Image via Rich Rebuilds/YouTube
For years people have been joking about Dodge making a Hellcat minivan, something which will likely never be a production reality. But some guys with a shop decided to take on such a feat by themselves. The thing is how they went about it is so different from what an automaker and even a lot of builders would do, we doubt most people just looking at the thing would even suspect what it really is.
Check out the Hellcat Viper in action.
After all, watching a minivan roast its rear tires while hearing a Hemi V8 roar and the huge supercharger whine is a boatload of fun. We’ve seen people modify Chrysler minivans before and literally burn rubber, but this one seems so much more appropriate.
Maybe that’s the purist in us talking because a Mopar minivan should have a Mopar powertrain. But there’s so much more going on with this build than just a powertrain swap. And we’re not talking about how they had to also transplant the dash from the Hellcat to get everything to work.
These guys from the YouTube channel Rich Rebuilds cut the body of a Dodge Charger Hellcat, keeping the chassis, powertrain, and interior intact. Then they did the same thing with a Chrysler Town & Country, attaching the minivan body to the Hellcat chassis.
We’ve seen this sort of thing done before, including a minivan body grafted onto a Tesla Model S Plaid chassis. But this isn’t what most people would expect to have going on under the skin when they first see a Hellcat minivan.
While it absolutely works and the thing looks spectacular once they wrap it in Plum Crazy, it would be cool to see how someone would shoehorn a Hellcat’s powertrain into a Chrysler Town & Country or maybe a Pacifica.
Check out the second video to see these guys putting some of the finishing touches on their build before hauling it to a shop for a full roll cage to be installed. We can’t wait to see this thing on a track!
Image via Rich Rebuilds/YouTube
