbs fully decked. I'd worked on them back in the day, and they were stupid slow. Many cops that had early 70s cop cars that were still on the beat in the 80s called it "Big block withdrawal syndrome" and they were right!
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!
I was about to mention that don't you guys have like 500hp ls powered VE and VF commodores (RIP HOLDEN)
@@CadenZoucha yep and they are worth up to 100k now
@@GTFORDMAN you have my condolences for holden
@@CadenZoucha hahaha yea no great loss the cars were terrible! at least they forced Ford to keep a V8 Falcon in it's line up!
@CadenZoucha there's a 430kw GTS R, 6.2L
Rule of thumb: if it escapes trooper Byrd, no one else is catching it.
Well said Trooper byrd Legend and a pro but not fast enough for the undefeated charger.
I like to imagine trooper Byrd having a Max Max moment, entering the garage and finding the mechanic dangling the keys to a Hellcat with a Grappler.
More and more departments are purchasing Hellcats and using them as patrol cars. Maybe Arkansas will follow suit.
That may very well happen--or perhaps they confiscate a couple? Always a chance one of them will have a fuel pump relay failure or PCM failure or even just plain run out of gas while being pursued @@Slowjo1221
Byrd could hardly handle mild turns
Hands down my favourite TH-cam 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!
You know why these guys were so good? They had the power that the police didn’t have:
FAMILY
OoooWoOoooUWooo
I heard he lives his life a quarter-mile at a time
😂💀
I love that James bond reference
That's the whole idea of a hot rod brother something faster than those chasing after ya
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.
We had the WRX in Australia.
Four corners and you lose the police.
"we" horseshit
We had shit box commodore's and falcons...
Just like Bathurst...
@@stuffedgrubsfalcons can get boosted to 400hp
Monarchs had Commonwhores and Falcons the ram raiders who got away had WReXes. Thats why the insurance premiums went up on them cause they were always getting stolen by crims.
Just like Bathurst AWD Turbo cars piss all over rear drive V8s espesially when taking corners and going over kerbs on street tyres@@stuffedgrubs
@stuffedgrubs hey hey, put some respect on the falcon. the Barra 6 is a legend even today
Y'all must have some really crappy police cars down there because it's not hard to catch a WRX 😅
"He's a law breaker... a jaw dropper... I'd love to shake his hand."
-Deputy Junior, Reno 911
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.
Anybody that says that shit has never listened to the police on a scanner before. Normally the chase is over before it even starts when some officer mixes up north/south or east/west and street names. I've heard it happen in real time. Police officers typically have terrible radio discipline.
Oh well, there are such things as tire shredding strips...
@@veritas41photo on the motorway nah
cant outrun a helicopter. there fixed
@@srobeck77depends on the headwind
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.
Cop was full of shit
I guarantee that department is gonna get one sooner or later
That "sport bike" obviously wasn't a 'Busa!
Sure, the car is capable, but it's a two part equation: Is the driver capable? Usually when it comes to many/most cops, the answer is no, not past 140. It takes real skill to handle a car above those speeds on a road as dynamic as a public highway.
Lol there’s zero chance any cop car was keeping up with a bike unless it was just a 600 or something
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..
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Ssssuuuuurrrrreeeeee
@@AhuCJ 🤫
Wink wink
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Did this dozens of times when I was young and dumb. IMO, the key was do you have enough power, road, and driving skill to get out of the cops line of sight in 2-3 minutes AND have alternative roads to hit. In those days, my car was much faster than any cop car and I was already doing 85 while they were stationary on the side of the road. The only chance they had was for me to make a mistake.
Never got caught
Never had an accident
One point on the Southern State Parkway I went off road at 110mph and LUCKILY the road curved back around so I ended up back on the road a few cars further ahead! People thought I did it on purpose and were giving me thumbs up.
THAT was when I stopped running. That was a 2nd chance on life. For the last 30 years, I pull right over, have my info ready for them, and am respectful. About a dozen warnings but zero tickets since 1994
I rather put illegal booby trap mods on the car, instead of speeding and crashing. Oil slick, tire spikes, upgraded fuel capacity, rear glue cannon for windshield of pursuers...etc.
@ 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.😂
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.
