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Nelson Racing Engines’ Tom Nelson sat down with 1320video at SEMA to explain the Maximus Charger — a 2,000-horsepower 1968 Dodge Charger built to recreate a scene from the original Fast and the Furious inside Furious 7. Over 2,000 hours of bodywork went into a car commenters initially assumed was fake. Watch the full breakdown of the build above.
Three years of build time went into this 1970 Chevelle, and it shows in details most viewers would never think to look for: nickel-plated trim swapped in for factory chrome, and baseball-style seam stitching on every seat. The result is a resto-mod so thorough that even seasoned muscle car fans in the comments are struggling to find a flaw. Watch to see what three years of obsessive attention to detail actually looks like.
Before it ever appeared on screen, “Maximus” was already one of the most ambitious Mopar builds anywhere — a 1968 Dodge Charger built by Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines, discovered by a film crew at the SEMA trade show. Over 2,000 hours of bodywork and roughly 2,000 horsepower later, it closed out Fast & Furious 7 by recreating a scene from the franchise’s original 2001 film.