A wrecked Pontiac in Alabama had almost nothing going for it — wrong year, wrong paint, wrong drivetrain — until MotorTrend’s Roadworthy Rescues decided the details didn’t matter as much as the shape. Here’s how a mismatched Firebird became a screen-accurate Bandit tribute, and the real specs behind the 1977 original that started it all.
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A triple-turbo Mustang nicknamed “Vicious,” Johan Eriksson’s Viper V10-swapped Dodge Charger, and a roughly 3,000-horsepower build called “Doughboy” headline this roundup of extreme muscle car builds that abandon every factory limit entirely. Commenters loved the raw engineering but split hard over one car’s wheel choice. See which build the comments ultimately crowned the most jaw-dropping of the three.
CBoysTV took the supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi out of their own Challenger Hellcat and built it into a last-generation Chevy El Camino — 707 horsepower in a car whose factory V8 made around 150. Three million people have now watched it drift, smoke tires, and line up against real muscle cars. The most repeated comment under the video: it looks like Chevrolet built it that way.