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
Started playing GT4 again and today I found the Lotus Carlton in the used car #1 show room . If you stage 4 it after the exhaust and other engine mods it gets almost 630hp . I would have never known about this car without watching this video so I had to buy it in the game
interesting
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.
I was a contractor for a company whose boss had one. Beautiful car, but I seem to remember it went back a few times with gearbox issues
Was the rumour that the Carlton was actually detuned slightly from what Lotus deemed it could make true?
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.
No doubt the driver is a seasoned professional with a strong racing pedigree. One of the troopers in your city that has been chasing him is a seasoned track driver, and he was outclassed. If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the trooper has probably seen the culprit at the track before without ever knowing it.
@@intoTheEther1 man, that was one of my first thoughts, I was thinking if they want to catch that person, they need to go check out the drag strip. Or at least some known street racing spots.
Yeah sorry to scare ya
@@zippytechnologies the only thing that scared me was I was thinking maybe one of the Pistons was about to come through the hood. LOL
Little Rock guy myself, went to L.R. Mills High. '84 grad. I know who the black charger is, he was the best friend of my lil bro when they were in school...I won't shout out his name though. 🤫 BOC we used to call him, was always somewhat of the trouble maker type. When he started this crap, it was no surprise to us, lol. He def has a level of cult fame in and around L.R. and Memphis...
The Carlton is one of my dream cars so freaking cool
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.
Sounds like a dream car for someone who wants to clown the cops
What speed did it top out at, if you ever got to fully test it?
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.
The uncatchable car. For a minute I thought we were talking about OJ's Bronco.
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.
That was my thought as well. I see many chargers on the road, but they are almost all V6's
Brokies
@@JazzisShoozy You still get an allowance. STFU
It depends where you are/ how much the department has to spend. Florida and georgia highway patrol are rife with them, but 90+% of city cops have v6 cars, if not an explorer. The new explorers might be faster, though, to be honest
I heard of one department that opted for the v6 because the v8 was too fast and they didn't want officers losing control. It doesn't stop them from disappearing down a winding road though.
My vehicle is so slow I'd have to blackout the front lights and stop to get away.
The Black Out Charger is an absolutely amazing story and I wanna know a couple things we may never:
1. Why did this start?
2. Who is it?
3. What has been done to that car...?
You know what... you're on to something. Maybe something to just scare lawmakers🤔
If they do stop being adrenaline junkies and we never see it again on the streets like this, I would love LOVE to see it reappear 30-40yrs from now with documented proof it was this charger, it would basically be the black ghost all over again, this is how legends are made.
Blackout charger lore🔥
They found out who it was later on by the family finding the car in a garage covered up. Dodge actually just made a limited run of challengers to pay homage to the car. The owner was actually a police officer and that’s why nobody ever found out cause he had to remain secret for his job.
@@strongkase2089source?
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
its definitely a seasoned driver as well. Pulling away without wheelspin in a v8 like that is like 99% skill
There are rumors that it is a built 5.7 ex police AWD model, explaining his apparent immunity to wheelspin
whatever the undefeated charger is its well balanced and pro driven. no one has come close and this person antagonizes ASP.
@@goblinzl1When the Byrd gets his hands on one and initiates the flight plan, the landing is the part I want to see.
Note the lack of wings on *any* of these 🤷♂️
@@MadScientist267 byrd crashed and burned against the undefeated charger. he looked as bad as anyone else.
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
Rip i once meet him😢
Giorgi*
@@MasParaQue same name, different languages
No. Names are independent of languages.@@nodarshurgaia4301
Timestamp?
