OK, you might think we’ve lost our marbles, but hear us out. In the course of the show’s 22 years, we’ve watched America’s favorite dysfunctional family go to just about every imaginable location around the planet (including leaving the planet every now and again), do just about every conceivable thing that the show’s hundreds of writers could conjure up including re-imagining classic written works, explore the highest and furthest levels of astrophysics, and reduce itself to hundreds of thousands of fart, burp and poop jokes. Yes, “The Simpsons” has done just about everything. But did you know that tons of classic American muscle cars have been featured in “The Simpsons”

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Above is a snap shot of a teenage Homer Simpson’s (what we can image to be) ’71 Plymouth Road Runner (although it has the side stripe and quarter panel scoop of a ’70). This rusty, battered Mopar is a prime example of mid-1970’s muscle cars that were woefully devalued by the general public and thusly transformed into the fodder of high schoolers. And you can tell Springfield is in the Midwest given that Homer’s Mopar has those long shackle leaf springs in the rear.

In a short thread during “The Simpsons” where the writers were trying to develop the lovable town drunk, Barney into a sober character, Barney was seen walking in front of a very obvious 1969 lime-green Dodge Charger on his way to getting his pilot’s license. Surprisingly enough, ’69 Chargers have shown up quite a few times in “The Simpsons.” See below.

With the license plate reading “GR8 68,” Homer – in a typically mid-life crisis, scores this cherry-red, customized ’68 drop-top Firebird with a bird-catcher intake from a police auction after it was confiscated from Springfield criminal, Snake Jailbird. Although a fun foil for never-do-well patriarch of the family, the Pontiac wasn’t destined to survive longer than the prescribed 23-minute episode.

The single-biggest muscle car enthusiast on “The Simpsons” is obvious Mopar lover, Snake Jailbird has been seen behind the wheel of every one of the three iterations of the infamous second generation Charger. Above is Snake chasing down Bart in a ’69 R/T. He’s also been caught skulking around in a B5 Blue ’70 R/T and even a HEMI ’68 (although illegible, the Charger touted the tell-tale HEMI chrome badges on the doors – between the coves).

Obviously somebody within the guild of “Simpsons” illustrators knows their way around Mopars given the attention to detail and the persistence given to getting these cars as close to correct as the show’s art style with allow. Even the fuel tank, flow-through exhaust, leaf springs, shackles, reverse lights and Dana 60 are dead on. So before you pass over yet another syndicated episode of “The Simpsons,” stop and watch out for another example of Detroit iron. You might be surprised.