The note from Scott Liggett was simple and succinct: “I know you like the big cars.” And he isn’t kidding…properly powerful big coupes are a weakness of mine, but an evergreen-colored C-body Mopar packing a 572 Hemi under the hood is like putting a great big cake and a stack of bacon outside the plate-glass window of a Planet Fitness. They might be large enough to qualify for property taxes in most states and have been all but extinct off of the roadways since the early 1990s, but a big-body Mopar that barks will grab your attention like a doctor with cold hands.
While the Dodge Polara isn’t quite my favorite shape for the big Mopars (that goes either to the 1973 Newport for sentimental reasons or to the 1969 Three Hundred for purely aesthetic reasons), it’s hard to not like the Polara. Just the name conjures up images of the most feared cop car of the day, cop motors, cop shocks, demolition derby ringers, the whole nine yards. But the coupe form has a sexiness to it that no sedan will ever have, and any big car that sounds like this is welcome here. Paired off against a mid-60s Fury on a dragstrip that we’re guessing is in the Nordic region, the Polara makes the right noises, has the right attitude and has me hunting eBay now.
That has to be one of the lamest burnouts that I have ever seen on Bangshift.
Ummmm…I stopped watching cars when the flag girl ran back….
Burn out =0
Flag girl running =10
I’m not buying that’s a 572. I’d be amazed if there was an elephant between those rails….
More flag girl, her 60ft was the best part.
My late father would have said that flag girl was “very healthy “.
Looks like a 66 Dodge Coronet in the left lane.
This has Elana written all over it.
Elana’s Polara would eat this thing alive…
Just skip ahead to 1:44
Yeah gotta agree the action doesn’t start until 1:44 into the clip.
Sounded the goods but I’m thinking it went like a wet gum boot and who tips water behind the wheel before a burn out? and barley even hazed the tires.
Need more footage of that flag girl running. LOL
Jeez, anticlimactic. bad burnout. My old dogleg Cutlass would crush that thing.
A stock 375hp 440 would outrun that. And yes the burnout was subpar. 572 cubic inches of shame for the direct connection fans.