00:01Evolution was our best car, kind of like a savage beast.
00:06Yes, it's carbon fiber, but at the end of the day,
00:09it will always be a 1970 Dodge Charger.
00:30In Los Angeles, California, Speedcore specialise in high-end custom performance cars.
00:40And their material of choice? The finest carbon fiber.
00:45What better way to show off the quality of their craftsmanship
00:48than a 1970 Dodge Charger with a full carbon body?
00:53Evolution was our best car that we've built today.
00:57When I look at muscle cars, I look at the styling.
01:02I look at the power and performance.
01:05But most of all, it had an attitude.
01:10The Dodge Charger is the car that the bad guy always drives.
01:15It's that character that we like.
01:18And it's not just about the body.
01:21Every detail of the Evolution makes for an impressive build.
01:25We actually started with a Dodge Charger.
01:27We designed, we scanned, we modeled, and recreated that same shape, but out of carbon fiber.
01:33The Dodge Charger has that mean persona to begin with.
01:37Using that as a donor car in conjunction with Dodge, who's one of our partners, seemed to be really good.
01:44When you have a car this large, you can do any power plant you want.
01:48So obviously we chose the Demon engine, which is the best line that Dodge has out right now.
01:54Amazing performance.
01:55It's got the largest supercharger.
01:57We took a Hellcat front end.
01:59We made our own supercharger parts, bigger injectors, different fuel system.
02:04We're getting 966 horsepower out of it right now.
02:07Which must make for an impressive top speed.
02:10I don't know, we never tried it out yet.
02:13We need to.
02:14I mean, I would say this car would do over 200.
02:16It's geared to do over 200.
02:17The Evolution obviously is extremely light.
02:20Comes in around 33, 3400 pounds.
02:23A Camaro back in 1969 would be closer to 3650.
02:27So I like to say that we're bigger than the Camaro, but lighter.
02:30We made the frame extremely strong out of steel.
02:34It's boxed steel.
02:35And yes, we run the fuel lines on one side and we run the oil lines on the other side
02:39and that was a massive undertaking.
02:40So there's no plumbing under the car and there's no wires under the car.
02:43And it's flat on the bottom.
02:45So that will help us when we do find out what the top speeds are.
02:48After winning the good guys gold at the 2018 SEMA show, Evolution continues to rack up awards.
02:55Muscle car, it's always about being competitive.
02:59One upping the other person all the time.
03:01If you have 390 horse, the other guy's got to have 425 horse.
03:05Taking it to the next level of design and creativity.
03:09It's the little things that make the car.
03:11It's all about the details.
03:13Little things like the directional lights.
03:17This was something that Dodge did have in all the 1970 Dodge Chargers.
03:21And we wanted to keep the styling, but we wanted to change some of the lines.
03:25When someone looks at it, it looks better than it did in 1970.
03:28Also things like the hood pins.
03:32Dodge Charger ran hood pins as an option.
03:34And we wanted to recreate those same hood pins and the same styling that they did.
03:38A lot of companies try to eliminate wing windows.
03:41I like to actually embrace them.
03:43It was just a cool feature.
03:44One thing that's amazing about carbon fiber, not only is it strong, but extremely light.
03:49So having a charger hood itself, you would never be able to do this.
03:54And your hood hinges would be massive and the springs that held them up were massive.
03:58We've saved about a thousand pounds off of this car.
04:01The other thing about carbon fiber which is amazing, especially on the fenders, is they don't dent or rust.
04:07If you look at a lot of the muscle cars and survivors over the years too, people lean on them and worked on them with their elbows and did all this.
04:13That doesn't do anything to carbon fiber.
04:15So it's a timeless piece.
04:17It just means it's going to last forever.
04:19A work of art.
04:22A killer spec.
04:24But what's it like to drive?
04:27We've put about 860 miles on it so far.
04:31So it was really good.
04:33We haven't had any issues.
04:39The chargers of the 70s and late 60s were great for straight lines, but they were terrible for turning.
04:46So this car is made to handle.
04:49Suspension could be a little more stiff than what you would like, but you need that to have the control.
04:53And when you have that power, you want to make sure everything is, you know, sturdy and you don't have to worry about it.
05:02The true definition of a muscle car is power under control.
05:07Kind of like a savage beast, but it's tame enough in the cage.
05:16I always make this reference.
05:18Maybe you were in high school and you had a girlfriend.
05:21You didn't want to see that girlfriend ten years later have green hair and an earring and all this other stuff.
05:25You remember the way that she was maybe in high school and how she was her sweetheart.
05:28I think the same thing is true to these cars.
05:31Yes, it's carbon fiber.
05:33Yes, the wheels are more of a modern approach.
05:35But at the end of the day, it will always be a 1970 Dodge Charger.
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