DON’T let this ’69 Dodge Coronet R/T’s sleek, factory-appearing exterior fool you – there’s a 2000hp, twin-turbo 572ci Nelson Racing Engines Hemi lurking under its snorkelled hood. Owned by Chris Retzos and built by Shane Rowe and the team at Southern Rod & Custom, the Dodge was crafted from the outset around that head-kicking engine, but there’s much more to this car than its character-defining mill.
The Coronet has been in the works for 15 years. It was all but finished 10 years ago, not long after we featured it in bare-metal form in the February 2013 edition of . When Southern Rod & Custom relocated from Deniliquin to Shepparton, the car went into storage with only the partially finished trim left to be finalised. SRC then got very busy, and Chris was sidetracked by