A cool anecdote is that Clyde (from Bonnie and Clyde) actually sent a Letter to Ford himself thanking him for making such a powerful car that absolutely crushed Law's cars in speed and allowed them to always stay uncatchable
Great video, Had a buddy back in the 80's who could drive like a rally car driver and bought and built himself a lite weight Corvette and dropped a almost race engine in it, his uncle who builds race engines built it for him and manual transmission with a race clutch, for a small block Chevy it revved to almost 7000 rpms , we out ran Cops all the time at all hours of the morning and it would bury the speedo easily, he was just a super skilled driver even as teenager he had the ability to do things most would not dare, he eventually got caught by police who pursued him for almost an hour and they road blocked him into a road with ditches so there was no where to run, he skidded to a stop and got out and was arrested and charged with a grocery list of offences and also drunk driving, lost his license for 5 years, had to attend an addictions foundation for 6 months after doing 3 months in jail and DUI had become a criminal offence which was the clincher in the end , the judge said i'm letting you off lightly, not giving you the usual 1 yr in jail for all these offences, some of them were trumped up charges like resisting arrest and punching an officer in the face and head butting another, which were thrown out when the officers on seen were questioned and one told the truth, my buddy was not a fighter, just a skilled driver who lost in the end like all do when your caught 👍
"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
They really did over 120 underneath that L track. I have read that the stunt driver said 'The car had more. It didn't even shift into 3rd until 105" but they ran out of room. Rumor had it that Dan wanted to do the scene but the lawyers stepped in and said NO. Fun fact: The scenes where Dan IS driving doing the slalom on Lower Wacker DR, made John so car sick, he could barely remember his lines.
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.
Facts lol he need to get him a c6 corvette undercover and nfs most wanted his ass 😆
The guy outclasses Bird. These guys have radios, helicopters and drones yet they can’t manage to catch a little old guy in dodge. Sad…. Cops think they get the best training when it comes to driving but most of the LEDT classes are a joke (I’ve been through s few). The instructors aren’t allowed to train them the way they would like. Same goes for the firearms side of things with law enforcement. Lawyers keep their hands tied. That’s why they will always be outclassed by the serious few who put the time in behind the wheel.
@@NunyaBusiness-re9pb You're just wrong. The Dodge they're trying to catch isn't some everyday Charger, it's likely a Hellcat or even a Redeye. They have some SERIOUS power for being factory-produced. There's a video of a Hellcat Challenger outrunning a News Helicopter, and the only way they caught him is because he ran out of fuel. It's not training that's the issue, it's not having sufficient equipment. Plus, I'm pretty sure that Police Helicopters aren't feasible against the Blacked Out Charger since by the time they'd be in the air, the car is LONG gone.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 He may have a faster car in this situation, but it isn’t the first time Bird lost a car. It is extremely satisfying to watch a grown man pout when he doesn’t get what he wants…. Classic
@@NunyaBusiness-re9pb police helicopters cruise at 160 mph and max out at 180 mph a hellcat could outrun them easily
01:00 - This made me smile, I couldn't help it!
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.
Could have had good tyres and a power adder. And a good driver.
No way to tell what could possibly be done to it.
Most likely it's a 5.7 with a hellcat supercharger bolted on. That will easily push 600 horsepower.
Many years from now, Trooper Hernandez will tell some rookies,in the squad room, in a hushed and reverent tone; “I Got out of my cruiser, and… well, I just knew something didn’t feel right… I can’t explain it, y’know?… like being in a graveyard after midnight. (He visibly shudders, then crosses himself) I could feel every hair on my body standing up, as I approached it on the right side… I reached out to “Print” it, and it was cold as ice!!! Then it came alive and took off!!! The thing is… I don’t think there was anyone driving that car!!! I was scared, but I did my job. I ran to my cruiser and gave chase…”. Poor guy!
hi jasonmccord, have you become a flat earther yet?
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.
Crazy how u say that and 9 times out of 10 the cops will always pursue might not catch but will most certainly pursue
@@Scarybugjuicefacts. and use pit maneuvers on ppl just looking for a place to pull over
@@poindextertuneslol but I can believe that
That cop marked the back of the blackout Charger with at least his own fingerprints, if not some kind of invisible ink that could be checked for a positive ID if a black Charger was spotted parked somewhere later that night or next day
Lotus Carltons are legendary here in the UK. I did get to drive one back in the day and something you didn't mention was the upgraded handling by Lotus. They were rapid cars that also handled very well.
Back in the ram raid days of the UK, my employer at the time (an upmarket clothing manufacturer), became so worried that their manufacturing and warehousing facilities were fortified with steel crash barriers and gates that were designed to stop a truck never mind a car!
A good nostalgic video. Thanks for sharing.
I have been looking for a Chevy SS forever.. sucks to be Canadian man, dang. That is one of the sweetest vehicles ever produced for the family man.
