Dodge Challenger Super Stock blacks out at Autorama
The boys at Jalopnik just arrived in Detroit for the Autorama show and happened upon the Dodge Challenger Super Stock concept car, the one we mentioned would be at Autorama a few days ago. We saw the same car in Las Vegas for SEMA, although with a different color scheme. To rehash, the Challenger Super Stock has a 392 HEMI crate motor pumping out 525 hp and 510 ft-lbs of tire-melting power. In place of the Ronnie Sox livery, now the S/S is sporting a sinister matte black finish with gloss black highlights. Click the Read link to visit Jalopnik for more pics.
Obviously intended as a dragster, the car's rear suspension was completely redone by the DCX Skunkwerks team. An A999 automatic transmission channels that HEMI power through a classic DANA 60 solid rear axle supported by Mopar "Super Stock" leaf springs. Along with the 15" Goodyear Eagle racing slicks, this setup should reduce wheel hop and significantly improve straight-line performance. If you liked it before, you'll probably love the way it looks now. If you didn't like it before, you probably don't understand it, and we're not sure the black paintjob will help.
[Source: Jalopnik]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kingvolcano 6:36AM (3/10/2007)
I am already tired of the design. Big deal, they did the obvious...big engine, big tires, retro foiler......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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ohmy 10:49AM (3/10/2007)
so sick of retro... yawn, zzzzzzz (wake me up when the retro craze is over and cars start to look nice again)...
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Henry Ford Jr. 11:41AM (3/10/2007)
Yeah, let's stop paying any attention to this car. It's not like retro pony cars are popular. Besides,
the market is only big enough for one of them.
-- Someone entirely unaffiliated with the Ford Motor Company
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Edmund Dantes 8:06PM (3/10/2007)
They need to bring this thing to market already. I went from interested to indifferent.
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Snix 11:05PM (3/11/2007)
Yep, you guys go ahead and get bored with this retro rehash musclecar stuff. Leaves more cars for me. I'll be ready with the cash when the Camaro and Challenger go on sale. You keep buying the rice mobiles, okay, and we'll all be happy. Don't trouble yourselves over those ugly V8 'merican cars, allright?
I saw this car tonight in person at the Autorama. My goodness, what a car. If you don't understand it, just move along.....
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Jackhammer 8:26AM (3/14/2007)
I totally agree with Snix. If you don't get it, you don't get it. This car is so damn gorgeous, I will have to get two of them. And what an amazing sheen to the black paint job. It's not a matte but it's not a gloss either. Nasty HOT!
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Ray Garrison 6:50PM (5/20/2007)
8 jugs and 8000 Hp. just cause the body dosen't say HEMI/MOPAR doesn't mean it dosen't have one. For example, all brand X cars, except for - you know Goats - not the new chevoats (chevy motor in a GTO) or chevbird (chevy motor in a firebird) if you got this far you know real Poncho's. good thing they haven't thought of disgracing the Gran Sport (yet)then THEY forced a 305 in a what-did-they-call-it 332 sorry 442 yeay OLDS 3 shifters don't make up for 50 plus cubes rice cubes ya I know your lost NOS three more us cars to go AMC THEY FLY . CHEVY you can't toss a 440 crank not that you would beings the magarite where steel the F wourd thats right can you say (probleynot) cammer BOSS 429
NEW HEMI CHALLENGER YES !!!!!!!!!!!! ?
they even forced 305 in what did THEY call it 322
sorry 442
exsited if you don't have the four letter waurd four perfurmenc leav mopar out of it GRAND
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