The Car That Is Uncatchable👮🏻‍♂️ | Explained Ep.32

The Black Out Charger is in essence Americas RA40 Lotus Carlton, a car that was uncatchable for its era and getting within 100ft of it was because the driver let you. Both were built on very common saloons of their time, one modified by Lotus Engineering to be the worlds fastest saloon and one most likely modified in his or her’s home garage to evade the authorities for shits and giggles. While the RA40 Carlton’s legendary existence came to an end in 1994, the Black Out Charger is still alive and there’s no telling if the next Black Charger with a loud exhaust you see is just an average mopar enthusiast or the infamous blackout charger.

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[raymond_rayder]

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.

[Menace-Tactical]

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

[allenbrodess]

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

[WMOODY]

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

[SegwayBossk]

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

[ytwizzle]

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

[TheTransporter]

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.

[thefirstpersonpeople]

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

[crypto_que]

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!

[rus]

"You can't outrun the radio."

Apparently you can in a Hellcat.

[timothyblazer]

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.

[johnruetz]

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.

[HirokaAkita]

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.*

[Sknwlker]

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.

[nuclearknight]

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.

[bogartwilley]

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!

[tafarapaul]

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

[Kit_Bear]

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.

[Petrolhead]

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".

[TheDirtyBirchTrails]

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