He Does EVERYTHING With It! (Hemi Charger)

This bright green Dodge Charger hides an 800-horsepower Procharged Hemi and a subwoofer-equipped interior — built, per commenters, by the owner himself. 1320video catches the car running Colorado Springs Airport’s runway at the 2017 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack. Viewers call the owner a badass for actually driving it instead of trailering a build this serious. Watch to see what a real daily-driven, 800-horsepower Hemi can do.

Most owners with an 800-horsepower Procharged Hemi under the hood would be tempted to trailer it everywhere and only run it on a perfect day. This Dodge Charger’s owner does the opposite — daily-driving comfort with a subwoofer in the interior, a bright green paint job smoothed out for show, and enough boosted Hemi power to run down an active airfield runway. 1320video caught up with the car and its builder at the 2017 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack, and the conversation that comes with it explains exactly why commenters are calling this guy a badass rather than just admiring the paint.

800 Horsepower, Built to Actually Drive

Under the smoothed-out green bodywork sits a Procharged Hemi making more than 800 horsepower, a number that would justify a garage-queen mentality in plenty of owners. Instead, this Charger comes equipped with a full interior, complete with subwoofers, built for daily comfort rather than stripped-out track duty. That combination — serious forced-induction power paired with creature comforts most race builds skip entirely — is exactly the contradiction that makes the car memorable rather than just another boosted Mopar.

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An Airport Runway Instead of a Drag Strip

Rather than running at a conventional quarter-mile track, this Charger makes its pass down the runway at Colorado Springs Airport as part of the 2017 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack, an event presented by Shift Sector that uses active airfield pavement for straight-line speed runs. Airport-runway events like this one offer far more usable distance than a standard drag strip, which matters for a heavy, 800-horsepower street car built more for top-end pull than a perfect 60-foot launch.

Built by the Man Driving It

A comment singling out that the owner “built it himself and races it” points at something increasingly rare in a hobby where checkbook builds and shop-commissioned cars dominate high-horsepower content. Doing your own fabrication, tuning, and assembly work on an 800-horsepower Procharged combination requires a level of mechanical fluency well beyond bolting on parts, and it’s exactly the kind of hands-on ownership that earns respect from viewers who can tell the difference between a car someone built and a car someone simply bought finished.

Not Another LS Swap

One comment cuts right to a running joke in the muscle car community: “Finally not an LS swap.” GM’s LS-series V8 has become the default engine transplant for builders chasing horsepower on a budget, showing up in everything from classic trucks to import chassis, which has made a factory Hemi build feel almost refreshing by comparison to some Mopar loyalists. Sticking with a Hemi, and boosting it to over 800 horsepower rather than swapping to a cheaper, more common option, keeps this Charger firmly rooted in Mopar identity.

Why ‘Use It’ Matters More Than ‘Show It’

A comment praising the owner for actually using the car “instead of sitting in a lawn chair like he said” references something the owner apparently told 1320video directly — a refusal to let an expensive build become a static display piece. That philosophy runs counter to a chunk of the high-dollar build culture, where six-figure engine combinations sometimes see more time on a trailer than on pavement. Running it down an airport runway at speed is about as far from lawn-chair ownership as it gets.

1320video’s Niche in Drag Culture

1320video has built its channel specifically around capturing grassroots and semi-professional drag events like the Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack, giving builder-driven cars like this Charger a spotlight that bigger, more polished automotive media often skips. That focus on the actual event floor — talking to owners, catching runs as they happen — is why the channel’s comment sections tend to fill with genuine appreciation for the people behind the builds, not just the horsepower numbers on screen.

The Airstrip Attack Format

Airfield speed events like Shift Sector’s Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack exist specifically to give heavy, high-horsepower street cars — the kind that don’t always shine on a tight drag strip — room to stretch out on a long, wide, purpose-closed runway. For a build like this smoothed, subwoofer-equipped Charger, that format plays directly to its strengths: enough straight-line room to let 800-plus Procharged horsepower actually show what it can do.

What a Procharger Actually Does

A Procharger is a belt-driven centrifugal supercharger that compresses intake air before it reaches the engine, and unlike a roots-style blower, it builds boost progressively as RPM climbs, which tends to produce a smoother, more streetable power delivery even at four-digit horsepower levels. That characteristic is likely part of why this Charger can double as a comfortable daily driver despite making over 800 horsepower — the power comes on predictably rather than as an abrupt hit that would make everyday driving unpleasant.

The Broader Culture Around Airstrip Events

Events like the Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack have grown in popularity precisely because they solve a problem conventional drag strips can’t: they give heavy, high-powered street cars room to run without the liability concerns and traffic constraints of a public highway pull. For builders like this Charger’s owner, that format offers a legitimate, sanctioned outlet to actually use a build this serious, rather than leaving it to sit for lack of anywhere appropriate to run it.

A Build That Keeps Earning Respect

Long after this footage was filmed, builds like this Charger keep circulating in muscle car circles specifically because they deliver on both ends of the equation enthusiasts care about most: serious, self-built horsepower and the willingness to actually drive it hard in public. That combination is rarer than the horsepower number alone suggests, and it’s exactly why commenters reached for words like “badass” instead of just praising the paint job. It’s also a reminder to the next generation of builders watching that horsepower and daily usability were never mutually exclusive to begin with — the right combination of parts, tuning, and mechanical skill can deliver both, provided the person behind the build actually understands what they’re doing under the hood. That balance of raw output and everyday drivability is exactly what separates a genuinely well-engineered build from one that simply chases the biggest possible dyno number regardless of how the car actually behaves on the street.

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