EVOLUTION OF THE SPICES
ou can only lie to yourself so much, and even the most diehard nerd has to admit that, at some point, the franchise has steadily steered away from the car scene as you or I know it and into the realms of fantasy. It’s Hollywood and that’s quite all right — loud noises and fiery explosions put bums on seats, and the hero cars have always been exciting and aspirational. Through it all there’s been a base ensemble of character cars, and for — the series’ latest — lead character Dominic ‘Dom’ Toretto’s iconic B-body Dodge Charger, and it’s now evolved to surpass the bounds of reality; well, it would have if this car didn’t exist in real life. It’s the sort of car you might have dreamed about if you were a child growing up in today’s world — it’s got to be a Dodge Charger, but it has to be mid-engined, it has to have a custom chassis, and the body has to be carbon fibre… and so on. It’s lunatic on paper and perfect in execution. And it doesn’t end on paper, or the silver screen, because this is a real-deal, road-going version. This ’68 Charger, dubbed ‘Hellacious’, was built by high-spec car builder SpeedKore, whose work you may recognise in the form of ‘Tantrum’ — the bare-metal ’70 Charger built to commemorate that in .
