Video: Wrecked 2018 Dodge Competitor Srt Hellcat Widebody Looks Similar An Organ Donor
Stolen too crashed. This wrecked 2018 Dodge Challenger Hellcat Widebody landed inwards my sights at a Birmingham, Alabama wrecker auction.
I don't run into many nearly new, $70,000 musculus machines at this no-reserve auction. This crashed cat, 1-of-1,876 Widebody Hellcat Challengers built inwards 2018, too 1-of-only 491 inwards the Pitch Black pigment option, looked similar a amount loss. But I was hoping this modern musculus auto withal had a heartbeat.
I lifted a blood-stained airbag on the driver's side to cause got a closer await at the harm inflicted past times the bicycle too tire that were shoved behind the door hinges too through the flooring pan. This appeared to live a major front end cease collision. When a 4,500-plus vehicle collides amongst an object at speed it hammers the "hell"-cat out of itself. I promise whoever was driving survived too takes take away heed the side past times side fourth dimension they sit down behind the bicycle of a 707-horsepower beast.
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| Airbags blown out everywhere within the wrecked 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody. |
Thick too thin
For what it's worth, the Widebody pick adds 69-pounds too is a $6,000 markup over a measure slab sided 2018 Challenger Hellcat. By our calculations, that's $87 per pound of Widebody goodness. Is it worth it? The fender flares don't fare good inwards demolition duty. But, if looks could kill, we'd tell this Hellcat died trying.
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| The powerful 6.2 liter engine took the brunt of the crash on this 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody. |
Beast underneath
That supercharged 707-hp engine is the entirely argue we're looking this affair over. Hellcats inwards stock cut back are capable of 0-60 inwards 3.4 seconds. They tin give the sack encompass the quarter-mile inwards 11.8 seconds at 126 mph too tin give the sack deport upon 200 mph at top speed. Yikes! That's a existent speed demon.
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| Can yous cause got also much horsepower? Me? No. But some people can't grip the responsibility. Horns offset growing out of their caput when the engine revs. |
How fast tin give the sack yous afford to go?
Mother Mopar volition sell yous the Hellcat crate engine for $18,000 out-the-door amongst a 3-year warranty. Also, pop wrecking yards sell low-mile Hellcat engines too 8-speed automatic transmission combos for around $25,000. That's a lot of cash! So, whatever would-be junkyard Canis familiaris amongst a few bucks tin give the sack seize the chance to bid too brand some slow coin flipping the drivetrain or construct their ain Hellcat hot rod. That's only what nosotros were planning to create until the wrecker companionship yanked the auto from the auction list. They said the Hellcat had been stolen. Some details amongst insurance too the possessor would ask to live dealt amongst earlier it could live sold. Doh!
I afterwards works life out that around 10 of these Hellcats cause got passed through this Alabama wrecker companionship since they were introduced for the 2015 model year. That's a depression number, almost ii per twelvemonth on average.
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| Wrecked, dark 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody has meaty fender flares. At to the lowest degree on the parts that were't destroyed. |
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