Thanks Dodge. Appreciate you keeping the game alive for the average joe
I feel you man i was helping my cousin locate a WS6 in the GTA and they were going for close to 40k CAD. I ended up sourcing him a clean '02 WS6 local to me in northern California and had it shipped out to the GTA all under 25K CAD. An SS is a unicorn up north good luck with your search
There aren't any to spare in the States either dude.
There's a few Chevy SS for sale here in South Florida
I've got a 2010 2SS with a Hurst 6 speed short shifter at 51,000 miles just begging for mods.
Just get a mid 90s Chevy Caprice and either throw a LS in it. Or build a 383 stroker. Either way you'll have way more power than a Impala SS. If you want good fuel injection, good gas mileage, and a smooth easy starting daily with 400hp go with a ls swap. If you want a rowdy sounding low tec torque monster I'd go with a carbureted 383 stroker even a mild built 383 will get 425-450hp and 475+ lbft of torque. And you can super easily throw a 150-200hp shot of nitrus with a plate system and have 650-700hp on tap and 750+ lbft of torque.
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
What the hell is the point of the IR
to see in the dark.@@MadScientist267
@@MadScientist267 driving lights off
@@UnlikelyToRemember LMFAO it's called eyeballs, glass, and knowing where you are.
What do you think this is? Mario Kart? GTA? Go ahead and try to drive using nothing but FLIR hahaha
I want to record the wreck.
@@MadScientist267 There where 2 famous, completly Black out BMWs, who where driven by there drivers with Night Vision Googles. Spooking Police Cars. It already happend, mate.
As a Little Rock resident, there is a group of guys (about 30 cars) that constantly race the police and it gets obnoxious
Sorry to trouble you sir
Decades ago, the Maryland State Police often had 440 "six pack" Chargers.
Also, they put speed guns in everything from VWs to semis.
Great attention to detail. It was often tricky to tell the real footage from the simulations.
More people learning about the black charger in AR. Hell yeah, guys a legend!
Last couple rounds of golf, I randomly lost the way of my swing. Going to the left everytime and losing range. Your video got me back on to perfect shots and better than ever.. 205yrds with 5 Iron, 227yrds with a 4 and 285yrds (stopped by the netting at the range) with a driver.. Best instructor there is.
I can't imagine doing such speeds on surface streets. The highway in the middle of the night would be one thing, but on surface streets, even at 2am, there could still be a random pedestrian walking home from the graveyard shift that you'll never see till it is too late.
The types to do those speeds don't tend to hold other lives too highly
with how ridiculously loud those modified pipes are, you can hear them coming and be aware that there is a clown putting his useless life on the line
@@younes86hotmail IDK about that, many motorcycles also have ridiculously loud pipes even stock and you still only hear them about half a second before they go flying past you. Think it's because of a combination of road noise and sound compressing, something something Doppler effect, but I'm not a physicist.
@@scottthewaterwarrior yeah but in the middle of the night i still think you can hear them. everything is quieter at night
@@younes86hotmail Possibly, it is pretty rare I am driving that time of night.
I had friends in England and Germany back in the 90's who told me about the legendary 40 RA Carlton. It was almost too outlandish to believe, that car was a monster.
we made some hot motors back in them days, Tikford Capri, Lotus Carlton, Sierra Cosworth, them where the days to be 18 and driving hot hatches, i'm guessing many Americans never even heard of them
i think the mk7 golf R is the only car since to have caused the police close to the amount of trouble that the Carlton did.
@@jimmyhughes5392Don't be silly love
@@petervankas1352 serious, when the golf R first came out the police had nothing to match it, they ended up getting in a bunch of a class AMG's and M powered 1 series.
@@jimmyhughes5392 Please bro don't talk out of. your arse on here. Cheers
Very glad the Carlton made this list, the modern UK getaway car(s) are either a VW Golf R, BMW M135/M140i or Audi RS6. The former two being frequently stolen as well.
Had a Golf R, currently have a Mercedes SLK..the SLK is faster but the Golf handles the sticks much better
I believe the Chevy SS was the best super sedan(in the US). Looked like a malibu, quiet like a prius, could run like a scat, and turn like a miata. I cannot confirm nor deny that this works to it's advantage with evading law enforcement.
What did you do?
'War-chest-shire' - brilliant!
For anyone wondering, its pronounced something more like 'Wu(r)st-er-shur'. The first 'r' is kind of there but difficult to tell at times.
