This weekend I’m in late-model Mopar company, and with the notable exception of one V6 Chrysler, I’m at the bottom of the totem pole. Still. That being said, in the grand scheme of things, having a four-door sedan that is daily-driver dependable and capable of eating up the miles while doing double-duty as a hot-lapping bracket bomber is a good thing. Sometimes being greedy with a goal bites you in the backside. Or, sometimes, more is better, which is certainly the case with “SLOWPOK”, this black Chrysler SRT-8. Nitrous and a blower will make a heavy tank of a car hustle like nobody’s business, alright, and yet, once you get past the doorbars and the window nets, it still looks like a street car through and through. You could expect this SRT to pick the kids up from school, as every parent stands slack-jawed at the loud and menacing Chrysler. Subtle, it ain’t, but sublime, it is.
This was not a factory produced SRT. The headlights are wrong. The car was originally a V-6 car.