HOT ROD MAG - '08 Hemi Super Stock

[EVERRET]

HOT ROD MAG - LINK

Dodge Challenger Concept Car - '08 Hemi Super Stock

Mopar Performance Builds An '08 Super Stock Hemi Challenger And Then Lets Hot Rod Beat On It.

[Ragamuffin]

Great find Everret ! Real interesting info. Dang it,,these media guys always get to drive the Challengers ! Well, yahh.. I guess a couple Challengertalk.comers have too ! !!

[Dodgedude]

Wow, that is a sweet find, I do wish they would hurry up and stop teasing us!!!!

[Cuda340]

Originally Posted by Ragamuffin

Great find Everret ! Real interesting info. Dang it,,these media guys always get to drive the Challengers ! Well, yahh.. I guess a couple Challengertalk.comers have too ! !!

The entire article from Hot Rod magazine can be read at the following site:

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicl...r_concept_car/

It gives great insight into how the 2008 Challenger SS was built. Also interesting is this quote:

"The car was also built as a testbed to validate various drivetrain combinations and to serve as proof of concept for a purpose-built, limited-production factory Super Stock racer in the mold of the '68 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda Hemi lightweight cars. The car and concept have been shopped around to several drag-racing sanctioning bodies, and while it's too early for any announcements just yet, "I can tell you the interest is definitely there," said Jon Clark of Mopar Performance Parts. "With all the equity and heritage of the 1968 Hemi cars, we would be fools not to stand on their shoulders with this car." If the plan flies, you could see a limited run of factory-homologated Super Stock Challengers with Hemi crate engines coming soon to a dragstrip near you."

[firstmethod]

I actually tripped across a .pdf file describing in painstaking detail the crafting of the Challenger SS concept by one of the guys who was actually part of the team (maybe a manager?) It was one hell of a read but I never posted a link to it or started a thread. Maybe someone else knows where that file is because I've never seen it mentioned on this board.

[XJameson]

Originally Posted by Cuda340

The entire article from Hot Rod magazine can be read at the following site:

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicl...r_concept_car/

Fantastic article - THANK YOU Cuda340!