Its like, I know the correct pronunciation but when someone says ‘warchester’ and I’m ok w it. Good effort.
Easier just to pronounce “woostershire”
good ol goofy european pronunciation 💀
who cares. garbage country.
There’s something bad ass about performance car history, and the criminal, outlaw world being connected. Also, awesome videos!
As a Brit the way you pronounced Worcestershire was hilarious 🤣
But absolutely fantastic videos, gained a new subscriber!
"Werchestershire" 💀
not gonna even mention how he pronounced vauxhall? 🤣
Woostasher
War-chester-shire vs. Worshtershure
I never thought you could outrun the cops in todays tech and gadgets. This black charger is a legend.
I remember the days of the Lotus Carlton and the even more ubiquitous Sierra Cosworth or 'Cossie' - they were quite intimidating because there were a few visual differences before you even saw them move.
what’s funny is everybody in the mid/east Arkansas car scene knows who the black charger is but will never give him up 💯
🧢🧢
Crazy how proud you are of protecting someone who sped in a residential neighborhood. Speeding on an empty highway sure, but on streets where kids could just be walking? You have to be an especially large asshole
Car belongs to a car club and different people drive it out to smoke the man!
I know who he is personally… (or should I say… SHE)
@@SurvivingAnotherDay 🤫
dodges are very underrated outside the US. they are incredibly powerful for their prices
They are cool, but heavy. They are fun to drive, but they are meant to go straight. You need a prepped track to use all of the power.
yes and no. IF you want to outrun the real FAST cops, in Germany for example, a American Muscle car with how heavy and bulky they are, the cops are already blocking you out with the M5 and the RS6s. And mind you german highway cops driving these are only outrun by thieves that literally train on racing tracks day in and out, just for Heists specifically on ATMs. Some people got caught and spoke out of course. So it works in USA, but in here you will be hunted down because while you struggle in a hellcat to swerve trough traffic the cop will be chilling, thanks to expensive and complicated suspension.
I would want one here in Philippines
in finland they're 70-100k and use a lot more fuel than some faster and cheaper cars 😂
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.
I live in Arkansas and am very familiar with the legend surrounding the dark demon charger. Ive seen gt 500s smoke their tires doing 75 mph (highway speed limit) out here and disappear, simply because they can.
No "WILL RUN" plate, no Instagram account to folow, R/T decals, not catched, FKNG LEGEND
Just glad they can actually drive their car. Such a dangerous act that could seriously get someone hurt.
My gray C63 is practically impossible to distinguish from a simple C class. It lets me drive at a heavy clip without drawing attention until i’ve passed and you see the quad tailpipe and hear the incomparable roar of that n/a 470 hp 6.2 V8.
AMG? Beautiful car
I love the way cops put a small invisible sticker on the tailights of the pulled over cars !
What drugs are you on? Mushrooms, ya those.
This needs part 2, especially since more sleepers are entering the scene from the likes of Hyundais, Hondas and Toyotas
even the Kia ev6 GT will make most supercars sweat from a stop
Kia Stinger with the TT 3.3 also comes to mind
I recall a story in Illinois back in the very early 70s, when ISP troopers oened their own cars, but these had to be particular police-equipped models of Oldsmobiles, Chryslers, or Mercurys. The Olds would be a 455 ci 375HP Delta 88 Police Apprehender, and was good for above 130. Well, it seemed that the department came to own 2 similar cars, but with transplanted 500 ci Cadillac engines (presumably enhanced), which had the ability to take a stretcher straight through from the trunk into the back seat area; these could be used as very high speed ambulances. There was, so the story goes, a Corvette running flat out on one of the superhighways, clocked at or above 150, and could be heard downshifting for the curves, so presumably was a 4-speed, likely with the 454 engine. The big Olds-illac caught him. To do that, it had to be capable of perhaps 180, which NASCAR racers of the day were exceeding, so it doesn't tax belief. I heard a similar contemporary story of a similar chase in, I think, New Jersey, where the cop car was a Chrysler wagon powered by a hemi, and the apprehended vehicle was also a 'vette. Can't imagine what it would be like for the cop to be driving a big cruiser, complete with gumball machines, at such speeds. Also can't imagine what it's like to be flying in a Corvette one minute and wearing handcuffs the next.